The Trwe Wsman.
No wnrfnw romance wreathes hsr life;
N*r hath aha lad a martyr tram ;
Nor besntiful ihw nch m aha.
But poor -and aoma would <*ll her plain.
No rilkon rwba enfold* bar harm ;
No dainty Maura bath bar hand*;
Bar Jewels are a etmpie ring, ...
A ribbon binda bar bur's auooth band
Tat in har earmantN aimplr grace
Bar soar* punty you trace.
She walks in humble arara of life
Thai lead on times through gloom and abado.
And cares and cross** not a few
Ara on her patient abouldara laid,
Tat amilaa and drinka each bitter cup.
And kaapa har bra TC area lifted up.
And homely wnya aha wrcathce with grace.
Hand) duty turna to loving aaat:
And cbaerr hope and stesdfest will
Arc at har aide In work and reat;
Tat never ditaine aha you can any.
The angel looking from har eye 1
Weariness.
0 little feet that such lon* years
Mas l : wander on through doubt* and fears,
Muet ache and Meed beneath your load 1
t, nearer to the wayside inn.
Where toil shall erase and test t-ecin.
Am weary, thinking of your road.
0 little hands, that, weak or strong.
Have still to serve or role so km*.
Have still so ton* to give or ask t
I. who so tnnch with hook and pen
Have toiled among mv fellow-men.
Am weary, thinking of your taak.
0 httie heart* I that throb and heat
With such impatient, feverish heat,
Kuch limitless and strong desire*l
Mine, that so long has glowed and burned.
With passions into ashes turned.
Now covers and conceals its Ares.
B. nr. toegfWoM-.
The Cloud.
A white little rirodict np in the sky—
Born of the winds and of the waves am I,
And soft I float through the tremulous blue.
When the shining stars of heaven peep through.
1 cover them often from mortal night.
And hold in mr bosom their silvery light;
And the moon enfolds me in soft embrace,
And smiles upon me with tender face.
The sun climbing high in the rosy morn
My whiteness tints with the colors of dawn.
And around me sheds through the long, long
dav
The glory and light of hi* shining ray ;
And the lark springs forth in the aaoruiug
sweet
And sings to me songs for the dawning meet;
While he plunge* deep in my snowy wave.
The ataina of eaith from his pinions to lave.
When the sun sinks deep in the far, far west,
On a purple billow, with golden crest,
And ataina with his glory the mountains dim.
And tinges with crimson my cor ling rim.
And the twilight die*, while the nighl-hirds
sing.
And darkness sweeps downward on noiseless
wing,
Then again I hold in my boaom white
The deep ahimng stars with their silvery tight.
THE SETTLER'S TALK.
" You don't believe it, then 7" said the
old settler, stroking his beard, and spread
ing the long crisp curls oxer his waistcoat,
where they lay like a tangle of cocoa-fibre.
He flicked* away, too, now and then, the
powdery cigar-ash that had fallen as he
smoked* as though be phtted his manly
adornment, or aimed strongly at wearing
a patriarchal guise. "You don't believe
it, then V he said.
" Travelers see strange things,'' said a
thin man sitting opposite to hint; and he
indulged in a low. sneering snigger, a de
spicable kind of cachinnation that it would
be insulting the hearty, mirthful, Joy-be
gotten shake of sides ami shoulders, and
extending of farial muscles, to call a laugh.
* " What is it ?" I said ; for I hsd at that
moment entered the room.
" Why," sniggered the thin man, "he
wants to make me believe. "
" So, no, no r* chorussed several voices.
" Let him tell it himself; second-hand
stories are poor. Tell it out for the com
pany, sir."
But the owner of the besrd looked Tery
dignified, and kept on smoking, till he sat
like a very Jupiter amongst nis clouds.
Then he referred to the ambrosia brought
to him by the white-neckclothetl Gany
mede of the hotel, set down his brandy -
and-water, and looked Tery reticent.
"It's all true enough," said an Austra
lian captain who sat near the thin man,
and had evidently heard what bad pre
viously been said. •' I've often seen them
take fixing leaps that looked tremendous,
and such as 1 should have do>ibted if I had
not teen; while, as to the tale our friend
here has just told about kangaroos carry
ing their young in a pouch, and also about
their being able to destroy a dog with a
kick, why, they are facts that almost any
national schoolboy will endorse. 1 mean no
insult to our sceptical friend here, but I'm
afraid be studied polities more than natu
ral history."
" Good things, too," said the thin man
viciously; and then he looked round him
for the applause he did not get.
"You see," said the old captain, not
taking any notice of the interruption,
" there are some people like the sailor's
mother—more reaav to believe in Pha
raoh's chariot wheel on the anchor-flue
than in firing-fish. Australy's a curious
place, 1 can tell you; and if you saw tome
of the bones of the great Moa, they would
make you scratch your head, and think of
the ostriches seTen feet high as so many
chickens "
* Ha, ha, Ao, HA, HA laughed the thin
man, in a perfect crescendo. " Go'on, sir;
don', be afraid. We'll listen, and then
believe as much as we like."
"And we've got little animals there,
gentlemen," said the old captain, "that
swim abont in the water with their flat
webbed feet, and they've got a bill like a
duck, and lay eggs."
"Go on, sir; go on, sir," laughed the
thin man; and be bestowed the wink of
wisdom upon all the company present.
"Yes, ves; I reel Wink away," said
the captain ; " but I'm no romancer, gen
tlemen. I only said what I did to support
my friend here. There are some people
who will not believe the truth when it's
told them."
"Why don't you tell it 7" said the thin
man.
" I always do, sir," said the captain
simply, ana with some dignity. "As I
said before, Australia's a place that would
startle some people here with its ways.
What would our friend over the wiy there
say to five thousand sheep being boiled, or
rather steamed down, in one day, just for
the sake of their tallow 7"
44 Ha, ha, ba !" laughed the thin man
again. "Better still!" and then seeing
that no one else laughed, he snorted, and
looked defiant at every (me in turn, from
out a pair of twinkling dark eves, the more
striking from being unshaded by lasbea.
while his eyebrows had evidently disap
peared at the same seaon when hi# coun
tenance had licen seamed and pitted with
the small-pox.
But few people noticed him, for it was
evident that, after retiring in displeasure
within himself for a few minutes, the
owner of the beard was once more coming
out. He smoked furiously for a few min
utes longer in utter silence, till bis cigar
end was so short that it singed the great
beard, when he threw it away, drew out a
case, carefully selected another, rolled it
upon his tongue, and then sat balancing it
upon his finger.
" Our friend here Ls right, gentlemen,"
he said, " that there are some people who
doubt almost everything you say; but,
for my part, I think that the traveler who
plays upon the credulity of the untraveled
friends is a creature beneath contempt. 1
can vouch for the truth of all my seafaring
friend here ha# 6aid, for I have seen the
things, and many more too, quite as won
derful; and I think that you, gentlemen,
who sit from year's end to year's end in
your shops, might acknowledge that men
who make journeys four-and-twenty thou
sand miles long must, in the foreign parts
tbey pass through, see some strange thiugs.
I, don't want to inflict my stories upon
anybody."
•' Go on, sir; go on!" from-two or three;
but the thin man was totally unabashed,
and snorted before telling his neighbors, in
an undertone, that you couldn't "do" him.
44 I wasn't talking about wallabies gen
tlemen, which are only a small kind of
kangaroo, but of what we call out there,
up the country,' old men'—the great kan
garoos that the settlers hunt—the curious
leaping animals that Sir Joseph Banks
brought home from his voyage with Cap
tain Cook, and used to keep in bis park at
Revesby, in Lincolnshire; beasts that I
dare say you might see for yourselves in
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. IV.
the Regent'* Park tianiens in London,
thouph 1 cttn'l aay I'm sure. At all areata,
I've sceu then* often enough, and hunted
them often too."
The thin man snorted and winked again
at everybody in turn, as much as to say,
* Now it's coming."
" You must believe what! tn going to
tell y,u, gentlemen, or you may be rmle
enough to doubt it if you like; I shan't
complain: hut it's as sure as ntv name's
Jam** Smith, a York ah teem an horn, and
that- f tidied at slice p-lsrrnnig, hut uiade
ten thousand |Humds at the diggings ; and
that's what not one man in five hundred
who were there managed to bring away,
for his share of the spoil."
The thin mau winked again, hot the
thoughts of a sum of ten thousand golden
pound* seem to add so much weight to
the respectability and vcracitv of the
hrvded man, that had he telt disposed to
enter into the borders not limited to vera
city, he would now hare found plenty of
believers lor anything he might choose to
sav.
The settler paused, ignited his cigar,
and then waited to enjoy a few pufik, while
the waiter of the old Southampton Hotel
replenished several empty glasses.
"We were having a kangaroo-Hunt,'.'
continued be, " some years ago now, up at
a place where I was. Kangaroo* were not
so scarce then as they've grown aim*; and
perhaps if our friend here were to go over
on purpose to have one, he might travel
some hundreds of miles before be rould
enjoy that pleasure. Being a b.t *f a sport
ing man in a mild wav, as 1 had dropped
in at quarters where the squatter n> also
fond ota bit of the field work, I got stay
ing on day alter day ; for 1 happeued then
to have nothing to do, having been driven
out of mv holding bv a drought that had
starved three parts of my beasts and sheep,
and a flood that ha idr vwned the rest. So
that I was on tLe wand.r, looking out for
some Irtwh spot on which to locate myself,
and uattjraliy feeling rather low-spirited ;
lor, after working aeTen or eight years to
get together a decent bit of stock, it seem
ed rather hard for the climate to turn dead
against me, and to make me a ruined man."
" I should think ' Stralia's a nice place,
air," said the thin man. lau hing.
" Very, if a man has his wits about him,"
said the settler coolly; "* and. what's more,
it's a very hospitable place, as I found
then, for I'd falleu into a good quarters,
my host being from my own county, and
having had many a good galop with the
same puck of bounds. So we talked over
old times, and fished a bit, and shot a little,
and I helped him take slock ; and we com
paied note*about management, he beiug
able to give me plenty of good hints and
I perhaps giving him two or three respecta
ble little wrinkles.
44 The day before I left him we went out
for a kangaroo-hunt, for oxer night one of
his men bad come in to report tracks that
he had seen near a water-hole some few
mile* awav.
"Perhaps my friend here will think
that 1 am throwiug the hatchet, when I
say that this was all on my hull's piece ;
for sheep-farmers they think more of
miles thin they do of acres of land, and I
have known gentlemen out there whose
holdings were such that you might ride
twenty miles without getting to the last
blazed tree.
The country alnnit there was so woody
and rocky that my ho-t said he had better
go on fiot, so we did, taking with us a
black fellow, and one of his men—an old
convict —who hehl the two dogs, in a
leash, after the fashion of grey bounds for
courstne, till wt came to the spot—what
tbey call our there a creek—a long water
hole that depended on the wet season to
supplvrit af. csh after the long dry Aus
tralian summer.
"It was a glorious morning in a glorious
country. The sky was defigbtftiily blue
while the atmosphere was so elcar ind
transparent that you could see the very
have# distinctly upon the tree#, it an as
tonishing distance. Ah, gentlemen! if
there is a beautiful country in this world
it is Australia ."
" Where droughs and floods destroy the
whole of a man's stock." sneered the thin
man, as he whispered the words into the
tumbler be raised to his lips.
" And where industrious bard-working
men may dig gold out of the soft earth by
the creeks," arid the who had
managed to hear every word, p
" Good—good—good !" chorussed the
company, so that any one but the thin
man would bare been crushed by the
weight of that gold ; but he only laughed,
snorted, and took refuge in clouds of tobac
co smoke.
44 Perhaps I'm boring you with my
stories, gentlemen," said the settler, part
ing hm beard.
"No, no—no, no—go on, sir," came
from all parts of the room, and he con
tinued :
u Well, gentlemen, we noon got into the
hunting country, and were not long before
we pat up a kangaroo, when I felt almost
ashamed to hunt it, for the poor beast eat
up on its hind-legs and tail lor a few mo
ments, turning upon us its simple doelike
face, as much as to say 1 Flow can you be
such brutes 7' but it turned directly, gave
a bound that startled me, and was of!',
Hying over rock and bash in a most sur
prising manner. Then the dogs were
I •dipped, and away we were scrambling
' amonz't bushes and rocks, tripped up now
and then, but making a rush over every
bit of open ground, to try and keep the
dogs in sight; but ts to my host and self,
we were separated directly.
" I was not much used to this sort of
thing, but I soon warmed up to the chase,
and, now getting a peep at the dogs, and
now led by the shouting and barking,
1 managed to get up in pretty good time
to where the Hlack fellow was dancing
about with delight, and the convict was
t coupling up the dogs, as thev lay panting
and lolling out their great red tongues, be
side the kangaroo they had killed.
" Ixmg as I had been in the country it
had never fallen to my lot before to he at
the death of a kangaroo ; and once more I
could not help pitying the soft, mpusey
skinned animal, it looked so innocent,
tame, and simple. Hut, there! it doe* not
do for men who hunt to be too sentimen
tal, and besides, they may make a mistake
in the character of their quarry ; for, I've
never seen the animal yet that was not,
when driven to bay, a perf.-1 savage,
either from fear or natutal couracu.
" Where's tbe governor, sir 7' said the
man, as I came up
'•l have not seen him, since I tripped
over a creeper that came down crash
bruised myself awfully. He did not stop
when I went down. I thought that he
would be on here.'
•"Help! help!' came a faint cry from
the distance.
" 1 Hat a gubner!' exclaimed tbe black
fellow, grinning as if it was the most hu
morous thing that be had ever heard.
" 1 Yes, that's him,' said the convict,
changing color. ' He's among the blacks,
and we've no guns.'
"i n a moment there floated before me
visions of savages in their war paint, their
black bodies streaked with white, to re
semble skeletons, while lw<omcrangs and
spears seemed to come whistling through
the air. But it was all imagination; tor
there was no sound to be heard, but once
nnre the cry for help, when the dogs
leaped up and howled.
'• •No black ieller 'bout here,' said the
gentleman in our company ; when, follow
ing his example, we set .alf at a run in the
direction of the cries, the black for out
stripping us, though we kept him well in
view till be disappeared behind some
rocks ) but only to turn back directly and
to come running towards us, shouting.
• Ole man got bim—ole man got him !'
" We pressed on, panting heavily, and
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
in a few moment* were in lull view of the
strange*! eight 1 ever aaw in my life one
which teemed to quite paralyac the man
with the dog*, for lie slopped short, hold
ing tightly bv the lessh, in apite of the
angry struggles of I lie animals ami bis
matter's anguished cries for help. Then 1 ,
tome fifty yards in fhuit, was a fieri*
struggle ffotug on, apparently a rain one
on toe part my host, who was tightly
clasped roond the waist by a tremendous
great kangaroo, such as we settlers call an
• old man. "
'•• Right!' growled the aea eaptai i,
while the tbiu man's eyes twinkled mali
ciously.
'•lt was in a bushy part, and from the
branch he held inhia' band it was evident
that my friend had la-en clinging with all
his might to aotne tree or other, so as to
hinder his enemy, or else I'm afratd we
should have coin? too late.
" Dropping the branch, he now began
kicking ami struggling with the energy of
despair, striking fiercely at the beast
with his fists, and doing all that he could
to get away; but there wno doubt that,
if we had not come up, the next minute
would have been bis last; for, in spite of his
struggles, the ' old man ' kept on slowly,
hop—hop—hop, uearer and nearer to a
groat water-holt; and though a atrong
and hearty man, my friend seemed like a
child in hit enemy's graan.
"•loose the dogs!" 1 aboutod to th
convict, servant, but utterly confused, ho
only held on tightly, letting the faithful
beasts drag him along with them till, with
one cut of nis knit? that he had held ready
to skin the dead kaugaroo, the black wr
ered the leaden throng, ami coupled a*
thev tverr, the dog* dashed down upon the
•old man.'
44 Then came a fierce hurrying rwh md
a scramble— a trightlul howl—and one dog
turned over on its back, disabled by a
| kick, and then hall-suangWl ha being
dragged about ly it.< cotnpavmu. who had
made good hie hold upon the kangaroo's
throat. The dog shook fiercely till, in its
agony, the beast loosed its hold upon my
friend, who fell down exhausted just upon
the edge of the water-hole, as the dogs
aud their enemy rolled from the bank into
the deep water, which directly after was
lasbed into a nmddy foam by the fierce
st niggle going on.
••It would bare gone hard with the
pom dog if just then the leash had not
given way, leaving hint free from the
weight ©t his fellow's csrcaae hung to hit
neck j and now, in apito of the fierce tear
ing and kicking of the 4 old man,' he held
on tightly to the place in his thenar where
he bad first fixed ais steel-strap jaws. By
degrees they struggled into shallower
water, and so exciting was the battle that
ray friend forgot his late peril, and sat up.
panting, to see the end.
" Suddenly, with one of his tremendous
leaps, the kangaroo bounded right out,
cleaning the bank, and alighting amongst
some low scrub at the lower end. But
the dog still held on ; and, dodging about
till he could get a chance, the black brought
down bis club with tremendous effect upon
the 'old man's' bead, when the poor brute
quiTcred slightly and rolled over, dead; a
huge fellow, who had stood up oxer six
feet high. /LI
" ' That was a narrow escape,' T said, as
1 helped tny friend to his legs, while the
conTict drew out of the water the qatcasc,
of the other dog.
r *'Yeo he said; let's get back. Tre
had enough of it for one day. I feel quite
sick and ill. If I bad had a knife, I could
hate got on ; but, unarmed, 1 was a* help
less as a child.'
" I had heard of such adventure# before,
but had never seen anything of the kind,
so 1 #aid, 4 What do vou think the brute
w wild have done P
" 1 Done!' echoed my friend. ' Drowned
me as dead as that poor dog there. Poor
brute ! one of the bent kangaroo dogs 1
ever bad. An old beast!' he exclaimed,
kicking the dead body of the kanraroo
Ticiously, which was, after all, hardly to
be wondered at. 4 He came upon me all
of a sudden—hop—hop—bop—and before
I bad recovered irom my surprise, he hsd
me tightly round the waist, and then
began to bop away. I hsrdly know how I
felt at first; but when the thought struck
me that be was making for the water-hole,
the feeling was awful, and my struggles
did binder him a bit.'
44 4 A good thing too,' I replied. ' Then
we only eame up just in time V
"'Only juat,' said my friend; and be
looked whiter than ever."
• 4 Sow, do you us to believe all
that 7" broke in the thin msn, as be arafe
winked at the company in general. But
the settler was busy relighting bb cigar,
which bad gene out during the narration,
And he made no replv.
44 1 say, sir;" said the thin man again,
""do you oxpect us to believe that your
old kangaroo would have hopped into the
water hole, and drowned the squatter?'
44 The gentlemen present can do as tbey
please, sir," said the settler with dignity
" and 1 have no doubt but that you wil
do the same. I leave it entirely to mr
listeners' good sense, for the story is tme^'
A SALT MocirtAlH. —The famon* salt
mountain of Palestine—called bj the
natives JeM Utrium. —is s singular for
mation, being a solid mass of rock suit,
of a greenish white transparency, very
mnch the color of a shallow sea covered
at the top with a loose crust of gravel,
flints, plaster of Paris and chalky marl,
ilie mountain runs northeast and south
west. It is ahont seven miles long and
one and half miles wide. In its highest
points it is nearly five hundred feet high.
Around the bae of the mountain the
ground is full of dangerons hollows, int<i
which animals often, and sometimes
men, fall and sink out of sight. Little
streams of water are constantly trickling,
even in the dry season, from underneath
the Halt Mountain and running into tlir
sea. A correspondent writing from
there says lie never tasted anything so
salty in ail his life ; salt itself, in the
lump, is not so snlty. This same corres
pondent also mentions the strange fact
that the Bible, nor Josephus, nor any
ancient writer, directly mentions the
Salt' Mountain. Although only sixty
miles from Jerusalem, the best described
city in the world, the first rerilly good
description we have of the Halt '* Mi ttn-,
tain, so frrr as Ma party c<wfll say, W
Prof. li. B. Tristam'a, written in 1864,
an>l he only spent one day here. Otily a
little ways east—ala-nt ten miles—are
rich fields of sugar csnc, indigo, wheat,
barley, ami other things.
A SC.VSET IKCIDKNT AT BI TFAIAJ.— TIie
Buffalo Erprrtt says : " The sunset of
■Saturday evening, as witnessed from
Central Wharf, exhibited a most singu
lar phenomenon. As viewed from that
point the great Inminary appears to sink
into the waters of the lake, and present*
a beautiful sight on all ordinary occa
sions, but at the time referred to, just at
the moment when the sun apjieared to
be floating, as it were, a ball of fire on
the surface of the lake, it suddenly as
sumed a conical shape, as if of molten
iron and the sides had run down, the
whole form evidently magnified to twice
its usual size. Directly in the centre of
this lxidy of Qm was plainly visible the
form of a ship, as if sailing in and a part
of the aun. Many of the business men
of Central Wharf" who hfcve for years
witnessed many curious features and
beautiful scenes in the western sky, never
before saw the like of this."
Can yon realise Mrs. Malaprop's be
wilderment at hearing her grandson read
from an article in the paper, abQut
Borne : " The ground is se parched
'that it is full of fisners !"
CENTRE 111 EE, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1871.
IIu They Suffered.
It ia cotinuitcd that tiro diminution uf
the woehtmr chuw* of Hnrjw amotmt* trv
our hundred thousand, ohicHy killed,
prtaotiwe ami fugitive*, timing stnls'i**'
tl Commune. In ldftft there were
thirty thou*aud tailors in Pari*, to-day
only about twenty thommml ; then twen
ty tlion-vind cnt'duotiiivkerH, now but
fourteen thousand ; uhiln of ahocit altera
and other .irti-.ut* there ia a like de
crease iu number*. The conasquenco i*
that the city is iu danger of losing Ha
supremacy iu elegant artisanship, a* for
want of workman nnuir ordera canuotbe
filb-1 for ex|H>rt ; nnd of course trade
will seek other sources of supply, where
conditions are uioro favorable. It is
.holy heotmipig more ap|st(eut tint tho
Thbsfe ikkflinirni mmk * stupendous
blunder iu its frantic ami indiscriminate
arrests after the full of the (kuauimie.
Not only were great nuiuWrs of the
most valuable workers withdrawn from
industrial' pursuits which would have i
benefited the whole community, but the
(iorernuimit now has tens of thousands
of prisoners on its hands whotu it must:
siijqsirt, has promised to bring to trial,
dtirtp not release, and Vet a great pro
portion of whom it will bo unable to
convict of any offence. When the Ver- ;
sadles troop* entered l'sria, vwfclM*l
slaughter of llio Communist—and nil
the inhabitants of that ill-futod city who
wuwo poorly dressed were deemed com '
tdnuisU— -WH* followed by wholesale at-'
rest*, the killed and prisoners amount 1
iug, it Is thought, to not lev* than fifty
thousand. Many of tl|o*o bn|tris4ifd
were Bus. rictitm of denunciations in
spired hy iientonul malice ; others were
seized in the blind rage of the ipument,
without miy r.-a*.ui w luu*vy* Now
languishing trade, a changed public
opinion, and a continual development
OL fact* favorable to the prisoners and 1
injurious to the (kmvnmrnt, combined
to rentier any fnrtlier postponement of a
general iuuuesty an imitation for fresh
conspiracies ; ami yet Tlders is power |
lea* te move iu the mutter, as a law ha>
nutde til* act of amnesty * privilege of.
the Assembly, which is in vacation.
The History of Coal.
Once n year, auJ at thin season, it is
eouveutiomil fur newspapers to say
something concerning the discovery of
coal in this country. C\ mpiyiug tifc
this custom, it msv t* noted that bttib
miaous eo*l was mined near IlicliimSUl.
Vs., as early as iu 17fl0. It was exten
sively ustwl f in thn vicinity iu 1775, and
a Kudioioßd fondflrv- rt)4c>V"l * 1U
making shot and shell during the Revo
lution. It w.is scut to Ronton, Philadel
phia aud New York iu 17K9. t nl.i.bsb
Gore and his brother, Muakamitliv fn ta
Connecticut, were the first to make use
of anthracite coal in the Wyoming (Pa.)
Yarin* m 17t>V JalkO Jwae 11, of
Wflk**bsrie. a is tko fir* to upph it to
household uses, Philip Ginter, a hunter
in the Manch Chunk region, discovered
the Ldttgll eual in 17U1. Mines were
ojeneil iu 17V1, lat k vsl ten years
later before the coal was sent to Phila
delphia. The Schuylkill coal was first
sent, to ui I*l'A 'fihia brief
ly stins' np Ui rtlr fliscoßk-riesJif et.vl
in this omttry. Iho tuna who fttiiew*
tliat coal will ever full to its former price
of three or four dollars a tou is yet to be
discovered- —-V. i'ajter.
A SixafLJir. CASK. —A roost singular
ocvunvne© recently < -ocutad in
HUM ,AT a grove. The deceased hail for
ncroc time previous to lus denlh k> |4 •
dog, who had been his censtnat coinpan
ion. Mid uvea in dmth the faithful am
mml would nut leave the aid* of the re
main* of hia roaster for scarcely n mo
ment When the family left the house
to go to the cemetery, the dog was shut
up ; bnt before the procession had reach
ea the cemetery he made his e*ra|H- and
ran ttU-ut, looking eagerly for his roas
ter. lie was very much bewildered, aud
waa finally taken into tha carriage with
hia mistress. Arriving at Uie grove the
poor hrute crowded to the aide of the
gnive and looked witfully and mourn ful
ly at the casket A* it was ty-ing lowered
into the grore, and was about to jump in
himself, when he van caught ami held
by a bystander. Tim aceno waa vary
touching.
NKwsr AREH MKS.— Tlieieia no class OF
.people who do luilf So much good, or
work so bard, ns newspaper men. They
publish good piper*, and they straiii
every nerve to do this, but the popnlsre
do not consider this,or the fact that uewm
papen are fair indej of their own in
telligence And enterprise. Sonic jiapera
pat up with all sorts of expedient* to get
along, when there are scores of infltmn
-1 tial men who are greatly benefitted by
the papers who do nothing to sustain
them. They might speak a good word
for them, got their frieuds to mihsrrilie
for them, sustain them with their adver
tising patronage, and thus remunerate
the hard-working newspaper toon.
Every citizen ought to lie nniiwnted by
sufficient pndc, if by no other motive, to
oastaiq good pnjiers. and thnjj see them
worthy repr. r unlives of the pcpl*.
ADVERTlHlSO. —Advertising ia an art,
and is the mother of the art of money
making. Huocesaful advertisers tmhosr
tatingly and gratefully declare that they
owe the beginuiug of tlieir prosperity
and the foundation of their wealth to
the liberal and judicious use of priutr-r's
in paradoxical, but uot {lingular,
tlmt yrkiter's -ink. ly Muokemng s timu'S
reputation, actually benefits him. The
ingenuity displayed by some neoomplish
ed advertisers makes advertising almost
a fine art. These shrewd men manage
to mojie tdio muni uunillujg tw-I their
nnndfiticvmcnt*.
11.- AH Inl*>rcr were at
eulttog-n hew thnhurtl a hid, 1t1"n
hollow known a* Hang Hollow, near
Council Bluffs, they excavated ft snek
containingSißl.OOOgold and silver money,
hidden there eighteen yrnrs ago by one
Muir, who tnnrderod eomrnde, a Cali
dfornian, in that city. Muir was hung by
mob Californium. and nxkl lie had
Hidden the money under a Mump in this
hollow, but refused to toll where. Many
persons Imve huntud for this secreteil
treasure in vain. The laborers shared
tire booty equally.
InnionATion.—Wieridan'a oolicitor enll
ing one day found his wife alone,
and walking about in a state of violent
excitement. He asked what was the
mntter. Her only reply was " that her
husband was a villain." After some
timn she added, with some hesitation,
" Why I have discovered that all the
love-letters he sent roe were the rerr
satne AS those ho sent to his first wife.
GOWE HOWE.—The citadel of Queliec
will IKS left without a single British sol
dier within ita walls. Tho sound of a
familiar tattoo, the marching through
tho streets of flue regiments of rod-coat
ed soldiers, will soon be recollected
among the past. All the forts, military
stores and armaments will be handed
over to the Dominion Government.
WHAT IS rr ?—Some Western newspa
pers talk about a mvsterioits, but fearful
enemy, wMoh is destroying flocks of
sheep about Manitowoc, Wis. No marks
of violence can be discovered save a small
hole behind the ear.from which the blood
lias been sucked. The prevailing idea is
that it is the work of a vampire.
A Tale of the *tw.
On the ifcid of July hurt the American
brig Hhetchoff, 'ill) tons, wua dispatched
by Me-v,r*. Glidemeiater, ltfueckc A Co.,
from H.nj Francisco, hound to C*U*o with
n nirco. llsr crow and paAaeuger* uuui
be ml in all twelve. Kim hunt a rough
voyage down, and ou the night of the 3d
<•( J illy wan caught in* c\ clone. For
tunately the steamship Moara TaVhir,
foil in nui| boarded tlie wreck of tb| brig.
Found one man, the captain, ulive ou
the forecastle dock, iu *u extenuated unu
dition. All others, nw slid paMsengfrs,
hod died from a tat-ration. The captain,
! who hud been * mun of *235 pounds, was
found an emaciated aVeleton, and when
; discovered in the forecastle of hi* wn ck>
ed hlilp weighed lee* lliUll I'JO pounds
! The suffering* he endured for over three
uioutiia oamiot he told ; he literally nub*
' Mated ou his own fat, an he had nothing
!to eat. Hta providential rescue ranie ut
the last moment, for it ia believed it w*a
hia iutcutiou to cud his suflwuig* the
Mime day by taking vitriol and ink.
From the /JauviiKm (ku*Ut we glean the
following partioolnrs of the disaster:
On Thursday, October 19, at 8 i. a.,
u aai! was discovered by the whnrluiunuu
the steamer Muara Tajrlor. The veasel
lay directly in the steamer's truck and
I appeartsi to be disabled, having but one
ma*t standing, and only her lower top
-1 tail set, ruuuiug before a freali southeast
Iwind. Ou approaching her it iirovad to
be a lirig, apparently ilaaerVst nu p. i
sous appearing in sight on board. A
ul spieud over the forecastle and a tent
ringed in the forctop cmastrera showed
that the crew had occupied those places
for some time. At every lurch the sea
made a ilean brunch over the vessel from
Stem to stem. To all appearanoo it was
a wreck which had kmg beeu water-logg
ed, and her crew taken of! by some pass
ing vessel. Her stern was broken away,
' the bulwarks ou both aide* gone,and her
sails dying (row the foremast in rags.
On reaching the wreck the steamer stopp
ed, and Captain Bennett sent off a boat
to ascertain whether any persona were
on board, and if none, whether any re
cord could ba found respecting her.
The ae* being quite rough, the brig
lurched heavily, aud the Inert upproa* hm)
her with some difficulty Khe was board
ad, however, by the third officer and a
seaman from the steamer, who immedi
ately went aloft into the forctop, and
finding uo one, went into the forecastle
where tbey discovered a weak, emaciated
tuna, who eselaimed, as he saw them.
''Cireat <iod Almighty, am I saved?"
He was lifted iuto the 'boat and taken to
the steamer, the only article brought
with him Wing a small canvas bag es
| t.uuutg a wautical almanac, and a vial Ml
cloaiug a sheet of papar, with the date of
I the wreck and the naroqs of the c-ew and
: passenger*. It proved to le tlie Ameri
can brig Kholvhofl, '143 tons register, of
Kan Fraucinao, bouad to Callao with a
! cargo of lumlwr. The sarviVTor wua Cap
tain Luiler llopken. The bng wwa caught
j in a cy clone on the night of July 3d the
same date of the aolar eclipse. Soon af- j
j ter midnight, when the cyclone was at
its height, she wad thrown on her beam
| ends and found to ba rapidly tilling, and
(iu order to pravaat a tntid tons oltlie ves
sel and her company, her maintopmaat
was cut sway, and she lighted up. No
time was allowed to MVO any provision*
of clothing from the cabin, ana the erew
wre obliged Pi retreat to Hie forctop to 1
prevent hsing washed ovn-rimmsl. as every ,
wave made i clean breach over her. The
nisi# Mr. Johnaoa. lu*l finrt days af-!
ter the disaster- Two half-lisrrv-U of sab j
I mon, a h*lf-barrel of touguca, and a l>ox (
of China starch were flnhad up out of th
i hold, but the drinking water was si!
i found to be brackish. Tixß snlmoti, 1
tongue*, starch, and a few flah esnght l
with a hook fr>>m tima to time, and oo<
caakmally * little rain water caught ia a ■
i sail,and always more or W* brackish from j
i the salt spray, were all that the ship's
company had to subsist on. Captain
HopVenw account of the sufferings of his 1
I met' and passenger* is a moat heart rend-'
ing one After the death of the mate.on I
the nth of July, nuaa occurred till Hep- :
tcuibfu 0, when Uiry I tegs n to bocama I
delirious aud weak fmsu hunger aud|
thirst, and several died w j>uupel over
board in theii delirium. , Boil* aud dts- j
I sane, induced by hunger and salt wafer '
added to the intvusiTv oflb<uxsufferings. '
Nine or ten day* before tWWeamer res-
I cued him, Captain H>>pken state* that a
bark ran down to the wrack, hota to for
a fi minutes, aud tbeu squared away j
without sending off a boat of making auy ,
effort b> rescue the lives of thune on board. ,
of whom there were eight then living.
The bark came so nror that pewm*!
could be seen moving about on her deck. |
Those on tlie brig were so wenk as to l*< i
unable to stand, twit got on their knurs j
aud waved pieces of auk-loth, hoping to .
attract attention. Their feelings. as they ;
■nw the lmrk square away when so new j
them, nniy tie lietter imagined than de-j
scribed. Their last hnp ix-ing gone,
they lav down. and one after another j
died or leaped overboard.
The Kptvopal Convention.
1 The Triennial Convention ni the Epis
copul Church in the United sLaU*s, lias
■been in session in Baltiiuorr. A very
critical position and nmuj" trying ques
tions were met,discu*sed ill a conciliatory
spirit. The discussion on the ritual, the
point of divergence between the evwn
gelieal and ritualistic wings of the de
nomination, and the leading feature of
interest before the Convention, was
amicably adjusted. After a long IIIUU.H
--siou on the subjeeA, a special resolution
was adopted, tliirty-flvo to thirty, with
seven divided, iorlddduig the elevation
of the hreofl and vfinC by the clergy when
dispensing the cnleumted to
make ttiem objects of wiwwhlp, ami n
comprehensive resolution was unani
mously jMuwed condemning all cereiwoniea
expressing any idea foreign to the au
thorised atnndnrd of the Church, and as
serting that the advice of the Bishops is
all that is needed to secure uniformity.
The resolution condemning unauthorized
changes in a Trover-book, after being an
amended na to iiielnda the introduction
of uiiaathorixed italics, pnnctuation aud
musical notation, waa also passed.
A FAMII.T or FIVE PKKSOS* MTHTER
lorsLY MrßDsnO.—A family named
Parks was found murdered "in thair
house near Henryville, Indiana. The
family consisted of Cyrus M. Parks, his
wife, IMIKIILI, his son John aged ten
years, and his daughter Evalino, agod
17, and Ellen sgea 12. The beads of
nil were terribly beaten and crushed by
some blnnt instrument. The brains of
Mrs. Parks and her son were scattered
about the room, while their liodies were
lying in bods. The daughters were
found sitting in the kitchen, olive, but
were delirious and fatally hurt. The
neighbors heard shots in tlic night, but
the bodies bear no bullet marks. Mr.
Parks was A leading member of a church,
and was much esteemed in the commu
nity. Great excitement prevails in the
vicinity.
THE BMALL-POX. —There arc grounds
for alarm in tha report from Washington
as to the cause of the terrible spread of
small-pox in our Eastern cities. It is
semi-offlcinlly affirmed that the infected
buffalo skins bought and captured from
the Indians two years ago, having dis
appeared from quarantine, have been
sold to the public, and that the pre
valence of the virulent diseases is attri
butable thereto.
Tbv Famine In Pcrala.
The following uroount of the fx initio
in Perm* ia taken fruui a statement mad*
at a public meeting rcoently held in
Loudon t<> mis* niouey for the relief of
the sufferers :
'• lb* 11 ota-11 tab jo famine now raging
in fVrsia, and threatening to carry off
liumlrctb of th ni-auds of the scanty pop
illation of that csteiuuv* kingdou, has
been c ii*ei by lh unparalleled bought
which h** prevailad throughout th*
country during the last three year*.
"In an area far exceeding that of
flreat Britain and France together, uo
river of any import xoo* exists, and the
quantity uf rain iu the spring nnd sum
mt-r is maiguiiicant. In onlinory year*,
however, the fall of snow between
November and March is considerable.
It thickly covers the huge mountain
rouges w Licit intersect Persia, ami as it
uiwt* tu the spring and summer it fills
th* watHseuttimw and small canals faun
which the puAssiit* irrigate their crop*.
The stril in the valleys l* naturally for-1
tfhk and a little labor Insure* a' large
barvwat if ouly Uie winter snowfall has
been abiuidaub This, unhappily, has
for th* last two or three ears been sin
gularly wanting; the springs, water
course*, and rivulet* have been complete
ly dried up, the corn sown over and over
again ha* been wasted, the supplies in
the country have been exhausted, slid
famine, with disease in it* train, is nuw
rapidly tiering it* deaJl* work.
••The population of tVrsia boa recent
ly l>ccn f -.timut.-d at about foor millions,
a Urge proportion of whom arc EclyauU,
wandering tiibe* who eorrtwpoud to the
I tods ween of A mliia and Mesopotamia. :
Theac Felvaut* principally inhabit the
southern and eastern parts of the empire,
where the drought has been most severe.
Their means of subsistence depend
mainly on their flocks and heeds, which
have now in soma place* altogether per
isliad, owing to the total want of grass on
the mountain slopes and in the valley*.
'lbe moit pitiful destitution and tha
most spiralling mortality are lite result*.
The towns have aeareely suffered lcsa.
At Ituahire. whrrw relief ia most aaaily
afforded, and where in .oh has been done
under the auspicra of tha British Resi
dent, deaths by starvation are of daily
occurrence. It is reported thai the pop
ulation of Kaxtruon, lately estimated at
lU thousand, has fallen during thrae
days of visitation to one-fifth that num
ler; that in round numbers acme ftnr
thou wind hare died of famine since this
time last year, aud a like number have
fled the place. A similar condition of
affair* exist* at Killing. Koomcaheh, and
mora or less all ever the large provinces
of Kirman and Khorscaan, sriifle even in
the lew slllictcd northern district* the
most Urorutahle distrraa prevail* It is
reported thai iu the oity of H|ialiao alouc
no leas than t welva thiMiMod people hare
died of want, and more than double that
numlier in the province. Ko material
improvement ran be looked for until
next spring. **
The fitjr *f Jwr ir MrtTtf.
We regret to record, says an India pa
per, a sudden and great disaster at Joan
i-or. a fine native city of the second dsn.
t contained nearly 9.000 houses aud
nore than 2i,0u0 inhabitants The Riv
er Oumli fx* suddenly on the night of
Friday, the 15th of September, flooding
most of the mowllaa south of the river,
and one or two on the north of it It
continued to rite all Saturday ; b--fore
noon Uie Rohuia MohiiUa, GooUr tihat,
Jeliengesabad. Wsiiandgunj. and Jy*a
pur prmafc d the tppsman of cans Is;
1 liefore evening the foundations of the
bouses begnu to give wav. and tben, one
by one. they came crashing down, dis
solved by an elriueut aa devouring as
fire. All Sunday the waters Ugan to
rise, aod covered the roadway of the far
famed Mohamodaa Ifidg-- ; the fine
pucka seria wras now flooded, and
crowds who liad taken refuge there were
driven to seek another rotting place. All
Monday and Tuesday the waters grew
mightily and prevailed :the river by this
time flowed freely over the pampeta of
the bridge, of which only the shops or
kiosks wow* then visible." snd the flood
was still rising when the last tidings
reached us. The whole of the city sooth
of the river hss been totally destroyed;
and aa some people are skeptical when
tbev hear of native losses, we roav add
thai the post-office, mission school, and
the solidly-built dispensary have all like
wise perished. On the north aide of the |
city uanv mohnliaa have beeu swept
awnv. and in the chief barasrv the larg
est fionscs, undcrmincfl by the rwdiing
waters, wcrv tumblingih, one after anoth
er, with a crash like that of thunder. On
a moderate computation, between '2OOO
and 8.000 houses have beeu destroyed ;
many otheiw must undergo demolition.
Ten thousand persons have leen depriv
ed fif bonce ana home, and it w ill require
all the energy of district officers snd
the greatest litxrality on the pert of the
government to prevent this calamity to
be fdlowed by the ills incidental hi want
and exposure". This disaster, accompan
ied as it is by a deficient harvest and a
aceoml total failure of the indigo crop,
will, we fear, inflict a Mow from which
the city and district will never wholly
recover. It is believed that no lives have
lieen lost, lite people with good sense
and forethought begun removing their
families as soon as the danger became
imminent Perfect order prevailed.
The magisterial officers and district su
perintendent of police sjiofit most of their
time in the citv, and the exertions of the
last-named officer are said to deserve high
praise. Though the waters were still
rising when the mail left wv trust that
the civil station is not in danger.
Tna NEWSPAPER A NUCESMTT. —The
Cincinnati Gummareiai, describing a re
cent visit to Chicago, dwells upon the
wonderful display of newspaper vitality
as one of the notable signs of the time.
Political and personal antagonisms have
la-en sunk in efforts for the common
good ; rival sheet* are printed amianhly
in Uie same ofiin* and on the same preaa;
the old spitefnlnesa and abu*e have been
nut aside; the business men are pouring
in their advertisements by the hundred,
and tb improvised accommodations are
inadequate to supply the demand. In
abort, the Chicago dailies are revived
with the teet promise, and their profits
are so large that a great part of their
heavy losses will bo made up in a year
or two. The newspaper lias become a
necessity in every civilised immunity,
and neither fire nor tempest oan repress
the energy which it rej>reeent*.
CHI OAFX STTRREREKS. About " Chi
cago refugees" the Journal saya : " Let
other communities shelter and provide
for those helpless and destitute women,
children and infirm men who may have
thrown themselves upon their charities
but when an able-bodied male * refugee'
who elaims to be from Chieago, comes
whining round, let him be sent off f
*/on<er, and tell him to go to work, either
at Chieago, where, labor is much needed
and well paid, or somewhere else."
CosaoLiDATioir. —The workingmen of
Berlin arc earnest in their preparations
for carrying out their recently announced
programme of intimate anion of all the
workingmen'a associations in a general
society for co-operative action in regard
to pay, hours of work, and other ques
tions of common interest
Tha grandest verse in existenee—Tha
universe.
A singular Wife Murder.
A brutal wife murder was perpetrated
at Mo. 3J4 South Fifth street PbUadel
pkia, as we leant from a pap*r of that
1 city. The murderer is named William
iH. Oakins, aud he has been employed
for a long time past a* foreman of th
.fcrpiiiU-ra engaged iu the construetiou
of the govermeat appraiaera' store* on
Hroond street, bekiw Chwomt The
victim was Mrs. Mary A. Odrina. Tha
two Kvstl for a ndmler of years at No.
411 Honth street, where Afrs.Odtlas kept
a toiUi uary ratabUahnsrat. The husband
and wtie appeared to get along very uo
happily together, iu oousequeuue of his
diasimttiug and drinking a great deal.
On severs) previous occasion* his wife
list left him. A day or two ago khe said
she would kwve him for good, and went
to the house of Mr Frank ItegltAer,
where the murder was oommiUrd. Dur- j
ing the time she was there the murderer
| called upon her several times and tried to
; induce her to return aud live with him.
Yesterday morning he made another
visit, and >m wife told him in eonae
quanew ol hi* bad habits aha was afraid
<f kua, and would aot live with hia,
and that aba intended to take mmtHMPSS
fur divorce. He ciprvaaed his silling
uoas to this, and said he would apto*
again to day and talk tha matter Over.
He then left, and Mr. Register cautioned
htm against making auy trouble, as it
would l>e uaehsH, and advised him to
marl UM matb-r quietly. H* ismrtj
(hat be would. " About 3 4i o'clock ya
t< rdsr afternoon he called again, when
Mr. tw-Kistar was out of hia tfficc The
j clerk, Mr. John S Rtow, was in the front
1 office. Mrs. Ri'giste- and deceased had
just MM* in, having been out to consult
j a lawyer with regard to procuring a dl-
I voroa. Uskins walked iu, iippmvntly
rather excited, but with a stoadv atep.
: lie ap}>earad to be aomewhat under tha
imflurnce of liquur. He walked up to
his wife, who wa* sitting on a chair, and
said to her. M Are you going to make this
your residence ? ,f She endeavored to
make some reply to the effort that she
did not know but what she would havs
to. He mumbled aomathing, which
would not lis beard. He then <leiiU-r*t--
ly took of! his hat and pbmrd it on the
, mantle, pulled a six-turrcQed revolver
from his pants nocket and fired several
1 shots, two of which took effect, one in
the head uesr the left temple, and the
other near the heart. -After he fired the
1 first aliot she tried to escape aud gat be
hind a bookcase, bat bs forced her right
into a corner of the TOOM and there fired
the fatal shot Mrs Register, who was
i in the room, endeavored to get the child
! ant of the room and render aanisbute* to
the poor woman. Before abe mold do
i hia, however, the shooting was alloaar.
The firm? attracted the attention of tha
neighbors, and Colonel R. A. Window,
I who Uvea on the earner of Fifth and
Powell street*, was called in. When he
arrived he arrested Ovkins and took him
f to the Central Police Station, wherv the
i pistol was found cut him. He was ar
ranged before Akleaiaan Becker, who
committed him to await tha rfsah of the
Ciironer's tnqnrat. Oakins m about 4§
▼ear* of age and hi* wife to. Kka, fpr
her agr, wu a very one looking woman.
They have two children, one a youni;
man nearly 30 years of age, and the other
aboy of It)or 11.
Kidaaptdag Rxtraardtaary.
Tha Chicago 7Tae* gives the faHow
ing : Rome dozen Teat* ago, in a quiet
village ia the Bute of HHnois,- there
lived a young married soaple named
Warrington. On the occasion of the
birth of thair first child, a girt, a wougg
named Coulter waa engaged as dotaostio.-
la about three weeks after her confine
ment, Mrs. Warrington died while her
husband was sheeu tat work, and upon
hia return, he found himself not only a
widower, but childless, as the anrw bad
absconded, taking tha abiki with her.
and no traces of her retreat could be
found.
A fow weeks since Mr. Warrington
arrived at a small town in (his vicinity,
and, while strolling through the princi
pal street, met a bright girl of snout s
dozen years, in whot&De recognized the
exact picture of his dead wife ♦ baft he
had long since given up the idea of war
feeing hia child. Bat after making a
few inquiries be Iwooune sattsfigd that
his daughter waa living, with, aa be
thought, her mother, in an adjoining city. j
The woman had bran since married, and
was now a widow. He discovered the ;
woman, and was recognized in turn
The widow ■exhibited no Hvure whatever
to ratafn the custody of the girt, and
asked to be allowed • few hours to pre
pare her for bar departure. Mr. , War
rington called on the following morning,
and was informed that Miss Coulter was
not at home : that she hsd gonk out -(he ,
evening before, and bod not returned.
Mr. Warrington is again on the hunt
for her, and will spare no pains to re
cover the )ioasesHKm of his child.
Hog To HA*DL Orsa. —The following
rule* aho<4d ha pharrved when you Ufcc
a pin Into your haml: Whenever vou
take a gun into your hands, inquire if it
iii loaded. Should there be no praan to
answer yon. if the gun is a mantle load
er, place the butt on the pound outside
the left font, having previously fixed the
hammer at half cock, and holding the
miixxle in a forward detection, clear of
your person, draw the ramrod and insert
it gently in the barrel, If there is a
charge in it, yon will feel the thud of the
ramrod upon it, while the roda upper
end will project about three fingers'
hreodth above the morale. Should the
piece not Is- loaded, the ramrod will sink
right down, and the brood metal end will
soon announce the empty barrel by the
tap against the luvwch plug. Never han
dle a loaded gun except for the purpose
of discharging it; and never, at any
time, either in jest or earnest, point a
gnn, loaded or unloaded, at any living
thing yon don't deliberately intend to
kill.
Tun WATCH. Watch " is from a
Saxon word signifying "to wake." At
first the watch was aa large a* a saucer ;
ft had weights, and waa called the pock
et-dock. The enrtieat known use of the
motii-rw name occurs in a record of 1542.
which mentions that Edward VI. had
" one larum or watch of iron, the aase
being likewise of iron-gilt, with two
plummets of lead." The first great im
provement, the substitution of the spring
for weights, was about 1556. The earth
ast were not coiled, but only straight
pieces of steel. Early watches had only
ona hand, and required winding twice a
day. The diala were silver or brass:
the cases had no crystals, but opened
back and front, aud were four or five
inches in diameter. A plain watch cost
tha equivalent of 81,500 iu our anrraacy,
and after one was ordered it took a year
to make it.
iNDUcnto CAPITAL.— In order to in
due© capitalists from other States to in
vest, it is now proposed that t he Common
Council of Portland, Me., shall pass a
resolution exempting from taxation for
a period of five or ten years ail factories
started within the city limits during
1872. This plan has been tried with
considerable success in qnite a number
of Western towns. It wdl no doubt
work satisfactorily in Portland, as in
deed in every town.
No matter how prosperous their bufi
nees may be, whalers and lardmakers
always have trying times.
TERMS : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance.
The Ilararian Trumpeter.
" Lraru * twilling, Mstig Anton,leant
4ora<*thiug; wlio knoti how Rwhl it
mnjr bi U> yoo V Tlim Ibt jufWtt
aouucf ou day, nuuyr yr *g*> to afl
young lad.
Msttg Anton " f<if • Wfcfl*.
end lit* m raid, •' 1 tkm'tUto to my what
lw*4 to intra." , ; ..
"Oat with it r
" tflfltfl want to town lit* trumpet#'
Tha raster* matted. fee he *#r*ted
fOprthiua quit*- dffer*-uti ImggK f
man'* wUI 1* lifi kingdom, and Tf*g
Anton mtimi a Irwtuprt. For many a'
vanr did be ruij*it *wf. well of ill #>
the praia of God and the dcHgkt of
<>, at hhiKJltng-mateltM, raarmgSa,
family feast*, and other great oorasiMM,
and at laal bk other youth*, be reached
Itia tvrutV'fint vmt.
Antouvrastortu'-
(Mt*. and drew owe el She highest nuia
ler m bis district- Eft 1 too ho was
ordered to Munich, but er one com
forted him by telling him that on ae>
.-mint of hit high number ba would soon
Im* free. He went away jovially, for be
had never Mentha reenfopee of the sov
ereign, and the trumpet would rarely be
Mown well there. A handsome power.
M tad. be wa aooa grade a cairsraier la
spite of bis high number. Ha panted
Ilia time aa r<rut in the traiuiog-#ehoul
at Ifympheaburg- Ol*evening no tocfll
the Mutaiutmtf vi mm oi the, signal
trumpeter*. and blew a alow pad fiffunr
bia heart *m Tar mi ft his hhfec, ap
among the beautiful mamtana among
km dear onea tlrare—oway JUQ*>g the
<lre*m of bio y path. One of tfae officers
beard fbe strange sound, inquired about
him, and Mug Autos wo mode trtita*
peter, a (. tLsti'i
About titat time be wrote to me, ''OB,
bow often 1 thrak of the war**, *Uintt
Anton, learn something; who known
bow woeful it may bo to you ?"
In IfiflU be was aiill there, and in 1870,
after the reduction of hf regiment; 4h
made it* moanteA trumpeter, and a*-
oanymnied it into Franca. An erUact
from one of hi* tettera wiD *hoW bow
thing* prnapefei with him ihr* : * I
bar, a* you know, learned not onlj how
to blow the trumprt, but to nde, ai3<i
waa iqipointed trumpeter to the staff or
the (tetieral* on the march. My General
i* kind to me, and IgteJy I. a mere Uuai :
peter, was allowed to take a ride on a
Genera!** horse, in the park at FVivferea.
How beautiful it is 1 Almost w beauti
ful ra at home in Schwoagaa ! Ferrieres
bstoqga to M ftothaehibi At tha W
name I inaptontorUy nw poor
•lender pur>.r, vctT was proud V> find
mraelf there, for it is not ever*r Otet> srtio
M nUowsd to rids in Ferric ran. 1 hoard
the taunpiog of bipw*, but did pot
trouble mytkdf about them ana ro-.le on.
ttnddeuhr, on earning- to a torn, Inter*
brilliant suit a# ofiknr* of high rank be
fore me. I rode to the side, halted, and
raid to myself, * Attention P for "at the
head of the riders cam# the old King
himself? He toolurt at m*. stopped, and
turning to the right, pulled up hi* horse
and the reek stopped also. The officer
on his right, rods forward, and plaeed
I&S&2P&BZ£gh^2Z
moaMed tnqnprter, Mangwas Hoe*, of
tlua third regianml (he gave my name
and surname without having asked me.j
His king gave him the crass of merit,
out he received the iron rreaa at Worth-
Ftorabwrilnr; Jhig * the trumpeter trho,
under a dcwdlr fire, continued to aonnd
the adrsnfv in fh# attack on *ictfdlon's
saanp.' The. King manhnd onk hi* hand
n> mr ia* % poor tremnrter—and all
jliia -mite came forward; au bat I*4 of
them bote the Iron crow., nod thoyahonk
hands with me. Tears rolled over my
Mown checka and moustache, I could
not speak a wArd. T Stood alone before
(Be noblertdera. He wise ntvarsted me
to the King was none other than the
Crown Prince of Prussia. 'Hoaa.' said
be, * when we oamattp you tbrww away a
lighted, cigar into the garden; you may
be glad thai it is in time of war, other
wise no man wootd dare to throw burn
ing cigar-endf into the garden of Roth
scbUd Ihcs, amiligg. he handed me his
case, asying. *"Way yw like Hie con
tente.' 'and fi> tug to laris,'aAiisd.
'We shall meet Uiarri' I rodealowly
willing the tears /nun my ere*, and a
was weft I had not mw tTurnjjrt with me,
for in the joy of my wart I would have
Mown the advanoa on Paris there and
then. Such or (he contents of the hase
as were tor iKking T have mooted;
they wave my fit** and pacMfly toy last
i roysl cigars. The thaler notes which,it
also ctitttainelTt aifl not use, I send theft
remembrance Of tie- (seniles# day of my
j life, and if I diabetoru voo—winds, in
qsts of mr yoatb, 1 think vary likdy
to be the cara—ahen yon shall kevp il
for the kind iatetest yew have aiwajs
takes in rac. In that ease you will c Jtte.
fort my deer <>ld father and tay sivters
This foreboding HraHC alas ! too soon
tot filled; spam! in five feattle*. he died
a few daw. after this o# typhna fevr, ia
Corbei 1. There lies Mamma Hew pqa*
soseoc of the iron-croan of the Bavarian
military order of merit, and of tha medals
„of 186* _
White lan Taming Black.
The folio wise will be regarded one of
the most eccentric frenka of nature, if it
baa frank at all 5 A gentleman about
25 years of pge, rttddy complexion suid
curly red hair, who had an intractable
ami painful nicer on the loft arm, resist
ing all previous modes of treatment,
yielded to the requested trying the offset
of transplsutmg a piece of skio to *h#
ulcer from another person. Tha nlaac
was prepared in the usual manner by his
phy>i>), and • bit-of akin ahonk an
men square was taken from the arm al
a fine, healthy negro man and immediate
ly spread over the ficly tdeer and then
csrefally dressed and bandaged. The
skin fcninaplsntation had the desired
effect. Healthy granulation sprang up,
and the utmigktly tdoer soon healed. A
few month* afterwards he went to his
physician atel told him that ever since
the sore healed the black skin com
menced to spread, and it was InereaMUg.
About one-third of hi* am was com
pjetelv nec Toed. The high probability
ta that the whole skin of thia white man
will bacome negro. Thia ta a new thing
under the sun. It wnohl be rather diffi
cult to explain the physiological process
which takes place to bring about such a
skin change as this. The problem it,
how cau the coloring matter of the skin
be so radically changed ? and how is the
pigment change propagated f It is cer
tain thai the law of oapiliarv attraction
plavs no insagniticttnt part in the spread
ing* process. Grafting peers on an apple
tree has communicated to the apples a
pear taste.— San Francisco paper.
A flcinawwo Discovkbt. —lt is re
ported that a physician in Australia has
discovered away of distinguishing hu
man blood from the blocd of other ani
mal*. It is wonderfully simple, and is
thus described : "A small drop, not a
mere speck, of the blood is to be placed
upon a microscopic slide, and carefully
watched, at a temperature of fifty-four
to fifty-nine degrees Fahrenheit, until
the picture of network formed by its
coagulation is developed. Human blood
speedily breaks up into a small pattern
networt; the blood of other animals
takes a longer time and makes a larger
pattern : but the blood of every animal
stems to form a characteristic picture.
j A Bay'* Utter About CMtftf*.
Hie PhilH telphla PU pMMMS" ! fe
following loiter, written by a bright lit"
j tin CUnago |foy of is® ywr* j
i how
I ing to attempt to deawiha 11 Aa the
! Are is raging 1 am composing tha !db
' lowing varum :
mtraoo.
flty of dm, wrapped Ml owe,
: -
would ritA S f , vr
It woald krapmaay aseatare* tow* P*®-
tVals Who one* r rate'
My o^wrbevalaifaa
Eight rtW of trntMSaga wrapto* * >< W.
o*ltebt that !ti. art .
A rtrr Midi Hta twrwji to Wo*ml
go; ta had iliM miwtttaof awd.
VbitdslWl B! bra" /, : IE
> The biowiS an of <n*W * <W*-
TUftmea? nowbwaoon.
I wfD finish then* vewaa in my west
I. ltAlar. .1 hope all aiw weh. i "f*3r aflae
tionale friend. WtUMw* W. U
fIWPVIVIPVB*
'Fort* and Pnncfcn.
Coming bo grttd—Mooting tCOoHe bait
; %*&' nidpldyttttlU-Balhhwg amien
in tbogir. 0 ... 'X. \,\M
A woman voted in Detroit and nobody
objected.
Cool procecdiug An ice matt eloptag
*ith nwjan odA
it to for A man to V engage 1
than to hedging.
Itfe no Uncomtjwm thin g for hot worda
In pfwdiuw aooainww.
A Wttcooniu Jsmtion of the Paw
granted a rjlworce.
Tl.milaraUon Sttmnel w i% the matt
of t famott* Weaterti Indian fighter.
Women now nmrnw* of the pub
bo libraries in Ibaaanmunnllh
ttome of the New York cook* will kill
and broil a ritiekcn i Bftora miautea.
* One ahfrt faotory Sn Batthnoee baa
fifty rawing rnndUbam ranaing Iqr atenm. .
The tea plant ban d<ma vary waU ttiia
year in ttonth Cafuhna, and
California.
A New Orioan* thief ttede flye earn*
Of tdhnera, and bow daewa the etui of
mfttwltrm ir jnfl
A man un|M Ant be omttdc't find
a word in tbe dictionary, beoaao, *' the
Sodk hailut gt an fade*.*'
It ttuot nUtIT we have jmarad tbcmgh
the fmmaoc tlmt we nee made to know
how ninch dni** u in onr coiaqwitton.
If in our rabobl day* the rah? of three
is provertdaUy tfyhg. bow tntwh banter
in a/tar itfa dn *ra find the ode of one 5
| i Hpoiifto t>ap*r ianow aaanfaetwrwt in
■frmvre- .TM material* nacd are ordin
ary paper Mp and finrty prided sponge.
The, army baketri In Washington la
mid n fandtti raldfem with turn pound
loaves of bread for efb pound of floor
chmL f * *
An iodignaaf ga* eonrame.- aaya that
thrn-'s tv, ura in abusing the * oonr
}<anaea,*for they'vn alwav# a vik retort.
ready.
(T a uhysiciaa haa dmcovared that the
•' niglit-mare."*'®! nine enwn oat of ten,
is ptwlwMtt ham owing bill to thn
l>aalr. *, ~ !
The lanpwt Mlasy paid to • railed
i official In the raited *to a 0.<0.
and FroddUnl Ootto* of the Bending
Uoadgnbi it
of
iqrcut to Hong Kong to employ eoouen
:for operative*. A cargo of them in -
I jMsetod at Hakto, " "
' Kyoklwe ia very tnneb on the dedinn
inEnjrtand At ttie mifveratie* not ooe
jseis in flaw now smftfaat, wbermw a tew
1 years ago d ie*t lour in five did.
Daalou said to hi* executioner:—"l
!ho vc had a ptwvl time of it; let me go to
Wmw ; then nam will ahnw nm haad to
the peuplc ia worth the teoablo.
An epitaph on a tumbsUae reaila :
T^-sttxr.^ssr 110 "^
; Om'ai . .Win
uppaara tha legend:
" Bootn and Ihopato hw--lodie*
imd abewjtUaneo* rapaiwi Knm m
bear."* 1 '
In England tbentomt nf tend covered
with tuecsa baa inewfewi lorty tbouiand
acres In the lart ttfm -flw year*, and
tii* |daiitltiir i* encourage*! among land
lwldara by bhend presaiuiu*.
A fellow teebng: lodignant Old
Ladj--" Guard do you alfow amoltii*
in this comnftrtmcnt ?" Obligißg Goanl
—Haw. wart, if nan* * the jn-ntlemen
you can take a fen draw o' the
|
A man in Ohio, who was acquitted oi
I raerder on a plea of inanity, aeenred
the lawyers by giving them a mortgage
lon hi* farm ; but now repadmica the
mofteage'On the grrmnd that he wan in
sane when be sum it
I A Iwbfnl voerm man vaa escorting a eonig
eonig Ujy, whn die raid, ra
trvwtircrr, • Jabd:, dont tdl anybody
roe Isweed me Jmnae." 'Don't be
aftaid. ' hesfc," I>
aelinniod oi it ait you are. That *et
ttedie J; - ■
" Ma, *bv dooU vo epoak ? M raked
littte Adkri ;V Why 4vtt> J< I
fUQOI Jl " What can IJ ? Don't
The tnoet inemtMe form of
imouaiW, my* Dr." Clomton of the Aey
lmat Carliale. Euftlrad, that which
rrmsh' - chiefly of a monomania of sus
picion of poisoning, with haHueSnatioßS
of beorior. It iaouly by being token
ia time that rack a case ia ever cured.
It has become bpown that no legal im
ufdimeiii \o tho mwrmg© ot Alexia
with an Atoeriean n.aiden t *i the Ke
rian Rqval familv irentf* limited to ror
al blood. This in wfy encouraging to
our feelWi who nro ♦feasor how *' Mrs.
Alejandrovitch " would look on pap< r.
A young mgn named Strieker commit
ted suicide at Leirvcnworth. His father
was kindly mmnnatcatii* agahi-rt lua
diraipotion, and remarked that he would
rathertollow \m ran to the grave than
we hhfl a drnoksrd, when the younw
man replied : ** Here goea, father, and
inatoiitiy put . Fated to his own head
and discharged it.
( friend feporis Ala of a family to
which, during the past Summer, he paid
dclightful visU n Obigo;. "The
husband wra shot and tilled in his own
honae bvn'bnrgfeu- on Saturday night;
the Italian was burned on Sunday night;
and now the new* comes that the wu®
perished, with the corpse, in the con
flagration tlmt annihilated store, dwel
ling-plane and evry tiling.
A lady teacher in a Sunday-school
recently W pecasion to illustrate a les
son on faith, fef the story of a child
who Vtuf told by hi* fatlwr to drop from
an elevated place Into his arms. The
father could not be seen by the child,
vet. wtlen wihttanded.it dropped. l'V° n
the teacher's asking her dam what was
shewn by this story, a bright little fel
low immediately replied, *n!t showed be
hadplifA. X-—-aiaMW
tiAunuKu 0* RAEUBOAD®. —We hear
a gocid deal of complaint that gambling
should "be allowed on the pwaenger
trains. A few wtfeks since a man was
swindled out of S6U in a Maine Central
smoling car by ft blackly, intro
duced him into the beaulaea of "three
card monte." To be sure, it *ia strange
that any man is so green or devoid of
common sense as to be inveigled into
(wrd-playing and betting with steangera
on railroad-cars —but such people there
are in the world, and we do not think
our rail-rood* should be th® field for
such knaves to ply their pursuits m.
We have recently noticed warnings
posted np in the Eastern feaUrond-cam,
like this: " Beware of atrangera who
aak you to play cord*." That is a very
useful placard, to say the least.
The common law says that each may
so use his own that he does not abate
the right of binneighbor.
■* vt v WT* , sft
NO. 47.