Thou Art Mine.
Thou art rains. Thou hut gi van thy word;
dote, close iu my arms thon art clinging
AUm far ray ar thou art ah-gtng
A aortg which t stranger hath haaid j
Bat afar front me yet, hlo * Wit,
Thy uotil in some region u*lirt*d.
On lt mystical circuit U
Thon art mine, I have Ktadn thee wine own |
Henceforth we are xuingled forsvsr;
But in riuo, ail in v*m. I endeavnr--
Thougli round thee my garlands are thrown.
And thou vtettdM thv tt)w and thy none -
To master the spoil that atoue
My hold on thy Wing cau aoxaf-
Thmt art hi hie, thon haul come unto me !
Bat thy soul, when 1 strive to iia near It—
Ttie Innermost fold of thy ajunt—
la aa far from mv grasp, is as free,
Aa the star- from ui* to<uiUu.-t<>p* be,
Aa Ute poail in the d whit of the aea
From the portnmleM king that would
wear it.
L fe's I.UU Day.
Hope*, like dew drope, pearl iu morning.
Airy visions, fancies gay ;
Soon they fade, Tenth* dreamland scorning,
Purpose givwa as grows the daw.
Work and toil come awiftly, aflhjM
Brows, tired handa. and riven heart. ;
And the soul weds right, forsaking
Pleasure , witee f<w tear, and amarts
Ouaaid. creep long is digit shedowe.
Fairest suns mast seek the weet;
Clones die frota floaer-hnght meadow.,
Then cornea night, and with it teat.
THREE BOTTLES OF CLARET.
The Major mat looking into the tire ;
for though it sua August, are bail bright
wood firv* in Ue eveuings a* *t often
do at the Profile House. He lookixl
werr steadily at the coals on the hearth,
shivered once as if ha were cold, boReJ
two glasses of claret in quick Boeceeaioo,
and I waited, confident that I should
hear his story at last Swoa ho began
to talk.
" Draw your chair close up. Light
auotlter pipe, and fill Tour glass. It ta
a eoli! night. My old bones shudder
when I bear the wind wail ower the
house and through the trees. Capital
claret, that! John, couie in here, Open
another haul© o( claret. John. What,
not another\ Certainly, man, T must
hare it This is only "the second, and
Me. -U_ has drank "half, of course.
Not drank any! You don't maau to say
that he has been drinking nothing all
the blesat-deveuing ? Effwndt, I thought
you kuew uyy rules better than theU
But yon alirays would have your 'own
way." **'
••One more bottle, John—but one.
It ahall be the but; and, John, get
some Mitmaehißo—one of the thick,
black bottles with the small necks, aud i
open it. But you know how, old fellow,
and just do your beet to make ua com
fortable.
- * How the wind howls ! My boy, I'
am seventy-three years old, and sewn |
dara over. My birthday was a week
ago towlay. * u
• 4 Aa olii bachelor! Yea, verily. One
of the oldest kind. But what is age ?
What is the paltry sum of seventy
years ? Do you think lam any older
In my soul than I was half century
ago ? Dn you think because tuy Wood
flows slower, that my mind thinks more
slowly, my feelings spring up leas
freely, my hopes are leas buoyant, less
cheerful," if they look forward only
weeks instead of years? I tell yen,
boy, that seventy years are a day iu the
sweep of memory ; and ' once young
forever young ' is the motto of an im
mortal soul. I know I am what men
call old ; I know mrcheeks are wrinkled
like parchment, and my lips are thin,
and my head gray even to silver. Pu
in my soul I feel that I am young, aa I
I ahall be young til! the earthly ceaes
and the unearthly and eternal begins.
"I have not grown one day older
than I was at thirty-two. I have never
advanced a day since then. All my life
long sinqp that has been one day—one
short day ; no night, no rest, no succes
sion Lours, events, ox thoughts has
marked any wraOM.
" T have been living forty years by
the light of one memory—by the aide
of one grave.
" John, set the bottle down on the
hearth. You may go. You need not
ait up for me. We will tee each other
to bed to-night Go, old fellow, and ,
sleep soundly.
•* She was the purest angel that flesh
eTer imprisoned, the moat beautiful
child of Eve. I can see her now. Her
eyes raying the light of heaven—her
brow white, calm, and holy—her luxs
wreathed with the hlessiug of her sintn-.
She was as graceful as a form seen in
dreams, and she moved through the
scenes around her as yon have seen the j
angelic visitors of your slumber move
throngh crowded assemblies, without
effort, apparently with some superhuman
aid,
" She was fitted to adorn the splendid
house in which she was born and grew
to womanhood. It was a grand old
place, built in the midst of a growth of
oaks that might have been there when
Columbn* discovered America, and
seemed bkoly to stand a century longer.
They are standing yet, and the wind
to-night makes a wild lament through
tbeir branches.
" I recall the scenery of the familiar i
spot. There was a stream of water that
dashed down the rocks a hundred Yards .
from the house, and which kepi always *
full and fresh an aero of pond, ovar,
which huug willows and maples arsl
other treee, while on the surface the
white blossom sf the lotus nodded lazily 1
on the ripples with Egyptian sleepiness
and languor.
" The old house was built of dark <
stone, and bad a massive appearance,
not relieved by the sombre shade in
which it stood. The sunshine seldom
penetrated to the ground in ttaff summer
months, except in one spot, just in front
of the library windows, where it used
to lie aud sleep in the grass, as if itldvfid
the old plaoe. And if sunshine loved •
it, why should not I ?
" General Lewis was one of the pleas
ant, old-fashioned men, now qnite gone
out of memory, aa well as of existence.
He loved his horses, hisdogs, his house,
his pnucli. He loved his nephew Tom, '
uncouth, rough cub that he was ; but ;
above horses, dogs, bouse, or all togeth
er, be loved bis daughter Sarah, aud I
loved Ler too.
" Yes, you may look at me ss you
will, I loved Sarah Lewis ; and, by all
the gods, I love her now as I loved her
then; and ss I shall love her if I Meet
her again.
" Call it folly, call it boyish, call it
an old man's whim, an old man's sec
' ond childhood, 1 care not by what oame
you call it; it is enough that to-night
the image of that young girl stands be
fore me splendidly beantifnl in the
holiness of her young life, and I could
bow down on my knees and worship
her now again.
" Why did I say again ? For forty
years I have not ceased to worship her.
If L kneel to pray in the morning, she
passes between me and God. If I
would read the prayers at evening twi
light, she looks np at me from the page.
If I would worship on a Sabbath morn
ing in the chnrcii, she looks down on
me from some unfathomable distance,
some unapproachable height, aud I
pray to her aa if she were my hope, my
heaven.
" Sometimes in the winter nights I
feel s coldness stealing over me, and
icy fingers are feeling abont my heart,
as if to grasp and still it. I lie calmly,
quietly, and I think my hour is at '
Land ; and through the gloom, , and
through the mista and films that gather
over my vision. I see her afar off, atill
the same angel in the distant heaven,
and I reach ont my arms to her, and I
ory aloud on God to let me go find her,
and on hi r to come to me, and then
thick darkness settles on me.
" The doctor calls this apoplexy, and
says I shall some day die in a fit of it.
What do doctors know of the tremend
ous influences that are working on our
souls ? He, in his scientific stupidity,
calls It a disease, ana warns me against
wine Atyl high living, as if. I did not un
derstand what it is, and why my vision
at such times reaches so very fur into
the deep unknown.
" I have spoken of Tom Lewis, her
oousin. Rumor said he was the old
man's heir in equal proportion with the
FKED. KURTZ, Editor nnd Proprietor.
VOL. VI.
'dMQhcr ; fox lit had tuvu KtvhgUt up
Twwn# family," fm nCI always been
treated aa a sou. He waa a good fellow,
if he we. raufh, lor ha hal fit# good
t.eagf tlt (AlVho oum* a dhis ht-r in
fluence must have.
*' I have seen her look the devil out
of htm *(te. 1 remember urn-* when
the horse* had ladtaved in a war not to
suit him, and he hail let au oath or two
t *i*apu preparatory to putting
'oa tho'wlup, Wo sore ruling together
* Jowu tlie avenue, and he raised the htah.
At the moment he caught her eye. Blw
. waa walking up flow the lodge, where
she had been to aeo a sick child. She
. saw the raiaed whip, and her eye caught
his. He did not strike. The horea ea
| raped for that lime. He draws them,
' quietly through the gate, and three
' miles and book without a word of auger.
. " Did 1 tell you I waa her cousin
; also? A aeoond"cousin on her mother's
■ siilt>, not on the General's. We lived
' not far oft, and I lived much of my time
;at his house. Tout and myself had
t beeu inseparable, aud we did not con
ceal our rivalry from each other.
" 'Tom,' said I one inormug, ' why
can't you be eonteut with half the Gen
eral's fortune, aud let me have the other
; half r
" *Bah ! Jerry,' said he, 'as if that
} would be anv more even, when you
want Sarah with it In Heaveu's uauie
take the half of the money, if that's all
you want.'
" ' Can't we fix it so as to make an
i even division. Torn ? 'Dike all the for
' tune, and let me have her, and I'll call
J it square.'
£ " 'Just what I was going to propose
;to you. Be reasonable uow, Jerry, and
get out of the way. You tuuat see she
; doesn't care a copper for you."
"I twirled a rose-bud in my fingers
i that she had given me that moraiug,
i and replied—
j " ' Poor fellow! I did not think you
i could be so infatuated. Why. Tom,
I there is no chance for you under the
! sun. But go ahead ; find it out aa you
i wi!L I'm sorry for yon.'
" A hundred such talks we used to
have, and she never gave either of us
one particlcujoreof encouragement than
the other. She SraOlthne sister turns both,
t and neither dared to break the spell of
f otu tiM-foci happuieaa lf asking Ler to
i be more.
" And so time passed on.
" One summer afternoon we were oflf
together ou horseback, all three of us,
over the mountain aud down the valley.
I We were returning, toward sunset,
sauntering aiong the road down the side
of the bill.
" * Fhilip, stir the fire a little. That
bottle of claret is rather cold, it aeems
to me, or I aui a little chilly myself.
I Perhaps it is the recollection of that
day that chills me.
•*I had made up my mind, if oppor
tunity occurred, to tell her that day
what" I had thought for years. I was
determined to know, once for all, Rolie ,
would love me or no
"If not, I would go, I cared not
where; the world was broad enough,
and it should be to some place where I
should never see her face again, never
hear her voice again, never bow down
and worship her magnificent beauty (
again. I would go to Russia and offer
myself to the Czar or to Syria and join
the Druses, or to India, Chine, any
where to fight. All ray notions were
military, I remember, and all my ideas
were of war and death on the field.
"I rode by her aide, and looked np
at her occasionally, and thought she
was looking splendidly. I had never
seen her mure so. Every attitude was (
grace, every look was life and spirit
"Tom bfhiiig efovefbktu One would
have thought he waa watching the very
opportunity I was alter myself. Now
he rode a few paces forward, and as I
was catching my breath to say 'Sarah,'
he would rein np and fall back to bis
place, and I would make some flat re
mark that made me seem like a fool tc
myself, if *ot to hi*.
"* What's the matter with yon, Jerry?"
said she at length.
" 'Jerry's in love,' said Tom.
"I could have thrashed him on the;
spot
" 'ln love! Jerry in love!' and she
turned her large brown eyes toward me.
"In vain I sought to fathom them,
and arrive at some oonclusion whether
or no the subject interested her with
special force.
"The eves remained fixed, till I blund
ered out" the old saw, 'Tom judges
f w .id!
be pleaded guilty by his awkward looks,
and half blushes, aud averted eyes, and
forced laugh.
" 'By Heaven!" thouglitl, 'whatwould
I not give for Tom's awkwardness now!
The scoundrel is winning his way by
" 'Jerry, is Tom in love ?'
"She naivete of the qnestion, tlio
oorrectoesu of it, the very simplicity of
the thing was irresistible, and I could
not repress a smile that grew into a
broad laugh. Tom joined in it, and t
we made the woods ring with our mer
' riment.
" 'I say, Tom isn't that vonr wkip
lying hack yonder in the road ?'
" 'Confound it, yes ; the ">rd has
; broken from my wrist;' and he rode
back for it. / j
*• 'Jtrtr. whom does Tom lcm Y laid
she, quickly, turning to me.
A )£?*•' ***** bluntly.
* 'AVuy. ofconrao ; but wlb is ha in
j love with, I mean ?'
"It was a curious way to get at it. ;
Could Ibe justified ? it was not ask- '
, ing what I had intended, but it was
getting at it in another way, and jnst as
well, perhaps. It was, at all events,
asking Tom's qnestion for him, and it
saved me the embarrassment of pntting
it as my own. I determined this in an
instant.
" 'Sarah, could you love Tom well
enough to marry him?'
" 'I, Jerryl what do you mean ?'
" 'Suppose Tom wants von to be his
wife, will yon marry him ?'
"'I don't know—J can't tell—l never
thought of such a thing. Yon don't
think he has any such idea, do you ?'
"That was my answer. It waaenongli
as far as it went, but I was no better
; off than before. She did not love Tom,
j or she wsnld never have answered this.
But did she love me ? Would she mar
ry me % Wouldn't ajie receive the idea
: in just (he same way ?
"I looked back. Tom was on the
' ground, had picked np his whip, and
had one foot in the stirrup, ready to
monnt again. I gulped down my heart
that was up in my throat, and spoke
| out—
" 'Sarah, will yon marry me ?'
" Philip, she turned her eyes again
toward me—those large brown eyes,
those holy eyes—and bleased me with
their unutterably glorious gaze. To my
She looked at me one look ; and whether
it was pity, sorrow, fuijrie, or
can not tell ffllw thefn tui<l
overflowed toward me from out their
immeasurable depths; but, Philip, it
was the last light of those eyes I ever
saw—the last, the last, J
"Is there any thing left in that bot
tle? Thank you. Just a glassful. You
will not take any ? Then, by your leave,
I will finish it. My story in nearly
ended, and I will not keep you much
longer. . , ,
" We had not noticed, so absorbed
hod we been in our pleasant talk, that
THE CENTRE REPORTER,
a block cloud had risen in the west aud
t obscured the sun, ami covered the eu
ttra sky ; and even the sultry air bad
' not ceiled our alteutiou to the coming
j thunder-storm.
"As she looked at uie, even as she
fixed her eyes on mute, a flash, bliudlug
and fierce, fell ou the top of a ptnc tree
by tl rund-mde, no fiftv tsrds from
t us, and the crash of the thunder shook
' Uie foundations of the hills.
" For n moment all wss dazzling,
burning, blazing lmht; thru sight was
(roue, aud a momentary dark tics* set
tled ou our eves. The horses crouched
to the grottud in terror, aud Sarah
bowml lux bund aa if in tht prearuoa of
. God. i M Mf ? f
" All this was the work,of an instant,
and the uszt, Tom's la-ran by us
on a furiohs gallop, dragging Tom by
the stirrup, lie had beeu iu the set of
: im>na ting * hen tb fl tah cam* and his
horse swerved anil jumped so that his
foot caught, aud he was dragged with
his head ou the ground.
" There was a point iu the road, about
fifty yards ahead, where it divided into
two." The one was dun carnage- track,
which wound dowu the imnuitaiu by
easy descents ; the other was a fooP
path, which was a short, precipitous out
1 to a point on the carriage- road nearly a
quarter of a mile below.
" Cdhug to Sarah to keep back and
wait, I drove the spurs into my horse,
and went down the steep path. loath
ing back, I saw her following, her horse
making tremendous si>ee<l. Hlie kepi
ihe carnage-riwul, following on after
Tom, and I pressed ou, thinking to in
tercept his horse below.
'■Thepace Was t4rribt. foouliihear
them tlmuderiug down the track altove.
I looked op and caught sight of them
through the trees. 1 looked down, aud
saw a gully before me full eighteen feet
wide aud as many deep.
"A great horse was that black horse
Caesar, and lie took the gully at a flying
leap that lauded as far over it, and a
moment later I waa at the poiut where
; the roa.ta again met, bat only iu ttuie
'to see the other two borsea go by at a
furious pace, Sarah's abreast of the gray,
| ami she reaching her hand out, bravely
trying to grasp the flying rein, aa hor
horse went leap for leap with him.
"To ride close belaud them waa worse
than useless iu such a case. It would
| btUccrve to increase th*ur speed : so 1
, fall bank a doxnu rod* sua h-dim-a,
watching the end.
"At the foot of the mountain the river
ran, broad and deep, spanned by the
bridge at the narrowest point. To reach
the bridge, the road took a short turn
up stream, directly on the bank.
"On swept the gray and the black
borae, side l>y side, dowu the lull-side,
j not fifty leaps along the level ground,
and then came the turn.
"Bh© waa ou the off-side. At thesbarp
turn she pressed ahead a half-length
and reined her horse across the gray'
shoulder, if possible to turn him up
' toward the brtdgc.
1 ,r lt was all over in an instant The
gray was the heavier horse. He pressed
her clone; the black horae yielded, gave
way toward the fetiee. stumbled, and
the fence, a light rail, brake with a
crash, aud they weut over, all together
' into the deep black stream.
"Still, still the sound of that crash
and plunge is in tuy nans. Still 1 car
sett theui go headlong down that bank
together ia*o the Mark water ! '
"I never knew exactly what I did
1 then. When I was conscious I found
myself swimming arauml in a circle,
i diving occasionally to find them, but in
i vain. The gray horse swam ashore and
stood on Uie bank by my black, with
distended uostrils ami trembling limbs,
shaking fram head to foot with terror.
The other black horse was floating down
the surface of the stream, drowned.
His mistress was nowhere visible, and
Tom was gone also.
"I found her at last.
"Yes, she was dead !
" Restore lier ? No. A glance at her
face showed b<iWYain MTMin b hope was.
Never was Irttman fkeeso aflgelic. She
waa already one of the saiutly—one of
tho immortals-and the beauty ."and
(flmt of her no* lifehiwl left srime'falnt
likeness of itself on the dead form and ,
fka _ , .
"I said I hod never gratrn a day older
since that time. You kniw now why
I have never ceased to think of her as
oa that day. 1 h.ve never luattbe bin**
ing of those eyes aa they looked on rut
in the forest ou the mouutain rami. I
i have never left her, never grown away
from her. If, in the resurrection, we j
are to r< same the bodies most exactly
fitted to repreeejotonr wliole lives ; if,
as I have sometimes thought, wo shall
i rise iu the forms wa wore when some
great event stamped our souls forever,
then I am certain that 1 shall awake in
i form aud feature aa I waa that day, and
no memorial will remain of an hour of
my life after her burial.
" We buried her in the old vault close
by tin- house, among the oaks. Beauti
ful to the very last.
"My voice is broken. I can not talk
any more. Yon have the story. That
l is the whole of it. God bless you, my
boy. You have listened—patiently—to
—my—talk.
"Good-night Go to bod. I'll stay
hero in tine chair a while. I don t
—exactly—feel—like—sleeping—just
i yet."
I left him sitting there; his head
1 lowed on his breast, his eyes closed,
his breathing heavy. My own eyes were
! misty.
In the hall I found John, sitting, bolt
• upright In f large chair.
" Why, John, I thought the Major
sent yon to bed long ago?"
" Yes, Sir ; the Major always sends
me to tied at the third bottle, Sir,
and I always doesn't go. lie's been a-,
tollin' you the old story, now hasu't he,
i Sir ?"
" What old story, John ?"
" Whv, all about Miss Lewis, and
; Mister Tom, and the General ?"
(mow
intrly np by tho aide of his nose, and
' —eh ?"
" All the claret. Sir."
" What 1 Surah and the black horse
i aud—"
I " All claret, Sir."
" John, rny man, go in and take care
of him. He is either asleep or dratik.
Curious that ! Why didn't I think that
a man wa* hardly to lie lielieved after
the second bottle, and perfectly incredi
ble on the third. By jove ! he is a trump
at a story, though."
| It would be difficult to describe all
! that I dreamed about that night.
I Singular Phenomenon over Lake Erin.
Something resembling s water-spout
was seen over Lake Erie, by the people
of Dnnkirk, a few days ago. It had
the appearance of a tornado, and at first
some fears were expressed that it was
of that character. In shape, it appear
ed like a large funnel, the smaller end
resting on the lake, with the mouth
reaching to a great height in the air.
The color was dork anil ominous, and
the whole masS had a whirling motion
around its while at the same
time it moved rapidly toward the west,
where it dissolved as quickly as it came.
A steady brnozs was blowing during its
continuance.
A man at Galesburg, 111., has been
fined $lO for eutting off hia wife's hair.
CENTRE ILALL, CENTRE CO.. PA.. THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1873.
Hatlame NlUion-Kotiseaad,
Christine Kiltaon, *ay* a foreign
1 writer, does not b>ok as if *be had ever
' lieeu a *treet singvr, amenable to the
i Vagrants' Act, ami accompanying ber
i nslf witii a fi-l.lla for Ui* entortainment
iof pr-nrim-nxl Swedes. Vet she fiiegrin
| tin* life when Urn yours old, and varied
her fiddle performance* by an oucuaiou
j ol aula ou tho flute, wbjch i-bvek dia
! tortiug in*truinent gave tione but pleas
1 ant sounds under her touch. One oohl
dar at nightfall, Count Tornerhje'm, a
uobleiuun with a* mnch wsulth aa kiud
ne*a- -rarecombination -heanl her war
ble out her clear childish notes aa she
shivered under the biting wind, having
earned but few copjM-ra that day, liiuan
Imiug bad. He took oompa-*i-vi on
her and caused her to be well educated.
She came out at the Opera in Stock
holm in 1860, being then seventeen,
and her voice was admired ; but he
wanted method, the which her patron
| supposed Fans alone eould givo her ;
j no ha dispatched her there to lie fiuialt
! ed, regardless of o--st, as a penuy paper
would put it, by KL. Victor MOBSU and
llerr Waal el. Chrjptine N"il*ou wa* <f
gentle diHponitiou, but a little prim,
wad with no more *ent|Rientalii>m than
wntild fill a nutshell. Hhe hol a enrious
way of arguing, and liecame early im
bued with the business a|>eeta of the
career she wsa going to embrace. Her
first eugsgeuioitt >u I8(i4 wo* at the
riieatre Lyrique, of which Xladaina
Miolan-CarValho, wife of the le*ee, wa*
the star and popular favorite Msdame
Carv-ilho wa* jat the opj>o*ito of Cbriv
rine Nilfts-m—grm-eftil, tastefn!. play
ful. Preucb all over-and ahedts tlie
Hwadisli girl not a little good in teaofi
uig her by what aria to osptivate that
fauciful thing, the Farisisu public,
which will uot give a rush for a voice
that is nut wormed up by a aonL
Christine Nla*ou'a dtbut was a *u-*ces*.
but not such a flosluug one a* Patti's
had been. Pari* found her notes too
metalic—something like those of the
silver flute on which she eotitinned to
be a proficient, and with which she
would regale her auquaiDUitom whin
they cams to vuil her of a Sun-lay and
>ip the somswhst yellow tea she pro
vided. But she grew um>u her public
just aa they grew to like her, nd.
thank* to Madame MioloJi, gradually
li-arued to die in the •• Traviata " m a
manner to set the audience muveiling
in their handkerchiefs after the must
approved fashion. She than livvd ou e
third story in a •in all strevt close to the
CoiißsrvAtoire, did her own marketing,
aud overhauled the butoiier a bills with
a perspicuity deserving alt boaor. Her
hands wera cold, her smile amiable, lier
talk sensible, and her blue eye* keen.
Frenchmen being cntcrnriaiug tt the
world over, *ho receiveil preaeuta, aud
lova note* along with tliern. Sua had
uo objection to the presents, if dvcuuUy
offered, but she burned the love notes
Hhe wsa very hard at driving a bargain,
and had no idea of aingiug for nothing
Once, though, she must hnva thought
aha had parto-l with three whole aougw.
aid all in one night, too, for nothing
It wsa at Madrid. Sht had returned
from the enera, and wsa in b*r room,
when a ladder was planted against hut
baleoty, which lookod on to a gar-l< u,
aud * gentleman with a cloak, and mask
uambcred through the open window,
tollowed by a scound, and ao on till
there were six of tbem Christine
Nilssun. no dotibt, thought they had
tjome for toot money, but did not pull
the bell-rope, because there was u-m*
She aked them wittn-ut aerauniug
what titer wanted, atwt tl*y explainod
in very choice Castiiuui that, beiag (<•
•leetitute to pay for admittam-o P the
Opera st the uiercned rate of prio- *,
tl.sy had come to hour the snug* in
which they were informed aha excelled
Parley proving bootless, there wn*
oothing for it but to sing, and she did
•ing right welL The (kudibaoa bowed
to the ground, and aiumn-d her, aa they
retreated through the way they had ar
rived, that they had spent half an hour
in Paradise. But when thoj had vauudi
ed, they and their ladder, *hv found
thev had left a diamond bracelet, worth
a thousand guineas, which gave hr to
wonder in all probability why tbey had
i oViutrodueed themselves through the
dour, as no six men with a luaOclut
need be ashamed to do.
Story of A IMoture.
A painter once wanted a picture of i
iuuoosnce, and drew Uie tiksnass of *
ehiid at nray<-r. Tbe little supplicant ,
wsa kneeling beside his motlier; the
palms of Ins uplifted hands wrre rev
erently pressed togctlier; Lis ror chock
A|H>ko ui health, and bis wilk-blu* t' 1
wa* upturned with the expression ol ■
devotion and peace. The |iortrait m
voting Bnnert was much pnx<d by tl*r
paintor, who hmg it np on tho study t
wall and called it " Innocence." Y'esre
psssad away, and the artist became au
old man. Atill tlie picture bung there.
He had often thought of painting n
oomitorpart, th picture of 14 Guilt,'
bnt had not found an npjmrtunity. At
last he effected hia purpose by paying *
visit to a peighboring jail. On tbe
damp floor of hia 001 l lay a wrretched
culprit named ltsudall, heavily ironed. .
Wasted wa* bis body and hollow lu* .
eye ; vine was visible in his fsoe. The t
painter suoeeeded admirably, and the
jmrtrnits of young Rtipert and Randall 1
were hung sille by side for " lutiocenoc "
find " Guilt." But who was young
Itupert and who wsa Randall ? Alaa'
ilia two were one. Old Randall was
young Rupert led an tray by bud com
tmiioas, and ending his life in tlie
damp and shameful dungeon.
The Birth of tbe Fly.
Sir John Lubbock, iu a recent paper
in Xature, Loudon, describee tho birth
of a May-fly from a full grown larva,
wliinti, having observed t to I>* in a
glistening condition, he oanght and pnt
under the microecope in a drop ef
water. Very few minutes had elapsed
when lie had the aatisfaction of seeing
the thorax open along the middle of tlie
back ; the two tide* turned over ; the
insect literally walked out of itself, un
folded its wings, and in an instant flew
up to the window. He vend times since
ho has withessed this wonderful meta
morphosis, and it is extraordinary how
rapidly it takes place. From the m>
rnent when the kiu first orsrks, not
ten seconds are over before the insect
has flown away. Liko the ephemera*,
dragon-flies, at first dull, brown, slug
gish and ugly larvm, with aix legs, are
developed m water. Not so the ant
lion, Vrliich passes its early days in dry
' An Invention Wanted.
A correspondent of tbe Scicntfflr
American says : " Fjowalinres, as now
used, are enough to. woke any farm* r
complain, especially if they ore steel
ones, which are generally ruined after
lieing sharjxuied once. The cast steel
oues will not scour in black lands. Why.
could not the share be made smaller, so
that it would not be necessary to weld n
plate of iron on it? The share and
poiut might be made of twu pieces, and
the point used in some way to fasten
tbe share. Plugs or wedge* conld be
need instead of bolts, which are so
laced that they are hard to nncrow.
1 ould not such a contrivance be a*
successful as the movable saw teeth ?
I think so. If such a thing could be
made, it would be one of tbe most pay
ing inventions,"
A ltomanre lu Crime.
It teem* very probable that th Horn
-1 tnon-pla'e character of uiod>-ru life hjt*
' the cHbct to drive ohj* men Into cfiiuc
* mere!* f*r the gratification of a love of
1 adieu tore. It is doubtful whether a
i man of real ability will endure too eon
t tempi vluuk always aeo>ui*iit>* the
, uouirn-ty of m I (net if he can find scops
: fur iu a inodg ol life of a kiud h>
j win men's respect. The suicide of
Henry Austin, a fid' Mouterief Watl
ilauis', in liieTrcut'-u Penitonliary, gives
occasion for a brief biography that
should uot prose umustruolive. Wad
dapis was liia rail U*U>*, and he WH*
1 t*ni of a wealthy farmlv n the north
tsf England. After graii i tiling at Eton,
he was released, through family iu
fiueiu-e, from arret for * niisdcsineaiior
' at Leeds, on condition of Ufaleaving the
• country. He arrived ttt New York in
IH6J, imd at once tieeaine a bounty
• jumper. He exerted himself with so
rnwoh abibtv ami discretion that, it is
, said, he realized over SIO,tWO from that
i species of speculation. Alter a short
visit to Euglaud, lie relumed, and be
i gau a earner as a horse thief on the
Peiiusylvania an 1 New Jersey liua with
aiugular success. Four years ago the
formers of New Jersey found it neces
sary to combine agauiat htm and bit
, associate*, iu 1H69, white ruling off <m
, a thoroughbred mure buUiugiog toJohn
. Stulty, bvinj; uear Kingston, N. J., hr
as* fired at, but eluded id* pursuers by
1 escaping on foot luto a swamp.
1 That tid uigtit, with a boldne**
thwt ehallnees mbntrstton, he emerged
from his hiding place, and escaped on
i a tin# norae tielougmg to a farmer near
I Ohxiowator. lie -old Ui Iwrw the
, next day in the Uuil'* Head Market,
Weal rluUnlelplua. It is e*Uaiated
that he stole nearly a hnudred horees
before his arrest. Upon hit second
pa*age from England, he had brought
with him a handsome and accomplished
i wife, who followed him in his sinuous
carver of ertm* with afeiui nine devotion,
i and ema suffer- -1 tmpriaoument far six
uiontlis for attempting to aid him to
. escape from the Elizabeth jail, bj atnug
| qling tn a number of fine *awa, a file
1 aud some steel w ire secreted iu the back
' of a small case containing her picture.
Thi was in the earlv part of 18?2 The
I glamour of errrntnal rorwauee add* ita
own horror to the aeijuel of the story.
Recently ha iearnnl, whiio aarvuig a
i :iy jrara' soiitasice, that hi* wife, who
. ud just boen rvieaooj from his owu
prison, and from whom he had just ex
jg-te-l a prouii*e ->f HJi lity, had c'oed
: her long year* of devotion to ltfm, alhir
* ed bv tile bromianr and wealth of a
' prominent Trenton politician. After
: ibis, lie bereune despondent, and eeenr
twl a shoemaker's knife, with which be
ptU *U rod to his life, b.ceding to doath
, before hi* keeper* discovered Uuo.
Make Birds Friendly.
; Some kindly soul writes to a Cincin
, uaU paper; I was much interested
, wain wtick" IUUOC at the remark of r
friend living in the suburb* of the city,
' that wbeu he left home early iu the
momifig, he fhongbt m many a* two
' hiindrvd litnla were chirpbig nnd sing
I ing in the tteea around hie home. -A
niked bun, '• Hw *b> von eeeount for
i t hie, seeing tiiatik is e very early yi
: the auosou, Mel the snow aeamrly gone
! from the ground?' He rejiimd, "I
iuvu birds, aud delight to feed thu little
songsters and f-g thta purpose jmr
-1 t-filUc Jvfuae grain and **cda at cheap
1 rates, and arrange shelves am! c*u-
I venienee# for feeiMng on the trees and
i fettean. Bv these mow* lam slwaj*
Mirronndnij with bmle, early ami Into.
I Now, iim purpose-if the writer of this
! . to proj-oks l(h acts and iikr pleasure
, to other- i and to suggest to thoae htv
iilg livUoepotaof Won to land to plant
hfitflp, <Uiul>w<-r, ripe, and othct small
'aedtla ftliF e*}Wise of which need not
exceed fifty centat, and they, too, can
f-ed and ml joy the nreaenee at the early
i hud*, which niU ds igbt to vmt ami \
\ sfiend tii< ir aumnwir days arouml the
lususauu ol their foamls. Furti- Jsrly
st this time, when our Acchmatii*tiou
Society is spending money ami effuita
so liberally iu introducing European
birds of Bong, i* it UKI much to ak all
who wotrld encfiurage the enterprise to
half feed the bird*? Plant y-mr little
sends, wateli the gmdual growth, keep
ing in mind thn aim to make home and
it* surroundings happier ami to teach
the little t wo-lvga indoors to cure for
and treat kiudh - the littla, two-leg* out
-if -I-Kir*. Feel, fovd the bird*. All
will be tie' happier.
Ui'dueisg tbe FamUy.
A frtmilY of sit persons, traveling
through Mseomb eoxmty ttiwsrds De
troit, Michigan, wtoppe.l about thirty
mile* from the city uad attotnpteil to
give away a UUlo l*iy four years obi to
a farmer. lie dnl not want tho child,
•u# tho wagon drove on . but it sceiu*
that tbo.littU follow was set down in
tlie road about hall a mile from tho
honse, and is about an hour appeared
nt tbe farmer's gate. The fanner was
highly <nr*ged at the dodge, and sad
diing'his horse ha took theehild before
him and rods after the wagon. Before
ho oaaie np with it ha found that tho
family had giveu iiwy a girl about a
year aud a half old. He mode them
take tlio boy back, nud when be threat
ened tlie Ether with arrest tbe fellow
colly replied that he bad too many
children imd wanted to get rid of
aoma of them. Tlio farmer etironn
tsred a teamster who was coming to
Detroit and asked hmi to keep au eye
on tlio iiuuuprants. Thursday tog lit
they cauipod besulo tho roed als>ut
ilfteeu miles from tho city, while the
teamster, whose name ia James Bruce,
came on through. At the City Hall
market tlie immigrant wagon was dift
oovered by Ilruec, wlio found the man
aud hia wife aluus, they having dis
joined of Uiour live cliiUUeu along the
rood. Little Batiafactiou could lxi ob
tained ah to where tbo little ones bad
been left, bulb parents seeming to
have no mote feeling tbfln wolves, and
when there tens tillk of arresting tbem
tbey drova off aa fast as possible. It is
behoved that they dropped the child
ren hero and thure on the road, and
probably most of them will find their
way iuto Dutnuf to bo soul to the
County lioiise.
Law* Regulating Wining tandx.
/Tprfv.ite Inquiry lisviiig been msile
of tnq Aftorney-Oeneral oi the United
fifwtes on the following subject, the
qnwsHon wa* referred l>y hfm to the
General Lsnd Office, nnd Acting Com
missioner Curtis makes tins statement
as tho rule of thq Deportment;—"lf
lands liavo been entered and patented
HS agricultural, upon which valuable
mines were kpown to exist at the dateof
such entry, the parties owning mcb
mines are In no way debarred from ac
quiring the title thereto open a full
oompHaoee with Ui* lnws ami the in
structions regulating the disposal of
mineral lauds; aa bv express provisions
oI law no title oau be ae,quired to min
eral land under the sets regulating the
diiqiosal of agricultural luud. Iu all
cases where lauds have been retnrucdas
mineral upon the township plot, or
where affiiiavita were filed with the local
laud officers alleging that the lands are
more valuable for mining than for agri
cultural purposes, it is the duty of th*
register sud receiver to cauag a hearing
to determine their true character before
allowing their entry under the Pre-emp
tion or Homestead laws."
The Erie Indians.
Let an ludiau tribe vanish entirely
i from the earth without leaving a shadow
i lu-huul, not even one chieftain to go a
' s deputation to WanhiDgtoo, not evu
i ' one crave, who refuses to live on hi*
1 reservation, and skulks around the set
11 tleaienia etad 111 llie cant-off silk hale of
i the white man, anil forthwith we Itqgis
> i to exalt the extinct r ice with the hear)
of an antiquarian aud the peu of a nor
! elist. It is only the degenerate, mind
'! fatiguing Indians of to day whom we
deapise ; no doubt the tribes of the past
were of s nobler nature. Among tbcae
tribes of the past there are none Wore
i completely past than the Eriee, who
j have left scarcely more tbau a name lie
, hind them. They belonged to that re
workable confederacy of triliea called
| the Neutral Nation, dwelling upon the
southern alum- of Lake Erie, a eity of
' refuge to warring parties on either side.
To them belonged the right of lighting
the council fire of peace, a ceremony
watch wis* said to require s maiden
hand, aud for years they held their
place, r-s| K-cleil and at |iesce. Upon
these Weatern lahunla were some of
. their fs*tusai . traces of their fortifl
cations were discovered there by the
tlr*l surveyors, earthworks built, upper
ently to enclose s Tillage, with gate* aud
sallyports of wood, and in one place •
quantity <>f new atone axes and arrow
l beads stored sway in a huge armory for
future a**, i'lotiire-writing wsa also ;
, found, and <e rook nwturtpWou upm 1
, Kt-l ley's Island haa born prououueed
" the rao*l extensive, well sculptured
1 and preserved inscription found in this
' country."
The Erics were at the h'-ad of the
Neutral Nation, and at the time of the
first French explorers they were in the
height of their power. Ho moch ia
known, but no more. The Iroquois came
j and swept them from the face of the
saith. "Of course," says the student
of lake country history, wearily, "The
Iroquois ere aa aim- to come swewptnr
in at the last as Hir William Johnson !* ;
The Knsa wera an utterly destroyed that
i the moil patomt investigator can on!y i
, say They were, aud they are not. ,
I " Little lwaides tlieirexisteueeis known
' of them," says Forth am, whose histo
ries are as reliable a* they are fsacins
' ting—an unusual combination.
The llaraiia Lottery.
Tbe profits of the tioket-sellers in |
the ITsvens Lottery are enormous ; on
p-ny iu New Turk receive* 900 ticket*
1 for every darwing. Each ticket cost* 1
1 him ffffi in note# of thw Hcsnish Bank,
i equivalent to $16.66 in United State*
' eurrencv, allowing $3.83 on each tieket
a* exchange. Sc'ltng the ticket in New 1
York at $"26 currency, this leaves thr |
. vender $11.33 clear profit ou each ticket,
or $10,200 on hi* eutire lmU-ti every ,
sixteen to eighteen days, which makes j
quite a handsome pile at the end of the
year, not counting the profits on the 1
| iew prisva which are drawn The drawer
jof a prigs who think* he has obtained |
s3liQ finds nut liis mistake on visiting j
his banker t<> cah the Incky ticket. |
The S3(HJ sre but $2lO, and this Litter j
! figure ojflv* if the banker I?) chooses to
treat hi* customer fairly. The *•!• of
rickets for tetand waawpfim is de
creasing, bat it is fnereoMng for the
{ I'lllie.t Htatsa For the purpose of
owny.ug wo the bpauiah government i
. and thtt war. ths people f tlie United
S'.ate* purchase fit,ooo tickets for etgh- i
teen drawing* per annum : this is equal |
4 to 162,000 ticket* at 52)t each, making j
Sfi.s4o.tK*>. of which the govern me u I
. raositrsa twenty-five per cent, directly, j
i or SBIO,OOO, the ticket purr baser# run- •
uiug their chances for the remainder
lof their outlay, and receiving a larger
or smaller premium. A* only six targv
pntes are given, 20,094 people are dia- i
appointed every drawing : six out of (
i 30,000 get a respectable pnxe, which
generally finds it* way Imck again to
4 the coffer* of the inland treasury. I) j
is also wdl-known that nine-tenths of
' the ao-cath'd tickets in the Havana Lot- .
f tery, sold hi the United fttatos, are
I counterfeit*, atill people buy them,
! hoping against loss all the time. When I
• Will tna American psnpje have s little j
' wisdom, and not allow their pocket* to ,
|be picked by every adventurer who (
offers them $lO for sl.
Tornadoes and Forest*.
It is about thirteen year* since a fear-
I ful tornado ru)u-d from the prunes of
the Far West aud took our city in it*
path. -The visitation *M not one that
onylHKiy wanted to ee repeated. Oar
1 street* were filled with fragments of
trees and with bricks from ovetturned
chimneys. The roof ef the then n<*w
ifitmmerrial office flew against the
wratiwn cornice of the building at the
miutkwestern corner of Fourth and Vine
, streets, and left a dent to mark the col
' lisiou. Worst of all, several persons
were killed in and alniutUiecity. Cinoin
-1 nstt ia not ** exposed to such disaster*
a* many other place*. Her rain part of
hills i*"s great protection, of winch the
1 suburb* do not enjoy the benefit. But
the moat elevated districts of ftontheru
Ohio are freer from danger than the
treeless and hilless States farther West,
A few sere* of forests would do more to
protect the d wclb-rsou the prairies than
anything that Could be devised. It is
true that a tornado %ill cut through a
wood, but if it la met with many nch
obstacle* its pathway would be impeded,
its F-jieed and violence abated, and its
track shortened. Tree p'snting organi
sations are forming in some sections,
sod their inereao* is urgently required.
Central lowa has had a lesson which
should not pass unimproved. In North
western lown the railroads carry trees
gratis for all who will plant them, and
similar encouragement should le given
elsew here. The destruction of forests
is not only to lie deprecated m view of
liurrinaneis, but it has injurious elT<>ets
upon th rainfall and the oliiuate of the
surrounding regions. A check onght
in some way to lie put to the waste of
wood, aud State* might well have spe
cial connoiDsionfrs of forests. The
snbiecthM received Increased attention
of hit#, and we hope it may excite
more general interest.—CV'ae/naofi (Ja
tctft. _ _
Tost of the Trip to California.
The Run Francisco flullctin gives the
following as s fair statement of the cost
of trip to California:
Xrw Tor* lo ftn rrne)<-o sl*o
S <-<vtti(|-r*r, (full hK "•srttoii") 30
Twenty mel i IMIIIS, *1 T5 e*ut* o"h 1*
Han rriuotcco lo ¥mlt tut! kUniKo* n>(
Tr Old nana rsturn, Isn dj*' trip, |-t t
Xlim, Init **X, IW
Su Frandtro ty N|* V)l*jr,ett. .... 90
Hall i'rsnSlW* Yo Hint* ("rut, Prtadiw, ftan
Jow, stc, a7 cur frku! trip.... *0
Tu ilaya lu all In ftaii Fcucl*-o, *1 $4 |r d*j W
Trfiw to llw (T.lff tl->*w, Sle M
San Fraui lwo la N<i*r York 149
ft aruiUß-rar, lmf U U>ve) X i
(MUIO lioE) 11
llrraklng trty tlirre dj> *t Truck** lo •*• lak*
Tho* *nd Oounrr L*k* IS
BrMklus trli> *> Oftdsu is Salt Lak* Citi.Mo.,
lour dc;>, *ll !•
Total
n'f of *t\* exjwnMS iu currtney, for wtilsli
drduet ten p* r reut, on $330, *y.............. 9
Total rxpanww of fa'J Facjfio Cooal, trip*, w
•bor*, la gold 0018 foro
As estimates are usually made for the
benefit of interested parties, it ia al
ways best to raovs slowly. In the
above ease, aman making thetrip might
easily double tbe figures given, ho
ooonomieal, sud when hs returw d lion
lie would have little monevinhia purse.
Ask any one who haa tried the trip and
i sots Ilia answer.
Terms: 02.00 a Year, in .Advance.
The Captive Modoc*.
lsplsiM Js*k Dtsvsnrti lh* Tntlan sf
IU. Baud.
A corrnmionJeut, writing from Gen.
Davis' aaya;
Hooker Jim and Steamboat Frank
were reafl v to consummate their treach
ery by killing Soonohe* and Capt. Jack.
Hi"; travel**! two day*, kept guard
during the intervening night, and, hav
ing ridden tixty milm that day, brand
'hetnxclTea too bred and *!•-- f>r, aa
Frank eipreaaed it, to tnut thainaolvra
to akout. Their nerves ware out steady
enough to r*ly upon to finish their
work. Capt. Jack haa good reaaon to
upbraid them, and yet may out be
aware how deep a treachery they in
temled. I took a look at Capt Jack
to-day. He aat croa* legged, with a
clean striped ahirt on, and looked about
thirty-five. Ha ia a well-built man, ha*
a face of some power and great intel
ligence, and would probably be picked
out a* the moat able maaiu the tribe.
11 ia favorite wife, Lixua, aat by his
aide, working a moccasin. She waa
neatly dressed, ia rather pretty too for
in Indian, and her little girl is a very
pretty mild.
Hooker Jim and Bteaml>oat Frank
have endured a great deal of late, and
nave a great deal mi>re to endure, aa
hare ilogua Charley and Shack Nasty
Jim, their traitor confederal**, who are
now absent attending to the removal of
the rest of the Cottonwood* to tbia
place. After the talk a few days ago, when
tUey as* mted in identifying the Tule
Lake mnrderera, Mary went back to
the Modoc quarters, and had a talk
With her brother. Capt. Jack, and the
two renegades being present, the Mo
doe chief arose and made a pa** ion ate
harangue at their ezpenar. U remind
ed bta hearer* that when the l'eace
Commissioner* and Gen. Canby were
trmig to aetlle mattera be was for
peace, and would hare accepted the of
fered term*, hut hi* tribe reeolred for
war, and to pleaae tbem be waged war,
mud now wan a doomed man.
He point**] to the two Modus rane
pjw uul reminded tbem and his bear
*r that I hey too were for war and re
to let him seoept term* and make
pence. Then he taunted them with
tearing hint to lßht alone, and turning
traitor to him besides. He sailed them
cowards; aaid they wen squaws, and
made it ao WIT uncomfortable for them
generally, that they eouldu'l stand it,
bat went off and reported that Capt.
lack was very iad and talkeil eery
mean, flaring the field all to himself,
the shackled chief turned to the reat ol
nia tribe and deli rend an exhortation
that created intenae excitement. The
feeling rmt ao high that the officer* of
the guard went in among them aud in
sisted that the talk should oroae. The
nature of the speech the Modoe chief
made, aud which may be the last be
ever will make, aa reported to the *m
mading General, was to this effect:
Cant. Jack, in the moat impassioned
anil eloquent atrle of Indian oratory,
commented on tVie treason of the four
renegade* and nrged the tribe to edu
cate their children to avenge it, if they
ooahl not do it themselves. Said be :
" t apt. Jack is nothing any more. He
can do nothing to arenge himself or to
avenge TOO. Tell your children to
make it the business of their lives to
lierer let them lire or die in peace and
honor, bat to kill these traitors, who
bare betrayed you and bar# lietrmyed
me, and send them to dishonored
glares." If this scene had been laid
down in the lines of Virgil or of Ho
mer, if it were told to us in the poem*
of Oaaian, it might be counted cue of
the most effective ever handed down in
*ong or story ; sad it msy be possible
that the light* and shadows of Modoe
history, wnieh has so many shadows to
darken its story, will yet find s poet
who can work up the tragedy and the
wonder of Modoe story.
AHiflrtal foal.
On some of the French railroads com
pressed coal—made from waste ooal
' -ln*t —ia exclusively the fnal n*ed, and,
at first, poaaesaed a*considerably greater
economical advantage than subsequent
i Iv, the net coat of tba article, including
the motive power, the wear and tear of
machinery, and for labor, having been
-a low sa forty cents per ton, in soma of
the district! *of Franca and Belgium,
and, even in the moat important mann
factoring centres, the average net coat
per ton haa been aa low as thirty oeuta.
The increase of rslne, however, aoou
reached to four dollars per ton at the
mill; and the fine dirt ooal, which once
merely worthless, thus paid a nreflt of
of ncarlv three dollars per too. But even
this increase has been largely advanced
upon, lieeanae the advantages of this
kind of fuel have becoma more widely
known, and the demand, consequently,
greater, and because the modes of
msnnfsetnre and the qnalitiea of the
article have been greatly improved.
When making contracts for this fuel,
tlie railroad companies have been ac
customed to allow aix per cent, of ash.
tolerating a difference of one-half of
one per cent., more or leas, than the
standard allowance, with s correspond
ing difference in price. But, when Hie
amount of ash exceeded eight tier cent.,
the cal ia eouaidered unfit. It is esti
mated that a cargo of thia artificial or
pressed coal will represent almost,
mathrmaticially, a aolid maea of coal,
and that the ooal bunkers of a ship will,
therefore, contain fifty per eent. more
of this material than of ordinary looee
coal in lump*.
The Man Who Laughs.
Detroit has what it call* a fanny man.
An old man named Gregg, who mend*
furniture for a bring, wa* sitting in the
shop recently, when a stranger entered
and asked him the loan ola dollar.
Gregg bounded at the impudence of the
request, and the stranger liegsn laugh
ing nproaricnsly and shut and bolted
Uie door. The stranger then took off
hia coat, rolled up liia sleeves and stop
ped up sud Mixed Gregg by the hair
and lifted him up a foot or so. Gregg
attempted to call in the police, but the
funny man seised him by the throat
and nearly choked him bo death. "Why
don't you lawgli ?" aaid the stranger,
* living which he bgan to twig his noae.
A stair roil then came into requisition,
Gregg being constantly requested to
laugh. Seeing that his life was in dan
ger, he did laugh, but it was not a
hearty laugh, and accordingly the
stranger began hitting at hia feet with
a hatchet.
A pair of shear* was then procured,
and the man tiegan cutting of hia hair
until liia victim was left bald. He then
cut off tlio man's whiskers and tickled
his feet with au old eurryoomb, threat
ening to stab Gregg if he made any
alarm. Growing tired at last, the
st ranger said he guessed ho would go.
He was not in need of any money, he
said, but he liked to meet a man who
could appreciate fun, and he went out.
The carpenter was alive at last accounts,
but the funny man is atill at large. It
is thought that the case ia one of emo
tional insanity.
A Texas paper tells of a man who
brought in for shipment to St. Louis
eight hundred wolf pelts. He kills tbe
wolves by putting strychnine in the car
cassos of animals killed for the puipoae
and left on the prairies. It often oc
curs that ho finds as many as forty dead
wolves about one of these carcasses.
NO. 28.
A Bigamist Arresled.
Oeorge P. Evans, age AO, of New fork
city, formerly of Boston, where be bea
many wealthy kinsmen, wse arrested
and placed in the Tombe on the charge
of bigamy, and also on a eivil suit
brought by Patrick it Barnwell for
810,000 damages. On March I, 1871,
Evans married the dsugbter of the
plaintiff. Miss Mama Barn wall, age 18.
Hon after the marriage, the father of
Mia# Barnwell, suspecting that all was
not right with bta eon-in-law, separated
i her from her husband and took her to
his home. He then went diligently to
work to discover the past life of Evans,
aud found in Harlem a young woman
named Almirm B. Davis, who e* sick
in bed, and in a moat destitute condi
tion. From her he learned that she
was the daughter of wealthy narrate in
Huston, and that 10 yean be tore, whan
she was very young, Evsna, to whom
she wae very much attached, had per
suaded her to leave her home and ac
company him to New York. For a time
he treated her well, but of late years
has not done so, subjecting her to vari
ous luku ts and indignities. On March
I. 1872. the day on which be married
Mtaa Barnwell, Evaua was unusually
kind, and after kissing hie wife el
factionetely. left, stating that be would
return in ten minutes. From that time
she has nut seen him. After learning
this much Mr, Barnwell west to Boston,
where he discovered that la 1854 Evan*
married the daughter of David N.
Badger, a rich UM-rehant of Boston, by
whom be had two children, one of whom,
now living, is 18 yean old, the sge of
his last wife. This woman and iter
daughter Mr. Barnwell foand to be lie- i
tng at Everett, Mas*. While Mr. Barn
well was thus engaged in tracing the
past life pf his Bou-in-law, the latter
took a<lviiotags of the opportunity, re
gained his young bride, and flid to j
Canada. The father followed, and sue |
needed ia overtaking the fugitives in j
Ontario. Evans then promised to ob
tain a divorce from bis first wife and re j
marry Miss Barnwell To this plan the
father gave his oonaeat, and the party j
returned to this city. It was soon evi j
dent to the father that Evans had no
intention of fulfilling his promisee, bat '
he was loth to bring the matter into j
mart. Recently, however, Mr. Bern- {
well discovered that hie eon-in-law was i
making arrangements to elope with a ;
young lady, and therefore had him ar
rested. The case has excited great in
terest, aa both Evans and his first tw. j
victims are respectably connected in !
Boston.
Truffle* era a grniua of fungi, of a
fleshy subataaee, with a distinct akin,
the whole substance pervaded by a net
work of terpentine veins. They aw
not found in this part of the world, but
they are eery generally diffused in tem
perate parts of Europe. They are sub
terranean, often found at the depth of
a foot or more in the aoiL Some of
them are amongst the moat highly
rained of esculent fungi. The common
truffle is of a black color, and kaa a
wart surface. It varies in aixe from
a large plum to a large potato. On ac
count of ita agreeable flavor, it is turd
in tne preparation of many dishes. It
is common in the central and southern
parts of Europe, chiefly in loose soils, in
woods and pastor**, as in the chestnut
woods of France and Italy. In England
it o.vura prcttr abundantly in the
downs of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and
Kent Other specie* are found in son e
parts of France, Italy, and other ooun
triea of Europe, and are sought alter
and used in the same manner as the
common truffle. It lias recently been
discovered that the Eugliah species arr
far more numerous than was formerly
supposed ; truffle* hare also been di
covered in localities in the south of
England where their rintouw was
formerly unknown. The gathering of
traffics is the occupation of man; per
xo&i in the plaoea whew they abound.
They an* dug np with a kind of boa or
pick! Dogs arc trained to seek tbem,
and readily discover by the scent the
spot whew they grow underground.
The stirring of the soil in the gathering of
truffles seems to increase its productive
ness. No particular kind of dog ta
specially employed for truffle-seeking;
but one of which the parents are truffle
dogs is preferred, as it is said to be
more eaiaily trained. In some parts ol
France, pigs are also trained to seek
truffles.
English Far ml UK and American.
Mr. Wall, in an address to the fann
ers of New Jtrwj, alluded to the feet
that in England, m leaa than a century,
the production of wheat had risen from
16,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels. This
enormous increase he attributes to sys
tematic attention to all the requirement*
of good farming ; to the skill and ex*
aetnesa with which all the operations
are performed ; to their careful selec
tion of the best varieties of seed, and
to the extensive and good use of their
tiarnyard manure. Nothing ia left for
csaaulty or chance. No expectations
are indulged in that an unusually favor
able season will stone for short onmiug
or neglect. He alluded to the business
like liberality of Engliah farmers in re
storing to the earth, by meant of pur
chaetd manures, the elements of fer
tility exhausted by cultivation, and
said that 1837, the first year in which
he ties came into general use aa fertiliser,
the foreign bones imported were valued
at $1,500,000, since which time it is es
timated that the amount paid for im
ported Itonea alone, amounted to
$150,000,000. Sinoe 1841, upwards of
500,000 tone of gusno have been used.
Mr. Wall believes that the English
farmer's rotation nearly of root and
grain crops comes to perfection, and
that the eare which had been bestowed
on root cultivation might be called the
salvation of England.
Xrwapaper Postage.
Publishers should remember that the
new postal regulation' in regard to
newspapers, periodicals, Ac., goes into
effect on the first of July. These regu
lations provide that all newspapers, pe
riodicals, etc., sent by mail. must be
prepaid by stamps, unless 41 regularly
issued anl sent to regular subscribers '
by publishers or newsdealers, when the
following rates per quarter are charged,
payable in adv-uce, either at the mail
ing or delivery office : Dailies, 35 eta. ;
Six times a week, 30 eta. ; Tri-weeklies,
13 ct*.; Semi-weeklies, 10 cts.; Week
lies, 5 cts.; Semi-monthlies, not over 4
ounces, 6 cts.; Monthlies, not over 4
ounoes, 3 cts.; Quarterlies, not over 4
ounces, l^ent.
Newspapers and circulars dropped
into the office for local delivery must be
prepaid at the rate of oae cent for two
ounces, and an additional rate for every
two ounces or fraction thereof ; and pe
riodicals weighing more than 2 ounces
are subject to two cents, prepaid at tue
letter carrier offioee. The postage on
regular papers, Ao., must be paid in ad
vance, either at the place of delivery, to
the carrier, or at the offioe, otherwise
they will be chargeable at transient
rates.
Edward H. Hoswell, a murderer of
the MeFarland type, at Ballowel), Me ,
has filled twenty pages showing why
he should be pardoned. He cites these
and other cases to show that, had he
been a rich man, he wonld never have
been eonvioted.
-lIU .JIM-
PiNto ami Faaetes,
L Bees lstal j slung a little boy to death
; at Lake City, lowa, I
A woman's modesty k lika bar oolor
; —extremely baoomiuf If not put on
A* sixty is to on*, so are potato-bug*
to potatoes in Kan tacky, aooordmg to
; the papers.
The city of Wilmington, W. ( bsn
jn.t paid |BO,OOO for Ud tor s frao
i public park.
' Tha people who spend most sooner
at watar-plaoee are tha old mew with
, young wires.
A man may as wall expect to grow
j stronger by always eating, as w*ear by
i always reading.
What requires more philosophy than
taking things aa tliey ooma t Parting
with them aa they go.
A Tennessee farmer says he sen get
twice as moot* from earn and beef raised
on Ida land than from cotton.
The latest thing in marriage en
} nounoementa n-ada tlina: " No cards.
No Presents. No divorce.**
Farmers in the Corniced out Valley
are making more extenetre arrauge
j men ta than rear for raising tobacco.
Tha most stylish young ladies havw
i struck agsinat the ttraaby of the inil-
J liners, and make their own bonnets.
Croquet still eonttnnee in favor, end
| •unreptitions honpe mill entrep the feefe
of unwary wanderetn on shady lawns.
Lucy Qaia of Philadelphia sold her
new bonnet so that her hirer might pnr
; chase a ball ticket. That's true lore.
"The British House of Lords,"says
a Western paper, " has just decided
that a man cannot marry Ida widow's
sister."
It is a startling fact in natural hie
torr that children who ars "perfect
little I*uil si" usually grow up to ba
" mutton heals."
What mors precious thing can a man
hare than the first lore of an innocent
, girl—-with an undivided interest in four
teen lota.
Chicago bee a married couple wbg
hare tired together for seventy years.
This singular cundnet is account* d tof
on the gmund of spite.
Some person asserts that lire New
fork led lea here gone to Paris this
spring for the express purpose of bar
ing their faces enamelled.
A widow in Maine has lately worked
out her tax on the highway, and tha
surveyor said she did her work better
than any man in the town.
A new Texae paper announces its nt-
I ligtous position thus : "In religion
we are conservative, and r, intend to
adhere to the cash system."
Women are like hot sea—the gsyer
the harness they bare on the better they
feel. We gut this from an old bachelor
who was early crossed in lore.
During the warm weather the princi
pal occupation of the " giil of the
period " seems to be sitting on the
stoop waiting for tha "coming man.*
The Boston brick market is over
stocked, though they hare bad two
fires, and have got a prohibitory liquor
' law.
A Baltimore peper notices as some
dung remarkable that a Boetehmaa has
died in that city who was 111 yean old
and was wounded in the battle of Wa
terloo.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has quit
I wandering around nights to aee if tha
I police do their duty. The boys got to
at him as he crept through the
I alleys.
It is asserted that the leading hotels
in San Francisco pay Uurtjthrro per
cent more for water than for fl ar, not
1 reckoning what charged for that mix
: d with their milk.
There is a startling belief that Cap
, tain Jack, tn aa interregnum of Lis
f melancholy, baa euafrsaed to Hooker
, Jim that be ia the real author of "Bei-
•ey and I art Oat.**
The total annual of "back pay" re
tnrned to the United States Tre*aary is
1191,017 34, sad the Bomber of Senators
aad BepivsenUtires who declined to
receive ti is forty-six.
So m7 or the cematy fair* in Km
: toekr were failure* in their pecuniary
reealM la*t rear that rety few will be
held in the Sute tin* aanaoa. Some of
, the counties will eombiae and bold con
solidated fair*.
The folio wing "ad.'* appeared in a re
cent London paper: Wanted —An
American—Who <ue make a apeech in
England without taring anything about
Americana being of the same race that
produced Shakespeare.
Eleren Tale atodeo'a, who bed been
not arretted :ng a board ing-eebool, were
ameted by the New Barm police one
night last week. And the charming
on pi U in the boarding-echool had left
for their homes the day before.
A little fellow atOenneentrille, Peon.,
pat his finger between the bail and
.alge of an ineerted iron kettle, and
when bis henry brother eat down on
the kettle, the tender flnwer was ampu
tated with neatness and dispatch.
Figuratire party.—"So long as /am
a Man, Sort, what does it matt tier to
me whether me Orrat-Oramd/tUker was
an Anthropoid Ape or not. Sniff" Literal
Sty. "Haw! wather disagweeable
roar OmaU-Ovamdmolher, wantl
it r
The enltareof rice is prohibited with
in one mile of Sarannah, the radio* be
ing known as the "dry culture limits."
Twenty three eqoatterm were erreated
the other day for rio'sting this provis
ion, and ordered to destroy the growing
crop.
"Kent to old Bonrboo whisker," eeya
a Chicago paper, "the thing that a Ken
tackian is proudest of ia Hint he ia n
"ventuckiau. "This ia not true," J
the "a Reutuckiau'a
. hief pride is that he is not n Chicago
isn."
"Elegant simplicity" receive* a fresh
illustration in the case of the Cincinnati
school miss who, not wishing to encour
age extravagance of dress among her
poorer school-mates, appeared at her
school exhibition in a oaiic* garment,
the trimmings of which coat $l9B.
The ereditof originating the "Grange'*
movement is claimed by Mr. Purte
Welch, of the Oakalooaa (ta.) Reform
Leader, who asserts that he suggested
all the principles on which it was found
ed, and the policy bv which it is guid
ed, as long ago as 1869.
A proposition has been made in tha
Ohio Constitutional Convention that
the state have nothing further to do
with education, henceforth dividing the
school funds among the various religi
ons sects in proportion to their num
bers, to be by them applied to giving a
sectarian education to the children of
their respective adherents.
Chemistry now "undertakes to make
meerschaum pipes out of potatoes,
44 peeled, soaked for about thirty-six
hours in water to which eight per cent,
of sulphnrio acid has been added, dried
in hot sand for several days on plates of
chalk or plaster of Paris, aud com
pressed at the same time. Thay can
then be carved, and will be an excel
lent imitation cf the meerschaum."
44 Tou shouldn't be glutinons, Isaac,"
said Mrs. Partington, as, with an anxi
ona expression, she marked the strong
covnlsive effort that young gentleman
was making to bolt the last quarter of
a mince pie. "Yon shouldii tbe so
glutinous, dear. You must be very
careful, or you will get something in
your elementary canal or sarcophagus
one of these days that will kill you,
Isaac."
44 Poor witters 1" exclaimed Mrs. Par
tington with a sigh. 44 What poor crea
tures are you pitying now, mother ?"
asked .he inquisitive Ike. 44 Them un
fortunate wimrnin in England as era
clambering alter the snfferage," replied
the good old lady. 44 From what I hear,
they are all either unmarried wimmin
or married wimmin without children,
and would much rather have babies
than ballota if they could get 'em. Now,
sence it appears they can't, I think the
least the men might do would be to le
'em vote, if it's enny comfort to the poor
things. Snfferage is a woman'iFlot, en
ny how."