The Centre reporter., July 31, 1873, Image 1

SemHhlnr Hot.
Th* pavMsent* sre all htwint hat.
Tha *k shore Is hrssan,
And ererv bstd m good *s d*<l
Tl) ran aa set its ray* on
The lean, Isnk-lookmß skeletons
O-o stalking pale and gloomy;
Fat man. lika matting lump* of lead.
Sand hotter fatxAw throng h ma
I wake from dream* of Polar ioe.
And wish myeelf where Hall ia,
Or any other fmaen plsot
That on Una rad-hot hall ia.
Peace,
As s tale that is told, n a vision,
Forgive and forget; for I say
That ihe trns shall enjoy the derision
Of th false till ths full of ihs day.
Ay. forgive as you would be forgiven •
Ay. forger, less the ill yon have d-uis
Be remembered against you iu Heaven
Aud all ths days under the suu,
For who shall hare bread without labor ?
And who shall hare rest without price ?
And who shall hold war with his neighbor
With promise of peeoe with the Christ!
The year* may lay hand on fair Hearen;
May place and displace the red stare.
May etaui tham, as blood stain* are driven
At sunset in beautiful bar*:
May shroud them ia black till they fret its
As clouds with their showers of tears ;
May grind us to dust snd forget as.
Msy the year*. O the pMAeee year* I
, The precept* of Christ are beyond them ;
The truths by the Nasarene taught,
Wqh the tramp of the age* upon them.
They endure as though ages were uau&ht;
Hie deserts may drink up the fountain*
The fcweet give piece to the plain.
The main mar give place to the mountains.
The mounts.ns return to the main.
Mutation* of worlds and mutations
Of suns may take place, but the reign
Of Time and the toils snd rexahsns
* Bequeath thorn, no. never a stain.
Go forth to the Aside sa one sowing.
Siug tongs aud be glad as you go.
There are seeds that take root without grow
r.\, **•
And bear some fruit whether or no.
And the suit shall shine sooner er later.
Though the midnight tweaks ground on the
morn.
Then appeal you to Christ, the Creator.
And to gray-bearded Tune. Ilia &r*t-born.
Joaurui lluia
THE MISTAKE ABOUT BARRATT.
One dajr in early winter, socio years
ago, I was v-alking np the main street
of Stamton, a town with which I waa
entirely unacquainted, never having
visited it before. I knew of but two
persons living in the town, and of the
personal appearance of one of these I
had no recollection, not having seen
him for twelve or fifteen years. The
other I did not remember ever having
met. My presence in the place waa
caused by peculiar circumstances.
My father, a country clergyman,
dying when I was but eighteen, left me
the village home in which I was born.
I remained there with my mother and
sisters, only leaving when it became
necessary for me to attend medical
lectures in a distant city. I waa bat
twenty-two when I graduated, and with
an extensive country acquaintance I
hoped and expected to soon build up a
thriving practice.
In less than a year after I had pnt up
mv little tin plate upon the front gate.
I did a very foolish thing. I indorsed
a note for an old schoolfellow, who was
starting in the drygoods business, in
our village. The note was far three
thousand dollars, payable in nine
months, and was held by a man who re
sided at a distant place, I knew not
where.
This person, Samnel Bingham, had
accepted my indorsement on the
strength of a letter I had written and
given to Claxton (my school-friend), in ,
which I stated my property was worth
five thousand dollars. Bingham stated
that he had known my father when he
waa in the habit of visiting our village,
and that be also knew me, and so was
satisfied with the indorsement.
When Claxton returned from his sue-
cessful negotiation, and told me that
Bingham (who I supposed was a farmer)
remembered me, I was surprised ; but
as my father used to have a great many
visitors, it was no wonder that I did
not recollect them aIL
But three months after that Claxton
had an opportunity of buying for cash
some auction goods at extraordinary
low rates. He borrowed one thousand
dollars, on another note at three months,
with my indorsement!
Before one month had elapsed, Clax
ton was entirely broken up by the
rascality of a much older man, whom he
had taken in as his partner; and when
the thousand-dollar note fell due, I
could not pay it, and my place was sold.
It brought under the hammer fifteen
hundred dollars! That beautiful old
house, with ita lawn, its gardens and
meadow—worth, as I had often been
assured, five thousand dollars, now
sold for just enough to pay this wretch
ed note, to take mv paor mother and
sister to the borne of a maternal aunt in
the city, and to enable me to take board
in a distant village, and there to en
deavor in an humble manner, to bnild
np a practice. I might have staid
among oar friends, bnt subsequent oc
currences made this unpleasant even to
think of.
Bingham, hearing of the failure and
the sale, came to our village, one day
while 1 was in the city, and finding
that, when his bill came due, there
would be absolutely nothing for him,
fell into a tremendous rage, which was
visited principally upon me. I was a
scoundrel and a cheat to indorse anoth
er note, and one, too, which cut out
hia; and to all the representations of
my friends that I had thonght my
property ftlly equal to th<*payment of
botn notes, if it became necessary, he
gave not the slightest credence.
When I returned, he had left; bnt I
heard all this story, and soon found
that many persons believed that I had
treated Bingham very badly ; and that,
if he carried out his threat of making
me pay for this at some future day, he
would be but serving me exactly right.
So I set up my sign in the village of
S- , and I now had been practicing
for nearly six years. My sister was
married, and my mother was living
with her, in the city.
As a matter of course, I had not lived
so long as this without falling in love,
and if yon had seen Annie Tange, you
would not have been surprised at the
fact. Her father, the squire of the vil
lage, had long been my friend, but
I propoc£d for her hund, eighteen
months before the time at which I com-
menco my story, he had told me plain
ly that, although I had a good practice,
and had, what was for a physician of
my age, a very fair balance in bank, he
could never consent to his daughter's j
marriage to a man who did not own a
house to which to take her. Acoord
ingly, being very much in love, and not
of the most patient disposition,l boaght
a house and lot in the village—a foolish
piece of business ; for, during the two
months that I had owned it, I had been
in continual fear that Bingham woold
hear of it, and make his threatened
descent upon me.
Claxton, who was now in bnsiness in
the west, and with whom I kept up a
correspondence, had urged me not to
think of paying Bingham, as he would
be fully able to settle the debt himself
in a reasonable time ; and as this was
entirely just, I had given myself no
further thought about the matter, until
Iliad bought my house, and then I
thought & great deal more abont it than
was pleasant.
Now, however, it wanted bnt one
month of being six years from the time
the note had fallen due, and then, by
the laws of my State, the debt would
be outlawed, and I would be safe. In
FUIvD. K'I'HTZ, Kilitor and Proprietor.
VOL. VI.
two months t were to l>e married, and
in one month I was safe! And thie
safety meant a great^deal; for, if Bing
ham should eoine down upou my real
estate, and also bring all the obloquy
njsui me which auch action would wr
taiuly occasion, niy career at 8 was
at an end, aud my marriage would lie
Terr indefinitely postponed, to say the
least.
Two dsva before this early winter day
of which t trrite, I had received a letter
from my father's brother, William. It
hail been directed to me at our old
home, had been sent to my mother in
the ejty, aud been forwarded by her to
me ; for, as 1 corresponded with no one
in the old place, and had been in the
city some months before coming here,
the postmaster did not know my address.
The letter was consequently three weeks
old. It was written from 8 taw tun. and
read as follows:
"Dbar Gborok: For ten yea.u I have
not written to any of your family. I
need not disguise* the fact that wheu
your father diet! I had no other tie to
any of yon. But I have heard lately
that yon" have embraced my profession,
and are practicing, I suppose, iu the
old village. Now, lam growing ohl,
and shall soon give up work (either with
or without my own free will,) and it
might reasonably be supposed that I
would surrender to you, the only other
doctor in the family, and my brother's
son, my practice. Bnt lam much op
posed to bringing strangers into a circle
of patients, if it can be avoided, aud I
have a young assistant, who ia better
qualified than any on* else to take my
place. Besides, you are far better where
you are. But it may, perhaps, be in
my power to help you in some other
way ; and, at any rate, I would be very
glad if yon cau get off for a few days,
for you to pay me a visit. It is to in
vite you to do this that I now write to
you." Your affectionate uncle,
"William Barkatt. "
When I got this letter, I determined
to start off directly, and an my way I
stopped in the city to see my mother.
I had left mv practice in charge of a
i brother physician, residing a few miles
from the "village, nd consequently,
feeling easy in regard to tke matter, I
thought of spending a day eg two in the
city before seeing my uncle. But my
mother strong)? opposed this.
" Your uncle William," said she, " is
s strange person, and although I never
liked him, and was probably the causa
of his estranging himself so entirely
from ns, I must admit that he frequent
ly behaved in a very kind manner to
vonr dear father. And he never prom
ised anything, either, bnt some tntling
help—which often in the days when
your father was struggling to get along,
was of the greatest value. He paid the
mortgage off the old house, as a Christ
mas gift, before yon were born. You
may depend that if he wishes to see
you, he intends to do something hand
some for yon, and you should not lose
another hour; especially as the letter is
three weeks old now. lam very certain
that yon will remind him, as saon as ha
sees yon, of his brother; but Is hope
yon will not meet that Bingham."
Until this I had not known that Bing
ham lived in that town, hot, neverthe
less, I set off immediately for my un
cle's home, snd found myself, as I be
fore stated, walking up the main street
of Stamton, looking for the comer of
Elm Avenue. Aa few of the streets had
their names posted up, I was about to
step into a store to ask for information,
when a large man, with a heavy red
beard, passed me, then stopped, and
stepping back, put his hand on my
shoulder, * and said: "Your name is
Barrett ?"
I stopped, utterly astounded. WM
this Bingham ? Should I deny the
birthright of my name, or admit it, and
stand ruined from that moment ? Bat
suppose it was one of my uncle's family,
a denial would be a pretty piece of bus
inesa in that case ? I must confess that
I was greatly tempted to tell a falsehood;
but, spart from the meanness of such a
thing, what good would it have done ?
All this, which it takes so long to
write, passed very quickly through my
brain, but still it caused a hesitation,
very perceptible. **
" Why, it t* Barrett," said the man.
" Of course it is," said I, for I could
no longer refrain from acknowledging
the fact; " but I must say, sir, that I
am not acquainted with yours."
" Don't vou remember Jim Coleman ?"
said be, taking my hand and shaking it
heartily.
Jim Coleman, indeed !
Jim had been a schoolmate of mine,
(much older, however, than me), with
whom I had always been a favorite, and
who had got me out of many a scrape.
The revulsion of feeling was so great,
that for a moment I could not speak ;
hut, then, I gave him a much heartier
greeting than I fear he would have re
ceived under any other circumstances.
" Trying to find Dr. Barrat, ah ?
your uncle. Well, T never knew that.
I'll show you ; but you must stop in at
my place first. It's all on the way.
Tarn right around this way."
Anil, taking my arm, he led me off in
the opposite direction to which I hail
been going. On the way he informed
me that he had been settled in this place
for about three years as Conveyancer
and real estate agent, and that he was
doing very well, and hail a large and
useful acquaintance in the town.
When we were seated in bis back
office, talking over old timci, I happened
to think that this large acquaintance of
his might be of no use to me if Bingham
was included among them, and he thus
learned my location and condition. I
therefore told Coleman, as an old friend,
my whole story, am! tiro fears I had hail
in coming to this dangerous town.
"You never saw Bingham, then?"
said he ; "never were in his office ?"
" No," said I; " I never saw him to
know him, and certainly was never in
his office."
"Weil," said Coleman, "you're in it
low." 'rm .
f fail)? jumped a* he said this, and
Jim laughed immoderately.
" Why," he asked, " didn't you see
the sign as you came in?—'J. It. Cole
man, late Samuel Bingham A Co."'
"Late?" I cried.
" Yes ; he's been dead this three years
and I bought out his business. As to
Claxton's note, I paid the heirs twenty
five dollars for that, among a lot of
other bad papers. You can have it for
what it cost me, and if Claxton can pay
to the old man's folks tke whole
amoont, with interest, he ought to do
if." f : zn< . M
I bought the note instantly, and was
of the opinion that Clnxton should take
my friend's advice. I was also of the
opinion that the sky was very blue, the
air fine and invigorating, the naked trees
truly beautiful, and all Nature (and
Art, too, far that matter) perfectly
charming. When I left Coleman (a
splendid fellow, always coming in just
when I wanted him,) he still had the
remains of the laughing tears in his
eyes; and my uncle mast have thought
I was a fine, lively, and thorongldy
good-humored fellow, for he used his
jien and paper so handsomely, after my
departure, that I now visit my patients
behind a three-minute horse, and Annie
is the leader of the fashions in our vil
lage.
Over 200 New England spinsters went
to Utah last month in search of frac
tional matrimony
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
The Walworth Tragedy.
Mr. t harts* O'l'umoi '• IMva far A.^ulu.l
Dr. Gray waa the closing witnraa for
' the defence, advancing the theory tliut
| epilepsy ia a fruitful source of homicidal
frensy, aud supporting Mr. O'Couor'a
; hypothesia that the prisoner was. uu
der the ©ircilttutaoee#, irresponsible by
| an affirmative answer to the hypotheti
cal question. Several witnesses were
! then called by the District Attorney in
' rebuttal, including the murdered man's
' publisher aud several physicians, who
draw widely different inferences from
voung Walworth's conduct from those
of Dr. Oray. Mr. O'Conor then sum
med up for the defence, peakiug very
rapidly for several hours, and making
an earnest plea for the parricide a life.
The unpleasant weather prevented the
usual large attendance of spectators
when the Court opened ; but toward
the middle of tke dgj the number in
creased until every mm was occupied.
The interest that Una centered in the
fate of tlgv youthful prtsonr since the
drat day of the Uial Wa not abated in
the leai. ■*'
Mr. O'Conor in n turning up for the
defeucg oou tended thai the killing was
neither a grOM, vulgar murder nor a
parricide I thai if any offence was com
mitted it was not marked with circum
stances of premeditation and malice.
It waa tot ifo first time that a child
had al^n'lis parent, but he trusted
they would not find he hail wickedly
killed life Dither, lie invited their at
tention to th" Thursday previous to the
ahootmg| when told that his uncle
wished htm to go abroad. Considering
himself the sole protector of his mother,
he said he would thiuk about it. The
belief was no doubt present tu bis mind
that he would in some way arrange the
matter. Was there anything in his
acts tending to show that he meant to
get his father in bis small room, shoot
him and go on a trip to Europe ? He
went to New York, called at his father's
and, not finding him in, left a note for
him.
A sort of fatality attended the fath
er's course. Had he reached home
reasonably early he would have got the
letter and" seen his son in the evening.
But he gets up before suurise and goes
to the hotel. His sou did not expect
him lor be was sound asleep. Mr. O'-
Conor reviewed the testimony of the
killing, and then came to the prisoner's
declaration to Coroner Youug. The
seal of policemen and others was apt
to lead them, not intentionally, but
none the less injuriously, to warp the
truth. The prisoner only meant that
he came "to settle the family difficul
ty," and the Coroner understood that
that was all that was meant. The fath
er's violeuee was discussed. Frank
never knew him as a parent, had never
received the recognition or care which
builds up in children those feelings
whose violation by such a deed makes
us shudder. Could he poasibly honor
suoh a father* Mansfield Tracy Wal
worth was the exact opposite of all the
otkar number* of the Chancellor's fam
ily. From him Frank inherited a pre
disposition to insanity; and his father's
conduct, along with certain physical in
juries he had received, drove him into
epilepsy. Mr. O'Conor quoted various
sutiiorities to show that uo man oould
be guilty of a crime without willing and
intending to do it If there was a doubt
in the anae, in view of the good charac
ter of the prisoner, the doabt belonged
to liim. The District Attorney was bound
to prove that death occurred oy the act
ef the prisoner, knowingly and inten
tionally done. U uder the Roman law
Mansfield Tracy Walworth was s parri
cide at heart when he longed for the
death of his wife and children.
There was no need of any reasoning
to children to prevent their slaying
their fathers. There was not a single
ease on record where a child had wick
edly killed its father. He could ouly
(•call the stories of Jtdipus, Orestes,
and Beatrice Cenei, besides a case in
Scotland some hunJreds of years ago,
where a aon was convicted on the evi
dence of his father's blood flowing when
he drew near, and where a poor woman
was convicted on merely circumstantial
evidence, and died protesting her inno
cence. He appealed to them, in view
<J the purity of this hoy's life, his love
for his mother, his high and noble char
acter, not to stain the annals of the
State bv a declaration that this boy had
wickedly and designedly committed this
fearful crime of parricide.
Riches and Pleasures.
These truths arc well illustrated in
the anecdote told some years ago of
two men who were conversing about
John Jacob Astor's property. Some
one asked if be would be willing to take
care of the millionaire's property—ten
or fifteen millions of dollars—merely
for his board and clothing? "No!'
was the indignant answer. A Do you
take me for a fool ?" " Well," rejoined
the ether, "that's all Mr. Astor himself
gets for for takingcareof it; he's fouiui,
and that's all. The houses, the ware
houses, the ships, the farms, which he
counts by the hundreds, and is often
obliged to take care of, are for the ac
commodation of others." " But then
be has the income, the rents of all hia
large property, five or six hundred
thousand dollars per annum." "Yes;
but lie can do nothing with this income
but build more houses and warehouses
and ships, or loan money on mortgages,
for the Convenience of others. He's
found, and you can make nothing else
out of it."
11 a rich maa wishes to be healthy,
says Sir William Temple, he must live
like poor one. Isank Walton tell ua
that tlu-re are as many troubles on the
other side of riches as on this, and that
the cares which are the keys of riches
hang heavily at the rich man's girdle.
How many men, on reaching the pin
nacle of wealth, find, as they look down
on their money-bags, that they have
only purchased one set of enjoyments
by the lossof another equally desirable?
" Do you remember, Bridget," writes
CJhurleß Lamb, with a tender retrospect
to his poverty, " when you and I
laughed at the* play from the shilling
Billery? There are c< good plvs to
laugh at now from the boxes. Many
Bir Epicure Mammon, as he sits down
with jaded appetite to his lobster salad
and champagne, thinks with keen re
gret of the Bimple repasts which titilat
ed his palate when he was poor. The
great railway king, Hudson, fessted
with dukes and duchesses in their big
house at Albert Gate, looked back with
many a sigh to the days when they ste
sausages for supper in the little hack
parlor tiehind their paltry shop in the
city of York.
Nothing in the abstract seems easier
than to get pleasure out of money ; yet
to many persons nothing is appureutly
more difficult. It seems delightful to
be able to buy every thing you wish,
without a thought of the cost; yet who
does not see that the pleasure must pall
in the degree that there is no difficulty ?
Dr. Holmes, being asked by a yonng
physician what sign to put on bis door,
replied, "The smallest fevers gratefully
received."
An exhibition is announced in Paris
of specimens of the art of "paddling."
and of other methods whereby artificial
beauty and unreal charmß are success
fully imposed upon credulous and de
voted men.
fTItE 11ALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1873.
CE
Utah and the Mormons.
\% k*( (tub*? siiarv* baa la u) about
Bishop Sharps, of Salt Lake city, U.
T. , one of the leading lights of the
Mormon community, uow in New York
city, talked with a reporterof the H'orfrf
about the present condition of the Mor
mon Church and the present condition
of Salt Lake city and the adjoining ter
ritory. lhshop Sharpe said that every
thing wna progressing very rapidly and
satisfactorily throughout the country,
'hair Church waa stoodily increasing,
snd the country was In-coining fully de
veloped. Every day brought some new
discovery of larger or smaller mines of
silver, gold, and lead, aud capitalists
and workmen were taking up their real
deuce in various parts of the country.
In answer to the report that Brighani
Young waa about to reaigu the presi
dency of the Mormon Church, the Bishop
said there was no truth whatever iu the
rumor, but that it sprung from the fol
lowing action of Young: Several months
ago Mr. Young, being overtaxed with
work and having attained the age of
seventy-two years on the Ist of last
June, determined to give up the offices
of I'resident of the Utah Central Rail
road, the 11 tali Southern Bank, the
Mercantile Institution, aud other offices
to which he had been elected. He had
no idea of giving up the head of his
Church, but would remain in thai posi
tion until he died. AH the above insti
tutions parted with Mr. Young reluct
antly and allowed him to uomiuate his
own successor to each of the offices.
The present population of Halt Lake
city is 25,0tX), auu throughout the Ter
ritory the increase of population has
been immense during the past twelve
months. In reference to raining opera
tions, Bishop Kharpe observed that a
large number of miners, both American
and English, had gone there, and also
gentlemen who held large fortunes and
who wished to work some of the later
discoveries. A new mine, very rich, he
understood, hod just been discovered tu
Mono, and a number ef Califorman
capitalists had purchased it on specula
tion for ffihO.OOfi gold. Manufactories
of oil descriptions were being built by
New York and other merchants ; refin
eries wore being constantly erected, the
largest one being that of Messrs. Bil
lings, of New York, who sent silver to
thiscity at Wproof. Churches- Roman
Catholic, Protestant, and Methodist—
were also established throughout the
Territory ; but the heat of feeling exist
ed between the Mormon people and
those whobadeometo reside with them.
Indeed, according to the Bishop, scarce
ly anything desirable is lacking at Bolt
Laic city.
Ben. Caos and John Buy.
Ouv bore a striking resemblance to
Gen. Letts C**a, and while he was pro
prietor of the National Hotel in Wash
ington, the Michigan Senator was
among his favored guests. Guy dressed
like Cass, and although not as portly,
his face, including the wart, was
strangely similar. One day a Western
friend of the hou*e came in after a long
ride, dusty and tired, sad, walking np
to the office, encountered Gun. Cass
who was qnitely standing there. Mis
taking him for Guy, he slapped him ou
the shoulder, and exclaimed: " Well,
old fellow, here I am ; the last time 1
hung my list np in your shanty, one of
your clerk* *ent me*to the fourth story ;
mt now that 1 have got hold of you, I
insist upon a lower room."
The Ueueral, a most dignified person
age, taken aback by the startling sa
lute, coldly replied: "You have com
mitted a mistake, sir. I am not Mr.
Guy; I am General Caaa, of Michigan,"
and angrily turned away. The Western
man was shocked at the unconscious
outrage he had committed ; but before
he had recovered from hia mortification,
Gen. Caaa, who had passed around the
offioe, confronted him again, when, a
second time mistaking htm for Guy, he
faced him and said: "Here you are at
last. I have just made a devil of a mis
take; I met old Casa and took him for
J on, and T am afraid the Michigander
as gone off msd." What General Cass
won Id have aaid may well be imagined,
if the real Gny had not approached and
rescued the innocent offender from the
twicc-asaailed and twioe-ange.red States
man. —From Anecdote* of J*ubtic Men
by John Forney.
Novel Way to Raise the Wind,
A prominent citizen of Detroit is the
father of two mischievous lads, aged
about twelve and six years. The boys
had embarked in some speculation or
frolic, and to complete their arrange
ments an expenditure of about fifty
cents was nec*M*ry. They made ap
plication to patrr '/ariilia *, in proper
form, but were not successful in raising
the requisite currency in thst quarter.
They set Jtheir wita to work. The frac
tional currency they must have, and to
raise it this novel expedient wss hit up
on: A sack was procured and the street
anxiously watched for the "rag-man."
In due time the accumulator of defunct
apparrel made his appearance. The
younger hopeful was speedily disposed
in the sack, the month tied, and this
bundle of animated rags being duly
weighed waa disposed of for the sum of
sixty cents. But here one of those ac
cidents that always will happen at the
wrong time, marred the whole clever
scheme of the lad*. The bundle was
roughly pitched into the junk dealer's
wagon. In its fall it came in contact
with a piece of old iron. Suddenlv
thero was a scramble, and a sqnnfl
issued from the interior of the sack.
A lively panic ensued. Tl.B elder lad
scampered off with his ill-gotten gain,
with the rag-man in hot pursuit. The
money waa recovered, the lad in the
sack issued forth whimpering about his
bruises, the man who so nearly escaped
being the victim drove off; the boys
retired, no doubt meditating on the
poet'a proverb: "The best laid
schemes of mice am! men (and boys)
gang aft aglce."
A Fatal Prescription.
The evil often produced by the inju
dicious prescription of intoxicating
liquors for patients has recently been
forcibly illustrated in Springfield, Mass.,
as the Republican of that city says ;
" A nmn who three yenrs ago wn* a con
firmed drunkard, owing to a strong in
fluence which was brought to liear Upon
him, abandoned his old habits, became
a sober aud industrious man, and was
given the position of floor-walker and
f;eneral superintendent in one of the
argest dry goods houses in that city.
Three months ago he left to visit his
friends in Scotland, and (as he expressed
it) to show them what a man he had
made of himanlf. Ho eloquently did
ho urge the temperance cause at hia old
home in Scotland that hia family aban
doned the habit of placing wines on
the dining table. This gentleman
started a few weeks ago to return to this
city, and was taken sick on the home
voyage. His physician prescribed some
kind of liquor, the taste brought baok
the old appetite, and ho has been beastly
drunk much of the time siuoe. He iB
now at home, but entirely unfit for
business, and his friends in their de
spair talk of taking him to an inebriate
asylum.
Hog eholera has appeared in Illinois,
aud the people are becoming alarmed.
Husslaa I'ollry In Asia.
How Central A.l I* balng llratlnally
k*l l |i by lb* Hwaatan* —\V It) ltn
sta o SCaatly lou<tu*r* tbla Territory.
Thus. Knox in a magazine article ou
the encroachment of the Uussisns into
Central Asia, says: It ia the fate of the
Asiatics to bo iu perpetual quarrels,and
that greatly favored the Russian schemes.
Now the Enur of Bokhara waa at war
with Khokaii, next there would be
trouble between Khiva and Bokhara,
and again Kbokau aud Khiva would be
at each other's ears. Unruly sous made
unpleasant family jars, and subordinate
hoods of tribes were constantly in re
volt. Not a year passed without expe
ditious of some sort, and frequently
there might be s doxen of them in as
mon▼ months. The ruler might go out
to cliaatiae a refractory neighbor, leav
tug his son or brother as regent during
his absence. Kvery thing would be
serene at his departure, but on liia re
turn, especially if h<- came back defeat
ed, he would very likely find the gates
of his city closed against him, ami the
regent cenverted into an actual ruler.
Sometimes a commander would go over
to the eusmy, and sometimes the enemy
would go over to him. Aasaaaiuatiou
waa uut uncommon, and occasionally an
ambitious son, tired of waiting fur his
father to die, would administer poisou
to the old gentleman, or insert a knife
into his jugular vein. Every occupant
of or heir to a throne waa anxious to
achieve the fame of Gengia-Khan or Ti
tnour, and beoome a " World Con
queror," and was rarely fastidious
about the means of achieving it. And
so it weul ou year after year, and the
wily Muscovite watched his opportuni
ties, snd never neglected to embrace
them 100.
In 1826 the re died at Bokhara <eity)
Emir BatJ, and immediately after his
dratb hi* son Husein ascended the
throne, aud became Khan. His younger
brother Nasrullah was ambittoua of
honor, and an he caused 11 use in to be
poisoned, after a reign of leas than
three month*. Another brother, Omar,
| came into the field as a claimant, natu
rally thinking that he had ae good a
right to steal a throne aa any body cl*e
Nasrullah raptured Hamarrand, and
then marched upon Bokhara, which he
besieged and took. Omar fled to Kho
kan, where ho died of cholera aoou
after. Nasrullah waa determined to
hare peace, and ao he executed in cold
blood three of hi* younger brothers and
a great number of the adherents of his
former rivals. This waa sufficient to
secure the quirt which he so much de
sired, and he announced that he was de
termined to follow in the footsteps of
hia father—whom, by-the-way, he was
suspected of hiving poisoned—and make
the happiness of his subjects and the
strict supervision of religious observ
ances the great object of bis life, lie
was a pious old scoundrel, and while in
dulging in the greatest atrocities he
always prated about hia love of Islam
ism and his reverence for the Prophet
of God. He made hia ministers faith
ful to him liy helping them to amiss
fortunes, but as soon as they lisd gained
a sufficient amount of this world's goods
he ordered them to be beheaded, and
appropriated the property to himself.
Hr was a model family man, aa be hail
a facetious practice of murdering his
wives whenever he tired of them, and
consequently was not regarded as s
"good eatcfi" in the matrimonial line.
He kept a secret police so numerous
and ao watchful that nobody dared say
any thing against him to his moat inti
mate friend, and it ia said tint atone
time a man dared not even think any
tkiag except good of the emir. He bad
all the vices that were ever possessed
by any ruler aincc the days of Adam in
any country on the face of. the globe,
anil the story of hia indulgences would
hardly be united to the pages of anv
modern publication. Those who of
feuded him were burned in ovens, flayed
alive, flung from towers, or otherwise
disposed of. One of hia favorite enter
tainments waa to bind a victim hand
and foot, and then throw him into a
cell or box which contained many thou
sands of sheep- ticks. The suffering* of
| the poor wretch would be horrible be- :
yond description.
It was while Nasrullah occupied the
throne that liussia, having absorbed the
wide region between Bokhara and the
valleys of the Obi and Yenisei, made I
her appearance on the border* of hi*
territory. While occupied in the most
disgraceful profligacy and tyranny,
Xasrnllah had been constantly at war—
now with Khiva, now with Khokan, and
now with various trilie* and division* of
hia own subjects. Though no man in
liis resell dared breathe a word against
ium, his [lower had lieen greatly weak
ened, and hia subjects were discontent
ed with his rule. He hsd sent several
expeditions against Khokan, and though
some of them were successful, the ma
jority were defeated or given np through
treachery.
Wbils one of the expedition* was re
turning defeated from Khokan, and
another from Khiva, Nasrullah heard
that the Russian outposts were on the
right bank of the Jaxartes, a river form
ing the northern boundary of Bokhara,
and flowing into the Aralßea. Russia
hail several times attempted to negotiate
with him, and had sent embassador*
with valuable presents, but in everv
case he treated the embassadors with
disrespect, and sometimes threw them
into prison. Two English embassadors,
Colonel Stoddart and Captain Connolly,
went io Bokhara, and were murdered
by the emir, the former after four years'
imprisonment, during which he was fre
quently tortured, and the latter, more
fortunate, after an imprisonment of
aliout a year. Htoddart was at one time
promised his freedom if lie would ac
cept Islamism, ami to save his life lie
consented. But the treacherous emir
continued to torture hiin, and on the
17th of June, 1812, according to the ac
count given by M. Arminius Vntnbery,
the two victims were ordered out for
execution in the open aquare of Bokhara.
First the heiul of Htoddart waa struck
off. Then the executioner paused be
fore Connoilv, and the emir told liirn
his life would lie spared if he would
embrace the faith of Islam. " No,"
aaid Connolly ; " I prefer to die. Htod
dart became n Mohammedan, and still
yon have executed him. Complete your
work."
As Nssrullah advanced in years he
seems to have Woome more blood
thirsty than in his youth, if such a
thing were possible. He fancied that
conspiracies were going on around him,
and consequently lie doomed hundreds
to death. While in his last illness
news reached him that his brother-in
law, who had long been in open revolt,
had ruptured one of his fortresses.
Hardly ahlo to speak, he oommanded
that his wife should lie brought to his
bedside. She begged for mercy, but
the dying tyrant could uot he moved.
With his lost words he ordered that she
should be beheaded, and he drew his
final breath while gazing on the blood
which flow el from her headless trunk.
He died in 1880, after a reign of thirty
four years.
Dr. F. W. Lacey, of Connecticut, re
ported the loss of a package containing
something over $40,000 iu money and
several valuable pai era, at the Shcrmsn
House, Chicago, recently. Much search
was made, and one morning the head
night watchman fonnd it in the reading
room, where it had lain undisturbed.
The Clerkship Mania.
A few days since a gentleman in a
Western city had ill. .1 tu the Uurn
inu Sew* on advertisement for " A clerk,
salary moderate," snd the same day re
ceived thirty-six applications for the
position, which number was groatlr in
creased the two following days, These
applications were from youths, young
men, and even middle-aged men, many
of whom were willing to work for a
salary just sufficient to pay their board.
This is only an iaolated eaae ; during
the post six mouths many such have
occurred, but one is sufficient for our
illustration. We regret to aay that
these are bad omens, showing the ten
dency of the young men of the times.
All are after "clerkships," no matU-r
what the compensation, the advantages
of prumotion- I ~anything to get behind
a counter. Now, under the most favor
ahle cirrumstaucsa, in fivs cases out of
six, what does s clerkship mean ? To
be brief, it insatta always a clerk, aud
never a principal. The best way is to
start right in your career with the world
—to commence by acquiring a knowl
edge of some business in which you
can rise to a position of honor and in
dependence. Enter into it with an am
bition aud the determination to make a
success, and with average talents, in
dustry, energy, and aelf-reliance, you
will not fail. To whom are <re indebted
for our greatest snd most useful inven
tions ? The intelligent, industrious
mechanic.
A brief sketch will aptly illustrate
the general fate of seekers of clerkships.
A young man eutera a store, or an of
fice, at a salary of four or five hundred
dollars a year ; in a few years, by elose
attention to the business of his employ
er, he msy be able to command a thou
sand or twelve hundred dollars a year.
Whether he receives five hundred or s
thousand dollar* s year makes no differ
ence, as a general rule, in the amount
be saves. He must "keep up appear
ance*," snd as he advances in his posi
tion, he finds that bis persona! expense*
are also increasing. Finally, after years
of hard labor aud oftentimes of faithful,
honest services, he is without warning
throw n out of employment. "Business
is dull, and we can't afford to keep you
any longer," is the only satisfaction he
geia, aa lie goes out into the world with
out a dollar, to look for another clerk
ship, for each of wbtoli there are hun
dreds of applicants. This is the time
Ihst the young man realises the mistake
he has made and wishes be had "learn
ed a trade." He sees, now, that any
expert workman, among the trades, re
ceives more money thsn be has ever re
ceived as a clerk, and besides is inde
pendent. If be is sober and industri
ous, he is never "out of work." His
expense# are only half as much as those
of a clerk, and he save# money to begin
for himself in a few ycara, in a business
which he understands jwrfectly. Such
a man ia on Ute high road to prosperity.
Young men who have not capital to
invest in a line of business in which it
is necessary to serve as a clerk to obtain
knowledge of the buaineaa to fit them
for the position of proprietor, should
avoid clerkships as s delusion and a
snare. I*naro a trade—avoid tempta
tion, and be independent
Effect of * fat*s Bite,
A lady in Han Francisco ha* recently
suffrml neatly frnin a w.,uuil indicted
in br thumb by a favorite cat. The
animal, which i* nearly ten "year* old,
had been ill, and it* miatrea* determi
ned to administer a dote of castor 01L
Pussy, however, struggling violently
under the infliction, and, veiling the
lady'a thumb in her mouth, bit directly
through the nail, and held on with each
a fierce grip, that it waa with much dif
ficulty that the thumb waa extracted.
The Attn aayi: " At first it appeared
t hat the wountl waa of little consequence.
It did not bleed much, and little pain
was experienced. Boon, however, a red
stripe waa noticed alowly moving up
her arm, until finally it paaaed the el
bow, when a swelling commenced to
form. The catastrophe bad occurred at
about 8 o'clock in the morning. At 4
in the afternoon the swelling had be
come of alarming magnitude, so that
she called in a physician. This result
eel in a consultation of several physi
cian*-, who agreed that they had a esse
to treat that waa full of diuiger to the
patient. It was decided to administer
one of the moat powerful antidotes
known, which was given three times in
s teaspoon. She soon became so much
affected by the pain she suffered that
her reason left her for awhile, but after
the third toaspoonful of medicine had
been given, she was declared out of
ilauger. When water waa offered to
her she drank it freely, thereby reliev
ing the anxiety of friends anil atten
dants, who feared that hydrophobia had
set in. She is now alowly recovering
from the effects of the bite and the se
vere remedies applied. She will not
trust her pussy any more."
Klfrrl of a Bream.
After quoting the account of a dream
which is said to have influenced Hi mm
Powers to liecome a sculptor, the
PridgeiKirt (Conn.) Standard relates
another incident of the kind, where the
Juration as to the life-profession of the
reamer was decided. It says : "An
aged member of the Episcopal Church
who was well acquainted with Rev. Dr.
Berbanns, of Newtown, said that when
a youth, and before he hail ever seen
any minister of that denomination at
tired in his clerical robes, he dreamed
of seeing some one standing by his
l>edside dressed in a peculiar manner.
The dream left astrong impression upon
his mind. Some time afterward ha at
tended an Episcopal elinrch, and to hia
great though agreeable surprise he saw
that the minister was dressed in robes
precisely the same as those he hail seen
in his dream. These circumstances de
termined his future course. He became
a conimunicant and ultimately a min
ister in thst church. In his old age ho
resided in Newton, and there are doubt
less many in that town, if not through
out this and other States, who remem
ber him ss a faithful and devoted
pastor."
The Ilealthfulness of Lemons.
When people feel Uie need of an acid
if they would let vinegar alone, and
use lemons or apples, they would feel
just as well satisfied ami receive no
injury. A suggestion may not oome
amiss as to a good plan when lemons
are cheap in the market. A person
should then purchase several dozen at
once, and prepare them for use in the
warm, weak days of the spring and
summer when acids, especially citric
and malic, or the acid of lemons, are so
grateful and useful. Press your hand
on the lemon and roll it back and forth
briskly on the table to make it squeeze
more easily ; then press the juice into a
bowl or tumbler—never into a tin ;
strain out all ths Beeds, as they give a
bad taste. Remove all the bulb from
the peels, and boil in water—a pint for
a dozen bulbs—to extract the acid. A
few minutes' boiling is enough ; then
strain the water with the juioe of the
lemons ; put a pound of white sugar to
a pint of the juice ; boil ten minutes,
bottle it, and your lemonade is ready.
Put a tablaepoonful or two of this
lemon syrup in a glass of water, and
have a cooling, healthful drink.
The most useful Thing in the Long
Run—Breath.
Terms: a Year, in Advance.
The Brook! t u Mystery.
irrtil as 1 l **hui* *flh S*iSor*H mt
UmSiUli t Sink taM.
Ths Goodrich mystsry lissbeen solved
at last by the ootifeamon of Miss Kate
Htoddaru. On Thuradav morning,
March !W, in Brooklyn, N. V., she shot
Goodrich, fulfilling the threat mails in
the letter received by the Hon. W. W.
Goodrich, a brother of the deceased, a
month previous. The letter, which de
scribee her wrongs and suffering*, waa
written in a plain baud, every letter
being well formed. There waa not a
single erasure in the whole letter.
When it is considered that ahe had
written this seated on her trunk in the
basement of the cheerleae bouse in De
graw street, on a cold February uight,
it is most surprising, exhibiting a nerve
and determination which it had not been
supposed a woman poaaeaaed. It is as
follows :
BROOLTX, February, 1873.
Ma. Goo MUCH :
Hik : I propose to tell the truth.
Will you listen ?
For the past eight months I have been
living in the second house of the block
of new buildings in Degraw street, the
third door from Fifth avenue. I have
lived there unknown to any one exeept
Charley. About one year ago I was
married to him secretly, for It rusted
him. I loved him so trhly that his word
was law to me, aud he wished for noone
to know of our marriage until some fu
ture time, on account of property; the
reason oonueoted with it lie did not fully
explain. I was very foolish, for I was
aloue in New York, with no friendaonly
him. I have learned since then that the
clergyman who married na waa no min
ister at all, only a friend of bia, Reuben
Hmith, a doctor, I think, who Uvea in
the city.
In December last, s month ago, our
baby waa burn. Before that, and ainee
then, Charley ha* treated me with the
utmost cruelty, disowning all the ties
between na Several days ago a woman
with ringlets came here to one of the
houses after s stove be had for her. I
was at the window snd noticed the con
versation between them. When Charley
came into the house he told me thai we
must part, that there waa no marriage
tietween us, that he had tired of me,
Ae. This woman with the ringlets is his
new love ; he acknowledged that. Oh,
it seema aa if it oould not be the same
world to me now, all ia so dark and des
olate.
My heart ia completely broken. To
lov. and atnrugglo on alone 1 have got
to do, and I cannot without assistance.
The reason I write this, and the circum
stances under which I write, am most
painful. I have been trying to work. I
have been -mt work in a store all this
week. To-night (Saturday night) I come
here to my lonely home and waa very
unexpectedly accosted by a man just as
I was unlocking the door. He asked
me if I wished to see Mr. Goodrich ; I
told him ves and asked him who he waa.
He said bis name wot George Baker;
that he bad been employed to watch the
building, and that my trunks and
clothes had been taken into another
house. I was quite bewildered, and I
bad not the slightest idea that Charlev
would ever treat me in this manne*. 1
followed the man into the house and
saw all my things thrown upon the
floor.
It seems like some dreadful night
•are. To-morrow is the Sabbath, and
where will 1 stay or what will Ido ? I
have no money and DO friends. I am
seated on my trunk writing this to you.
My hands are so stiff with the cold that
I cannot bold my pen ; for that reason
it may not be easy for you to decipher
mv horned writing. A*t 8.
SarrausT Eva., Feb. 15.
This letter did not have the desired
effect Goodrich became instead more
determined to caat her off. She en
treated him to allow her to remain with
him. On the night preceding the fatal
morning Goodrich, on his return from a
visit to Lnoetta Meyers, was accosted
by Kate. They quarreled. He strove
to shut himself up in his room. She
followed him there and essayed to break
open the door with a chair.
When she arose in the morning the
quietly followed him down the stairs to
the frant '.basement, baring already
possessed herself of his pistol, She
was partly dressed. Goodrich, unaware
of her presence behind him, walked to
the mantelpiece and took a match.
Kate stood st the door. As he bent
over the Baltimore range to start the
fire with the match, she crossed the
room, and saying " Charley," looked
full at him.
He turned on hearing the name. As
he did so she discharged the pistol and
sent the bullet crashing through his
temple. He tried to rise, but toppled
' over on the oilcloth. As he lay in death
agony she stooped over him, and repeat
ing a verse from Byron'a "Giaour," dia
i charged two more shots, the bullets en
tering, one through the left temple and
! the other behind the left ear. After he
had given the last sign of life she seated
herself near the door and gased on hia
:IK sly. She stayed in the house all day
busying herself with the fixing and ar
ranging of the body.
The pistol with" which she shot him
and his gold wstch and chain and ring
*bc put into her own pocket. The wal
let containing S4O, she secreted in the
liosom of her dress. Frequently that
day she bent over the dead body and
kiiUed sway the hlood ss it flowed from
the wounds. That night she slept in
the house with the body. Early the
next morning, after placing a black -
liandled pistol at Goodrich's side and
again wiping and kissing the blood
from hia face, she brushed back his hair
with a wet towel and started for her
workshop in New York.
In the evening, on her return from the
city, she was startled by the shouts of
newsboys announcing the murder of
Charles Goodrich. She bought a news
paper and stood on the comer amid a
group of policemen, newsboys, and
others reading the account. Having
finitdied she retraced her steps to the
ferry and crossed to New York. When
questioned by Chief Campbell eonoern
ing her motive in returning to the house,
she said : " I wanted to see that no
harm lefell the body."
On Friday night she lodged in a house
up town. "On the following dsy she
procured a habitation and remained in
New York until the second week in
April, working all the time where she
liad been employed previous to the
death of Goodrich. About the 12th of
April a Mrs. Taylor, a widow, who lives
at 127 High street, Brooklyn, near Jay
street, two blocks from the York street
police station, was called upon by Kate,
who desired to hire a furnished room in
the house. The house is a three story
brick and basement. Mrs. Taylor the
week before had lost a daughter by
death. She was lonely, and becoming
predisposed to Kate," readily let the
room to her. On the following day two
trunks arrived at the house. Kate had
given $2 to Mrs. Taylor to pay the ex
presaage. After Kate had lived in the
lionse about three weeks she purchased
a piano on monthly installments.
During her stay in the plaoe Kate
never reeeived visitors or letters. On
her return from work she went to her
room and stayed in the house until
morning. Kate was employed steadily
making fancy straw hats in a store in
Broadway until two weeks ago. Then
she began to take the work home. When
NO. 31.
hiring the room Kate gave her name aa
Minnie Walton. Mrs. Taylor described
her aa a perfect lady. Kate frequently
went into Mrs. Taylor's room sad took
a cup of tea with her. At these times
she was very communicative, but never
alluded to any trouble. Abe said that
her folks lived in Trenton—her father
and stepmother. Mrs. Taylor said aha
w* * regular attendant at church.
Aam m law of Mr*. Taylor often
read for her. Kate on his beginning to
read from the newspapers, arose from
her chair and mazing aa exeusa waat
out of the room. A day or two ago aa
she waa going out of the room on the
son-in-law attempting to road they re
quested her to remain saying," It is
about the Walworth murder." Bhe re
plied, "Oh, don't read that; I don't
like to hear of murders."
Kate never made any attempt to oon
eeal herself. Bhe never wore a vail, and
went in and out whenever she wished.
Mrs. Taylor, in bar conversation con
cerning Kate, said* that she waa v*rv
clean and testy. Her dresses were not
expensive, but were neat. Her room
was always tidy, A married daughter
of Mrs. Taylor,'not knowing her name,
called her at times Walton, Waltham,
and Watson. Kate answered them all,
never correcting the mistake to the pro
nouncialion of "■ she had as
sumed.
Kate refused to give any information
to the police when questioned, but the
uext day site confessed all to Chief
CampbeiL Bhe aaid, after reciting tbe
story aa narrated above, " I killed him
'for love. I could not part with him."
She explained everything unreserv
edly, answering all the Chiefs questions
except the one concerning her residence.
Bhe refused to tell where she lived, say
ing, " If you find out you will discover
in my trunk evidence that will bring me
to the gallows."
In the afternoon an officer of tbe
York street polios station reported a
boarder absent from 12 High street
He described tbe absent prisoner. It
answered Kate's description.
Chief Campbell was informed. Mr*.
Taylor visited the station, and before
seeing Kate beard her voice in the Cap
tain's room. Bhe Instantly identified
her aa tbe ooeupent of a room in her
bonse.
Tbe Chief visited tbe room and ex
amined it There were two trunks, a
piano, and a small music bos in the
room, the property of Kate. Tbe trunks
were opened. In the first were the gold
watch and chain and ring and seal of
Goodrich. The pistol with which be
waa shot and the pooketbook containing
240 were also in it Tbe pistol lrns en
ivory handle. Tbiee of the chambers
were discharged and three loaded.
A large package of letter* from her
mother in Marlboro', Mass., were found.
They were addressed to Lizzie ML King.
The letters speak of the solicitude of
her parents for her moral and material
welfare. Two letters making arrange
meats for her meeting with Goodrich
from him were also in tbe trunk.
A Hovel Sign,
The head of an enormous bison, put
up over the bulletin board, at a certain
railway office, attract* much attention.
A good story is told in connection with
the patting up of one of theee boards
in a Chicago hotel. The proprietors
were grumpy fellows, and it was some
time before tbe agent of the line oould
get permission to put it an. At last,
however, he succeeded, and it waa huog
op in the office. Some wags belonging
to the other roads, knowing the ctrenm-
to have it down.
that evening three of them
walked into the office and asked, one
far five pounds of beefsteak, another
for some calf's liver, and the other for
tripe. "This isn't a butcher shop,"
sboated the irate landlord. "O" it
isn't, ehf said one of the wags ; "then
you'd better take in your sign." Next
morning the aged! of tbe line got a
note from the proprietor: " Come and
take away your old bull head. I won't
have it in Uie house."
Death from Orar-Exertiaa.
A young gentleman, by the name of
Foote, a graduate of Yale, died recently
from the effect# of over-exercise at row
ing while in College. Wilkie Collin's
theory that exceaaive physical training
ia destructive of the vitality of the sys
tem has been a good deal derided oy
critics who are at least aa capable ot
judigng as the distinguished novelist.
The case here cited, however, is not the
first to prove that Mr. Collin's theory is
scarcely so wide of tbe truth as his op
ponents profess to believai Healthy
development of mind or body would
naturally seem to depend upon giving
all the faculties ana muscles regular
and moderate exercise, without over
working any. What constitutes " over
working " is the question, end that, we
fancy in most cases, must be settled by
the individual himself according to the
effects produced upon him.
Occupations and Products.
The Stockholder has been overhauling
the Census volumes to some effect, ana
has made a careful examination of the
statistics of labor. It gives the follow
ing table of the persons employed and
1 the product per head in agriculture,
' manufactures, mining, and fisheries in
the United States;
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JhMtftlritPVff- JMfF |
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SunlKUw • J.WMSS Sl*
Minion, qoarrjlnf. * IM.SJS • **S
l-Uhorte. USI
Total ot product, S4.33S.MMO*
A vera** product per brad In all puraiuts 3&.T1
In his speech at the Cobden Club, in
England, the other day, Mr. Weill arid
that if the production of the country
was divided among the people, the aver
age per liead would not exceed $175.
The Stockholder infers, from the vari
ous figures it gives, that taking into
consideration the cost of living, capital
employed, coat of superintendence, and
all other elements, agricultural labor is
more productive than any other in the
country. It also regards labor as more
profitable in this country than in any
other part of the world.
Money Orders.
Few persons are aware of the grout
convenience to the public of the Money
Order offloe. Among the most recent
of all postal improvements, it is our
only national bureau that pays a profit
to the Treasury. The Patent Office is
self-supporting ; but the Money Order
Office nets an annual profit of over one
hundred thousand dollars. It is only
eight years old, yet it transmits fifty
millions a year in sums averaging about
eighteen dollars each. And these moneys
are sent over all this country, Groat
Britain, Germany and Switzerland ; and :
through Switzertand over nearly all civ
ilized Europe, for Switzerland is the
oentral banking honse of the world'z
money orders.
A rail mill is being constructed in
Louisville, Ky., at a oost of half a
million of dollars, for the manufacture
of rails by a new system, which is said
to do away with manual labor. Before
the iron comes out a perfect rail, it is
passed through thirteen sets of different
rolls without a half, and is turned over
five times for aide rolling. The iron for
a rail is taken from a heated furnace
and transformed into the proper shape
in thirty seconds.
Conway, N. IT . lim now a UK), mora
than hall M nab population aa ia
1788.
Tbe d reusing "<* *l Jast
ing of *ll fNßtaßtf ; *1 is ••Mom worn
out.*
Two license* to eeM opium k Hone
la la were rwuUywUH aacbcm, and
were bought lor 1518,000.
During • bull-fight i Mjkg* th*
people roM against lb. ewthoritiea, and
asverai councilor* were *e**MfaatacL
The " Orangemen' " oared** if Ww
York and ia other u laminated
wilbool notable unpleasant occurrence.
Imitation meerschaum pine* are ww
mad. oat of potatoes , dl ' o *4 *
sulphuric acid, and aftefkard dned
under great preaeurn.
A letter mailed ia Main* Oct. 21,
1*571, reached the poaWffice in Cam
bridgeport, Uan., to which it wae di
rected, a few dajra ago.
Rev W. H. H. Murray wffl deliwr
the oddrnaa at the annual fair of the
New England Agricultural Society in
Bottom in September next.
Somebody neke why ilkthnt
an seldom if var etraek by lightning,
the eolation of which conundrum lethal
erery orcbeetra hd a conductor.
The Cbioeee hav* bean raorgai,:rn*
their army, which now number. 300.000
men, armed with EofficM, Remington
end Oolt's riflea, with a ftiß equipment
of rtfiad artillery.
A Boenoa Ayrea paper aaya that few
itiM in the world are progressing mora
rapidly than Montevideo, and that it
wul ia a lew yearn rival Hew York in
commercial importance.
Cincinnati ia confident that it containa
enough kerosene at .rehouses and wbm
key distilleries to take the ahine oat of
OUcag* and Beaton in the matter of
great fires one of theee days.
A projected duel between two proud
neat citizens of Wilkinson oouiity. Mi*
sisai ppi, recently, was pre mated by the
police. Perhaps the principals wore
dinappou.ted, ""I perhaps not.
A Portland, Me., fruit-dealer received
a bite the other day from a young tar
antula that bad been brought from
Cuba in a bunch of banana*. The
wound was very painful, but hot fatal.
It hna been decided by the Poatinae
ttar Gene-Til thai nothing shall be panted
on a postal card, such an ne* spa per
clippings, AMI The Department agrees
to eary only the eard and what ia written
on it.
In digging a well ia White Plains,
Nevada, recently, n stream of water of
boiling heat was reached at a depth of
eighty-two feet This is probably the
first artificial well of boiling water ever
WlhiiA
A Tray lady had returned to her laat
week, without any explanation, an
enameled breast pin, which she lost
twelve years ago. Her faith in human
nature nas been increased eocr apond
ingly.
The fate of the Kentucky man who
purchased his coffin at auction a dozen
year* ago, and waa recently entirely
consumed in a lime-kiln, is said to have
delighted the hearts of the toeal under
taker*.
It ia suggested that persons who go
about with their Gaahmere shawl* turn
ed inside out to show that they are
genuine, should adopt the custom of
walking on their heads, to show tlriilaka
their boots am soled.
Mr. Thomas Alien has offered to give
the Atbenmum. in Pittafteld, Mass.,
290,000 for the erection of astoae build
ing for its uses, provided his associate
trustees will see that an equal sum in
raised to endow the inetttntaoa.
The culture of rice is prohibited with
in one mile of Savannah, the radius be
ing known as the 'dry culture limits."
Twentv-three squatters were arrested
tho otier day for violating this prohibi
tion, and ordered to destroy the grow
ing crop.
It it related that a Frenchman took
lodgings in Paris moeutty, on* of the
conditions being that he should be call
ed every morning and told what day of
the week it was, what waa the condition
of the weather, and under what form of
government be lived.
A conscientious Pittsburgh man
promised his wife the other day that he
wouldn't drink another drop a* long aa
he bad a hair oa his bead. That very
night be bed his head shaved smooth,
and then got drunk with a proud con
sciousness of having faithfully kept his
promise,
"Saratoga trunk on the brain," is now
fully recognised by the medical faculty
aa a malady peculiar to the fashionable
women of New York. A brilliant im
becile aaya that the trunks have aa ad
vantage over the women, inasmuch, as
they wear their .own locks, vhich the
women don't
The women of Pittsburg arose at four
o'clock a Monday morning recently, in
tending to do the week's washing early ;
but just as the clothes were thoroughly
soaped the Water Oommtarioner# cut
off the water, and during tbe rest of the
day tbe women held meeting* with Mrs.
Nexdor.
The public debt statement shows a
redaction daring June of 22,145,159 89.
Coin balance. 287,507,402 68 ; Currency
balance, 29,783.529; Coin certificates,
$39,460,000; Special deposits for the
redemption of Legal Tenders, 231,730,-
(100 : Legal Tenders outstanding $356,-
000,000.
That was a very touching incident—
that of the little school girl who refused
to define the word down aa "a low, vul
gar fellow," and for her stubbornness
was punished with tbe fernle and de
tained in play hours, sll to no reforma
tory end. The little child's father proved
lo be s clown in smrcus.
The costume of a young lady now
adays is a curious mixture of styles.
The arrangement cf the hair is Greek,
the raff is Elizabethan, the jacket
probably Louis Quatorse, the fan re
presents the Trianon epoch, and the
jewelry ia probably Moorish or Etrus
can.
C hicago politeness ia thus depicted
by the Post; "During dog-days thr
true gentleman* may be recognised by
tbe alacrity with whieh he gives his
seat on the sunny side of a street car to
the first handsome young lady that gets
on board, while he goes out on the
shady platform for a smoke."
Several members of the Elm ire,"
N. Y., Farmers' Club state thai in their
experience Alsike clover makes one
crop of nioe sweet pasture in a season,
but the second growth amounts to al
most nothing. The President said that
hay from it, when bright, was no better
relished by oows than damaged red
clover.
The departure from England of the
Brazilian cable expedition is anticipated
in the most recent London newspapers.
Double interest is attached to the
event, following as it does so soon after
tbe start at the fonrth Atlantic cable *
squadron. The cable in question will
be laid along the coast of South America,
from Para to Pernambuoo, and will
form part of an extensive line of com
munication with the Brazils. Other
sections will be laid in due course from
Pernambuoo to Bio Grande, with a
station at Bahia, and from Para to St.
Thomas' in the West Indies.
The New York correspondent of the
Chicago 7W6uine writes; "Speaking,
the other day, to a gentleman well ac
quainted with public men, on the sub
ject of their capacity and habits of
work, he remarked that the hardest
worker he had ever known was Caleb
Cashing. Cashing told my imformsnt
that, for twenty-five years, he had spent
seventeen out of every twenty-four
hours in intellectual pursuits—reading,
studying, or writing—giving himself
bnt seven hours for rest and recreation.
Cashing has an extraordinary constitu
tion and the most vigorous health, and
receives such pleasure from absorbing
ftental occupation that it ha* oy long
habit become second nature to him.
He is now seventy at least, and of late
years, being regularly employed aa a
sort of Government lawyer upon in
ternational eases at Washington, he has
taken life more easily, aa well he might
at his advanced age.'