To * Rd ecilurwr*. And tell yon, tell you with my every breath. I ne'er again will una* your loving face Till death. A LEG KM) OF THR RHINE. The beautiful river Rhine, in some of its winding*, is not unlike that portion of our Hudson which flow* through the Highland*. But it differ* vastly from the latter, in that the grand old hill* and immense rocks lying on either aide are covered with ruins of what were once massive towers, castles, and strong hold*. These frowning battlements, perched upon jagged rocks and steep mountain passes, were the homes of warlike knights and barons of olden time, whose lives seemed spent in war ring against each other. To all these ancient ruins throughout Germany, as well as on the Rhine, are attached some story or romance woven from his tory and tradition. A charming Ger man author has gathered into a little Tolume many of these legend*. One of the most delightful of the legends is connected with Richard I, King of England, called Richard "Casur-de- JLion " because of his idomitable cour age and bravery. Richard was born in Oxford, and in 118SJ succeeded hi* father, Henry 11. It is'said that his'haughty spirit and unbending will hastened the death of the old king. Partly from remorse for past misconduct, partly ffbm martial taste, which early in life distinguished him, soon after his accession to the throne he leagued with Philip of France for a second crusade in Palestine against the famous Saladin, Emperor of Egypt and Syria. Saladin had wrested Jeru salem from the hands of the Christian Knight, Reginald de Chatillon, and slain many of his followers. News 01 this disaster reaching England, Richard determined to regain possession of the holy city. The key to Syria was the fortress of St. Jean-D'Acre, which en dured a siege of two years before yield ing to the combined forces of England and France. However, before the lion hearted monarch had time to regain possession of Jerusalem, new* reached him of war at home. He concluded a truce with Saladin, and quickly em barked to quell the revolt in his own kingdom. On the coast of Italy he was shipwrecked. Nothing daunted by this new misfortune, he disguised him self as a pilgrim, hoping to pass through Germany unseen. By some means, however, he became known to Leopold, Duke of Austria, who, to gratify a per sonal prejudice, caused him to be ar rested and secretly imprisoned. The fame of this great monarch had been spread far and near by pilgrims to the Holy Land ; by the songs of trobadours, and the plaudits of those who had fought under him. His own knights worshiped him, and a number of them banded together, determined, if he were still living, to find his hiding place and deliver him. On a lovely snmmer morning a troop of horsemen were passing through the countrv in which lav a portion of the Hartz fountains. Three noble-looking men rode forward, evidently the leaders of the troop which followed. The mid dle bcrseman was dressed as a minstrel, and on his face was an expression of deep pain and anxiety. Suddenly he stopped his horse, to catch the notes of a shepherd, singing in the far-off field. No sootier was the song finished, than he dashed towards the astonished singer. t "My boy, sing that again! See, I have for you!" " Tis a song I love !" said the boy, as he took the gold and re-commenced his music. " Now, tell me, lad," said the min strel, "who taught you that song." " I dare not tell!" replied the boy. as he glanced with suspicion at the knight "Aye! But you must tell me! No harm shall come to yon ! See here ia more gold for you." " I have heard it sung in the castle of Triefels, near which I often feed my sheep." " Oh, God !" exclaimed the minstrel, bursting into tears as he knelt on the ground, " How wondrous are thy ways!" His companions approached him with amazement, to hear him exclaim: "We have found him! On to Trie fels 1" After the excitement of their sup posed discovery had abated, they de cided, firet, to get a view of the fortress, and then matare their plans for getting within it. The shepherd boy, who was to guide them thither, tola them no strangers were allowed to cross the drawbridge, and the keeper was imperi ous and unsociable. Soon the towers of Triefels glittered in the sun, and after a graceful survey of its surround ings, they moved away for further de liberation. "My friend*," Raid the knight, "in ray minstrel's dress I mast try alone to gain admission to the castle. Mean time, this boy will find you lodgings in the hamlet below. If our noble king is imprisoned here we must release him." Thus saying, and with one servant to bear his Bhield and harp, he rode to the bridge and demanded food and shelter for himself and servant. After much parley, he waa received ; but very un graciously. However, within these dreary walls he found a beautiful woman, the keeper's niece, whose smile waa like the warm sunlight on a winter's day. After dinner the minstrel sang to the drowsy ancle and the charming niece. As the former, after a while, seemed to sleep soundly, the knight began : "You seem to love music, fair lady 1 But surely you do not often hear it in this lonely castle." "No ! only myself and one poor prisoner sing." " A prisoner!" "Yes,and he must be of gentle birth! But I dare not say more, less my uncle wake. He will "be angrv if I talk of him." "Tell me one thing, dear maiden, can I hear the soßg of this one, who sings for freedom ?" " Yes, if you listen to-night ; IUB melancholy brings the bars to my eyes often enough !" Just now, the old keeper awoke, and, giving orders to lead the stranger to his apartment, he himself went out. When our knight entered his chamber, he went to tne window, and vainly strove, through the deepening twilight, to find the tower in which he supposed his dear king to be. Soon, a melancholy voice was heard singing these words : "The golden stars wander over hill and valley, messengers of my longings l 1 RlilX lv I I WX. % l'Mitor 1.1 ml 1 *ropriotor. vol.. VI, and niy griefs. In Haiti gloomy prison, 1 pass my life, ami can only couflde my woes to Heaven." "" Oh ! my ktug !" aobUvl the knight, as a pale face appeared at a tower win dow. How can I tell you how near your frieuds are ?" " The harp !" hooried suddenly, and, snatching it up, with trembling ringers, he played a romance which he had once composed for the king. No aoouer had he fiuished a few l>ars than the voice in the tower caught up the air and finished it. " Blondel ? exclaimed the king. For answer, the minstrel again seized the harp and sang ; " Oh. Richard' oh, my king! His world atiaudoke thee. And no vine now u> seeking Thy deliverance but me I'll save thy previous persou. 1 will tweak thy cruel chain. 1 pledge myself tn song Thy freedom to regain " Blondel speut the night in laying plans for the deliverance of Richard, lie resolved to gain admittance into the castle for his followers through his friendship for the lovely girl, who hail already made an impression ou his heart Within a day or two the newly elect ed emperor was to be crowned at Frank fort. On the evening of the coronation, he directed the landlord of the little inn, near Trilfels, to give to the garrison of the castle a banquet that with prop er ceremony they might drink to the health of the new monarch. Mean while one by -me, his own trusty knights stole, through the twilight, to the woods behind the castle. At s late hour of the evening the little sidegste of the fortress opened, a* the young maiden cautiously stole out to meet Blondel. Then for the first time, he unfolded to her the real object of his meeting with her, entreating her to fly bock to England with the king (whom he was about to liberate) and himself, assuring her that every tokeu of love and gratitude should bo shown her if she would yield to his wish. • With a cry of astonishment and pain, she exclaimed, "Oh, traitor! oh, woe! my poor uncle !" As she turned to t!y within the castle walls, the follower* of Blondel—who, in the darkness, had approached unperceived— flocked about her, and made their way to the castel lan's room, where the tower keys were kept. The few defenders of the fortress who were not at the village feast were soon overpowered. The old keeper was powerless to do aught; but he cried out, as the liberated Richard stood before him; "Against this deed, con trary to the law of nation?, I protest, and swear that you shall not leave Ger many in safety !" The poor maiden threw herself upon her knees, and ac cused herself as the cause of this terri ble disaster. Meanwhile, the report of the attack upon the castle had reached the inn, and the warriors came back in hot haste to find themselves barred outside the walls, with a threat that if they did not disperse the castellan should lose his head and the castle be destroyed. Blondel and the king urged the maid en to retnrn with them to England, but she could not forgive the mnu who hod used her heart fcr nn act of treason. Blondel left her, but not till she hail accepted a ring and chain of gold in token of his remembrance of her love and service towards him. We do not propose to follow the fortunes of Cteur de-Lion after his escape from Triefels ; but to tell our readers what tradition says of the minstrel Blondel snd the unhappy maiden. Many, many years after the events which we have described and on another summer day, a gray haired cavalier rode over the same mountain pass, where the king had been sought and found. " Here," murmured he, "here have I felt in days gone by the highest bliss and the deepest woe of my life! " Slow ly he rode till he had reached the little inn. As he looked into the face of the land lord he discovered the features of the young shepherd boy. With an almoe* tender interest the two (one of whom was Blonde!) talked of the past. In tears the now old minstrel learnt the sail fate of the castellan and his niece. He was killed by some hidden hand after the (light of Richard was dis covered. The broken-hearted maiden entered a convent near Baden, where henceforth her life and history were lost to the world. None can visit this ancient ruin of Triefels without a melancholy interest as they recall the dreary prison-life of the great King Richard, the touching romance of the minstrel knight Blondel, and tiie lovely, loving maiden over whose story centuries have now rolled. Working on a itancho. A yonng man who went West thus reveals some of his ansa tis factory ex periences, in a note to the editor of the Denver (Col.) New*: "Being out of work—but not loafing—l thought I would try the lancho business, so I walked four or five miles out on the Platte, and I found a raneho where there are employed from twenty to twenty five hands at 31 per day. Now, Mr. Editor, I shall tell yon facts—nothing more—so here it goes. You are obliged to get up at 4 o clock ; get breakfast. However, daring bug time—potato bugs—you get up at 3 o'clock and shake Paris green until breakfast—s o'clock. Yon work antil 11 o'clock and get dinner—half hour nooning. Then work until fi oCT)ok—sapper—and, as soon as yon swallow your supper, work until 9 or lOo'clock tieingup vegetables for market. All this for $1 a day. Sun days one-fonrth of a day is —25 cents—to work from 3 o'clock in the afternoon to 9 o'clock at night. Now, ia this not enough to sicken a poor man's heart ? The food is enough, but poor—no milk or butter allowed on the table, and you sleep like hogs, in an old barn ana stable, full of graybarks and bedbugs. I like to work, but was obliged to give up. I hope some good and kind-hearted ranchman will give me work and a home where 1 will not have to work sixteen out of the twenty four hours for 31 per day." The Locomotive. from a paper on the locomotive en gine, by Joseph Harrison, Jr., r<-od before the members of the Franklin institute in Pennsylvania, is taken the following paragraph: "The engineer, noting the curious things in bronze and in copper exhumed at Pompeii and gatliered together in the Mnseo Borhoniea at Naples, will linger near a small vessel for heating water, little more than a foot high, in which are combined nearly all the prin ciples involved in ttie modern vertical steam boiler —fire box, smoke flue through the top and fire door at the side, all complete ; and Btrange to say, this little thing has a water grab; made of small tubes crossing the fire box at the bottom, an idea that has been pat ented twenty times over, in one shape or another, within the period of the his tory of the steam engine." Since the cutting down of the ex change lists, there has been much use less handling of useless newspapers avoided, and the exchange fiend has to some extent discontinued his visits. THE CENTRE REPORTER, A Village Farmer. I t'll* llarr as l was I'ulil to t. Tn one of the small villages lees than twenty miles from New York lives alar -1 tuer, it he may bo so ealled, wlm has only eight acres of tillable laud, and a few acres of awamp lanil devoted purt to forest and part to pasturage. When voung lie learned the mason's trade. The land came in part from his father and the rest he bought after a time, and when there was no such thiug as village near, or thought of. After learn iug his trade he married a nice girl, and they lived in a small house ; but as no work was to be had near, he sought it ui neighboring towns, and if the dis tance w-<- not great, not over five miles, he Uiarded at home, ami walked to and from his work nights ami mornings. Wages at that time were only 51.25 per j day, but he saved money every year, and after a time he was able to buy a few more acres, which he would culti vate when he ouuld get no mason work. In seven or eight years he got so fore handed as to be able to buy brick enough at $5 per M, delivered, to build a nice two-sjory house. The way he did the work may &e of some interest to thr present eight-hour laeu. It was for tunate that just at tiiia titne he had a good job of brick and t tone work only two miles distant, so that lie could eaai- Iv eat his hr -akfa*t ut home and get ou the walls just after snnrise. That was the time when even the ten-hour rule had not been adopted, so they all worked till sundown. After eatiug his supper and working in his garden or corn-field As long as he could see, he went to bud, and was ready next morn ing with the lark. Then he hired a man for 50 cents a day to dig his cellar, which was 7 feet deep, 40 feet long, and 28 feet wide. Hv this time he had an apprentice, and taking a few days' time from the job they laid up the wall. After that, when the uioou shone, ami while the apprentice and everybody were asleep he would lay brick aloue, making his owu mortar and tending himself. The wall was thick, ami had air spaces, ami the house is standing to day, and will stand many a day. Of j course it was not finished that year ; it was little more than inclosed by the next fall, and it required another vear before it was completed from top toVt tom—with a smoke house in the chim ney in the cellar, also a Are-place, a ! cistern under the kitchen, while the sit j ting-room, parlor, ami parlor bedrooms i had plaster cornices and gay conter | pieces overhead, all done in the I wet ■ style of workmanship. Then his wife had flowers and shrubbery in the great est variety; grapes were abundant, and j there were all kinds of cherries, plums, pears, and apples. That was the way he got a home. No w he ik>es not work much at his trade, ex cept in winter, when there is nice inside duisbiug to do, then he gets $5 a day ; i but he is engaged mostly in farming." On the place are kept four cows, a span j of horses, two hogs, and a large stock of poultry. The yield of hay is over ! two tons to the acre, corn usually yields , 01) bushels an acre, the orchard yields friiin 50ft to 1,000 bnshelsof apples, and potatoes and vegetables of all kinds. Isist year h sold sweet com to neigh bors, who came after it at 26 cents a | dozen, for which he got over 8150. Milk from the four cows is sold at the | house at seven cents a quart to the amount of several hundred dollars. The j horses are fat, the cows are fat, the hogs are fat, ami the hens fat enough to produce on an average a dozen eggs a ' day the year round. It is trno that our friend is rough-looking, and sometimes dirtv, for he has not yet learned the ! ten-hour system ; but if you go to his i house as a visitor, yon will find him cheerful as the day—you will see a large orange tree in the bay window of the sitting-room, most tln year bearing golden fruit, and at the close of a sum mer's day he will bo delighbtl to sit with yon on the piazza shaded with vines and cluster rows, and talk of the good days gone, and not less of the good duystocome, with a nice village all I aronnd, and a railroad with ever so j many trains a day, and churches and j I schools, and all these things. Ton 1 might think he would be decrepit, and 1 • that his wife would have died long ago j | with hard work, but not a bit of it; and | they ride out in their shining blaok < ar ' riage as grand as anybody.—[N. C. M. A Woman Slays a Panther. The country papers just now abound in account* of encounter* with wild l>easta. Tho Pittsburgh Commercial supplies one, in correspondence from Lock Haven, Pcnu.. aa follows : "On Thursday last a party of young women went out from Queen's Run to the mountain iust back of the settlement, gathering huckleberries. One of them, Jernsha Bryan, advanced a little fur ther into the woods than the others, when she was attacked by a huge pan ther. Her companions, hearing the brute scream, sought safety in flight, but Miss Bryan, finding escape impos sible, determined to stand her ground, and seizing a huge pine knot, gave her enemy battle. The contest was a close one for a few minutes, but human cour age, judgment, and coolness soon tri umphed over brute strength, and the heroic woman soon had the satisfaction of laying the blood-thirsty monster dead at her feet. Her garments were toni into shreds, and licr face and arms badly scratched, but she walked home with a firm step and the light irf triumph in her eye. The dead panther was soon afterward found by tho people of Queen's Run, and proved on measure ment to be six feet ten inches long." The correspondent adds that Jenisha is the lion of the place ; and well she may bo—if tho story is true. THE CASE OP LIBIT. GAI.EAOIIEB.— Second Lieut. M. Frank Gallagher, of the Second Infantry, who was recently tiied before a general court-martial a Columbia, S. C., for killing John Mc- Aneely, a discharged soldier, in Spar tanburg, 8. C., on the 2d of May Jaat, has been dismissed the service, and the sentence lias been approved by the President. The civil authorities will take cognizance of the murder, the army trial being on tlm charge ol con duct unbecoming an officer and * gen tleman. TEST TOR PI-RE WATER. —An exchange recommends the following test for ascer taining the purity or impurity of drink ing water, viz.: "If half a pint of the water lie placed in a perfectly clean, colorless, glass-stoppered bottle, a few grains of the best white sugar added, aud the bottle freely exposed to the light in the window of a warm room, the solution should remain clear even after ten days' exposure, if the water is pure. If the water become turbid, it is open to grave suspicion of contamination with sewage matter." Lnc* vs. DISAPPOINTMENT. —Undoubt- edly the man who drew the SIOO,OOO prize in the Louisville lottery thinks he is a lucky man. In order that he might get his SIOO,OOO, 175,000 people gave a dollar for which they received nothing. It is only less honest andstrnightf yward than to have a subscription taken up for him among straugers. What is more, 175,000 people were disappointed to make up his exultation. Why are handcuffs like guide-books ? Because they are made for two wrists. CENTRE IIA EE. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1H73. ( h*lug the Antehutc. Prom the many kiiolls which lay ii our path, writes a Yellowstone expedi tipuist, commanding extensive views ol ffle country, we could frequently watel a chase for antelopes from the star! I to the close, and where the view was in tcrrupted the temptation to follow ul ! full speed with our horses was seldou resisted when the issue was close, lu | dians w ere entirely forgotteu in the ragt for uiitelui>c. 1 can nut resist the im pression that for purpose of sport atom it is wanton cruelty to hunt down thii beautiful creature of the plain. Hut wheu one has lived on ham or bacon foi t several days, with only an occasional . relief of though leef, the impression changes. Antelope beouttiea a neoea j sity. The sport is only a ooueouiitaut. It is a hard thing to remember wheu you are hunting antelope or other game that you are going to a funeral. If one succeeded in reiucinleriiig this, an uu i due regard for conventional ceremony might defeat his purpose. The sport cally lies in catching the fleet animal It is only when YOU have reached him that you think of toe knife. There is plenty iof room for pity at the death. And I : do not think that among army officer* i this element is regarded us a weakness. It is assumed w hen the old buc-kt are caught that they liave lived long cuoiigh, and the time haa conic for them to serve their day and generation. Hut let the i dogs run down some young fawn but a mouth or two ohl, and how the father element comes to the surface. The other day the dogs caught a fawn scarcely over a month old. Just as they were about to pounce on it, an officer, an old hunter, not given to sentimental ity, who lias shun his buffalo and ante iojx> by the score, rode up and saved the babe from the dogs. "It bleat so piteoualy," he saul, "it made me think of my own babes, and 1 let it go." No one in the regiment would dispute the bravery of this officer; but cowards would l>e the first to laugh at his pity. I only tell this and the following inci dent to show you that the men that com mand and compose the expedition are not all savages, even if tley dou't be lieve iu the President's peace poller as a practical mean ore. I was ruling yesterday with lien. Stanley, at the head of the column just in advance of the party of scouts. As we walked our horses four abreast, we started mother grouse from the net. She dew over our heads aud settled a short dis tance off, witluu cosy range. Oue of the party dismounted and found the neat iu the trail. It was full of eggs just readv to hatch. "Poor things ; let them be," saul the commander, and the eggs were replaced, the rifles lowered, aud the eolurnu of horsemen parted to save the neat aiul the frightened mother. It may seem an unnecessary and trifling thing to turn an army from its path to spare a nest of eggs to a hovering bird, hut auvthuig that gives the better part of human nature a chance to come to the surface is worth the trouble it costs. In accordance with the order of Gen. Stanlcv issued before the starting of the Expedition, a certain number of men along the line were allowed to shoot nt autHope and other game. The t buicrul was desirous of giving the incu every opportunity for hunting. Hut it was soon found that the liberty was grimily abused. The men in tlieir ex citement after game ware not at all par ticular which way thev fired so long a* they aimed at an antelope. Frequently an antelope would pass between the hunter and the column." A ball whu zing over onr heads showed ns that the hunter appreciated his situation but did not appreciate ours. During the day balls came imuriug in tliick aud fast from both (lanks. 1 doubt if we shall receive many heavier volleys from the iudiaus than we received the second and third day of our march from the hunters. It is a wonder that no one was killed. An erratic ball came within a brief distance of mv horse and struck still nearer to Dr. Kimball's orderly, (ten. Stanley was finally compelled to modify lus previous order, and prohibit any firing whatever except by lus own special permission. Tins modification will effbet a great saving in ammumtiou and will make no difference in the amount of antelope* shot. Increase of Suicide. A practical proof of the infidelity of the times exists in the fact that, accord ing to statistical authorities, suicide is in the most countries on the increase. The percentageof death from this cause lias risen in England, and France has lately been suffering from a periodical fit of unusual severity. A few weeks ago five suicides occurred iu I'aris on the same day. A woman aged sixty two tlirew herself out of a window, a Prussian hung himself from misery and despair, greatly, probably, to the satis faction of his Gallic ncigfilxirs who may probably have helped to produce these emotions. A voting man of nineteen shot himself from the truly Parisian cnuso of disappointment iu love, and two young men of twenty-seven and twenty-four, for the same cause, stifled themselves with charcoal. The variety of modes is curious. At every age mnn chooses particular methods of commit ting suicide. In youth he has recourse to hanging, which he soou abandons tor fire-arms. Iti proportion as his vigor declines, he leturns to his first mode, and it is most commonly by hang ing that the old man perishes who pnts au end to his existence. A Hatchers* Match. Tho most extraordinary match of the season was witnessed in Hohoken, N. J., between Timothy O'Keefo ami Pat rick Fitzgerald. The contestants were butchers, and their relative merits for skill and expedition were to he decided by the result of a sheep killing match. At 3:14 P. M. the words one, two, three, were given, Fitzgerald and O'Koefe each seised a sheep, whose throat had already been cnt by he attendants, and l>egan their manipuiut' >ns. First there was noma work on tho floor, which the butchers call legging, because the cut ting of the skin on the legs is the prin cipal feature. The floor work comple ted, tho sheep's hind legs are tied together, and it is hung on a convenient hook. Fitzgerald hung up his fiftieth sheep in tw<> hours and twenty-seven minutes, making an avcrnge of two minutes and. forty seeonds for each sheep. His op ponent was eleven minutes behind, hav ing cut himself badly twice. Wcad-keadlug. The time has come, says an exchange, when the press of the "country should have done with dood-hcadiHW. The Western editors should have paid for their tickets, and if the jubilee was bad —and most jubilees arc—they should have said so ; if it was good, their pa pers should have informed tho public of the fact. But they should not have praised it, if poor, because they entered without paying ; neither should they have condemned it, if good, because they had to pay for their tickets like Jones, the dry goods merchant, and Fierifacias, the attorney. Let newspa per men pay for whut they eat, drink, wear, ana see, foot their hotel bills and railway expenses, and let their views be uninfluenced by courtesies or fa vors. A Mexican Mory, Horrible ('nulll In • Child. The S.ui Diego World tells a storj ' of horrible barbarity that we have nevei seen equalled. It savs: The Pacific Mail Southern ooaa I strainer California put into Sail Diegi to ooal. Little dreamed those who Wen' down to the wharf of the Pacific Mai j. Company of the terrible story whirl wua told of a mere child of elevci years, who was on Ixiard, named Loll ! Arron. On a stretcher in the steerage lay i girl who certainly was not twelve yean iof age. As the experience is witl Southern fcnialea, she was far advanced to womanhood, and the lines of hei ; form indicated a sensuous and beautifu physical development It ia well t* dwell upon such engaging churaeteris tics as the poor crcsture retained, foi the ruin which had been wrought upon her ia almost too fearful to detail, ami the story of the atnxuty is such as could hardly le paralleled elsewhere on earth iin this nineteenth century. Lola uiusl have been a beautiful girl, for her form retained grace and symmetry that na ture must certainly have carried to com pletion iu her face. This child-woman was a charred ruin. - A fire-brand had been held to her nose, burning it almost completely off. The J blistered fieah was still angry and in , darned, giving an indescribably loath some and pitiable aa|ect to the pool creature, ller cheeks were one mass ol charred flesh, pulpy and erubescent with the recent passage of a firebrand. Her eyebrows aud lashes were burned off, and her eyeballs were seared by the blasting flame. Liberal as is the en dowment of the Mexican woman with wavy masses of black hair, not a hair was left upon Lola's head. One is obliged to recur to some of the tarnble pictures of Dante or Sjx-user to get an , idea of the fearful and yet aptx-aliug de formity of this poor girl. Ihe auto dr ft was a tnfrciles* thing in the old days, but that was carried to a decent end and i left merely a uioea of calcined ruhbiah. Here the destruction was as complete, , but the victim was allowed to live to , ix- an object of horror during a life time, instead of a tiling of beautv and a joy forever, as nature intended her to ' lie. The st>ry of Lola and her mother is | incredible. They were taken on by the j California at .Maratlull on the 4th of July. They had l>en living at the vil lage of Copala, about fifty miles from Maratbui. A word as to the mother may not be amiss. She has noble features, a clear skin, and splendid masses of blue-black hair. They lived on the outskirts of Copala. On the 13th of June, Antonio Mnrillo, one of the lieutenants or under cliiefa of the ruffian Loxada. with a small force, came into the neighlxtrhootl of Copala. The Arroa house was detached. The husband, wife and Lola were its sole inmates. They seized upon the mother, doubtless attracted bv her personal charms, aud the child leda. The hus band offering resistance, ho was ahot down and the house fired. Hurrying swiftly from the scene of blood, toother and daughter were swept , with the. brigands, who %ere on horse back, toward the mountains. The trage dv was enacted about fouro*cleeause she was afraid of arousiug the ruffians, and did not think the child could make the journey. She thought, bcaidca, that tender years would protect her from abuse. The brigands, on awaking next morn ing and finding the mother gone, vented their fury in blows upon poor Lola. Tlioy pursued their journey ta the mountains, aud from thence sent in a demand for a ransom for lad*. They made it so large that it was beyond the mother's ability to pay it. A govern - mcnt force wns sent in pursuit one week from the day of capture, on the '2oth of June. The ruffians not receiving the ransom deniAudeil, took a firebrand and seared the child as we have described. Tho object undoubtedly was to put her to a lingering death by the moat fiendish tortures, protracted from day to day. The government forces caine upon Mn rillo arid his band in the night time, routed thetn and rescued the maimed and ruined Lola Mother and child left a country of such atrocities and horror, and ore now on their way to San Francisco ou the California. One may well exclaim, "Oan such things be ?" The Fating House Man, When tho train draws up at Stamford, five minutes for refreshments, says the Dan bury XCWH. it is easy to distinguish the exjx'rienced traveler from the rest He has already got out on the platform, and is either on the tiottom step, or close enough to it Just as soon as the speed of the train becomes loss than he can make, he springs off, and dashes madly for the saloon door, through it, and up to the counter, giving his order for coffee while moving, and snatching up the right article the first time. He knows jnst how much time is required to make five minutes, and when it is ex pired he ia out on the platform picking his teeth, aud talking alxiut real estate. Alas! for the inexperienced traveler, such is not his record. Ho is inside the car when it stops, with twenty per sons ahead of him. Ho jumps down on the platform in time to see tho mass surging into the door, and then it sud denly strikes him that he may IK? too late," and under this inspiration he throws himself into the struggling gang. Ue doesn't roach tho table. He Aiul tho other inexperienced travelers form tho outside line, and shout their orders through the openings, und receive what js handed tbhm with thankfulness and uihot dexterity they can muster. Such a man will perspire and choke, and }>nw, aud jaw during the entire five minutes, and in that time may get down two thirds of a sandwich, one-third of a piece of custard pie, aud more or less of coffco, and tlion get out of the door just in time to catch hold of the car rail, and IHJ polled on by tho hrakeman. And when he has reached his seat and is scraping the rest of that pie from his boot, aud drawing cold air into his throat to allay the pain of the scold, he will thiuk up tilings about tho keeper of that restaurant that would make tho hair on a saw-horse stand straight on end. CAPACITY OFSAW-MILLS. —TJIO largest saw-mills cut, as a regular business, ten thousaud feet of boards per hour. At Winnebago, Wisconsin, there are forty two mills within a circuit of two miles wliiah are all cutting lumber at this rate continually. j ..Hugs are dying of heat in Illinois. The Lobiter Huvlue**. How l.b*lrr arc anil Wkal U Itottt mill Ikttu. The lobster business ia steadily grow ing l|i importance, mid haa aided large ly u promoting the material interests of ( heater. It ia itow alxiut twelve years, ays a correa|ioiidflit, since the I'orUmtd Packing Company commenced opera tiona here and gave an iupulae to the work of catching, or rather of trapping, Una delicious cruataoea. It haa now several factories located at various point*, within a coast range of 200 miles, same of which are employed in the packing of mackerel. It ia astouiah ing the extent to which this business haa attained. The United Htatea, Cana da, mid Europe offer ready markets fur the sale of lobsters preserved in this form, and aa a result thousands of peo ple are employed all aloug this coast in the capture and curing of the flak. They are, as haa been stated, trapped, the contrivance devised for this pur fxiae being a semi-cylindrical structure made of rough latlia nailed together, j having s network ouvenng st each end. lu the centre of thia network are two holes, sufficiently Urge to admit the lobster, and ouce caged it is impossible for him to escape, as th net is bent in ward. In the centre of the trap is an upnght stake on which the but ia im paled, the whole concern being, as msy be supposed, a sort of " walk into my parlor " arrangement. The bait con •data mostly of a sea perch and aculpin, I the Utter being better known perhaps as the sea toad, * most unprepossessing customer, with head nearly as large aa l the whole bodv, and a month large enough for a fish fifty times its sire. He is in fact a monster on a small scale, and in hia color aa well as in the pecu liar hha|H' of kie head, as likewise in his mottled skin, Ix-ars a pretty close re semblance to a toad, lie and the fish ing frog must be near relations, for they are "as like aa two peaa," with the esceptiou that the latter has one or two tentacle*, or feelers, growing out of his head, almost immediately over ; the mouth, and on the end of theae ia a small, soft, flesh-like aujiendage, with which, as with a but, he lures, while !he lies concealed beneath picfwa of tuft* or seaweed, his unsuspecting prey into '-is capacious maw. This sculpui or sea t.-ad, if be does not fish for himself, is used to fish for others, and this he does with great success. If the old adage, "Handsome is as handsome does," has any. force in it, he is s perfect beauty.* The lobster traps tlius hutted arc sunk to the bot tom, by means of stones, and taken up between tides, when their unwilling in mates arc transferred to the rowboats, preparatory to being placed in the flab cars, where they are kept alive till sent to the factory in the large auling craft •vessels of from ten to twelve ton*. In these lliey are piled up, sometimes in huge heaps that would draw torrents of tears from the eyes of the tender hearted Krrgh, and when the vessel ar rives at the factory they are mercilessly pitched upon the pier in another indis criminate heap. Here they twist and wriggle and flap their propellers and interlock with their huge nippers, the whole heap present ing a most animated and lively mass of crtistacea. From the pier Uiey are at once taken to the huge kettles, where, having been sufficientlv boiled, they arc parked in hermetically sealed cans, and, after still further boiling in these, the cuis are labelled, boxed and sent off to their several destinations. The sea son hegma ah nut the 10tli of May and i closes about the middle of October, du ring which the Portland Packing Com panv, in one factory alone, boil and can nearly seven hundred thousand lobsters. In the capture of this number a fleet of ISO boats, each manned by two handa, is required, uid these range along a shore of thirty or thirty-five miles. In pursuit of the fiali these men some times frequent the moat rugged and wildest part of the coast, where the restless waves, even in the calmest days surge and boil among the huge rocks, dashing the foam to the height of fif teen or twenty feet. Woe to the hap less vessel that misses its trackless way across the ocean and in treacherous fog or the darkness of the night runs upon this iron-bonnd coast. The fate of the Atlantic and of many a noble ship has told tales of disaster that have sent a thrill of horror through the civilised world. The crash and roar of these breakers can be beard at a distance of two or three miles, giving, one would thuik, sufficient warning of the danger. Here, amid these rocks, are the favorite haunts of the seal, and the sea-gull, the former affording fine sport for the skill ful marksman. On this lovely summer evening, the whole sea and sky suffused with the gulden and purple glories of the declining sun and the bleak rocks rising grim and black above the glitter ing foam of the brokon waves, we hsve a scene of grandeur and beauty rarely surpassed. Here we hsve s splendid view of the coast for a distance of twenty miles, with its besutiful little bays and coves, the shores of which are iu many places thicklv wooded dowu to the water's edge, i'rom this we can see not a few of the islands of Maliont Hay, and which are so numer ous as to furnish one for every day in the Tear. Where did they flint names for them all ? And why aid they not, to save trouble, twin in the work of designation with January 1 and end with December 31 ? How economical! Hut it is not too late, and the people of Chester are hereby given full right and title to the hint, to be by them used, employed, (fro., for the benefit of them selves and their descendants for ever more. in Weep, Cold Water. We believe it is a well -established fact, says the Gold Hill A>irs, that the lxxlles of persons drowned in Lake T&hoe have never been recovered, the clear, cold waters of tho lake absolutely refusing to give up their dead. This circumstance, whicn at first thought* appears strange, is accounted for upon the hypothesis that the waters at the bottom of the lake are so icy cold as actually to arrest decomposition and consequent expansion of a dead body, one of tho conditions under which it would lie exccted to return to the surface. Whether the victims who rejxise at the bottom of the pel lucid waters of this far-famed lake un dergo jH-tri faction, or are transformed into mermen and mermaids, is a secret which will never be known until they come to the surface at the summons of Gabriel's trumpet. When the Sea Bird was lost in Lake Michigan iu three hun dred feet of water two bodien out of one huudred lost only were rescued. When the Lady Elgin was lost in eighty-six feet of water only a few miles from the first disaster, every body out of four hundred and over was finally rescued. MAMMOTH LOBSTERS.— A lobster, sup poscd to be 1(M) years old, was recently caught on the coast of Maine. It was 48 inches in length, and weighed 28 pounds. A London paper not long since re{>ortod one us having been taken 38 inches long, weight 15j pounds. In 1855 one was taken on the Irish coast weighing 28 pounds; and in 1836 an Irish lobster was taken which weighed 36 pounds. All these lobsters were said to be as good as they were great. Term*: a Yoar, in Ad Vnntlon* la the I'sper*. We have just taken up at random one of the New York daily papers. Of course ; it cou tains the usual standard captions such ss "Horrible Murder," "Awful Casualty," " Unknown Huictde," etc. lad us run the eye along, and ace what this small single sheet offers t the pub lie to-day; " A Man Boiled Abye;" "Cholera and Rinderpest;" "Outrage on an English Actor;" "Hend yonr Children out of Una Furnace;" " South Orster Bav Tragedy;" "Found in s Well;" "No Clew to the Mysterious Murder;" " Unwholesome Meat;" "The Outrage of the Day;" " A Monstrous Attempt;" "Pest Ship in the Lower Ray;" " Burglars' latest Dodge;" " In tarnations] Cock Fight;" " Arrested for Murder;" " Killing of Morrison;" Sheriff Street Tragedy;" " Muiclde of an Unknown Woman." But we pause, though not tiecause we have come to the end of the list These headings are actual IT taken from a city daily which lies before ns. Nor is the rem ling mat ter presented specially unlike what many other papers contain. It is the fashion to gather np as many sensation al items as possible. It would seem that a newspaper of the period to meet the popular taste, must contain a large variety of horrible dishes, served np with all manner of condiments. We turn away from the dreadful record im pressed with The conviction that the world ia constantly growing worse—that crime is rapidly increasing. Good old people shake their heads, and say it was uot so in their day. But before we de- 1 spairiugly yield to the belief that the moral tone of the community has hope lessly degenerated, let us consider the great increase in population within the Fast half oeuturv —that much more ia j done nowadays than in the days of oar ; fathers, not of evil only, but also of | good, and that the natural tendency of the rapid increase of journalism is to bring before the public whatever hap pens. Remembering these tilings, we may feel that the whole world is not quite hopelessly bad. Yet it is most uufortunste that so marh publicity is given by the press to details of shame less and atrocious crimes. Our news paper* are thus rendered both unpleas ant and unsuitable for family reading. The finer sensibilities of ths community are blunted, the constant reader be comes disgusted or demoralized. Can 1 not a higher standard be raised, and public sentiment be gradually educated to give hearty approval and support to ! s purer journalistic literature ? Hijrta Life in Yellow CoTtn. It l( re mark able that the principal characters in cheap literature invariably ticking to the very highest ranks of so ciety. Sometimes the hero is a poor man; but, in that case, he always turns out to be a nobleman eventually. Even Mr. Disraeli's novels pale their ineffec tual fires before the glow of more than ducal magnificence which pervades the pages of these serials. Social rank is recognised as being s very serious mat ter, too—s thing not to be trifled with. It is all very well for an ex-Premier of England to apeak of baronets by their surnames only, and of lords with sim ilar familiarity; bnt no *uch flippancy can be permitted here. The name and title ahould be given in full. It ia a large sounding name, with pleatv of syllables in it—auch as " Sir de Mont morency l'lantagenet " —so much the better, "and the whole abould be repeat cd everv time the person in question ia referred to—thus: "Lord Reginald Fitzalan gazed fixedly -in Lady Mabel de Vavaaeour for some minutes before either spoke." 'Everything that can keep up the aense of au aristocratic at mosphere is carefully dwelt upon. Chocolate is handed " in a cup worth a matter of forty guineas or so." The faithless lover leans his heated brow upon "the elegant marble mantel piece," and the damsel whom he has be trayed buries her sobbing fsce in " the soft cushions of crimson velvet." Everybody is in a chronic state of eve ning drees. According to some of the engravings, the ladies wear it in the day-time, and even make rowing excur sions in low bodices. But the engrav ings are not always to be depended on; in fact, there is a*slight suspicion of the occasional use of old blocks, which have already done duty in another capacity; for a "ship's cabin sometimes presents astonishing dimensions, and appears to have its roof supported by large marble pillars. Perhaps, however, this merely arises from s vague desire to impress the importance of the hero's social po sition upon the mind of the reader. Tbf Staff of lloroo*. Some incident* of the late fire at Michigammi and Hour Mine*, Michi gan, are thru relate*! by a paper pub lished in thcvicinitv: "It was in the neighborhood of the powder and nitroglycerine magazines that the great danger lay. Had they exploded, the loss of life would haire l>een fearful, and in the effort* to avert thia new dan ger, great courage was displayed. Dr. Cobb, the old-time fireman and Fire Commissioner of Detroit, now Superin tendent of the Spur, after finding ad efforts to save tno stable and other buildings near vain, turned hia atten tion to the powder magazine, and with buckets of water extinguished, several times, fire that had already eaten its way through the first layer of board, covering some one hundred kegs of powder. Under the Michigammi mag azine (containing about one and a-quar ter tons of nitroglycerine, and eighty kegs of powder, eight of which were open) located iust below the miracu lously saved mill, and set over the lake, the high water of last spring had depos ited a quantity of drift-wood, dry as powder then, which repeatedly caught fire, and was as often put out by Cap tain Curly, assisted by a single Swede, who nobly stood by him, and crawling under the building, the two threw out the burning wood with their hands. Homc-Madc Horse-rowers. The cheapest and best way to make a horse-power for dairy and other light use, is to put a light drum on a center post, high enough to have the belt clear the horse's bead. Attach a sweep ten or twelve feet long to the oenter post, so that the track in which the horse walks will be from twenty to twenty fonr feet in diameter, if possible. Let tlie track be soft ground. The whole arrangement may be made of white pine, except tho sweep, which should be nani wood. Let the drum be about ten feet in diameter, and aix inches face. Use a two-inch rubber belt. Make a small pulley from four inches to a foot in di ameter, according as you want fast or slow motion. If you want the motion still faster, gear up with a second belt and set of pulleys. The direction of motion may be changed by a quarter twist in the same belt, or by passing the first belt over idler pulleys. This arrangement will be almost noiseless, while the clatter and jar of a circular platform would be enough to drive a nervous or sensitive person al most crazy. Besides, it is much easier and safer to teach a horse to follow a circular path than to keep hiß balance on a revolving platform.—Cbr. Country Omtleman. . Milwaukee manufactures $2,500,060 worth of beer annually. NO. AM KRIPTIMM Plagvr. A telegram ' rwm l ow * announcing the pnMBM of i large army of grass hoppers on the wing will not * pleasant new* to the farmer*. The American home of the** herbivorous tribe* aaetna u> lie in New Mexico, Alisons, Colorado, and Utah, on whose arid, dusty roil they multiply in immenae number*. From these districts, it would appear, the present multitudes Loraiing over lowa hare been waited in the winda of sum mer. The July report of the Agricnl tural Bureau state* that the Colorado IteeUe haa advanoed eastward to New York, and haa appeared in devastating i force through the West. The inraaione of theae myriad derottrera of the preeioua fruits of the earth, like the uoiay march of the locust hand*, hare been at time* attended with the moat serious consequences to the land, such aa famine and pestilence. Though ap parently feeble foea to tbe autumnal harvest, they are not to be despised, aud tbe entire agricultural community ahonld be on their guard and be pre pared for their arriral, especially aa ex- Grience ahowa that their advance may checked and their ranks thinned . Grasshopper* do not belong to the same family aa the locusts, but they are eery nearly consanguineous, and when they begin their devastations early in the season are exceedingly deadly to vegetation. They hare not the power to leap ae high nor to sustain so long a flight aa the locust, and hence it is, perhaps, that they frequent and prey upon tbe grass and herbaceous leaves rather thaa on tbe learea of the higher trees They hare no particular habita tion, but are found in almost all coun tries ; though in many districts they hare a green color and elude observa tion, not being distinguished irom the foliage and grasses. In the tropica ao bright and highly ooloied are their delicate wings that the? become con spicuous. In the West Indies a species of grasshopper lias been justly charged with the destruction of tbe sugar cane crops, and it ta not impossible that in this country theae leaping preyer* on vegetation may become equally dan gerous. The European species are im mensely prolific, laying, it is said, more than two hundred eggs. Fortunately, it generally bspprfna that theee swarm ing armies of the insect world do not acquire their voracity and numbers till near midsummer or afterwards, when the vegetation has become too hardy or far advanoed to be fatally injured. Their numbers, it is contended by skil ful and experienced agriculturists, may be vaatlf diminished by a little labor. When the treea and shrubs an exam ined in spring or winter, the eggs are often found in large quantities, and theae can be easily removed and de stroyed. It is also asserted that by sweeping over the foliage and grass with a light net early in the morning, while the lnsecta are yet inactive and not aa sprightly aa during the beat of the day, thousands of them can be caught, and, when scalded, afford fine and palatable food to tbe poultry and I "ft e clouds of grasshoppers reported as hovering over the oountry around i Sioux City, lowa, probably made their , way thither from the dry plains and the hotter regions of the Southwest. In 1854, and they had penetrated in summer from the Went : around tbe northern part of this State, and ravaged the pastures. Although . some of theae insects have been seen on Long Island this season, it is not likely that the army, now in lowa, can move m maste across the barrier of the Alrghany Mountains into the Middle States. i Hammer Slide Dews Hill. Any one desirous of sliding down hill in the summer time, says a Minne apolis paper, may gratify that desire at the falls by a scoot down the apron. How nicely it can be done was illustrat ed bv a coupls of tourists, without any "guide," and also by their driver. Theae gentlemen were much interested in all they saw about the falls, and es pecially in the torrent of water shooting over St. Anthony's best apron. To ob tain a better view they ventured out up on the dam extending from tbe plat form. About an inch of water runs over this dam, shoots down the apron with great velocity for the dis tance of 150 feet, until it strikes the timber-bed running out level for twenty or thirty feet, and then dashes into a regular whirlpool that froths and foams among the rocks. Unfortunately fur the tourists the coffer-dam was thickly rosted with a green, slimy substance, mating one of the most slippery foun dations imaginable; and in less time than it takes to tell it, their " feet were gone," and a couple of dark streaks were visible ss they went down the tdimy apron like * special telegram. Spectators feared they would be dashed upon the rocks and instantly killed, but, luckily, they managed to stop themselves on the timber-bed before spoken of, and were promptly rescued. They were sorry-looking subjects, how ever, covered sa they were by the de posit wiped up from the dam and apron, and were " wearing of the green" in ths fullest sense of the word. Their driver subsequently attempted to re cover an retry hat from the dam, and lacking apron-strings, be, too, indulged in an unexpected trip down the inclined plane, was fished up, sponged, and the parties started for St Paul, feeling that it was not good for them to be here. i Curious Story. Ssya tbe Sandy Hill Herald : Lent F. Harris died at Patten's Mills, in this town, on the 11th inst, st the advanced age of seventy-six years. He was born and lived here all his life, and for the last fifteen years had been au invalid, and during all that time was nursed by his wife. Mr. Harris was the second husband to this lady. Her first was ltev. William Rider, who was well known to many of our older citixens, and he, too, for fifteen years preoeding his de mise, was an invalid, and in like man ner was cured for night and day by his wife—the present Mrs. Harris; so that for thirty years of her life she has nursed the sick night and day, winter and summer. Rider, in his early days, was a "hard case," but a Tory trifling incident changed the whole course of his life. One day witnessing a baptism in the Half-way Brook, when he was a young man, he scoffed at the ceremony, and said it was ."all a humbug." A friend corrected him, and told him it was practiced as long as Christianity ex isted, and had the best scriptural au thority besides. He was incredulous, but cutting off a willow twig with his pocket-knife, remarked— "l'll plant this Bapling in the sand, on the island yonder, and if it grows, then will I believe in baptism; if itdon't, thenit'B alia humbug.' The branch was anxiously watched by the scoffer, day by day, and to his sa tonishment it did grow, and finally be came a vigorous tree. Rider was as good as his word. He was converted, and to show his sincerity was baptized in the same stream, and at the identical spot where the above incident occurred. A few years later he entered the minis try, and was an effective worker in the good oause. The way to force! all common miseries—ws>>M|htftoet. Geometry promise* to be a popular study in the colleges next year. " Home ---sweet, sweet home," as ths bee said when he entered his hive. Why is a nice young lady like* hinge? because ah* is something to adire. In tbe preas and mil shortly appear— Several fine double Olo'ator dtorees. The Tippecanoe Isattte ground haa been fenced et en expense of iB.OOO. A bed marriage 1* like aa electric machine; it makes yon dance, end you can't let go. The Mayor of Hoc* Island, 111., is the richest man in the city end won t pey his taxes. Hartford proposes to erect a 150,000 monument to the memory of its nrst settler*. Tbe Carlist* nre charged with having butchered forty surrendered republican volunteer*. A Lockport girl,who** fetber is worth 70,000, fit cooking on a canal boat to be romantic. The petition of Frank Walworth for a pardon ha* already been handed to the Governor. A well-bred Califoniian ahotn fellow boarder dead, at Vallejo, for drinking out of the water pitcher. Western farmers era driving the en tomologist* frsntic tor reporting innu merable new kind* of bug*. A Wisconsin horse undertook to run ■way with a rasping asaohioa, and loet both hind lags in the attempt. New Hampshire farmer* ale aaid to iM^-CCsSi""" " A Troy maa is spending SB,OOO la n lawsuit about five and one-eighth inches Of land. A circus rhinoceros, while being re moved from e fiet oer et Charlotte, Mich., fell upon e men end killed him. A Bt. Louis man went all the way to Boston to get swindled out of SI,OOO. He might have gotten off much cheaper at botu- A Reran ton household is enjoying sa en of peace. The lady of She house pot her tongue toe fiat-iron to see if it was hot. Twenty-eight Chinese student* from eleven to fourteen year* old, have been . scattered about Connecticut and Mas sachusetts. We paint our Uvea in fresco, Tba •oft mid furile plaster of the moment harden* under -very stroke of the brush into eternal rock. Tha paper-mills •* Poland. Me., no complish the oonjnring trick of pro ducing ovary month 180 tons of paper from VX- too* of rags. We never knew a man to be elected to *a office of tens* who carried horse chestnuts in his pocket a* a preventive of rheumatism. A. T. Stewart is said to be worth $100,000,000, and thinks he would be rich if he bad gone early into the real estate bonnes*. . Tbe sunshine which warms and cheer* our hearts, exposes the week spots on our Bundny suits. That's th* only objection ws have to sunshine. A Chicago editor heard once the words "Sister thou wee mild end love ly," sung et the funeral id an old lady who was known to have been a perfect .vixen. A prominent lawyer of Albany, in fill ing out e cheek for S6O to pey e gas bill for the last quarter, wrote an e oheek es follows: " Half for gas and half for fraud." A writer in a long ago copy of tha Brooklyn Monthly, says : *' The judi cious mixture of printers' ink with the sitenal system tends to longevity and content." Notwithstanding the popularity of the ! postal osrds not aa inriisase has yet come to light where they have been used iin srrsnguig the preliminaries of an elopement Mr. Bailey, of the Danbory Aries, • says Hie females he aaw on the Plains looked like sa Eastern woman who had j * large family, small wages, tone debt, sad a cold cm her lungs. * When two men who s digging a well commence to argue the action of those dissatisfied members of tbe Lon don Anthropological Imtitote who seceded and founded a new Anthropo logical Society, yon may know they are aot attending to business. Tbev have a very fine mocking bird at the' Nashville Post Olßce now, who: doe* tbe whittling for tbe whole eetab lishment, thus relieving the derks from that duty sad enabling them to devote all their time and energies to assorting sad distributing the mails. Colonel T. W. Higginson {formerly n clergyman) says, in the H'onw'i Jour nal: " When a lawyer says a foolish thing in an argument he is pretty sure to find It out; but s clergyman may go on repeating his fookah tkmgs for fifty years without finding it oat tor want of an opponent.** Lexington, Ky., has inosreerated James Turner, who is charged with thirteen murders. He ran at large dur ing the war, slaying whom be* might, and haa been in the same line of busi ness sines. He ie worth quite* fortune, but has kept on murdering from a naturally cruel disposition. A convention of all the Shaw family scattered through the New England states is shortly to be held, tor tbe pur pose of determining whether they are descended from the Shahs of Persia, and. if so. whether they cannot take up I a claim to nr. rectorship in th* pearl fisheries of the Persian Guff. A coroner's jury impanelled to as certain the cause of the death of a notorious drunkard, brought in aver ! diet of "Death by hanging—round a rum shop." In California n coroner's jury, under similar circumstances, rendered • more courteous verdict : "Accidental death while unpacking a glass." . > * t. Aa observing woman says she was never ao much inclined to laugh at church ae Sunday, when, walking down the broad aisle after eervfte, she saw that every woman ahead of her was using her left hand in arranging that portion of her dress adorning her back, and before she was aware of it found herself similarly employed, A stone merchant of New London took it into his head to perform a dan gerous feat last week. Having cut the stone intended for the top piece of the new spire of the Second Congregational Church, he straddled it and was pulled up on it to the top of the spire, where he aided to adjust it in its place. The spire is the tallest in the tovfc, When you see a man who is hasten ing across the street to avoid * team, step on a piece of mud, and lose his balance, and come to the earth, and tear the skin from both his wrists, and smash his head against a poet, you want to shout as quickly as possible: " The more haste the leas speed." Then you want to piek up your feet, and get out of that neighborhood. A West Chester, Pa., merchant set a steel trap in the cellar to eStch rats, and the next morning it was missing. A few days thereafter a boy saw a strange cat enter the roller carrying a piero of meat in her mouth. She want behind a lot of empty barrels, and presently re turned without the meat. The barrels were removed, and there Was a eat eat ing the meat, with one lsg fa£tin the missing trap. A man named Clark, who was put in the Massachusetts State Prison for life, in 1861, on a charge of arson, was par doned out, ten years after, on a show ing that he was in all probability falsely imprisoned, the ooifdition of fiio released being that be should be recommitted if convicted of any other crime, and serve H out his life sentence. Last May he was arrested for assault and battery, and, acrording to tbe terms of liis freedom, was sentback. The case is such a novel if not unjust one, that jui application has already been filed for Mi pardon, on which a partial hearing haa been given, but no decision rendered.