The Werld and 1.
Whsthsr nsT heart b (lad or no,
Thfc inmmfn com*. tho *urat**r* fo,
Tfis lanes (row dark with drlng ISSTM ;
tools* hui| bsnesth tho *****;
Tho sstsr* witbor to tho otiow.
Thus doth tho summer ond and go.
Whsthsr my Ufe ho glad or uo.
Whether my life bo aad or no>
Tho wintora corns. the wintora go,
Tho sunshine playa with baby teavoo;
Swallows build about the oavao;
The loTaly wild flower* baud and blow ;
Thu* doth the wiutor ond and go.
Whether my Ufe t>o *al or no.
Tot Mother Nature give* to mo
A fond and patient sympathy;
In my own heart I And the charm
To make her tender, near and warm ;
Through summer sunshine, winter snow,
Bhs clMpa me. sad or glad or no.
Waiting.
Tbou of the annnv head.
With libra garlanded.
And bosom fairer than the blown *#a-fosin ;
O Spring. in what waste denert doat tlion
stay
Whilst leaves await thy presence to u
--fold)
The branches of the Ume with fowl are
gray,
And all Imprisoned is the eroen*' gv>M.
Come, sweet KnchanUtwa, come
Though, In the sombre we.
Thy star hath lit its crest-
Pale Pbospor, fronting full the wit bored
moon -
Thy violets are eeyuUured in suow.
Thy daisies twinkle never in the sun.
Rude winds throughout the ruined forests
Now.
And silent is the dove's meUxh u* moan
Encbantress, hasten soon
Wliite are the country wars.
And white the tangled mare.
Loved of the oxiip and the creeping thyme .
Bars shakes the poplar on the sullen n.lge.
Cold glooms the spectral mill above the
flood;
Hoarse torrents stream beneath the ivied
bridge.
And lightnings strike the darkness of the
wood :
Enchanuese. bless our eUrno.
So blMMal dewy more.
So freAty-Noasomed thorn.
Gladdens the importumnge of sa.l eyes ;
The day wastes dreanly. through cloud and
sleet;
Over the watered meadows and stark
Tales
The night come* down impetuous ami tleek
And ships and cities shiver tat the gale#
O fair Enchautreas. rise.
Arise and bring with thee
The rathe bad for the tree,
bealin sunshine for the trampled grass ;
Lcoee tendrils fur the boughs which bless
the eaves.
And shield the swallows in the rainy
boors,
The pendent flame# which the laburnum
heaves,
Aad faint scents for the wind-stirred lilac
flowers.
Enchantress, breathe and nam.
Men knew, and kissed, of old.
Thy garment's glittering fold—
Thy radiant footprint on the mead or waste ;
Earth kindled at thine advent—altars
i burned.
And ringing cymbals hade the hearths be
SV :
Bat new. in sunless solitudes married.
Thou lear'st the world unto reluctant day
O haste. Enchantress, haste 1
The larks shall sink again,
Between the sun and rain.
The brown bee through the flowered restores
roam.
Then shall he music in the fro sen woods,
A gurgling carol in the rushing brook.
An odor m the hstf-an bosomed bud.
And dancing fox-gloves in each forest
nook;
Then, come, Enchantress, come.
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN.
" My mother never hal soar bread."
This was a most unfortunate remark,
and Mr. Penney was conscious of it as
soon as the words were ont; bnt this
did not hinder him from going on much
in the same strain.
•* Of oouree I don't know how she
managed it, bnt I remember she used
to talk about setting her sponge over
aight, and then in the morning she was
always up as soon as the girl was. And
the dough was kneaded and kneaded,
and when it came out of the oveu it was
aa white as the driven snow, and as
aweet as honey."
Mrs. Penney's face was scarlet. " I
did my best, John," was just trembling
on her tongue, but this last elaborate
description of the bread-making
modus operandi of his maternal parent
turned the diaappointment she had felt
in not pleasing her husband into gall
and bitterness, and she answered in-
stead in a mocking tone :
"Aa white as the driven snow, and as
sweet aa honey ! I have seen it stated
somewhere that men are not given to
Soch slight coloring,
though, I suppose, is excusable, when
u io*" ia speaking of his mother's
superiority over his wife. Hereafter,
Mr. Penney, if baker' 6 bread does not
suit your appetite, the kitchen is at
▼our disposal to set yoar sponge, and
knead and knead ! and I have no doubt
that when vou take your mess from the
oven it will be as white and as aweet as
ever your mother's was."
Just here Mrs. Penney arose, moved
the baby's chair away from the table,
and, with the chnbby year-did in her
anna, sought the privacy of her own
chamber. Mr. Penney followed.
"There's no need of getting in a huff,
Mary," he said, as he closed the doer.
In this matter of continuation the
gentleman was swayed by two entirely
opposite and antagonistic motives.
He did not like to go to business with
a clond between him and his wife, and
he did want the last word. No doubt
Mr. Penney thought by having the
last word he could dissipate the
shadows be had so heedlessly evoked—
but, of oonrse, he was nnsneceasf nl.
"It is my opinion," he proceeded,
" that if von were to rise a little earlier,
before the dough had time to soar,
yon would have just as good lack as
mother had."
"I haven't slept three consecutive
hoars for the last two months, with
this baby, John Penney; and that you
know as well as I do ; and yet you'are
thoughtful enongh to ask me to get np
in the morning when the cook does,
in order that your whim may be satis
fied."
"A whim, is it, to be careful of one's
stomach! to preler good bread to
poor ! Why, that bread yon pnt before
me this morning wasn't fit for a—for a
—" John Penney hesitated for a mo
ment, but finally it came ont—he really
did say it, reader—for a hog to eat."
Mrs. Penney wae on the point of say
ing something especially rasping, if not
actually insulting, but she wan checked
by a timid rap on the door, and the en
tranee of a sad-faced, delicate woman,
who colored slightly as she noted the
embarrassment of her hostess.
" I found that I could spare you to
day, Mrs. Penney," fhe explained.
" You know I thought I should not be
able to sew for you until next week;
but Mrs. Smith was very ill this morn
ing, and could not go on as she in
tended, so, if you like, I will commence
yonr work."
Mr. Penney withdrew with a single
good morning to the intruder. In one
sense, bad come off conqueror ; he had
had the laat word, after all, and that
was victory enough. Mary wouldn't
try to feed him with sour bread, he was
very sure. " Husbands should assert
themselves sometimes," he informed
himself, on the wsy to business. What
would become of them if they didn't ?
He had been married two yeare, and
housekeeping six months; while they
were boarding everything was as smooth
as oil; but they hadn't more than be
oome domiciled in their own house be
fore trouble commenced. The baby
was sick, and the mother complaining.
Than Mary had never been instructed
ta domestic matters She oould sew,
FRED. KURTZ. KditoraudlVopriotor.
VOL. VI.
and crochet, ami embroider, was very
fond of reading, understood music, was
considerable of an artist, a good deal of
a woman, and with the proper forbear
, ance, and the exercise of a decent
amount of tact, would have been the
best wife in tho world(ao she thought.)
During the days of eourtship, and
the tlrst few months of married life,
she sras the subject of unlimited pet
ting. Her will was her husband's law ;
bnt, after the birth of the baby, ami
the added re.<|ansibilify of housekeep
ing, everything changed. Mr. Penny
! did not, could not, take into considers
; turn that these cores had also made a
! difference in her; that the had changed
also ; she could not feel—wives never
oan—that there was anything amiss
with her—that the cloud on her brow
and the nervousness of her manner
radiated a magnetism unmistakably re
pellant. Hail Mrs, Penney remaiued
healthily sunny, baker's bred would
undoubtedly have satisfied Mr. Penney.
Deprived of the joy he needed, and
had been accustomed to, he turned,
man fashion,to finding fault with what,
under other circumstances, he never
would have considered for a momout.
" You are not well this morning, Mrs.
Penney," said the kind voice of the
seamstress, as the lady nervously
brought out the material she wished
made up.
"No, I am not very well," she re
plied, apparently more to herself than
to her companion ; " bnt I don't mind
so much about that, I nieau 1 could
hear HI health very well, if 1 didn't
nave other things to trouble me."
The pale face *>f the dressmaker
lighted up wonderfully, as she met the
tired eyes of her companion.
"My dear Mrs. Penney," said she
with sadden inspiration, " will you al
low me to express my thought ? Per
haps it may be of service to you. I
have hail a very hard life, and only by
personal experience haTe I ever learned
anything ; experience of the richest and
most agonizing description."
" I wish you would tell me some
thing," replied Mrs. Peuney, with a
quiver of the sensitive lip. " I am
doing the best 1 can, and yet, Mrs.
Harris, I am tailing utterly in aoeow-
Elishing that which is dearest to my
eart—the happiness of my husband,
and the comfort of my home."
* Ton think yon are doing the best
vou can," continued tho seamstress ; j
here yon are mistaken."
" But, Mrs. Harris," interrupted the
lady, with an offended air.
" Wait one moment, and I will ex
plain —prove the truth of my statement
by your own words. You acknowledged,
a moment ago. that yon were not well, !
bnt that this fret waa of small import
ance compared with other things.
Now, I maintain that health ia the
groundwork of all happiness, the be- ;
ginning and end of all progress. With
out health yon can all pro re be a com
panion for your husband, and a wise
mother to vour child, than yonr hus
band could be a good business man
without it. This, then, is the firs'
thing to bo considered. Yonr nerves
are rasped, yonr child is more of a
burden thau'a joy, your pretty house
an unpleasant responsibility, your hus
band seems inconsiderate and unappre
ciative ; and the demon that has brought
about this complete metamorphosis lies
entirely in yourself—your present lack
of a healthy foundation."
"Bat John doesn't seem to sympa
thize with me in these cares," broke in
Mrs. Penney. "I tell him in the morn
ing how troublesome the baby has
been, all he ever say? is, *l# that so,
sis? I've heard mother aay that child
ren are very apt to be cross at that age.
You'd better lie down when the baby
does to-day, and get a good snooze.'
" Exactly," %aid the seamstress.
"Do you ever act upon this advice?'
"No, how can I? All the time I
have to sew and attend to things is
when the baby is asleep."
" Better let things go without atten
tion until the little one is less trouble."
" And then John would find fault
with the disorder."
"I do not think so. Your nervous
condition makes a nervous atmosphere
that your husband, feels aasoon as he
enters it The real difficulty he does
not realize any more than yourself.
The elements are discordant. He is
immediately thrown out of equilibrium,
and in trying to restore himself he
takes hold of the wrong string, and the
resnlt is domestic chaos. Woman must
make the home. There is no way of
getting round the fact. Yonr husband
makes his place of business—makes the
money for yon to adorn the nest with,
which he* has a right to expect com
fortable when he flies to it at night. '
But ia a husband to have no responsi- !
bilitv in home matters ?"
" Yon would not think of finding fault
with your husband because nature had
not endowed him with the means of
providing his baby with tho first food
it needs ?"
Mrs. Penney laughed.
" That seems very ridiculous, does it
not ? and yet it is no more so than the
hundred axd one things women demand
of their hnsbands, that they are equally
unable to give. Woman is tha natural
nurse of the man as well as of the man
child? By norse, in the first instance,
I mean the comforter and inapirer.
Without health you can be neither.
What, then, is the result ? Yon know
as well as I do. Sometime* divorce,
sometimes desertion, sometimes a drag
ging ont of an existence more terrible
than either."
" I wish yon had heard Mr, Penney
find fault with the bread this morning,"
said the little lady, dreamily.
" The bread was something tangible,
something he could get hold of. The
real difficulty was not. Something
needed straightening ont; he tried to
make himself believe it was the bread
be was irritated abont, but my dear
Mrs. Penney, it waa something far hack
of that ; I have no donbt I oonld trace
it by actual gradation ; bnt at tho bot
tom" was the disordered state of yonr
nerves, caused by neglected health.
Get well, and your bread will be all
right."
" Do yon really think so, Mrs. Har
ris ? bnt how shall I get well ?"
"By taking advantage of every pos
sible moment to make up the sleep yon
have lost; by arranging with yonr ser
vant, even by paying her more wages.to
take care of the baby while yon go ont
to ride, or walk, or to make a visit; to
change conditions as often as you
can make it convenient, and especi
ally to arrange to aooompany your hus
band when he desires you to be with
him."
" Oh, John hates to go out alone of
an evening. Last night he hurt me
dreadfully by saying that if the baby
kept on interfering with bis pleasure he
should dub it a nuisance ! Poor little
baby > He wants me to have a nurse;
but how can I trust a stranger with my
treasure ?"
' There it is—as plain as sunlight.
In this last remark you have shown me
yourself and husband exaetly. Your
husband wants you, and is lonely and
discontented without you. He caunst
feel the same tenderness for the child
that you do, so be sensible and not de
mand it. You are divided between
your lov# for your husband and your
love for year baby. You have fretted
yourself into a state of illness and ac
tual discomfort, because you cannot
serve both at you feel they should be
•erred. If yonr husband wants another
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
servant you should obey him, for in this
he is wiser than you."
'• Oh, Mrs. Harris, if you could ouly
live with us!"
After this the way was made plain.
There was a few jars at tlrst, but com
nicu sense, good health, and the good
nature that ooutea of both, arranged all
at last; and Inith husband and wife
bless the sugel that was sent iu the
guise of a aem stress.
The rih*kj of To-day.
My dear air- you with lhat glass of
whisky at your lips, if von were to
see a man go into a drug-store and pur
chase a pint of raw alcohol, and take
that alcohol out and mix it with water,
and driuk it, TOO would say he was an
old guzzler. You would suy lro must
have a stomach like the bottom of a tip
cart. And yet that is just what you
have at your lips; only yonr beverage
is not so pure as his. Yours it drugged,
and his is not.
Time was when mm and whisky and
gin were distilled to a pereeutag© which
admitted of a retaining of the quality
and flavor of the organic material. In
whisky and gin much of the nutritive
matter of the grain was retained ; and
the old rum which our grandfathers
drai.k contained a considerable percent
age of organic saccharine matter. Those
liquors were honestly distilled. They
came from the retorts and receivers just
aa they were going into the market
only lacking age to give them smooth
ness. Cut it is not so now. There is
no honesty in the market. A man may,
bv payiDg" the price, have something
like aii honest liquor made to his es
pecial order; btit he cannot find it in
the market, because if i not therm.
Some years since—tcu years, I think—
I was in the office of a hotel iu Conway,
N. H.. and was there introduced to a
gentleman who was a traveling agent of
Lougwortb, the vine-king of Cincinnati,
aud also taking orders for one or two
Kentucky whisky ban sea. From the
subject of wine the conversation turned
upon whisky. I had saielled of some
which he called pure Bourbon, aud
which had fairly nauseated me.
" Why is it,""said I, in the earnest
ness of entire innocence, " that I can
not find anywhere such whisky as I
used to get on board ship, as Naval ra
tion, five-and-twenty years ago ?"
The agent was for s time silent and
thoughtfuL By and by he uodded, and
said to me, —
" It isu't made !"
"Isn't made?" I repeated, wouder
inglT.
" No," he added. " There is no such
thing a* the whisky of eommerse dis
tilled to-dsy, except to the especial or
der of customers for individual use."
Seeing my wonderment unabated he
■rent on to explain. I qnote his exact
language so far, at least, as important
particulars are concerned. Said he, —
" They don't make it because it don't
pay. The same amount of labor, time,
anil cost of manufacture—of eoursa
barring materials—required to throw
over tier t/arreU of the old-faahioned
Monongahela whiskey of which you
speak, will, with the new appliances of
science, throw over one hundred barrel*
of erudo spirits (coarse alcohol). The
result ia, that all spirit ia thus distilled.
It is then rectified aud diluted, and
color and flavor given by artificial
means."
There yon have it, air. The stuff you
are drinking is not whisky. That eth
er atuff is not brandy. They never were,
and never can be, whisky or brandy, as
a credulons public think them to be.
The organic matter destroyed by intense
distillation con never bo replaced. They
are fooling you, my dear fellow ; ami
you will fool yourself if vou don't let it
alone. If you have a Lead made of
wood, and s stomach of iron, you may
last a few years and drink it; bnt if you
be human," with rapacity for human en
joymeut and hnmau suffering, give this
liquid scourge a clean go-by, and never
return to it.
California Wood-Choppers.
It is in tho logging camp* that a
stranger will be most interested on this
coast; for there he will see and feel the
bigness of the redwoods. A nan in
Humboldt county got ont of one tree
lumber enongh to moke his house and
barn, and to fence in two acres of
ground. A schooner was filled with
shingles made from a single tree. One
tree in Mendocino, whose remains were
shown to me, made a mile of railroad
ties. Trees fourteen feet in diameter
have been frequently found and cut
down ; tho saw-logs are often split apart
with wedges, because the entire mass is
too large to fioat in the narrow and
shallow streams, and T b*ve even seen
them blow a log apart wi.u gunpowder.
A tree four feet in diameter is called
undersized in these woods; and so
skillful are the wood-choppers that
they can make the largest giant of the
forest fall just where they want it, or,
as they say, they " drive a stake with
the tree. The choppers do not stand
on the ground, but on stages raised to
snch a height as to enable the ax to
strike in where the tree attains its fair
and regular thickness; for the red
wood, like the seqnoia, swells at the
base, near the ground. The trees pre
fer steep hill-sides, and grow in an ex
tremely rough and broken country, and
their great height makes it necessary
to fell them carefully, lest they shonhf,
falling with snch nri enormous weight,
break to pieces. This constantly hap
pens in spite of every precaution, and
there is little donbt that in these forests
and at the mills two feet of wood are
wast-<l for every foot of lumber sent to
market. To mark the direction line on
which the tree is to fall, the chopper
nsnally drives a stake into the ground
100 or 150 feet from the base of the
tree, and it is actually common to make
the tree fall upon this stake, so straight
do these redwoods stand, and so ac
curate is the skill of the cutters. To
fell a tree eight feet in diameter is
counted a day's work for a man.—Jlai
pcr'i Magazine.
The President of Texas.
General Hrfm Houston, United States
Senator from Texas, was physically a
magnificent specimen of manhood. |His
dress was extravagantly outre, sugges
tive of both the frontiers-man and the
Indian. He possessed a great mind and
u great heart, and his many peculiari
ties were harmless and endearing rather
than repulsive. His courtesy to women
was remarkable,and he never addressed
one otherwise than ns lady. " Good
morning, lady," waahis invariable salu
tation to any fair friead whom he met
at the breakfast-table or elsewhere dur
ing the earlier hours of the day. He re
sided at Willard's when in Washing
ton, and although his room was replete
with the appliances of civilized life, he
discarded, or] pretended to discard, the
use of many of them. Buffalo robes
were spread upon the carpet, and upon
these lie slept in preference to asing
the bad. He nad a printed poster upon
the wall bearing the words, "My hour
for retiring is nine o'clock." This was
a silent monition to visitors to with
draw when that hour arrived. But it
was the popular belief that the restless
old warrior was in the habit almost
nightly of pacing the floor until the
small hoars of the morning before he
sought repose upon his extemporised
eoueh of suns,
CENTRE HA EL* CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1873.
Au bail) Da) Blot.
Tt* (testers' War In *o XorA t'lly
Many A|i>.
I The " Doctor*" Kiot" iu 17HH was the
i moat exciting eveut in tho annals of
New York etty, the jail figuring eon
suiouously as the object of attack of
the rioters. During the winter ol 1737
and 17 HA, various rumors were circu
lated in regard to a number of dead
bsdtesbavuig been removed by stealth
from, not only the public grounds,
known as the " Butter's Field and
" Negroes' Burial Ground," but from
the mauy private cemeteries of the city,
which, gmuitig strength, aa all rumors
will bv being passed from one to unoth
' ©r, were attributed to the medical slu
deuts, and awakened a violent prejudice
against the entire medical profession.
There waa of course some little foun
dation for the rumor, but the facts at
last became greatly exaggerated, cul
miuatiug iu the most absurd reports, so
that the New York Hospital—a* the
time the ouly one iu the city—was re
garded with "superstitious horror by the
people, childreu and weak-iuiuded
grown persous shunning it after dark
as one would a pestilence.
On the 13th of April, while the pub
lic mi ml waa iu this excited state, some
students thoughtlessly exposed the
limb of body from the window of the
disaectiug-room in sight of a crowd of
Imys who were in the rear of the hos
pital. One of the boys, who had lately
bat his mother, becoming greatly ex
cited, ran hastily home and alarmed his
father bv msistiug that it was bis moth
er's body that he saw. The news
spread like wildfire, and being instantly
caught up by the unemployed c-owds
who were loitering iu the streets to en
joy the leisure of the day, a rush wo*
made for the building, so that an im
mense multitude speedily assembled,
and, besieging the hospital, burst open
the doors, destroying a collection of
anatomical preparation*, the most of
which had been imported from abroad.
Some fresh subjects for dissection were
discovered, which were borne away aud
interred in triumph.
The alarmed physicians aud students
attempted to secrete themselves, but
being fouud were dragged from their
hiding places, and would surely have
been sacrificed to the fury of the mob,
had not the magistrate# interfered ami
lodged them in jail for safety. Satisfied
with their work of vengeance, the
crowd dispersed, and the physicians
flattered themselves that the work of
destruction was over, but they were
miatakeu ; it was but the beginning of
the play, for the next morning the
crowd reassembled with fresh reinforce
ments and avowed their purpose of
searching the houses of the u*p<ctod
physicians. Clinton, Hamilton, Jay,
sua other noted citizens, remonstrated,
assuring them that jiutiee would le
rendered by the law ; and after search
ing Columbia College and several of
the suspected houses, they were at
length persuaded to retire.
In the afternoon matters again as
sumed a s n rious aspect, when a party of
the moat violent of the riaters gathered
about the jail and demanded the cus
tody of the students who had 1HOU
lodged there for safety. The demand
w:ts, of course, refused, for to have
complied with it would have l>ecn to
deliver the victims over to certain and
immediate dest.*uction. Alarmed at
the hostile demonstration and the ex
tremely threatening attitude that they
had aasnmed, the Mayor, James Dnane,
promptly called out the militia, and,
about three o'clock, dispatched a small
party te the defense of the refugee*,
which was suffered by the mob to paas
without molestation. A reinforcement
of twelve men, however, who were dis
patched to their aid an hoar after, were
arrested and disarmed In-fore they
reached the jail. Elated with this sac
cvas, the mob next attacked the build
iug, but were beaten back by the hand -
ful of militia who had been first sent
tliere, and who maintained thir ground
against desperate odds.
The alarm spread throughout the
city, which became a scene of intense
excitement, as the mob being unable to
force the jail, tore down the fences and
broke the windows, vowing destruction
to every medical practitioner in the eity.
The crowd abont the building increase.!
every moment, and the ]>osition of
affairs became alarming, when slont
dnsk tho Mayor marched with a large
body of armed citizens to the relief of
the\>esiegcd, while all the friends of
law and order hastened to the spot and
vainly exerted their eloquence to allay
the tempest and prevent the shedding
of blooa, bat thev were assailed in re
ply by a volley of stones and brickbats,
one of which* struck John Jay (after
ward Governor of New York) in the
forehead, while he was earnestly entreat
ing the multitude to disperse, felling
him to the earth aud wounding him
severely. Finding all other arguments
in the Mayor determined to fire
upon tho riotera" Baron Stenben, who
had become endeared to the citizens by
his devotion and patriotism, interposed
in their behalf, and implored the Mayor
to desist, but before he could finish the
entreaty, a stone whizzed through tho
air and laid him prostrate. "Fire,
Mayor, fire !" cried he, before he had
touched the ground. Duauo no longer
hesitated, the order was given ; the
militia obeyed and a number of the
rioters fell at the first volley, while tho
remainder dispersed without waiting
for the seeond. Five persons were
killed in the fray and several seriously
wounded. • For some days tho militia
guarded tho jail, but no other attempts
were made at violence. Tho offending
students were sent into the country for
s time, and public excitement became
by degrees allayed, but the venerable
hospital became for a time invested by
the populace with a sort of horror, and
was made the scene of many a fearful
resurrectionist legend.
A ludicrous incident, illustrative of
the height of popnlar fury, occurred dur
ing the riot, which was nearly attended
with disastrous consequences. While
the excitement was at its height a party
of rioters chanced to pass the residence
of Sir John Temple, the resident British
Consul at New York, and mistaking the
name of "Sir John" for "Surgeon,"
attacked it furiously, and were with
difficulty restrained "from leveling it to
the ground, but their mistake being
made apparent to them, they were in
duced to retire.
Dr. Aiam Smith, in a paper read be
fore the London Society of Arta, rec
ommends the nse of tea in the follow
ing cases ; After a full meal, when the
system is oppressed ; for the corpulent
and the olu ; for hot climates, snd es
pecially for those who, living there, eat
freely, or drink milk or alcohol; in
cases of suspended animation ; for aol
diers who, in time of peace, take toe
mnch food in relation to the waste pro
ceeding in the body ; for soldiers and
others marching in hot climates, for
then, by promoting evaporation and
cooling the body, it obviates, in a de
ree, the effects of too mnch food, as of
too great heat.
T<re little boys at St. Cloud, Minn.,
lately amused themselves by flll.ug a
schoolmate's mouth with snow ami tying
a handkerchief around his jaws to keep
thom shut. The Jury returned a ver
dict of "playful homicide."
"Molly DarlingV Marriage.
M. 11. It. writes from the metropolis
to tho Ht. Louis /{< pubttean that this is
tho season of weddings, aud suys: "To
my delight, the girl who sings ' Molly
Darling' was married in groat state one
afternoon this week. Parcels began to
arrive iu dense numbers; improvemeuts
to the house, such as revariushing the
front door aud acrapiugthe stone steps,
ensued; and thou came the caterer with
curt* full of truck. Processions of dar
kies rushed iu and out, and a marriage
bell came down the streotborue between
two men. Molly Darling is something
under six feet, and fat as a bean-pole,
and every now and then she would look
up at one of the upper panes in a win
dow. Then the lost pyramids of jelly
and more ice-cream and bouquets ar
rived, while an excited-looking darkv
brought out a roll of carpet, ami with
wooden wedges put it dowu upon the
steps, hut found it would not reach
quite to the lost one, and had to take it
all tip again.
" Meantime great nerroiisueas con
tinued iuaule; lace curtains suspioious
lv wiggled, and a nose appeared at the
toor. Darky got more carpet -I we
hacks came—wild excitement—mokes'
heads at all the basement windows and
dctarhmrnta looking out from the
' airey ' door. A slight lull took place,
but a small boy tore up the street aud
left at the vibrating front door a note,
and trembled. Waa he sink? Had he
re]ieuted ? My anxiety became almost
unbearable, as in quick succession I
saw a party of heads gathered as if iu
consultation. I took down my bonnet.
1 know a most accommodating young
man, upon whose tender heart I think
I could bring mush influence to beat. I
waa going over to propose my aeekiug
lum aa a substitute, when on foot dowu
the street, wild of eye and bearing a
large carpet-sack and a small porte
monkey, lie came.
" The doors opened wide; three stal
wart brothers, white-kiddej, claw ham
mered of coat-tail, aud tremendously
curled, grasped the preserver of the
family. He disappeared, and I took a
moment's rest, satisfied the proceedings
would proceed now the must important
party had arrived. More carriages.
Tli© brothers, with crush lists, flew io
sll directions; so many orders were nev
er before given to so few people; and
then each brother dove in aud reap
peared, lteariug immense bundles of
white tsrletan, covered with vines and
brtslhug with flowers. These were the
bridesmaid*. Three carriages drove off
and theu into a fourth went the bride,#
tail of white satin streaming up the
steps and out of sight into the hall.
The long bride got in the wagon, and
an effort was made to put the train in
after her, but it was hitebed back in the
house somewhere. The brother flew
tip the steps to detach it, caught his
foot iu the bridal veil and tumbled his
length. The bride's bead waa twitched
half off, but the brother grappled th
resisting train and came back and piled
it in the carnage till the discomfiture of
the lady waa coneeeled behind it. Then
came the bridegroom-elect with Molly
Darling's ma. To attempt describing
that antique piece of gurgeoasnesa is
beyond my ability, bnt as they had the
boily right the procession moved. In
twenty minutes all returned, and by
the order of march I perceived that girl
was off mv hands at last. I never felt
i-asv till the Saratoga trunk, the carpet
sack, and the porte-monkey came down
the steps, my two yards of new married
woman following, in the regular bridal
advertisement traveling suit, poarlgrsT,
with a white grenadine veil. All doubt
vanished aa the meek little man came
after, and a shower of No. 10 slippers
brought up the rear.
"Good-by, Molly Darling. There
was a good deal of vou to go away all at
once. I trust you'll be happy and pas*
a pleasant honeymoon; but if you sing
Molly Darling," mar the arm of your
husband be raised against yon, and
may he be strengthened to avenge my
wrongs. *
ftlrk Headache.
The true cause of the sick headache
lies deep in the patient's idiosvncmsv,
and is developed by a hundred different
causes. The advice then, to sufferers,
is to give as much tone aa they ean to
their nerves oy adopting all those
methods which "experience has shown
to be good, and then avoid, as far aa
practicable, all those cause* which are
known to excite an attack. I need
scarcely describe a sick headache ; one
rises in the morning more dead than
alive ; perfectly unable to swallow the
smallest particle of food, and often,
perhaps, actually aiek ; how the head
throbs, and the pain increeaca by the
slightest movement; how speakiug or
doing is a burden lieyond bearing; how
one prays to be left alone in the utmost
quiet, "so that he may, if possible,
sleep. To other persons the sufferer
looks extremely ill, very pale, dark
around the eyes, and with contracted
pnnil. To himself his head feela hot,
au<l the application of oold is moat re
freshing. The clammincM in the
mouth, the nausea and general gaatrtc
diatni bancea are secondary, and have
no connection with any improper meal,
and thus is in no way relieved by the
too frequent and Ignorantly adminis
tered purgative. This is not needed,
sad hns no good result. The only
remedies which are of any avail, are
those which act on the nervous system,
such as hot ten or coffee ; or, after the
stomach is quieter, and the more
urgent symptoms have passed off, a lit
tle wine or ammonia. If the headache
takes more tlio form of hermicrania,
then remedies are occasionally useful,
as the bisulphido of carbon, or gnlvan
ism, and internally the bromide of
potassium. This is the only drug
which I have really aeen to lie service
able. Whilst the nausea exists, and
the worst symptoms prevail, even thia
remedy is oi no avail.
Courting.
Justice, though blind, is always beau
tiful. So is a Justice of the Peace
when his head is perfectly horizontal
and his heart is tender. Btieh is that
mild-minded magistrate of Guthrie
county, la.,who has just made a decis
ion in the case of a parent who sued
his daughter's wooer for kicking him
ontof his own parlor. It waa held by
the Court that courting ia a necessity,
and must not bo interrupted; that a pa
rent has no legal right in a room where
courting ia going on. This, however,
leaves open the question whether a
father in the exercise of proper parental
authority may order his daughter, still
domiciled in his honse, to go to lied at
nine o'clock; and whether he ia bound
to find fire and light for the conveni
ence of the enamored.
COLI> Qt'AßTKns.—On the arrival at
New York, a fow days since, of the
steamer Southampton, from Jcraey, the
ngent observed a cat's tail protruding
from the ornamental star on the paddle
box. On elimination, the ship's cat
was found to be inside, half dead from
cold and wet. It is supposed that the
animal got into tho paddle-box before
the boat left Jersey in search of rats,
and, on the wheel beginning to turn,
jumped on a piece of board one-half
inch thick, te which she clung during
the voyage, the wheel revolving about
four inphts from her noee. Poor puts
WM promptly RESCUED
One Hundred Years Ago.
To the Stated Mote of the Port of
Arte York, and aU ot/wri who it
nut# ronctm :
GKNTI.ZMKN : We need not inform you
that the ship is hourly expected with
the tea from England which, if - lauded
here, will entail slavery on this colony
and ruin its commerce. No class of
men are more interested in the last
thau you, nor none have it more in
their power to prevent the iutrodnetiou
of that which the tyrannical Ministry
intend as the badge of our slavery.
You are. therefore, called upon to give
the first instruction. The ship cannot
cuter this port unless you direct her.
Acquit yourselves in this as become
freemen and friends to commerce.
Much depends on your oonduct in
this interesting crisis; no lets than
whether you and your posterity shall
lie freemr u or slaves - whether you or
they shall have property or be beggars.
You have hail many proofs of the dis
approbation of your fellow-citizens to
the importation of any article subject
to a duty by the British Parliament,
for the purpose of raising a revenue iu
America. And it's not many days since
you hsve had a very reeeut oue. Y'oa
have, therefore, nothing to fear from
doing your dutv to your country. The
merchants ant) all the inhabitants,
friends to liberty, are concerned in your
giving the obstruction, and will support
you. We cannot, therefore, doubt but
there are sufficient motives to induce
you to demonstrate to all the world
that you will not have the least agency
in the deetruetion of yeur country.
But if, contrary to our just expecta
tions, any of you should l>e so lost to
all sense "of obligation te your country
as not to follow the directions hereafter
mentioned, the vengeance of a free
people struggling for their liberties
await and will snralv be executed upon
you. Hhould you "be told, that the
Wardeus will remove any of you who
may refuse to pilot the ships into thu
port, or prosecute your bonds; they
dare not do either, for they are within
the reach of the same vengeance, and
therefore will not hazard their own
safety ; ao that you are secure in the
approbation of your countrymen, and
it* the best and only security any man
can have.
Whenever yon board a vessel, inquire
carelessly of the sailors, where she is
from, and if from London, whether she
baa any tea on - board ; for the captain
of tlieiezahip may conceal it from you.
If the sailors were not ou board at the
luading of her, and cant inform you,
inquire of the captain. If he is un
willing to tell you, rsut assured the tea
is there. In this case, or your being
informed, that the tea ia on board,
bring her to anchor in Sandy Hook
Bay, and no farther, where ahe may be
supplied with any provisions, or other
articles elie may* want for her return.
Upon her anchoring, quit her imme
diately, and make the best of your way
to this eity, and inform the citizens of
her arrival. Y'oa sho'uld be provided
with a red flag to heist aa a signal to
the others pilots, whenever you dis
cover her to be the tea ship, in order
that they may keep clear of her after
you quit her. •
Let ©v*ry pilot possess himself with
a copy of this for his government.
Lauiox.
Nrw YORK. NCT. 10. 1773.
The A khan tec War—Four Villages De
stroyed.
Late English newspapers publish dis
patches Iron Kir Garnet J. Wolseley,
the General ID command of the forces
on the Gold Coast From them it ap
pears that he led a detachment of
troops from Eimma against some hos
tile villages. The sdvsnciug column
consisted of &S0 fighting men. and
sbout 300 carriers. The Tdue jacket*
contributed 27 officers and men, and
the marines ICS officers and men. The
Heeond West India ltegiment furnished
*Jof> officers and men.
The enemy waa encountered in a
dense bush • abort distance from the
Tillage of E**am*n, abont a quarter
past 7 o'clock in Uie morning, after the
column had roarrhrd along a track at
timet through swamp knee deep, and
at other* through high bnah. The
enemy, after a abort action, gare way,
and were then dislodged from the Til
lage by the uae of ahella and rockets.
Kssaman waa captured and burned. A
large quantity of powder and many
gnna were found. A few dead bodie*
were teen, but the nature af the bnah
rendered all estimate either of the
enemy'a numbers or losses purely con
jectural.
Co). McNeil, the chief staff officer, and
Capt Fremantle, the senior naral offi
cer on the station, were wounded.
The deserted Tillage of Amouaua waa
reached about noon, and waa destroyed.
Akimfoo, another deserted place, was
shelled and destroyed later in the day.
While the soldiers were burning Ampe
nee. some eight hundred yards further
to the westward, the Ashanteea flml on
them, wounding a Houses, one of the
native police. Aa the troops were re
turning, quite a number of Ashanteea
moving through the bush got to the
eastward of them and opened fire. It
was returned with great execution, and
the Ashanteea were driven back.
The men reached Elmina abont eight
o'clock in Ihe evening, after a tramp of
twenty one miles, well satisfied with
their day'a work. The casualties
amounted to only twenty-two wounded
officers and men, but two Houssaa have
siuee died. The Ash an tee loss was con
siderable.
The English officer* were not partic
ularly pleased with their native allies,
aa they showed a wild propensity to fire
in the air or at imaginary foes in the
bnah.
Advertising.
There in a class of persons who imag
ine that they are doing very judiciously
by advertising throngh the medium of
circular*. They watter a few thousand
through the country announcing their
huaineaa, and await the reanlt, fully
convinced that in so doing they have
taken all necessary preliminaries to
success. Various circulars are almost
daily to be found on the door steps
and entry ways of respectable houses.
Their fate is * generally, that thev are
either thrown into the street by the in
diguant servant girl, or summarily
pitehod aside by the man of the house
who finds them when he returns home,
and who desires no suggestions of new
methods of lightening his purse. The
use of circulars may, in certain limited
cases, answer everr purpose ; but the
vast majority of those who have made
money by advertising have found that
the columns of a newspaper are the
best and surest, and in the end the
cheapest medium of communication
between the business world and the
public,
KNOWS HIS PRlvan.—A horse con
stantly driven by one person becomes
pliant and like a glove, to that
single hand. It does him no more goed
obo driven by some other, however
excellent a driver or devoted a friend,
than it would do yonr best boots or
g(oves to ba worn by some excellent
.'rieud, philanthropist, and Christian
philosopher. He may be the best man
of his generation, but he will spoil
your fit and your horse's worth for your
driving,
Term*: 82.00 a Your, in Advance.
Gone Into Baufcruplry.
The Journey men Printers' Co-opera
tive Association of New York has filed
a petition in bankruptcy. The editor
of the New York Sun, outs of the largest
stockholders iu the affair, aays :
The association waa organized by
twenty-five compositors, noon after the
last strike of the printers of the city—
their purpose being not only to erect
a dividend-paying institution, but to
show their fellow craftsmen how to in
crease their income without recourse to
strikes. The associate* began by de
positing two dollars a week each in a
bank, aud when their joint deposit* had
reached $5,000 they opened a small
• •Dice in William street, with their
President, Recietary, and one other
member as the only employees It was
understood that places were te be made
for other stockholders as the business
increased ; but as some of them were
earning handsome wages inother offices,
it was supposed that only a few would
become workmen in their own office.
Buch proved to be the fact.
Business men favored the association
with orders until the work to be done
overtaxed the office, and it seemed
necessary not only to enlarge the force
of employees, but also to add consider
ably to the stuck of printing materials.
The association's entire capital had
been invested in printing materials,
and as they had to give thirty days'
credit to their customers, they were
necessarily in debt, and had no ready
money with which to buy the needed
material a
If, as their business increased, more
of the associates had gone to work in
their own uflioe and drawn ouly a part
of their individual earnings from the
common treasury, they might have
given thirty days' credit to many of
their customers, and yet not been forced
to sak thirty days' credit for themselves.
But they employed men who had no
pecuniary interest iu their enterprise,
and those men drew their money in full
every week. Thus they were drawn
into the demoralising credit rystem,
and their indebtedness waa largely in
creased by the purchase of the types
and machinery, which they had to buy
ou time tp make their office capable of
turning out their increased work.
It soon became plain that 93,000 cap
ital waa inadequate to the requirements
of the business, and the capital waa ac
cordingly raised suooeeaively to $lO.-
000, 915,000, aad 920,000. But despite
the associates' beet management their
book accounts more than kept pace
with their strides in capital stock, and
the debts which they were, as they
theught, forced to incur ia the purchase
of typca and machinery at length piled
up a mountain of liabilities which, aa
the eTent has proved, was destined to
crush them.
Meantime the associates looking upon
an expansion of their business as the
true way out of debt, bad leased s large
building in lieekmaa street, and bound
themselves to pay 94,000 a year there
for. They hoped to sublet those parts
of the place which their own material
did not fill, and anticipated a conse
quent reduction of their net rent to
about 92,000. Their tenants, however,
failed, and to this loas waa added the
failure of aome young men whose ven
tures the journeymen had fostered aa a
means of keeping their own business up
to a profitable mark. So their debt was
lifted to 917,000. while their debtors
owed them but 914,000; and not more
than SIO,OOO of that sum was probably
good, and their establishment, which
had cost them 9*0,000, waa not salable
in time of panic for much more than
the difference between what they owed
sad what might be collected from their
debtors.
This was their situation whim the
cloud of the panic broke over their
heads They could collect nothing;
notes wore not negotiable; their credi
tors pressed them; money was not to be
borrowed or begged; their machinery
could not be kept moving: failure waa
inevitable, and an appeal to thelkmrt
of Bankruptcy was viewed as the most
honorable form of failure. The moral
is plain: Learn to walk before you try
to run.
A Child Bride.
While we were in the Court House in
Linn last week listening to the testi
mony in the case of the State vs. Lade,
fer abandoning hia wife and children, a
little girl was introduced as a witness. In
manner and general appearance she waa
simply a child, and we really thought
ought, on account of her youth, have
leen spared the ordeal to which wit
nrwses in a court of jnatice are generally
subjected. The first question asked
by the attorney waa:
" Are you a married lady f"
Our astonishment can be better
imagined than described when she
promptly replied:
"Tea, air."
" How long have yen been married f
asked the lawyer.
•' Abont t#o veanu"
" And how old are you now t"
" I will be thirteen "in December."
In reply to other questions, she sta
ted that she and her husband had not
lived together since their marriage,
and that she waa induced to marry
through the threats of her father, who
had some mercenary object in view.
After the adjournment of the court
we sought and obtained an interview
with the young lady and her mother in
order to ascertain the particulars of
this extraordinary marriage. The
maiden name of this child bride was
Christins Lase. She waa born in this
county December 3, 1800. and wan mar
ried to Michael Frankcwich (aged nine
teen), January 1, 18?2. being at the
time of her marriage only a few days
over eleven year* of age! She stated
to us that her father, by tnreata of pun
ishment in case of refnsual, compelled
her to consent to this untimely union,
bidding her under severe penalties to
state to the justice that she waa over
fourteen years old. We cannot find
language sufficiently severe to use in
condemnation of the brute of a father
who would thus offer up his child as a
sacrifice in order to the accomplish
ment ef some mere pecuniary purpose.
He ought to be driven away in disgrace
from the community which it can truly
be said he pollutes by hia presence.
Chamoit leader.
LOST ms TITLE.—Young Baron Heine
has fallen into trouble in Vienna—in
fact, he seems to be no longer baron.
He waa recently stopped in the Praters
trasse for fast driving, but iu&tead of
slackening his speed, lie gave the officer
a cut across the face with his whip, and
tried to escape. He waa soon taken bj
the police, but a mob had gathered
and he was with difficulty removed
safely. He was tried for the offense of
striking an officer in the discharge of
his duty, and sentenced to fifteen
months' imprisonment at hard labor,
and the IOM of his nobility. Certain
radical journals strongly protested
against the latter part of the sentence,
on the ground that making a nobleman
a common citizen was no punishment
whatever.
Joaquin Miller, in his book about
tbe Modoes, relates that an old fellow
who had been on tbe warpath brought
to him a leather bog. While he tap
ped it lightlv with lus. bowie knife the
blood oozed through the seams. Look
ing at Joaquin the old Modoc eaid,
"Them'c scalpa,"
NO. 51.
Herding Hkery ti New leile*,
A hard ride over the plains and
through the mod bilk Wrought as to
the home stations of the herd. A small
log-house, nearl/ surrounded by pens,
into whkb the sheep are driven when
sheared or when they are to be counted;
the oonutior done generally fonr
times a year. The rams are here sepa
rated from the flock ; in fact, the wanta
of the she-p and uoceesary branding,
shearing, clearing off the ticks, etc., is
performed. The but is a low structure
covered with earth ; no windows bat
with loopholes on each tide for defense
in case Indians should make a raid on
the premises, which does sometimes
ooenr, especially at stations which nte
in tbs vicinity of the Comanehss and
Kiowas. Many n fat mutton has found
its way to their saddle bows.
The flocks usually start oat in the
morning about sunrise ; the goats are
first to move. With every flock of
sheep three animals are indiwpeiiaebk ;
they lead the wey. and can be driven,
when without them it would be an im
possibility to move the flock. These
sheep seem to have inherited e habit of
milling whenever the least excited—that
is, to bnddle together and keep rum.. ;•
ronnd and round the centre. They will
not move from the seeming pivot on
which they are turning. Bat when
gusts are with them,they can be started
in the direction required and the sheep
follow. Bout dimes the flock will follow
a donkey and seem to consider him the
bead of the family, marching along
after him day after day and month after
month.
The outfit ->f a flrat-olaas herder eon
siate of two dockers for euryiaf sup
plies, the teat, cooking utensils,blank
ets, sad the huge water canteen. This
is made of tin and will hold four or fire .
gallons.' It is covered with a heavy ,
woolen cloth, which servse to keep it
cool daring the heat of the day. A
small Mexican pony and two or three
good dogs, with the herder's assistant,
complete the establishment Two sasa
and three dogs will take ears of five
thousand sheep. The wages paid the
shepherds are from ten to fifteen dollars
per month and board, white the over
seer receives twenty-five or thirty dol
lars. At night those immense flocks
gather eloaely around the camp of the
shepherds and sleep peacefully, guarded
by well-trained dogs. These dogs are
mostly of the Scotch Shepherd breed,
and show wonderful sagacity and
prowess in their midnight vigils, hold
ing at bay the fiercest wolf, raising such
a din ss to swsken their mestem, who,
with well-directed shot, either kill or
drive off the intruders. These large
flocks roam at will over the vast plains,
feeding ss they go, never sleeping two
nights in the seme place, except at the
home stations They will feed from
two to ten miles in s dsy, followed by
the heavily laden donkey, and atop
wherever night overtakes them. The
tent is pitched, the camp-fire te soon
abiase, the mees-kettle over it, and the :
sapper prepared. This often consists
of wild tame vis: rabbit, qnail, ante
lope, or deer, the shepherds making it
a point not to kill a sheep unices they*
are obliged., of necessity, to do so.
The sheep have become so habituated
te this manner of camping that they
will not start until after breakfast and
the tent has been struck and the don
keys packed ; then the bleating of the
flock announce* their departure. The
shepherds calculate to reach water about
once is three days bat they often travel
seven or eight. The sheep of this
country ere e email aod hardy race;
I they clip abost two pounds of wool to
the fleece ; the woof ia abort and fine,
and (rem all that can be ascertained
from tradition handed down through
past generations, the sheep were pore
Spanish Merino*, brought from Spain
by Cortex's expedition.
Sheep are counted by shotting then
np in a pen and driving them through a i
narrow opening.
Santiago de Cuba—Pram Sr. ttal
lenga's Letter*.
What a beautiful island is Cnba!
How many regions moat a man visit be
fore be can see such splendid coasts as
s I have lately been sailing along f The
people ef Havana are very proud of
their bay, which they consider "the
finest harbor ia the world and oer
tainiy no one would gainsay its mari
time* and geographical importance aa
the key to the Calf of Mexioa. Bat
all along the southern coast at Ciao
fuegos, here at Santiago, at Guan
tanamo, and on the northern coast at
Xfatanxaa, Nuevitaa, Nipe, and other
■pots, some of them aa yet uninhabited,
there are better aea inlets even than the
Bav of Havana. There are bread, deep,
! ana safe havens, each of them capa
cious enough to shelter the combined
fleets of all nations. Ton enter them
through long, narrow, winding ehan
' nels ; yon see the wide, smooth snrfsce
of the* water spreading before you, and
steam np with perfect security trcm I
rocks or shoals, till yon moor along ex
cellent quays and jetties, with the rail
; way everywhere meeting you at the !
water's edge. Wherever you land piles
of hogsheads of sugar are ready for ex
portation those hogsheads which
vielded $108,000,000 last year, and
■ which bid fair to exceed even that sum
at the present Reason. At every station
is you travel inland " King Sugar"
takes up all available space; and in the
! rear of the line on both sides you have
the cane-flafcls, and in the midst of them
, the smoke of the steam engine, crush
ing, boiling, refining more sugar. La
j bnr and industry are the friends of the
picturesque, and vast tracts of the
island brought under cultivation are
either dead level or slightly undulating
ground. But here and there, especially
on the southern and western coasts,
nature baa not been unmindful of
beauty. The valleys which oome down
to Matansos, the rugged mass of hills
rearing their summits above Trinidad,
have enough to cbarm the eye, while
the long ridge of the Sierra Maestra,
sloping down to the ooast, wild and
lonely, from Cape Crux to Santiago,
Gnantanamo, ana all the way to Punts
de Maise, may well challenge the ad
miration of a beholder familiar with the
grandest scenery of the Mediterranean
coast. _
" The Iron-Clad Fleet.
A list of the iron-clad fleets of the
European powers has been recently
published abroad, and it ia believed
to be From this it appears
that of nine principal powers mention
ed, Spain has the smallest number of
vessels of thiß dsns, having only ten
iron-clads, with 154 guns. England has
for aervioe on the high seas thirty-eight
iron-olada, with 595 guns, and in her
coast fleet twenty-threo iron-clad Tea
sels and floating batteries, with 102
guar. Russia has for service on the
high seas nineteen iron-clads, with 154
guns, and in her ooast fleet thirteen
iron.elads: with 94 guns. Franoe haa a
sea fleet of twenty-eight iron-olada,
with 316 guns, and a coast fleet of
thirty-six iron-clads, batteries, and
rams, with 268 guns. Germany has a
sea fleet of nme iron-olada (some of
them not yet completed), with 106
guns, and s ooast fleet of two iron
olada. with 7 guns. Austria has a aea
fleet eleven iron-oladi, with 182 guns.
Italy lias a sea fleet of fifteen iron
clads, with 168 guns. Turkey has flf- I
teen iron-dads, with 116 guns. The i
Netherlands have twenty-tw# armored ;
vassals, with 114 guiit,
Item* af Interval.
The rebellion la Guatemala has bean
< suppreeaed.
One of Ute most sncoest "al farmers
in Woodford, Kentucky, ban been blind
for eight years.
A Rhelkbnrg flows) justice has de
cided that slaughtering beef on Sunday
in a work of neeeaetty.
In the difficulties with Ooroa, China
has decided to take part with Japan,
even to the extremity of van.
In December Brooklyn will have a
remarkable wedding. Throe brothers
will load to the altar three ektern
The people ought to know all about
the railroads, for whatever they do tbey
never take peine to oover up their
tracks.
Horace Greeley oooe being asked how
sa editor was to be made, ha answered
humorously, " I gueaa yon had bettor
i feed him on ink."
} The Jersey City T. If. C. A. have
I opened a restaurant for the relief of the
poor, where a meal win be provided for '
■ live eeota.
The Court of Appeak at Albany
adopted a memorial in honor of the late
Judge Peokbam, who was lont on the
Ville da Havre.
There are aaid to be twenty-five bx_>
J red deserters from the United States
regular army, scattered throughout the
Western country.
A plan has been submitted to the
President for s collective exhibition by
the Executive Departments, at the Cen
tennial Exhibition.
If California vintners can make a
profit in sidling their wine at thirty
scute a gallon, how do the poor agents
live who aril it at §lB a dozen t
A girl at Vicuna, Indiana, lately
•wallowed a weep, which stung her in
the throat, and en e died from eufloes
tion on account of the swelling.
"Tea, air; when a man in Louisiana
ft i>ds s stranger in his hogpen he has a
right to shoot that stranger down," k
the deekion of a Louisiana judge,
j A philosopher says that "a true man
never frets about hi plans in toe world,
but jaet elides into it by the gravitation
of his nature, and swing* throe an easi
ly as s star."
Miaa Harsh Savage, of Portland,
wants §5,000 from her mistress, who
injected vitriol into the optio as Sarah
' was peeping through the key bole of
the purlordoor.
The Army and .Vary Journal lifU up
its voice in behalf of mora humane re
lations between officers upd men in the
army, *he mitigation of soldiers'
hard* hi pa, so far m toe abac attention
of officers can avail.
The Hoosae Tunnel was completed
by the blowing of n hok five feet wide
through fifteen intervening feet of
rock. The last blast wis fired at two
is toe afternoon. The aflUr was cele
brated by festivities.
An American gentleman of "collegiate
and professional education," "bighiv
recommend," advertises in the Wash
ington Chronicle that he will give §I,OOO
to obtain any Government position at a
salary of §I,BOO or over.
"Grace Gmawood" antes of toe
late John GL Him an tost too deceased
expressed to his physician "great re
groat and a manly shame fro ranch of
his peat career, and aa humble desire
to live that he might lead n better Ufa.
O. B. Plummer, of Bangor, gives no
tice that any person who shall hereafter
give or sell to him any of those stoma
fanta which destroy self-control nod
arouse that most un governable of pas
sions, the appetite for riroog drink,
will be prosecuted to the full extent of
too kw.
Our .ready supply of gold at the date
of the'discovery of the precious metals
in California was about §3,008,8001 It
■prang up at oooe to §25.000,000, run
ning up to its maximum figure in 1853
of §68,000,800. For the last seven or
eight ymfre it has averaged not fro from
§00,000,000.
The new Roman Oethdtie Church in
New fork city kto be the most expen
sive, ambitions, and atdmidid building
on thk continent; but there k hardly a
city of a hundred thousand people m
the whole European coral jaent that has
not a cathedral built from throe to eight
centuries ago, compared with which
this, when finished, will be second or
third rate.
The dogs of New Tot* State devour
meat and bones sufficient to feed all ita
vagrants, aid the Agricultural Society
of Massachusetts estimates the loss of
sheep by dogs in a single year at 50,-
000, and sesames that the losses from
wild animals, diseases, aid accidents
are not equivalent to the depredations
of dogs, who slso injure cattle and
barnyard fowls.
A German peddler sold a man a
liquid for exterminating bug*. " And
bow do you use iif inquired the man
after be lied bought it " Ketch te bug
un drop von little drop into hia mouth "
answered the peddler. " Pshaw I" ex
claimed the purchaser, "I eouM kill it
in half the time by stamping on it."
i " Tall," explained the German, " that
ia a good ray tea."
A man in North Adams, Mass., had
among other property a fine pig, valued
at about S3O. This nun owed a small
sum to another party in town, who eon
eeived the idea of collecting the debt in
thiswise: He got a third mas to p
, sent the debtor with a small pig, rained
at about SS; and as the law allows a man
hot one pig under certain eireumstao
< cm, the creditor attached the best pig
and got his pey.
We have seen a stick of wood weigh
ing scarcely four ounces fall from a
bov's arm,'and striking on his toes
render him incapable of further action
for hoars afterward, while the same
bov has slipped with a pair of skates,
and striking on- the beck of hia head
with sufficient force to split that article
open, haa not only reached hia feet un
aided, but haa given the boy who
laughed at him one of the moat aston
ishing whalings he ever receive^.
Says the Detroit /We /Vest.- "In
the polioe court the other day, when a
man was about to be tried for assault
and battery, be brought forward hia
boy, ten years old, aa a witness. The
Justice asked the lad if he knew the
nature of an oath, and the boy said his
father had explained it ' What did he
say ?* asked the Justice. 'He said,' re
plied the boy, • that if I didn't swear
that the other fellow struck first, he'd
tan the whole hide off my back.' He
wasn't used on the stand.
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Elopes with His Wife.
Rev. Lewis C. Herman, of Douglass
township, Montgomery County, Pa.,
saya the Beading Eagle, over whose
head at least sixty winters have passed,
eloped with Maria Barto, a widow lady
of about the same age, who resides
near Mount Pleasant, Washington
township, Berks County, and anxious
and interested parties are scouring the
country in -Search of the youthful run
aways,' but up to this time the brave
Lewis and hia gentle Maria have suc
ceeded in eluding their purraers, and
are no doubt spending their honeymoon
in some quiet nook, there in a lonely
cot, the world forgetting, longed only
to be by the world forgot, and revel in
the supernal blisses of two souls with but
a single thought, two hearts that beat
aa one. Verily the tender passion dieth
not About two years ago Lewis was
married to Maria against the will of her
relatives. The marriage was then
afterwards declared null and void
by the Court, owing to the
lady not being of sound mind,
and aha was sent to the lunatic asylum
at Philadelphia, where she remained
some nine mouths, when she was again
brought home ana a close watch kept
over ner. After repeated attempts she
haa at last given them the slip and hied
away with her lover. The lady in
question is very wealthy, owning very
nearly all the property around Mount
Pleasant, from which iron ore is being
taken. Mr. Herman was formerly in
the Ministry (reformed), and had charge
of several congregations in the upper
end of Montgomery and lower ena of
Berks counties