Sweetheart bood-Bjc!
Sweetheart, good-bye! tb fl muring sail
In spread to waft mo far from thro ;
And noon before the fav'ring gale
My ship ahall bound upon the sea.
Psrehsne*. all desolate a>id forlorn.
These eye* shall mis* thee many a roar ;
But miforgotten every charm
Though loot to night, to ntem'ry dear.
Sweetheart. good-bye! one lani embrace !
O cruel fate, true eouln to never!
Yet. in thin heart* moot o acred place,
Tliou, thou alone nhall dwell forever!
And etill nhall recollection trace
In Fancy'* mirror, ever near.
Each omile, each tear that from that face
Though loot to night, to uetn'ry dear.
The hey to Thomas's Heart.
ST WTU. VVRUtTVIN.
Rule with me. Toole Nathan ? • •
I don't caiv if t do.
My poor old hem's in a hurry ; I'm anxious to
get through.
My soul outwalks my body ; my legs are far
from strong;
An' it's mighty kind o' yon, doctor, to help the
old man along.
I'm some a! full o' hustle ; there's business to
be done.
I've just been out to tlie village to see my
youngest son.
You used to know him, doctor, ere he his age
did get.
An' if I "ain't mistaken, yon sometime* see turn
yet.
We took him though his boyhood, with never
a ground for fears;
But somehow he stumbled OTer hie early man
hood's years.
The laudmai k thai we showed turn, he seems
to wander from.
Though ui hi* heart titer* was never a better
boy than Tom.
He was quick o' mind and body in all he dons
an' said:
But all tlie gold he reached for, it soetued to
toru to lead.
The devil of grog it caught him. an' hel l him,
though the while
He has never grudged hi* pareuts a pleasant
word an smile.
The devil of grog it caught him. aa' then he
turned an said.
By that wlnch fed from off lum, he henceforth
would l<e fed;
An' that which lived cpon him. should give him
a liviu' oar;
An' so he keeps ili*i doggery that's next to
Wilson's store.
Bat howaoe sr he's wandered. I've al'sys so far
beard
That he had a sense of honor, an' never broke
his word:
An' his snoUior. from the good I.orvl, alio says,
b4i uudoraiotxl
That, if he agrees to be sober, he'll keep the
promise ev**l
An' so when just this moruiu' these poor old
eyes o' mica
Saw all the women round him, a-ooaxin' turn to
sign.
An' when lha Widow Adams let if a home.-pun
prayer.
An' be looked kind o' wild like, an' started
unaware.
An* glanced at her an instant, an' then at ins
keg* o' rnra.
I eeiaehe* kuew m amicus the tamui'-,oint
had come;
An" he woftfcl We as good a man as ever yet
there's been.
Or else let go forever, an' aink in she sea of sin.
An' I knew whatever eff -rts might carry him or
fail.
There was only one could help God to torn the
waverin scale;
An' I sknlkcd away m a hurry -I was bound to
do my i art —
To get the mother, who carries the key to
Thomas 's heart.
Bhe'a get tin' old an' feeble, an' childish in her
talk;
An' we've no hone an' boggy, an' she will have
to walk :
Bat she would be fast to come. Sir. the gracious
chance to seize.
1/ she had to crawl to Thomas upon her hands
an' knees.
• •••••
Crawl ?—walk ? No. not if 1 know it: Bo set
your mind at rest
Why. bang it I 1 m Tom's easterner, and said to
be bis beet'
Bat if this blooded horse here will show his
usual power.
Poor Tom shall-see his motherin le-a than half
an hour.
JOE.
" Do be a gentleman, Joe."
Aud pretty, black-eyed Mrs. Whee
lock, Joe's better half, knitted away for
dear life on the little red woolen sock,
turning the heel of the onnningest foot
in the world, trying to frown, but mak
ing a deplorable failure.
Janie Wheelock, successful in all ber
undertakings, never could get np a
frown with a moment's notice. Some
times Joe broke it up with a good
natured laugh. She almost must laugh
when Joe did, and sometimes Joe took
it so very serious that it made her eyes
run over with merriment to see his
great sober eyes stare st her, and the
corners of his mouth drawn down, as
they were sure to,if there was anything
tke matter-with Jauie.
Bat the little woman was very mneb
in earnest this time; she meant jnst
what she bad said, and didn't mean
that her big awkward boy should spoil
it by any artful manoeuvre, as he often
did her sage remarks.
Joe took down Lis pipe, filled it de
liberately with not over choice tobacco
from a fanciful bag Janie had made of
silk and worsted long ago, and setting
it a-Sre with one of Janie'n paper
lighters, smoked leisurely, gaziDg into
the dull, red coals glowing in the open
stove.
"It's all very well to say 'do be a
gentlemau, Joe,' but it's quite another
thing to be one. I was never cut out
for one."
" Ob, Joe—"
" Least ways not the sort you mean,
little woman, with a silk veskit and a
lot of fine speeches always at my
tongue's end. It takes a lot of people
to make up a world full, and I reckon
He meant that just such fellows as Joe
Wheeiock should come into it and go
out again without ever aiming to be
anybody ip particular."
It was time now that the little woman
should open her brown eyes wide as
ever they would go, with aoaateraation
and surprise. Down fell the little stock
ing, needles, wool and all in a rosy mess
on the cleanly swept kitahen floor, and
Joe's little woman hesitated a moment,
before speaking, because shs couldn't
just Befctie on tho words which would
most fittingly illustrate the feeling Joe
had aroused.
"Now, Joe Wheelock, (with a little
tremor which frightened Joe), you know
a great deal better than that; it's very
wrong of yon to say things for the pur
pose of aggravating me. You were cut
out for a gentleman, and you are only
trying to spoil yourself, aiming to be
coarse and rough like the rest of them
at the works. It isn't in you, naturally,
to be unkind or rude to any living thiDg;
I only want you to try and practice
civility a little. Don't be like the mill
hands, Joe, please."
" And why not, Jane ?"
Joe Wheelock must be very serious
and determined when he spoke like this
to his little woman, and it was so un
usual, as to carry its full weight, which
was all he wanted. He was not a great
speaker ; in fact it bored him awfully
to talk, and he had made a longer "say
this night to his wife than for a long
time. No one liked to hear agreeable
discussions better than the big clnmsy
sawyer—the very best hand at the works,
everybody said that—but for all his
being able to tell to a knot-hole what
was in a piece of timber and lots of
other curious things, the right words
never seemed to fall into his month,
and he made generally such an awkward,
mess of it, that he preferred being si
lent, by this neat stroke getting up a
b'TIKT). KIMITZ, 1
vol. vir.
reputation for keen judgment and wis
dom which tu Uie tuiuu was more than
simple flattery,
"ion way \ relieve it or not, chaps,"
old Silas Biggs had said out* Mippy,
muggy day, while girding the chaitia
about a monster scrub-oak, " but our
doe he do a deal more of thinkiu', solid
like, than ary other man ou tlie works,
even the master. Ji*< he dou t waste
his breath in gabbiu', like anoKl woman
at a ipultiu', but he thtuka u master
sight, now, 1 toll yer."
Jiv never smoked when in the least
agitated. This was a sign as correct as
that the halo about the moon predicts
d.vnip weather.
He knocked the gray ashes from l-.is
pipe by three distinct taps against the
wood-box, blew into the stem iu a me
chanical way, and laid his little 'com
forter a eonnolatiou in many quiet, if
not lonely hours, behind a blue and
white crockery teapot, with a broken
spout, standing on the shell. No long
er a useful teapot, but the gorgeous
base in Joe put the howelv little
flowers he came across in the old year
for Jamie and little Pips, a small but
very passable likeness of Joe, except
that little Pips was a girl and hail her
mother's big innocent eyes and long
silken lashes.
Joe had been very glad of this es
pecial kindness in Providence—that
Providence which ever presides at the
birth and looks ont for ,the future of
a poor sawyer's child.
There could never be a more perfect
work (Joe's big mind only comprehend
ed machinery') than the "little woman ;
she was simply grand, but if there was
anything about her which Joe particu
larly woudered at, it was her eyes.
They were enough to make all the wor'd
wonder. Joe could see a great mote in
them, however, that was himself, iiow
such twin stars had ever swooped Jowu
from heaven to shine on him, quite
passed his gigantic understanding.
Sometimes an awful fear came over him
like a sudden cloud, such as often pass
ed over the mill and made him shiver,
he loved the sunshine so. This fear
was that the stars might go back to
their exalted place and throw him once
more into darkness—the dense] mid
night of hnman isolation. N"o night
can ever compare to that which comes
to ns when the soul's iarnp is extin
guished, or its sunlight gone away.
Joe aske l very little of the world—
only to be left to himself and permitted
to work out his owu plans—they had
all been for Janie. By and by little
Pips had been let in, and Joe planned
away now harder than ever, thinking
more and talking less than before.
People who did not rightly know the
sawyer wagged their heads to and fro,
surmised dark things, such as domestic
disquiet. Or why the sober face and
tirm-knit brow ? And why should he
not smile at his work like a contented
being ?
Ah, there was where the wisest of the
judges fell short in their judgment.
Joe was far too happy to make a blaster
about it, and afraid to scare it away
from him. He had often remained in
one position an uncomfortably long time
to keep from frightening a blue bird or
jay which perched near him in the cool
dim woods where he was hunting the
things he understood best for the broken
tea-pot—Janie and little Pip's bouqtiat.
It gave Joe a deep cut which made
him hurt in some mysterious place in
his breast when Janie spoke as she had
on this night. What if she had taken
him to be tuat which he has wot, that
which it was never meant t! at he si. uih.V
be, and bad suddenly diseovt rsl her
mistake? Would she love the iiuitatiou
as well as she had the original? If
not—
But the mill hands were all as horest
as the day was long, and he had been
one of them. And proud to be called
an honest hard working fellow, asking
nothing of anybody.
" And why should I not be like them
.Jane? They would any of 'em lay
down their lives for me as I would for
them, well, most of 'em would.
" There's Creighton, a good chap
enough, but we never took to one an
other, and that ain't anybody's fault I
reckon."
Joe had bnt one enemy in the world
and he winced in naming him. Big man
as he was he could never bear to look
on reptiles, nor even harmless toads ;
they gave him a cold feeling, a clammi
ness which was unpleasant, and he felt
in this way whenever he met Jem
Creighton, the engiueer.
But no sour words had ever passed,
it was simply understood between
them. When Joe went to work the
next morning after the talk witli Janie,
he embraced ber more warmly than
usnai, and held little Pips tightly
against his breast tearing himself away
at last with these words:
" I may not be a gentleman, little
woman, but I'll try to be a msn every
inch of me, and that's as much 1 reckon
as was ever intended."
That day all the fiends incarnate
seemed to possess Joe's enemy.
Whispers went round that Jem
Creighton was in liquor and not fit to
handle the engine. The master was awav
on business and no one dared to speak
to him. He was like an uncontrolled
wild beast in his mad fnry when his
temper got the upper hand of him. He
taunted Joe repeatedly, but Joe re
mained silent, He then played fast
and loose witli the machinery, acting
like a bern devil, and compelled Joe to
speak to him.
High words passed, and he dared
the sawyer to rcseut what he had said.
Joe smiled contemptuously at this,
measuring his adversary cooly with his
eyes.
Joe Wheeiock could have knocked
the blusterer clear into tho saw-pit at
one blow, or strangle him as lie might
a kitten, had he minded to do so.
Creighton *' no physical match lor
him, and he determined not to be pro
voked into putting his hands on him.
"Go awuy from me, Jem ; I don't
want to hurt yon, and I shall if I ever
touch you. I could hold you with one
hand if I liked, and yon know it. Don't
be a fool; get sober, and we'll talk this
over."
Creighton let go the throttle and
sprang over a pile of clean walnut
slabs, laughing furiously.
" Here, fellows, look at this great
coward. He bold me, indeed 1 He'd
run for his life if I made a motion to
ward him. Such chaps always pretend
to despise small game, bat big men
never fight."
Joe uttered a growl like a caged lion,
and shut up his big bands spasmodi
cally. He thought of the two little
women, Janie and little Pips. Creigh
ton was jealous of the mill master's
favor which Wheelock enjoyed. He
would do anything to get him out of it,
or away from the works ; in fact, Joe
knew he had on every occasion dealt
unfairly by him, when talking to the
master, anil had served him many an
ugly trick in times past, all of which
he had calmly borne for the sake of
peace and the little women.
"I shan't take your words to heart
now Jem, I promise you that. You
ain't responsible and I woif't hold yon
to 'em, but I might forget that I am a
man and strike you, so you had better
go away quietly now; you've said
enough, leastways in business hours.
Your time isn't your own now ; ltsten
to reason."
" Then you won't fight, Wheelock:
I'll see !"
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Mi tor Mini 1 Vcvpriotor.
lb> made a furious pass at the saw
yer who returned it by a smart ship
H till his open hand ou the engineer's
rod cheek. Jiu< hail eha*Li*ed htm as he
would have a boy, but he never could
rightly calculate bis own enormous
strength. Preighton staggered back
The sub-engineer htllwed to him and
two or tiiree others who saw his danger.
The saw was going rapidly, and iu an
instant more would have toru him liter
ally piece-meal.
Jie gave a great remorseful cry and
sprang between the drunken man and
the clean scantling.
lit another moment he lay at the ls>t
torn of the pit crush Oil ami b'eediug
with one leg useless, and limp, with a
thousand horrid sights in his closed
eyes and a dull shivering and thumping
iu his ears and then all was still.
It was pretty bad for Joe, but worse
for the two kittle women, when Joe
was unable to plsu for them any
longer.
It was a long time to Joe, it seemed
an eternity, that he lay in his darkened
room listening to the whirr and roll of
the restless machiuery which could not
wait for him, and feeling an agonised
sort of relief when it stopped for the
day.
The men trooped up to see Joe every
night, leaving their tin buckets outside
and tretulmg ou tip-toes until he
begged them to walk like the big burly
fellows thev were.
Oreightou came before the rest, and
remained later, although it was hard
for Jauie to bide the sight of lnuiiu the
house.
One day he wore an uneasy look new
to him, and took Joe's bleached fingers
iu his hand awkwardly but firmly.
" 1 never used to think much of yer
Wheelock, yer know that; big as yon
was you looked little to me ; but old
fellow there's more real right down
stuff in yer than any three chaps I ever
seed, and 1 feels it an honor to be in
oompauv with such a gentleman as Joe
Wheelock."
Joe looked at the little woman, the
biggest one, with a gratified smile.
After all he had stumbled un it with
out kuowiug it. For her sake he was
glad that even Jem (Jreightou could
think him a gentleman.
A Luekj Mistake,
Among the steerage passengers who
drifted over to New York from Havre, a
little while ago, was a young French
girl named Louise Dumont. Her des
tination was Newark, Delaware, where
she had a distant female relative living,
in indigent eireumstauoes, and, as -he I e
lieved, the only surviving kin she had
in the world. By some mistake, owiug
to her inability to understand the 1-Lug
lish language, she took a train on the
Delaware, Laekawana and Western
Railroad, and got off at Newark, N. J.
When she was informed of her error,
she bought a ticket to return to New
York in the next train, but on account
of a very remarkable occurrence she
was induced to change her mind.
As the girl sat in the depot, downcast
in spirits, alone, iu a strange land and
almost {windless, visions of her home m
" La Belle France " crossed her mind.
She thought of her mother who had re
cently died, of her only brother who fell
with his father as they fought side by
side at the terrible battle of Saarbruck,
and as she mused upon her past joy*
and present loneliness, she unconscious
ly toyed with a large gold locket that
was suspended by a strong silver chain
from her neck, while tears triukled
down her cheeks.
She was a brunette of the lovliest
type, and her jet black, wavy hair was
arranged with such exquisite taste that
it made the broad, high forehead ex
pressive brown eyes, and graceful, full
throat appear to the best advantage.
While Louise wis abstractedly play
ing with her locki t, there came into the
depot a tall and handsome gentleman,
about sixty venrs of age. He had
something of a military bearing, and
his countenance indicated intelligence
and refinement. The gtri's appearmnoe
immediately attracted his attention,
and as he, too, was waiting for a train,
he occupied the time in watching her.
As he walked leisurely to and fro in the
ladies' room, he came near to where the
girl was sitting just ns she opened tin*
locket and revealed a well-known faee,
that was the exact counterpart of a pic
ture that he had at home in his library.
It represented the Empress Josephine,
the deceased wife of Napoleon Bona
parte. The gentleman immediately
asked the girl, in good French, where
she obtained the picture. She replied,
with much simplicity :
'• My mother gave it to me."
Beqnesting the favor of examining
the locket, hetoi-k it iu 1 is hand, and,
with the greatest astonishment, read
the following inscription :
"Josephine, to Horten.se De Miratel,
I*l J."
" My mother was a Mi rat el," said We,
scanning the beautiful French girl's
features closely, " and," he added, as a
light seemed to flash in upon his con
fused ideas, "she was a sister to lior
tense De Miratel, w ho, for some act of
faithfulness to the unhappy Josephine,
received this locket and portrait as a
reward. My good girl, who are you,
anvbow ?"
I'he child then related her story—
how her father and brother had been
killed in battle, ami that her mother
had recently died ; that she had com
mitted her to the only relative that she
believed to l>e living, at Newark, Dela
ware.
The gentleman then being satisfied
that the girl was his own niece, dis
closed his own name, Victor Provost.
He had escaped from prison when a
voting man, having been incarcerated
l>y the Bonrhona about the time of the
sojourn of Louis. Napoleon in America.
He fled to this country and settled at
Wilkesbarro, Pa., where ho now lives
in affluence, being interested in large
coai and iron tracts in that locality. It
is hardly necessary to state that the
niece needed but little persuasion to
accompany her uncle homo. The ro
mance of her story is increased by the
fact that Mr. Provost has a son, who is
a very promising young man, and that
he immediately became fascinated with
his newly-found cousin.
The old gentleman is in testacy at
the turn things have taken, and has re
solved that his son shall marry the girl.
Of course young Provost hns accepted
this proposition with joy, ar.d orders
for a magnificent bridal trousseau are
now being filled by various parties in
New York for the fortunate girl who,
but a little more than a week ago, was
a penniless steerage passenger in an
emigrant ship.
DOOB. —If you understand dogs, there
isn't much danger from them. I never
saw one that would bito me. Dogs,
yon see, are like men ; if you pretend
to know them, they are not sure but
you do, and at least believe that certain
civility is duo to the doubt. The fact
that you arn't afraid of them, too, has
to both dogs and men a convincing,
peace-making mystery about it.— Owen
Brown.
Anderson, the late magician, has left
a will totally excluding the members of
his family from participation in his
money or effects, bequeathing all he
possessed to bis agents and other per
sons about him at his death. The
testament will probably be oontested.
CKXTKK HALL. CKNTKK CO., LA., TIILIiSDAV. ATRIL 10, 1874.
(' VI 11 Oli \I V II VMM l'S.
I M Htu r|illll> a Krgtilar tutlnll,
Itnfllt and ft on tin lit. la(r, ami
I ulial tltc CstKUKclt.
Tlu' luyo (Ctl.) hal-jt<'nt, nt mvt
the subjoined account of tin' recent rob-
Ihtj of a stage by I hit notorious Yu
que* Mini 0110 other LIMN :
" Hy the Southern stage we have the
particulars of a most uondt rfully tlar
nil? robbery committed by Vasijin r and
one man of hi* gang, which t.>ok place
at Coyote Holes, eighty miles south of
this place, on the previous evening. To
give the whole story requires reference
to occurrences early m the day. That
uioruiug a traveler who had stopped at
the station the night previous with
some stock, went out into the lulls to
lH>k up his animals. Less than a mile
1 out he found himself in the camp of
two Mexicans, who took him prisoner
ami tied him. One ot them said lie was
Yaaquea, and informed their prisoner
that they intended to rob the station
and both the up and down stages, and
ascertained from him, as near as tie
could tell, at what time they would be
along. Soon after, taking their pri*
oner, they proceeded in the direction
of the house, ami while some distance
away met Raymond, the station-keeper.
Raymond was taken in hand, securely
bound, ami, with the other similarly
secured, left on tie ground. The two
rob tier* went to the house, and when in
suitable range opened tire upon it,
tiring somt fifteen shots, bat without rc
sponse. The inmates were told to come
out one at a time ami give themselves
up. This, to the number of mi or seven,
including Mrs. lUymoiid. they did.
But a man known us 'Old Tex.' refused
to eorue forth for some time, until Vs.-
utter went in ami marched him out at
the tauzzle of a Henry ritle. The whole
party were then taken to a small hilt
about a quarter of a mile away, but not
near the place occupied by the two
prisoner* previously mentioned, sml
there told to sit down and be 'investi
gated.' All obeyed with seeming will
tugm-ss except ' T-x.,' who Lad been
drinking just enough to feel it his duty
to be as contrary as possible. Vsequel
insisted upon his taking a -eat, other
wise he would have to shoot hint.
Texas was still obstinate, wherenjKin
the robber fired a shot through hi*
thigh, inflicting a * verc but not nec *
-aril* dangerous flesh wonncL 'Tex.'
gave it up, ami took a seat, and the
investigation was oarrii-d out with
minuteness,hut without valuable rranlts.
The whole party were put on parole
not to leave the spot on pain of being
shot. No other precautions were taken
to insure their quietness, but until the
finale, some hour* afterwards everyone
of them made it s point of honor to
stay exactly where he was put. The
two desperadoes then returned to the
house, and took things with patience
for two hour*, or jH-rhsps longer, but
at the same time not without keeping
an eye on the party herded on the hill.
At the expiration of two hours the ataco
from the south drove tip to the door,
where it was receiv d by tw i robliers.
one on each side. M. \Y. Dolshttw, of
(Vrro Gordo, was on the outside with
l>avis, the driver ; inside, with the cui
taius closely buttoned down all around,
were Craig, of (Vrro Gordo, and Wni.
Fesseuficld, of Los Angelra. llelahaw
and Davis were invited to get down,
and the same invitation wns extend' 1
to the gentlemen inside. To *v that
the whole party were much surprised
and mystified at these proceedings right
there nt a regular station, where a num
ber of persons were known to be stop
ping, would be a mild way of putting
it. Itut two Henrv rifles .-it a pn ■ nt,
and four six shooters at the bonds of
two desperate-looking men, even if !*■
lite, a* they were in addre**, allowed
tiie propriety of first otieying onlers,
leaving mystification for future elucida
tion. All took seats in a row, pursuant
to onlers, and each in turn was re
qu< -ted to contribute something to the
Yasqnez fund, which, • r. itrn, all did
save Davis, the driver, who smuggled
a purse containing s4') into the sml.
Lease ml eu contributed S4O gold, a
splendid spy glass, ami also tendered
some silver, but the latter was returned
to him. He had a watch he wanted to
keep, ami that he managed to work into
his overshoe, ami thus succeeded in
saving it. Craig came out lilwrally, but
the exuet amount of his contribution we
have not heard, iielshaw helped to the
extent of S2O in gold, tine silver watch,
nod subsequently, from his c irjK'bsack,
his new boots. These ceremonies ended,
all save Davis were invited to fake a
walk to a neighboring 1011, which, in
company with one ot the roblnr*, they
did. After being left to themselves to
enjoy the outlo<>k and scenery, this
party saw the larger one aorno distance
away on another eminence, but thought
they were n portion of the robber gang,
so tbev said nothing.
In the meantime Davis bad been or
dered to unhitch his team, and that he
me done, to get Wells A Cargo's box
and break it open. Though not an adept
at this business, Davis was too polite to
demur under the circumstances, and by
means of a bar of iron furnished by one
of the robbers succeeded finally in get- :
ting the box open. Yasqnez examined
the contents critically, but fomid noth
ing lie wanted. Up to this time the
whole amount of their winnings in cash,
not counting watches, would onlv foot
up to about SIOO. Ity the time the ex
press box business was ended two of
IJelshftw's beiivv teams from Los Augel- j
es drove up. The drivers were request
ed to explain themselves,when they,too,
were stationed on the hill, making four
teen persons, all told, thus put on the .
lookout by these two bold freebooters. |
None of these cxeapt Raymond and the
traveler (and old Tex., of course, since i
he was disabled by the shot were put !
under any restraint by tying or other
wise, except the wholesome regard each
and all entertained for their twooaptors, i
or rather their formidable weapons. In
the house at the outset was one Henry ,
rifle, but no cartridges, and a shot gnu ;
unloaded. One of the prisoners had a !
pepper Ihjx, or an Allen deadlcss, or J
something of that kind, but wisely Con- j
eluded it wasn't best to make himself j
conspicuous with such a weapon. All
were treated with great urbanity and
gentleness except Tex.
It was getting along toward cening,
and there being nothing to justify a
longer stuy, Yasqnez took a look
through the stage stables, and selecting
six of the best horses, started off south
easterly, going out of sight a short dis
tance from the barn. Vaaqnez rode
away on bis own horse, his companion
on one of the stage horses, lending his
others between them. This companion
was a short, heavy man, not over twenty
five years of age. The other, claiming
to bo Yasqnez, appenred quite tall, with
cliin whiskers, mustache, and hair, all
inclined to be sandy in color. In com
plexion lie appeared, Have a sunburnt
hue, to be quite fair.
Without further comment upon this
most extraordinary transaction, we will
conclude by stating that soon ufter the
robbers disappeared, all bands in con
dition to travel camo in from their
tations, on the hills, and proceeded to
si t things to rights, anil to relievo
' Texes* and the two men tied down.
801110 hours later the down stage was
met. It contained a number of passen
gers. They were duly notified of what
hud occurred ; but not having much
cash, other than in checks, to lose in
case of an attack, they decided to pro
ceed."
110 KILLED 11(11 ILK!
\ felot) ufa Miutltr lit a •mall
w i• i11 • 111 im \% it.
One of the must perplexing murder*
■>f the age was recently committed at
Manitowoc, in Wiaoonaiii.
Mr. Feehtor wa* a dealer in toys, no
tion*, and stationery. On the evening
iof Ins murder he was at his place of
busiiieaa until nine o'clock, when he
locked up and accompanied his wife to
their home. Soon after their arrival
there a man named Seeger (Milled for a
Ihix of cigar*, and Reenter went with
him to the store. He did not return.
I bout eleven o'clock m the evening he
Minted a livery stable to engage a hack
to carry hi* wife t > the depot early in
the morning, she journeying to Mil
waukee to meet children. Near
the same hour uiemliers of the City
lloatd returning from a meeting saw
him in hi* store door, a fact which ap
jwared singular to thcin, knowing his
prompt habit of cloning at nine o'clock.
There was no light in the store, but
they halted to stw-ak with him, and par
ticularly noted an up|>arent anxiety on
his part to L>e rid of them as quickly as
possible.
With l'cehtcr's wife at home, the
ni|.-Tif wore away between sleeping,
waking, ami waiting, and early in the
morning, before the city was astir, she
started out to search for hrr husband.
She went to the store, and finding the
door unlocked, she hesitated to enter,
feeling at once that such a circumstance
ii* altogether unusual, and indicated
something wrong. At lost she turned
the latch with a trembling hand, and
• here sat Feolitcr in a chair, about the
middle of the room. Hy the dim light
of the morning she saw that he was in
trouble, but still alive ; and approach
ing nearer, found his bead mangled and
swollen, and a pool of blood on the
floor around him. She started back,
and uttered a scream, which attracted
bis attention, and, recognizing her, be
asked what she was crying about.
" This is not BO bail ; you are not a
widow yet."
Assistance was called in, the bloody!
tuaas w ia corned to his home and placed
under the care of physician*. It was
found that he had received several
blows one on the head i apparently the
first one struck) and four or five others
on the forehead with a hammer, which
wua found in the store Itcsmeared with 1
blood, and bearing other vidences of i
having played a part in the cruel boat- i
oess of the night before. The skull j
was broken ir> above the eyes, the brain
was oozing from the wounds, mud it was
canoe for wonder that such fearful in
juries had nut proied instantly falal.
Mr. Feebler lingered till the morning
of the third day after the crime was
committed and then died. When the
dead was discovered and the victim re- ■
moved to his house there were no offi
cers of the law present, and some one
or more supposed friends interested
themselves in putting the disordered
state of things iu the slore to righto, i
and cleaned away the blood before care
ful note of everything hall Iwn taken
for u* in the investigation of the esse,
and thus at the outset a portion of the
clew to discovery was lost. Enough ;
was incidentally noted to indicate that ,
after the attack Feebler had wondered
around the room, feeling Ins way by the
counter*, and finding the chair him
self. The hammer was found on the
table iu the back part of the room, in
the place where it is usually kept.
On tliAt uioruiug a 'strange dog was
seen alxuit the slurs door, mi J attention ;
w:i* called to him. No one could iden- 1
tify him. and all efforts to drive him
away were unavailing. A dog's track*
were seen in the blood on the floor, and
it is certain that the dog was not ad
mitted to the room betwewu the dis- .
coverv and the tune of removing i'cch
ter to his home. When it was conclud
ed that the dog did not Iwdong to any
one in the city the Sheriff took him in
charge, hoping that through him a clue
might 1m? obtained, lie was routined
iu expectation that hunger would com
pel hi 111 to seek his home, but he has
thus fur refused to depart, and is still
in the Sheriff s possession.
During the time lielween the a*a*-
sination uud death of Fechtcr, repeated
effort# w re made to get from him the
name of the assassin and the cause of
the assault, but again and again, in
answer to the question, " Who hurt
rou ?" ho gave the names of citizens
whom all knew could not have'been
there at inl. On one occasion the
Sheriff, who was left alone with him,
said : " Now, Mr. Feebler, it must be
evident to run that you can't live long.
We arv here alone. Now tell me who
hurt youT" "Mr. Smart," said he,
turning his head toward the Sheriff and
speaking in a deliberate tone, " I will
never toll that ua long as 1 live." And
so he died, taking tho seeret to the
grave with him, if, iudred, he ever had
sufficient knowledge after the fact to
have communicated it. and there are
but few among those who saw him that
do not believe lie had.
There nro many throne*, and one is
as good a* another. The only one that
is untenable is that which assert* he
wui murdered for money. He drew
SSOO from the bank the day before, and
it WAR in hi* wallet when he went to
the store. When he was found in hi*
store the empty wallet was in an inside
poeket, over which coat and waistcoat
were tightly buttoned. The money
could not huvc been taken and the wal
let returned after he wa struck with
out making blood stain* where none
were. When questioned he said that
ho gave the money nway. This state
ment he repeated many times. It is
whispered that Feebler was not ex-
Mll| a disciple after Joseph's own
heart; that years ago ho narrowly es
caped u husband's vengeance ; that
there is a woman in the case. Hut no
one says it openly, and those who sug
gest sncli an hypothesis acknowledge
that there is not the faintest suspicion
upon nny one as being directly or in
directly implicated.
The Candidate's ((reeling.
As this is the season when candidates
do their work, the following interview
will bp found intc-esting:
" Howdy, howdy, howdy ?"
" Howdy."
" How do you do ?"
"Tollable."
" How are von ?"
" Tollable.''
" How's all ?"
" Tollable."
" Your folks well ?"
" Tollable."
" How's yourn ?"
"Tollable."
" Neighbors all well ?"
"Tollable."
" How's yourn ?"
" Tollable."
" All for me this tiaio ?"
"Sorter tollable."
Pi'.n null I'M.—Galileo, when under
twenty years of age, was standing one
day in the Metropolitan Ohnrch of Pisa,
when he observed a lamp, which was
suspended from the ceiling, and which
had heen disturbed by accident, swing
backward and forward. This was a
thing BO common, that thousands no
doubt had observed it before; but
Galileo, struck with the regularity with
which it moved backward and forward,
reflected upon it and perfected the
method now in use of measuring time
by means of a pendulum.
lIKiZHU AMI 1111 It Y I'BOIH'iTH.
rill* l*ro*|>ret* (or Itir Kul*r What
'ta> l>t Utint Iu 11.1 VV ajr of ltl.lu*
< attic.
When far ofT Western farmer* com
plain that despite their great eropa of
breadstuff* they make no money, nay*
the New York Ti mrt, they *eem to for
get that cereals can only lie profitably
grown within a certniu distance from
the aee-porta. As price* are fixed by
lite European markets, it i* clear that
in any locality HO far off that the coat of
traiiajHirtatioU added to that of produe
( tiott would eat up the value of the
1 grain, cereal* can ouiy le grown for
j domestic use. None the leas, however,
can land beyond these Well-ascertained
j limits be put to a profitable use. Jn
Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas,
and New Mexico, there lit some of the
finest praxiug land in the world, ami
large tracts of country that, Inderal, are
lit for no other purpose. Where land
is cheap and pasturage good, there u
| lmfdly any farm work that pay* better
than raising cattle. Therefore it i
, that the growth of this busiuews in
Texas, Kansas, and some of the other
district* alluded to, has l<cu very great
recently, and the profits have been esti
mated in some quarters as high as thirty
|wr cent, upon the capital invested.
In tlie near future, this industry is
I likely to assume still larger pfopar
. tioiis.
There is every encouragement for its
growth. Meat is ut a high price in all
the F.aateru and Middle Sun*. l'er
haps the decline in the number of cat
tle, occasioned by the great army con
sumption during the rebellion, baa not
been made good, certainly speculators
and forestallers have greatly controlled
the trade. The transportation of cattle
on tbe hoof from far-off regions might
be so expensive as to prevent any relief
from that quarter, but the experience
of this winter in the transportation of
meat in refriger-tor cor# bold* out
hopes that a supply of meat tnsy be ob
tained in this or in some similar way
from the sufficient in quantity to
lower prices here. If the cattle are in
abundance iu that section, Yankee iu
gcnuity can be safely trusted to devir
the means of getting the meat here in
good order. Even an inferi< r article in
abundant *wpply would lie welcomed us
long as it is fresh and sweet.
liut entirely apart from the question
of a west supply fur the K*t. cattle
might be raised iu the far West fur
their hides. The country can use all
the hairs that can Ins furnished, ami the
growth of the domostie hale trade fur
the last few year#, although encour
aging, has not been a hat it wight have
been. The demand fur leather, both
here and abroad, is necessarily uu the
increase, so that price# can hardly fail
to be remunerative. in the West itself,
there is a constnatty growing demand
for leather for boots, shoes, harness,
etc., which must iuereas# with the
rapid growth of that section and of its
manufacturing interest?. Why should
to re if n hides be sent West, at heavy
transportation charges, when that sec
tion cannot only abundantly supply '
herself, but ahip her overplus to u f 1
There seems to be no reason why, with
s suitable stimulus given to produc
tion. our existing foreign trade iu hides
should not be largely diminished iu
favor of tle home article.
As for dairy products, in both butter
and cheese, high prices stare c >n*um
ers iu the face, and nothiug but largely ■
increac. d production will suffice to
lower U.etii. The cheese factory has
reMjlutiouixed the manufacture of that
article to great advantage, both in the
quality and quantity of the product.
It is very clear that if the hand press
had l>eeu r tamed, we would not have
exported such large amounts of it. The
butter factory seems destined to work
a similar though not by auv means so j
great a change. Many farmers' wives
did not know how to make good butter,
and the difficult* with the butter mar
ket has been rather in matter of quali i
ty than quantity. With a butter fac
tory iu the neighborhood, all that is
needed la to raise and Uiik the cattle;
the factory stands prepared to lake the
milk, and either pay for it or give an .
equivalent in butter made by a careful
Lrooesa. Tlisu' are, of course, draw
acka to fho factory syatem which need
not la enumerated here, and there are
large butter districts where it is a yet
entirely unknown; but it is fast gaming
ground. To sum tip the whole matter,
the grazing interests are being rapidly .
developed .at the West, and there i*
every reason to believe that eastern
farmers are equally alive to the proprie
ty of substituting profitable dairy pro- ;
duets for unprofitable cereals. We can, j
therefore, indulge in a hope that mea', j
hid< s, butter, nnd cheese are lien-after ,
likely to l>e more abundant, and that
the average quality of buticr will be
improved.
Woman's Resentment.
Entire reconciliation, says an ex
change, is difficult with a woman. Slie
invariably keeps certain reserves.
When she has once parted from you in
spirit, she will hardly return. Though
she seems to, she does not. Hhc gives
her hand again perhaps her lips : but
tho heart is no longer in one nor the
sotil iu the other. Kiss her you have
once roundly quarreled with—if it be
not a men? lover's quarrel—and yon
will tlnd the atatne under the crimson
curve, the chill of the marble through
the bounding blood. A keen observer
may determine in society whether yon
have had a discord with a woman you
meet. However perfect tho breeding,
however disciplined the manners, the
past discord leaves a shadow that will
not be lifted. The old wound may be
closed ; it is not healed, nor can it bo
by the highest skill in spiiitual sur
gery. Frequently men like one an
other better after fighting ; women
never, be the foo of cither sex. With
these the bloom of favor is taken off,
not to ho restored. They feel, thongh
they may not say or even think it, that
slight or injury admits of 110 atone
m cut. Woman reads the proverb: To
err is feminine, to forgive impossible.
Farts Concerning Human IJfe.
The total number of human treings
on earth is computed at 8,000,000,000,
and they speak 8,063 known tongues.
The average duration of life is thirty
throe and one-half years.
One-fourth of those born die before
they are seven years old, anil one-half
before they are the ago of seventeen.
Out of one hundred persons only one
attains the age of sixty.
Out of five hundred persons only one
attains tho age of eighty.
hixty persona die cverv minute.
Tall men live longer than short ones.
Married men are longer lived than
single ones.
Rich men live, on an average, forty
two years, but the poor only thirty.
There ia a drunkard to every aeventy
fonr.
FEROCIOUS RATS.—A Bridgeport (Ct.)
man has boon troubled by rats gnawing
at the hoofs of the horses while stand
ing in the stable. The horses were
newly shod, and the hoofs behind
thickly covered with tar. Next morn
ing it was found that the rats had
changed their feeding ground to the
front feet, the hoofs of which were
eaten off so close that they bled.
Poison was plentifully strewn around
the stable, and in the morning six large
rats were found dead on the floor.
'I eririM: Jsi'-2.00 ft r ear,in Advance.
An Obstinate Juror.
Alternate ridicule and obloquy bare
lung bi-eu the uncomfortable portion of
that oue i uryman of the ci*e uuetiitnona
twelve who I'aaurdlj refuaea to agree
with hia exaapcrated aaaociatea on a
verdict: but there have been caaea
iu which hia scenting jiervemty baa
proved ultimately to be the salvation
of justice, and a venerable English
judge, recently deceased, was wont to
j citeouu instance in la* earlier judicial
experience when such perversity led to
au astounding discovery of mistaken
truth.
A man was on trial before this Judge
in Court of Common I'leas for
the murder of a neighboring land
> lord, with whom he was known to have
beau n bitterly unfriendly terms, pro
tested actually with prayer* and tears
that he was wholly innocent of the
dreadful crime, though acknowledging
his enmity to the dead man on ooouant
of some disputed boundary between
their propert!•, and that the clothing
he wore and afterward conaealed on the
day of the tragedy woo deeply stained
with human blood. As he earnestly
told and reiterated his story—he *m
taking a morning walk, as customary,
' across the fields of a certain farm,when
he stumbled upon the body of a man,
who waa lying dead amongst some
corn with two deep wound* in bit
breast, apparentlv made by a pitchfork
near at hand Raising the prustgato
figure to ascertain if life yet remained,
he was stained by the blood, and dis
covered that the victim was hi* own
quarrelsome neighbor. Humanity at
first impelled him to give an alarm ;
but iu another moment the thought of
his well known difference* with the
slain man filled him with eowardly fear
of being connected with the murder.
The idea o increased in its terror that
he turned back to bis homo, removed
bis discolored clothing, and hid it iu
the baru wh< re the police afterwards
i found it.
Rut this story did not appear reason
able to the Court ; and despite the pris
oner's passionate persistency in it, and
1 deiqiairiug cry thai " God and hie oon
l science knew hun to be wholly inno
cent,". the coae went to the jury with
apparently absolute certainty of in
stantaneous'conviction
Such, indeed, mnit here been the pe
nult but for the dissent of one juror,
Mid he the foremMi. This j*-mn, a
miui of education, high social and moral
estimation and large property, begged
the Judge to permit the jury to re
tire for consultation, and then so re.-
aoned, pleaded, and actuallyprawd with
his associates against their nu&aimous
judgment as to fairly weary them Anal
ly into joining htm in a verdict of ac
quittal. But tiie iskwufaed Chief
Justice indignantly refused to accent
the verdict, aud aent them back again
and again to their room, until at last
he was obligbed to accept it. The un
happy men, cursing their foreman,
were discharged in disgrace, "with the
blood of mi unavenged murder left at
their door;" though the prisoner, at
his unexpected and seemingly miracu
lous release, fell upon his knees in court
with the cry: " kou see, my lord, that
God and s clear conscience can save
the lost,"
When the Judge subsequently heard
by what meant so strange a verdict bad
burn effi-oted, and that the man respon
sible fur it was l*>ih iut liigvut and of
high character, he obtained a confer
ence with the obstinate juror and ad
jured him to explain his mcomprabea
wide conduct in the matter. The late
foreman exacted a pledge of secrecy to
last during his own lifetime, and then
calmly told why he had labored ao in
flexibly for the accused man's life. On
the morning of the murder the man
doomed to be killed, who was the tith
ing man of tne pariah, called early to
collect 11 thee on the speaker'a eorn, and
was so arbitrary and violent in hu man
ner aa to provoke indignant remon
strances. Ik-coming enraged, the tithe
patlii rcr assaulted the other with a
pitchfork which he was carryiflg, and
which belonged to a neighbor, and in
defense of his life the assailed man
wrested the weapon away, and moo do
ing indicted wounds of which the ag
gressor fell dead on His way home !
80 the actual slayer was the coming
foreman of the jury—a |o*ition he se
cured for himself at great pains and ex-
I tense, that he might save an innocent
man from dreadfnl punishment for a
crime which be had himself committed
in self-defense..
Hound to Get a Sobsenber Any W*j.
An editor wa* once on* on a jaunt in
the township of White Oak, Ingham
county, Michigan, sticking to every
farmer until he got hi* name and
money, and it so happened that he came
to a house where death had called a few
hours before. The farmer's wife wa#
laid out. and the husbandman and kia
children were grieving over her loa#
when the editor knocked at the door.
•' What'a up ?" inquired the editor, as
he saw the farmer's solemn countenance
before him.
"My wife is dead," replied the far
mer.
" Is that so*" mned the editor, a lit
tle 6 isappointed. " Did she die esy ?"
" Drooped off like a lamb."
•' Did sue say anything?"
"Not a word—just went right to sleep
like."
" 1 didn't know," continued the edi
tor, a sad look on his face, " but what
she might have requested you to sub
scribe for the Cturade, which you know
is the best paper in the couutv. If you
w ant it I'll take yon name right in, and
under the circumstances I won't charge
a cent for the obituary notice 1"
The farmer hung off for a while, but
before the editor went away he had two
additional dollars in his pocket, aud had
written out an obituary uotico for pub
lication in the next issue, which the be
reaved husband pronounced a "mighty
smart piece."
What a Woman Can lto.
Here is the way a farmer's daughter
in Concord, Mass., made money in the
ponltrv businees: She commenced
with about sixty fowls in the spriug.
From these she raised four hundred
and fifty When young she
fed on cracked corn, but when fattening
them gave whole corn and Indian meal,
During the season ahe sold eggs to the
amount of fffiO, and from September 20,
to January 17, she got ready for market
150 pair of chickens, which ahe sold for
$260, making in all, j>Cs). It will be
seeu from this statemeut what may be
done by proper attention to poultry,
the profit being perhaps greater than in
almost any branch of farming. It alao
shows that the business is one in which
females may engage with suecoss. The
time occupied in caring for sixty to a
hundred liens does not average more
than nit hour or ,i 70 a day. The exer
cise is light and pleasant, and the
change from household duties rather
agreeable than otherwise.
A generous, noble spirited man had
a sick wife not long ago, and the doc
tor said a sleigh-ride would do her
good. Did the fond husband hire a
two-horse sleigh and dash out over the
breezy plains ? No !ho borrowed a
sled of the boy next door, plaoed his
wife on it, and made his hired girl
draw the sled up and down the side
walk for an hour. But the wife failed
to thrive on the treatment,
NO. 15.
The Economic* of Life.
You tell me that dsbtand despair ar*
upon you; that when the clothes, rent,
fuel sod lights are paid for, you have
only six hundred dollars left with which
to feed your family of eight, and that
it oan't lie done. I think I have heard
this story a thousand Limes, and that I
have written advice about it a hundred
time*. And as the whole subject is very
simple, 1 must go ovar the saute giound
ag*m.
The largest item iu your table ex
pense* is ttwat. Reef is high. In our
city markets a good steak is worth from
thirty to thirty-flve cents per pound.
Beef steak for your family would alone
coat, for breakfast and supper, bum
than two dollars, and then if you had a
roast or sirloin for dinner, thai would
coat nearly as much more. Mo if tint's
the light way to live,you are managing
' well to get on with six hundred dollars
per year.
But do you know that there are only
about sixty pounds of the sirloin which
is u*"d for roast and steaks, iu an ox
weighing eight hundred pounds? There
ar. other parts of the animal -good
solid meat which sell for five cent* a
pound. Portions of the neck, which,
j when properly cooked, are the moaft l
1 substantial and nourishing part* of the
carcass, and Sold for fear or five cents
* pound. Ous pound of this cut in small
pieces sod Wiled two hours in time
quarts ut water, in a oioa* vessel, with
five cents worth of potatoes, turnips,
: parsnips and carrots, with salt and p*n
! per, and some savory herb, would make
1 s splendid dinner for si! of you. . w,
' bits of toasted bread upon the platter,
I and then pour on your stew. That's s
I dinner fit (or lung.
Everybody likes variety. Well, par
chase next day a knuckle of veal, which j
' will ooat you all told ten cents, sad j
which your wife will treat in the same
way as the Leaf, except that she will
leave out the carrots and parsnips and
put in bits of toasted bread or dump- _
The next day try a bit of the fore- '<
' shoulder of a sheep, which is very j
I cheap. When mutton chops were sell
i utg (or twenty cents a pound, I have
( sacs mutton fure-ahonbler.of (sir quail-1
IT, selling fur two cents. It is a part j
| which is slwsye very cheap. Cut up
; into bits, and cooked as above, a grand
dinner for the eight member* of your
family can be got up for a quarter of a \
j dollar.
Any of three stews may be be made I
' into a baked meat pie, byway of variety.
1 have givne tbeaa byway of illustra
tion. You needn't have the same dm- '
tier twice a month. Fish may be em- i
ployed occasionally, and aome excellent
sorts are very cheap,
j Bat these preparations of meats are'
comparative'* expensive. That beauli-<
ful white southern corn, cracked wheat, ;
oatmeal, beaaa, and other similar foods
are very cheap. A breakfast of oatmeal
j and white corn, with a little milk, would j
I coat for your whole family not more .
I than tea cents, and it would be a break- j
, fast on which vou could all work hard.
1 Skipping the dinner which has been ml- \
ready discussed, let ns consider for a '
! monient the supper. If you keep a oow j
: —aa every man properly located with a j
) family of' children should—a bowl of
bread and milk, or some warmed-up t
beau porridge, and a cup of tea, will
satisfy you.
Buch food as I have thus hinted at is I
not only very cheap, and would bring I
' roar table expenses within two hundred
dollars, bat upon it yon would all gam
bush, have brighter eve*, line teeth, j
sweeter breath, and be id together ,
healthier than if jou fed yourself upon j
j the present fried, greasy, compounded 1
triifpi, with pies, cakes, 'and puddings, j
7b- Pmt.
Hydrophobia, and What Is It!
Thirty years ago, says the
ILcprt**, a room-mate ol the writer died
of this disease. He was u renewned
maker or rifles. Hia weakness was the
dog; he would pick up fancy caaiuea with
out masters—had ten to twenty owner-,
/MI animals in hia kennel. In sportive
moments, we said: '' Brunker, yon will
yet die of dogs—mad dogs!" He
laughed. One Sunday afternoon, in
his rambles, he picked up a stray little
1 "King Charles spaniel," in Lockport,
N. Y. Tlie dog bit him in the wrist;
he threw him down in disgust. and
thought no more of the incident After
the lapse of six weeks, he oomplahn-J
that ln right wrist failed him. Soon
after he bad repugnance to water, but
could drink eider. Next day be could I
not drink eider, bnt craved vinegar.
On a Sunday evening, he came to the
hotel and said to the writer: "J am po
int? modi" "Brunker, I will give you
a glass of water; take it—drink it."
And when I placed the glass of water
in his hand an involuntary spasm came
over him, and the contents went into
the fire. Then I knew he was mad, and
became nervous and called upon others
to aaiat to take care of this man. While
the writer was absent be want into his
room and tore the bed-clothes ia all
shapes. A window was above the door.
Stepping nnoa the shoulders of an as
sistant and opening the window, we
shouted to Brunker, "Here I am ; what ,
is the matter with vou ?" Meantime ■,
the door was held firmly at the out- 1
side. Moon Brunker regained his com
poaure and told enter the room, as ;
the fit was off and all danger over. Stal
wart man leaide as wavered; but we en
tered. We went to a drawer and took
a sash or face-muffier, and pinioned hia
arms with it, as ho requested. Moon
another and another spasm succeeded,
lie said therolnntary muscles had be
come involuntary ; and if he did injury
he oould not aToid it. This lasted 24
hours, during which poor Bruuker had
lurid intervals and knew his forlorn
condition; but the rational momenta,
lxUween spasms, became less and loss
till he died.
This was the most developed ease of
hydrophobia the writhcr ever witnessed.
Since then he has seen two dogs mad, :
but chained, s Pouring water from one ,
dish into another to witness the effects,
in all resprets (hey exhibited the same :
repupuanca to water as did friend !
Brunker—a shudder followed by a !
spasm ! Yet it is now asserted that this i
rabies in dogs creates no antipathy to
water. And this is so asserted in Lon
don journals. It may be so, but ex
perience is to the contrary.
It seems now to be conceded that,
while men in this disease abhor water,
dogs with hydrophobia court it and
drink it. The two dogs the writer saw,
in tlie midst of their madness, would
rare when water was poured from one j
dish into another. Ought not science
to settle this mooted point ?
Tiif. HorsuHOLn. —A resolution of
fered by John O'Donnell in the New
Y'ork grange, was adopted, setting forth
that whereas, it is of great importance
that the household department receive
the consideration of this Grange, and
that the social feature receive our
warmeat support, therefore be it re
solved, that the question of how to im
prove the quality of household labor
and labor-saving machinery be referred
to a committee of sisters, to be appoint
ed by the Worthy Master. The Worthy
Master appointed all the ladies present
as such oommittee.
Epitaph for a cannibal—" One who
loves his fellow men."
Items of Interest,
tide Royal, in Lake Superior, in the
most northerly territory of the United
Bute*.
There ere thirty two thousand of the
Indent Order of Hibernians in Penn
sylvania.
Mime of the wholesale liquor honeee
j in Cincinnati hare had to call in their
dm mines*.
Bally Aon is the name of e new town
just laid oat in Georgia. They abbre
viate it to Satan.
What is that which Adam never aaw,
never poaseeeed, and yet gave to each
of hia children f Parent*.
Dakota haa been doing sums and
. finds that she haa only three-eighths of
a white man to an acre of land.
Lately not a death occurred in the
city of Bath, Me., for eleven days—an
unprecedented leek of mortality,
•i When the Indiana catch a bald
' beaded man they cut off hie ears to
compensate for the lose of scalp.
Hhow me the mantelpiece of a bonae,
t say a sage, and I will tell you what
* manner of persons reside therein.
The day* of the army bine overcoat
ere none. The moths hare contracted
for all that oouid not be worn out.
At no tuue within twenty years hare
hones sold at so comparatively cheap
rates in New York as this winter.
Ltuimeoit labels are •- id to circulate
freely among the Indians of ton North*
west, who take them for greenbacks.
laiafera are to be excluded from the
Legislative balls of Wisconsin. How
long before these halls wtU be vacant f
Delmonioo paid six dollar* and a half
for the hind leg* c* * White Plains
frog, which weighed fifteen and a half
pounds.
The saloon keepers of Chicago have
agreed to suspend the free taoch
■ystem, and many citizen* will now
! have to go to work.
In Saxony a fellow is required to court
hia girl by daylight, with the old woman
sitting between them, and she allow* no
winking or nodding.
The worthiest people are meet in
jured by slanderers ; a* we usually find
that to be the best fruit which the bird*
have been picking at.
•' Are yon a burglar, sir? If no, do
not ouino in, aa I am all alone," said a
Somerrill#, Mass., servant girl, when a
mun called, the other day.
The California Senate has passed e
bill to disband the National Guard,
j Zhero are about 1,500 young men in the
organisation in San Francisco.
Deed languages are thoee which are
V DO longer spoken or in common use by
i a people, end known only in writing, a*
the Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
" Bob, did you ever see Miss 8. Y*
" No." " How do you know aha'e
handsome, then f" "IWauae the wo
men are running her down ao."
Homebody says that Boston, having
■ swallowed various other neighboring
\ towns, is " now greasing the ear* of
Maiden, preparatory to deglutition."
In a suit for breach of promise in
I row* the jury held that the young man
i was justified in breaking the engage
ment if the persisted in eating onions.
The Michigan Granger* propose to
establish market days in each county of
j the State, upon which certain kinds of
, grain or product* shall be said, and i.o
other.
If arithmetic were better taught in
i our public schools, says the Richmond
. F.nquircr. there might not be ao many
! public officers who can't balance their
; accounts.
One of the Duchess of Edinburgh's
j handkerchiefs is worth £I,OOO, and coat
tor its production &. year* of labor,
besides the eyesight of the unfortunate
workman.
Rice county, Kansas, which about
two yean ago was a fertile desert, haa
nearly 5,000 inhabitants, refuses to vote
bond*, and won't allow a rumaeller
within its borders.
According to the Impartial , steps
hsve been taken to organise a Spanish
society for the protection of animals,
which will endeavor, above all, to put
i down bull fights and cock fights.
I There are over forty regularly edu
, oaftcd female pill makers in New York,
, and most of them homrepeihiata. Sev
eral of them have over $2,000 income,
aome $5,000 and one over SIO,OOO.
la view of the fact that a New Hamp
| shire man recently paid $2,000 for a
| game cock, the St. Louis Journal re
! mark* that those fellows evidently pre
fer s shanty-clear to a mansion in the
skiea.
An entry haa been found ia the Record
Office to the effect that King Edward IIL
paid £1, on the lstof March, 1360, to
ward the ransom of the poet Chaucer,
who had been taken prisoner in the war
with Prance in 135$ 60.
•• It is true," remarked a pickpocket
arrested in Rochester on Wednesday,
- " that I am a thief. But a legitimate
thief, air; for look vou, I was search
mg that man's pockets for proof of
frauds against the government."
A practical firmer, who grow* corn
in Massachusetts, says it pays to grow
it there. He realizes 100 per oent on
the cost of hia crop. He grows it at a
cost of 50 cents a bushel, and every
bushel he grow* brings him sl.
There is no doubt in the mind of any
observing shepherd sbat a good supply
1 of pore water is essential to the health
and thrift of sheep, summer and winter,
although there are a few theoretical
people who assert te the contrary.
The sea is bluish green, and the Arc
tic sea is ultramarine and transparent
blue to olive green or opsone it stripes,
caused bv animalcul® and medusie iu
countless mvreida. In the Gulf of
Guinea it is white, sad round the Mal
dives black.
A bachelor remark ed to a young lady
that aoapstone was excellent for keeping
the feet warm in bed. " Yea," said the
young lady i "but sotce gentlemen have
an improvement on that which you know
nothing about." The bachelor main
tained a wistful silence.
Among the carrier* for the British
army in Aahantee were 1,400 women. 1 .
They were treated with a brutality
rarely practiced on animals, being kept
atanaiiig in the hot sun for hoars after
their arrival at a station, and fed scanti
ly on water and biscuits.
The best way of applying Paris green
to Colorado potato beetles seems to be
that of mixingit with water and sprink
ling the with a water pot Ap
plied in the dry state, mixed, with flour,
plaster, or other substance, as has been
practiced, there is danger ol inhaling
the poison by the operator.
A new " wrinkle " about the age of
horses is discovery of an Illinois
farmer, who determines the age of all
animals over nine vears old, by the fol
lowing novel method * After the horse
is nine years old a wrinkle comes on the
upper corner of the lower eyelid, and
every vear thereafter he has one well
definea wrinkle for every year over
nine. If, for instance, a horse haa three
wrinkles he is twelve ; if he lias four,
he is thirteen. Add the number of
wrinkles to nvne and you will get it.
For Twenty-two Years.
Twenty-two years ago a man named
Throckmorton, of Louisiana, Ky. t de
ceived a young woman under the prom
ise of marriage, and then abandoned
her to the cold oharity of the world.
Sinoo that time, however, wherever the
man is seen, the woman is not far dis
tant. She visits the club room of which
he is a member, and waits at the door
until he appears on the street, and
when he leaves she follows close be
hind. Throckmorton visited New York,
and what was his surprise to see the
woman in the same city. She follows
him as a blood-hound follows his prey,
and whenever he has anything to do
with another woman she is Bure to raise
a disturbance. She has been arrested |
several times on the oomplaint of differ
ent parties, but never by him, and has
always managed to get elear. A few
days sinoe the poor woman was arrest
ed, fined $5, and putgftnder SSOO bond,
for one year's good conduct. The Court
refusing to take her own bond, she was
compelled to go to the workhouse,
where she now is.