Unit? Land. Hnwmanv mile* on* atyti • To t >ar rie*** u u,; bI l.and ! ii folk* in white j Downy hr Cradle F*oo pur* and hrlr j,t. What do thav Jo m luh , I (knJ f Draam and *f A , jj.r. Laugh n ,i cro w, rll , kl °* ' +xu\ grow ; Ji'lly liomm navn tliff. do ' v in>y in JUby 1 and ? " °T> tim odtan {wood. of a line of king* Ou* gn teral laugh, four biaata af horn, Mn rusty syllable* rouse the tuom ! ' The Saxon lamia tn their woolen talw Are playing aohool with the a b. aim , A, a ! Lo! All the cattle spall Till they make the blatant vowel* tall. And a half-laugh whinny Al>* the alalia When down iu the rack t'.re elovar falla A doea it wallsiug around hia mate. Two.chevron* bU -k on hu wing* of tlal*. And ahowiag *,* *,O, a wooing not* The aalia ah iU of hia golden throat Ill* Our* * "Art of !er" retold In a!*• ding flue of bine and gold ' Ah, tha buxom girl* that helped the bora, Tb * nobler Helen* of humbler Troy*— Aa they av.ppad the hnakt wuh rustling fold From eight rowed corn aa yellow aa gold. By the candle-light in pumpkin bowls. And tha gleam* that allowed fantastic hole* In the quaint old lantern'* tat total tin. From the hermit glim *et up within . By the rarer light ia girhah eyes Aa dark aa wells, or as blue aa akies. 1 hear the laugh when tha ear ia red, I saa tha blnrh. with the forfait paid. Tha cedar r,ak*# with tha anctant twwt,* Tha cider cop that tha giris hare iisea j, And I ■ ,e* tha fiddler through thy. doak As hv twangs the ghost of " Money Musk I" The boys and guis in a doable row Wait face V, face uil the magic bow Shail wk ,p ihe tur.e from tha violin, Aftf 1 ua merry pulse of the feet begin. TUE A ITE OF THE GROWLER. What a sublime bead be baa I and what a pair of whiskers! Next to brother Willie, he is the handsomest man I ever saw. I met him quite accidentally. Strange that he should have come along just when I was in the midst of my reverie atawt Willie ! He startled me half out dmy senses, for I wasn't aware that ■my one frequented those woods but myself. Willie used to go with me aometimes before he left home. Poor fellow ! We have made our last excur sion together iu this world. Here I sat, feeding a oouple of robins with crumbs, and humming an air to myaelf, while 1 pushed back the looks of hair which kept falling over my forehead and dangling in my eyes. Suddenly arose a voice behind me : "By my soul, a mermaid ! She's giving Moiher Carey's chickens their mess." I glanced aronnd, tnrned a doxen colors at once, and tried to faint. If Willie's ghost bad stood in th at place, it oouldn't have been more like him,' with his six feet of manh.ood, broad shoulders, and sailor's cur, a ud jacket. And then, such lovel" ,* nautical lan guage as he used ! It m ost brought with it a sniff of suit Creese aud a vision af boundless blue. Of oourae he apologized for the in trusion, said he was cruising in foreign waters and hai*. lost his reckoning ; but now that he'd found a heavenly body to level hit, sextant at, he'd take a sin gle observation, change his course, and ete' r to v or'ard. WheD he spoke of the " heavenly 'body " I blashed again ; and, aa I knew that " nor'ard " meant the village, I begged him not to stir on mj aooount. I didn't want to leave on the mar'a -mind the false impression that I was -agitated by his compliment, so I in duced him to remain till I had time to oonipose myself. After we had conversed for an hoar or so, and I was calm again, I gathered np my things and started for home. He insisted on accompanying me, be cause, as he expressed it, "he didn't fancy the notion of such a precious little craft sailing alone, when it conld just as well have the convoy of a man o'*War." When we were on the outskirts of the village he asked permission tn " heave to," and I came th'j rest of the way unattended. Two o'clock A. x. ? Dear me 1 how late lam sitting up 1 It's all through trying to wade into that stupid book. I shall put it back on the shelf where it belongs, with : ,U face to the wall, so that it may not tempt me again. 21t. —Two more developments : first, his name is Jack ; aeoond, he was ac quainted "with Willie. They made a voyage^together, if I am not mistaken —the isst one before brother's fatal •hip^/reck. What a host of naval stories he has at his tongue's end, and what marvel •ous adventures he has met with in his time, notwithstanding he's so young ! It is more interesting to bear him talk than to read the best book of travels ever printed. He stopped as be was going by to-day, while I was watering the flowers, leaned over the garden gate, and kept me entranced a full half hour. I presume it's very indiscreet to get so familiar with strangers the seoond time you see them, but I nearly called him Jack to his face. I might have known that was bis name—be looks it exactly. There isn't an unaea manlike inch about him. 22d.—Jeannette has been over to visit me. She is crazy on the subject of my aailor. She raves about his hair and his eyes and his teeth, and—oh ny I—she even pretends to have made an impression on Aim. Unhappy crea ture I Time alone will convince her of her error. 23d—As I was coming home from the post-office this afternoon with Jean nette, who should join us but Jack ? " I kept in your wake so long with out being hailed," he said, byway of salutation, " that I concluded I'd make a tack, and run under your bows for a change." " Forgive my negligence, Mr. " And then I recollected that he had never told me his last name. " Caronby—Jack Caronby, first mate of the frigate Growler," he supplied. " I did not see you, Mr. Caronby, or 3 should have paused and allowed you to overtake us." At this juncture Jeannette pinched my elbow, so I had to present him. If she can construe anything tender or sentimental from the studied civility of his behavior toward her during the re mainder of our walk, she's weloome to. We passed a drove of oattle on our way home. Some of them were at tracted by my red shawl, and began to evince Bundry disagreeable propen sities. "They don't respect vour oolors, Miss Addison," exclaimed Jack, indignant ly. " Suppose you and Miss M'Clure lie off to leeward a jiffy or two, till I make a ram of this bit of timber and scatter their fleet. ' So saying, he motioned us gently aside, grasped a knotted stick that lay acroM the path, and with one fleroe on- FRKD. KURTZ, Kdit or mill 1 > ropriotor f VOE. Ml* slanght sou! Iht drove galloping in overt direction. W lieu he returned to us J can not to J began some of her artful tricks flut tciing and gasping and pretending to l>e frightened to death. Jack was at last compelled to offer her his arm and j escort her to within a few rods of her I gate. Sly thing I S-.iHiinjf, waa at morning srtvioa, like the good man he is. ; There's genuine religion in his broad, hO jCat face. Sincerity, that noblest of liQWM virtues, ia sadly rare among I landlubbers ; its native atmosphere t art ins to tie that of the sea. He made all the resuousea as if he was accustomed to devotional exer cises. It may l>c that he studies his prayer-book while tossing *U>ut on the ' brim billows. Well, ho might be worse ! employed. 27 th. —To-day the crisis came. I had a presentiment that it was impending. I was sitting ou the pi****, verv luteut on my embroidery, when 1 heard a greeting from the street. •' Misa Addison, ahoy !" 1 looked up. Jack was standing by tbe fence, with his cap deferentially ! raised. " May I enter thia harbor without papers ?" •'Certainly ; come in, Mr. Carouby. You will dud a chair yonder in tho eo"r --1 ner." He oatared. Father took advantage of my silence to read me a lecture on the evil policy of cultivating people I hnew nothing about. As though I knew nothing about Jack, when he had taken me so unreservedly into his con fidence, and asked my advice on all sorts of points connected with his future career! Naturally, I did not mention these things to father; he would only have turned them into a jest. I had nothing to do but to stifle my emotions, pr lending to acquiesce in his philosophy. Heigho ! It came eventually to this, that I ahonld heieafter discourage every attention from Jack, and hold myself aloof from his society till fur ther notice. And meanwhile, Jeannette 31f. —I am all in a tremble. I can hardly retain my pen in my hand while inditing these words. And yet I must write : I shall experience no shallow of comfort or relief till my soul is dis burdened. Where shall I begin? How did it happen ? In what order did the events occur ? Oh ! I remnmiiw, I had gone to the woods again, and had valked as far as the spot where I met the first time. Alas, what a §bod of recollec tions poured in upon mo as I stood there ! I had not read my heart aright till that moment. Then I became gradually conscious that I was not alone. The leaves ru " d, a bush near me was pushed asuie, and there emerged from the thicket a melancholy-looking figure, whom I with difficulty convinced my self to be Jack. He advanced. I tried to move away, lest I should break faith with father, but oould not. He observed the effort, and stationed himself in front of me. " Neither to port nor starboard shall yon veer," be said, in kind but crushed and huaky accents, "till I have beard your batteries speak. Though you should tear my top-gallants asunder, snap my halyards in twain, nay, even carry away my mainmast, yet you must fire." "What will you have me say?" I panted, between quick breaths which threatened to become sobs. " Tell me why you always scud be fore the wind, refuse to see my signals of distress, or run up the black flag whenever I approach ?" " Because I sm forbidden to walk with you, speak to yon, hold any com munication with you unnecessarily for a season. Now will you let me go ?" There was something in his eye that told me he comprehended the situation perfectly. He heaved a deep sigh, fold ed his arms, and gazed at me long and steadily. "It is not your own voluntary act, then?" he asked, gently, and passing from maritime to ordinary parlance. " No, no," I whispered, dropping my eyes, because I could no longer oppose them to his. He opened his arms wide. A mail impulse seized me, and I drew closer and closer to him. "Avast there! Stern all !" The command issued from some one who had oome upon us nnperceived. I uttered a half shriek and darted back. There stood Willie, come home from the sea, risen from the dead ! Of all the torriflo shocks I have ever received, I think this deserved the first rank. I had barely time to realize its force before Jack's ejaculation smote my ear: "Shiver my timbers I" " With th greatest pleasure in life," responded W T illie, ooollv removing his outer garments and rolling up his shirt sleeves. I saw there was no time to be lost, and hastened to throw myself between the pair. " Oh, Willie, Willie!" I pleaded, "do not strike him. He is guiltless. It iB I who am to blame from first to last." " I'll attend to your case, presently, sis," said my brother, unmoved by my entreaty. "But the urgent business of the moment is with Mr. Watson here. We have rather a long-standing account to settle." " Mr. Watson ?" I echoed ; " there is no Mr. Watson here. This is an old oomrade of yours, Willie—Mr. Jack Caronby, first mate of the frigate Growler." " Frigate fiddle-stick ! m wager ten to one he never was aboard a vessel in his life, though I can testify to his skill in managing decks," THE CENTRE REPORTER. "Miss Addison," interposed Jack, " tins individual is the victim of a hal lucination. If ho wore allowed tho Growler I ahotild condemn him to an application of tho tope's end, or swing him at tho yard arm a while liy the thumbs, liol u* go wav and leave him to his unhappy Hluocy." v " Btop !" 1 cried, eagerly. " Thia must not lie. He is my only brother, long lost to us, and now come back from tho grave. You aud he must tie recon ciled at once. Here, Willie, confess that you have done wrong, and shake hands with Mr. Oarouhv.' " Are you an idiot, Maggie t" de manded my brother, now growtug rapidly augry. " Oorne home with me iustautly, or I shall think you aa bad as he I" He resumed his coat and vest, clutched mv wrist fiercely, and hurried tuc on with him toward tho village. We left Jack standing in the old place, apparently petrified with astouuhment and dismay. My own sentimenta were two-fold : joyous excitement at my brother's un expected return, and sorrow for an in nocent beiug whom he had griev ously, though I trust unintentionally, wronged. When we were out of the woixls Wil lie proceeded to explain his behavior ou this occasion. It seems that Jack bears the strongest kiud of a resem blance to one Watson, a notorious Han Francisco gambler, who once lured Willie into playiug, aud won away from him all his money, clothes, luggage - everything he possessed. It was di rectly after this encounter that the poor boy, filled with remorse and chagnu, disgusted with himself, and tired of existence, caused the report that he had been drowued during a reoent shipwreck to be universally circulated, aud repaired to one of the Jocks with the iutentiou of committing suicide. Fortunately he was met by an officer of a whaler wLich lay hard by, deterred from his rash design, aud induced to commence life anew as a common sailor. His first cruise was wouderfully suc cessful, aud he returned to California to recover his old goods, if possible, from the gambler. The latter had meanwhile departed for the East. Willie's first thought was that Watson had found some letters or other sou veuirs in s truuk of his, whence he had gaiued the knowledge of father's being a retired merchant in prosperous cir cumstances, and had traveled Eastward with the idea of playing on the sym pathies of the family and swindling us with some cleverly concocted story. Among other papers Willie missed was one little note I had written him, deploring the fate that had doomed me to j>erpetnal girlhood, and robbed me of the privilege of becoming a brave sailor Isd like himself. How sorry I am for Jack when I think of the wound ttiia blunder must have indicted ou his sensitive heart I It it bad enough to be identified with a scoundrel through a resemblance which was nature's fault, and not one's own, bnt to be loaded with insult besides must be more than a proud apirit *tn brook. I hope and pray that no evil may come of it. I am mortified beyond description every time my mind revert* to that scene in the woods, and Willie's iutem perate language and demeanor. I wonder if Jack will forgiw bim for old acquaintance sake ? It strikes me that as a friend of so many years' standing, aud in consideration of Willie's hot, unreasoning disposition, he ought to overlook this trifling mistake, and make it up without delay. Perhaps he will. We shall see to morrow, when Willie is cooler. It does no good to argue with brother now, for he de clares he is ready to swear in court that that horrid Watson and my Jack are one and the same. /tw houri later. —ln the midst of the domestic jubilee over Willie's restoration I was called aside to receive a note. It was scribbled hurriedly in pencil on a half sheet ot paper.and the snperscrip. tion was in Jcaanette's handwriting I took it quickly to my room, and began to read : " DEAR FRIEND.—When this reaches yon I shall have passed out of your sight— ' It nur be for veam. And U may be forover.' Woman-like I have resisted Jack's importunities for four successive days, and accepted him on the fifth. Wo have taken flight together. " Luckily father and mother are both absent for the day, and will Dot return till too late to put any impediment in the way of our elopement. We shall join the frigate Growler with all speed, aud set sail for foreign shores. A tour around the entire world is the least that Jack will let me off with. " Now I want to confido in von, as I believe I may, without fear. It is ODly my desire to shield our servants from unjust suspicion that prompts me to speak ou this point, aud you must use your information for no other purpose. Jack thought it best to take every pre caution to prevent detention ; so I ab stracted a blank check with father's signature on it from the drawer where mother always preserves it as a guard against sudden emergencies. I never conld get the hang of these money matters ; bnt Jack is as wise as I am ignorant, and he says he can fill up the check in such away as to draw money for our traveling expenses if we need it. He is acquainted with bankers in all the large cities. " Jack—the jolly, fooliah, rollick some fellow—aends you the enclosed lock of hia hair, which he says may poa sibly prove a ' slick ' in your affliction I did not know, to begin with, that yon were afflicted in any way, and I haven't the remotest conception of the meaning of'slick.' Bnt Jack says you are well versed in maritime language, and will understand him perfectly. Ho I am satisfied, dear, if you are. " Believe mo, sweet Maggie, " Yours till death, "JEAXNBTTB." I longed to cry, but the tears refused to flow. I was conscious of an inclina tion to tear my hair, but resisted it. At length I relapsed into a state of marble-like stolidity, and went down stairs again. Drawing a chair beside my brother's, I leaned over and whispered, " Willie, may I ask you a question?" " Two, if you choose," he replied. "All right—two. First, where does the frigate Growler lie ?" "At the further end of Nowhere," jocularly. " All the lying is done by the first mate. To be sober, though, His, there isn't snob a frigate in the navy, to my knowledge. Now, then, what is question number two ?" " This—what is the definition of the nautical term, ' slick ?' " " Ilumph I How shall I explain it to you ? Well, to use a poetical ex pression, it means 'oil npon the troubled waters.'" Oh, how I wish I had been born a man! Lewiß Smith, of Temple, Vt., in ap plying for a warrant for the arrest of a neighbor named Burton, for slander, stated that he and his wife had knocked Burton down five and three times re spectively, but in spite of these per suasions the obdurate man persisted in telling stories, CENTIIE 11A EE, CENTH i •nuii.iMi iiuiir. A Urovi ot I f bi*r>* Rnnulng A iuii, S lit A*v* rikritty I'tnuui I "J Ml >i* A most disastrous ami unprecedented calamity occurred iu New York. A ■ drove of wild Texan steers were ou their way to the cattle market en route for Buffalo, and while being Conveyed from Weehawkeu by the Forty-second street ferry escaped from their drunken or careless drivers. The cattle scat tered throughout the street* and avei ucs of the metropolis wounding ami injuring men, women and children, aud diffusing terror and absolute consternation among the citiseua. Over fifty persona were more or less severely injured, some of whom are young children. The couduet of the police wo* moat absurd, excepting in a few instances, and it aeeuied a* if a riot was transpiring iu the metropolis, for five or six hours, lasting uutit near ly ten o'clock iu the evening. It is not known how many of the injured will die as yet, but some are very badly bruised internally, and some others will, no doubt, be disfigured for life. The steers were crazy from thirst and • hunger, and ttie manner iu which the crowd acted made them more so. They separated and wcut through different street*. One scene is thus diseribed : About half-past seveu o'clock, says the Herald, the first **rd be came a scene of frautic cx-iteineut. A muffled noise of human voice* mingled with guu shots and the collision of vehicles wa* hc-arJ in the direction of Greenwich street. A general rush of people was made toward the spot, the howls and excitemeut growing mo mentarily more intense. Ou a sadden a steer of colossal proportions, snorting fury, his eves ablaze with rage, and bounding like a deer, fled downward through Greenwich and oast Court laudt street. Multitudes of little chil dren were playing ou the sidewalks. The dense throng that pursued the animal, armed with knives, bludgeons, guns and revolvers, were sufficient to warn all jiersous sway, and the street was cleared far more speedily than when the ponderous fire engine shoots along Broadway by night, at once the harbinger of safety and danger. Little Maggie Slater, of No. 156 Greenwich street, had not time to flee into her house, and she *M tossed into the air by the animal. Fortunately the bull did not strike her a second time; still she lay insensible for several minutes, but was afterwards restored and pro nounced out of danger. On rushed the steer, turned up Cedar street, and in an instant confronted a police officer at the corner of Chureh. tie stood, faced the bull, fired straight into his eves and was instantly dashed under a wagon, lie was not much hart, so he picked himself up and joined in the pursuit. The animal rau toward a second policeman, pitching him also upon the sidewalk, and con tinued his flight to Liberty street, dowu Liberty to West, and then northward ito Murray. By this time upwards of forty policemen aud an immense con course of people were dose on the bull's heels, firing, but with no visible effect .Several men who knew the coarse the steer was taking, rau to the foot of Murray street and drew wagons, track*, hand cart*, etc., across West strict, thus erectiug an impassable barricade. As the bull ueared lae structure he waa severely wounded by a pistol shot in i the leg ami fell to the ground. There upon two young men—Messrs. J. P. : O'Kiordan, shoemaker, of No. 127 Liberty street, and Charles Hober, saloon keeper, of No. 160 Greenwiali I street—wbo bad joined early in the [mrsuit, fell upon him witli two big mtcher knives aud cat his tluost. Several men held him fast by the horna, and it gave the crowd enough to do to hold him down during the struggle thst followed the cutting of his throat. On , the animal's race down town lie struck several persons, who must have been more or lea* severely injured, as they were almost instantly carried to their respective homes. The excitement con sequent on the pursuit was intensified I by the rumor that came to many oars thst a whole drove of animals had broken looeo in the upper part of the city and wore spreading destruction in all directions. A sharp lockout was consequently kept toward tho fonr point* of the compass, and every ghostly looking black object that came to view in the streets van set dowu as a mad ball. About the same hour in which the existence of the above men tioned quadruped was brought to a cloee, a scene by far more painful and dongerons was witnessed in the most crowded quarter of the City, along the i Bowery from Grand street to Tenth. An immense throng stood aloug the Bowery when the rumor of the presence of mail steers went abroad and spread with telegraphic rapidity. The num ber gradually increased, until there were upward of three thousand people ! present. The first proof given of the ! escape of the animals was the sudden . appearance of one of them at the cor ner of the Bowery and Fourth street. He stopped for an instant, and then, striking an nnknown lady at (ho corner of Broome street, knocked her heavily Ito the ground. Sergeant Maloney who j bad rushed out of the Bockmau street j station house, not so much for the putposo of shooting the animal as for j that of preventing the exeiled multi ! tude from using their firearms with recklessness, for the frequent discharge ' of guns and pistols by this time was | like a fnsilade, though it hail no effect I upon the animal. The Hergeant pur- I sued him up Bowery and Fourth aveuue | to Tenth street, back again through the i same thoroughfare to Broome, through j Broome to Elizabeth, to Hester, to the Bowery and to Broome, where Officer Donavan, thinking that the auimal was faint with fatigue and wounds, jumped toward him and seized him by the horns. lie was instantly tossed into the air by the ferocious beast, nnd fall ing with a thud upon the street receiv ed injuries which necessitated lus re moval to the Park Hospital. Amid the shouting and firing of tho populace, Hergeant Maloney raised his voioe and ! begged tho peoplo not to use their fire arms, lest some person might be killed. His advice was only partially heeded, however. Maloney, assisted by several citizens and officers, procured a ropo and lassoed the bull, after which be procured a carving knife at the Occi dental Hotel and cut the ham strings, when the animal was speedily dispatch ed. It was a long time before the alarm and consternation of the throng subsided, many persons expressing fears for the safety of friends whom they supposed to have been injured by the animals in other portions of the metropolis. Similar sceneH were enacted in the various streets visited by the angry ani mals, apd over forty men, women and children were injured, somo of them fatally, before the last steer was killed. Belle De Forest is the name of a pretty orphan girl, with brown hair and hazel eyes, who flung herself from a fourth story window in Baltimore re cently because of want and disappoint ment. She said, when her severe in juries would permit her to speak : " I have never yet met a woman who would pity or help me, nor havo I found one man who acted towards me with honor." U CO., l'A., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1874. Ncenes In the Street* of Haul* I'e, The streets of Hants Fe present a very sinking appearance to the eyes of any one who lias not aeon the like be fore ; those around the Plana are gener ally tilled with immense wagons drawn by" six, eight, and often ten yoke of half Starved oxen, the ouly means of bringing the luuoh-ueeded supplies from the end of the railroad. While theae great vans sre tieisg unloaded the oxeu often lie dowu iu their yokes, and their tired appearance, ami the anneal ing look of their large eyea, would ex cite the pity of many meu far less frieudly thau Mr. Itergh to the brute creation. In all the streets can t*> seen great numbers of little autmsls called by the .Mexicans " buroa," but belter known to English speaking people as donkeys. These small beasts are packed with all aorta of loads. Often as many as fifty can be seen in a single drove, with nearly as many drivers, coming into town loaded with wood. The usual price per " cargo, as they call it, ia "dint reals," or twenty five ocuta. About sixteen such loads make a cord. Again, a train of "buroa" will be seen loaded with all kinds of merchandise,frequently with a barrel ou either side of each lieaat. A pack-sad dle is used upou thrill, but no other equipment. Tney are guided by hlowa on alternate aides of their heads and necks, administered by their drivers with a club never less than two inches in thickness. Not unfrequeutiy two men are seen mounted ou una of those little beast* of burden, either of whom could pick him up and carry him away. The " buro" is the best example of patience the writer baa ever seen. These animal* live upon almost nothing, a standing joke of the oouutry bring that a few sheet* of browu paper constitute a grand feait for a " buru. They do a great deal of work, and render many service* on the rough mountain trails that could be obtained from no other animals. The aide walks of the city are generally covered with " portals " or porches, and the streets are fringed during the day aud half the uight with the ptctures-iue people of Uie city ; some wailing, kiicawber like, •• for something to turn up others moving slowly along, for but few Mexi aus tivpik life loug eaoagh to make uy haste iu getting through it. The Mountain Meadow Massacre. A Halt Lake Citv dispatch states thst the Mormons at Beaver county, Utah, are greatly excited because they antici pate an attempt to arrest prominent Saint* indicted for participation in the Mountain Meadow massacre. It is represented that the Mormons evince s determined spirit to resist the ex- I>eotcd legal process by the District Court, and the authorities will probably call for the assist a nee of the United States troops to aid them in the dis charge of their duty. It is not unlikely that bloodshed will occur, but it is high time the Mormon* were taught that the law of the Church, or, what is the same thing, of the prophet Brigham, is sub servient to the law of the land, and that criminals even in Utah must be brought to justice. Twenty years have passed aince a party of emigrants. numWring over 300 men, women and children, pursuing peaceably their journey from Missouri to California, * ore murdered in cold blood at Mountain Meadow, in Utah. But one escaped to tell the horrible story of slaughter. Nine little children, too young, a* it was supposed, to realize their terrible situation, were saved and adopted by the Mormons. Three of these afterward displayed too clear knowledge of what had transpired, and they were also put out of the way. The olhi-r six wre sulisequrntly restored by ttie United Htates officials to their friends and relative* in Miaaonri. The Mormoua at the time attempted to shift the responsibility of the massacre upon the Indians, but subsequent develop ment* leave no doubt that the wb'de slaughter was planned and perpetrated iby the Mormons themselves. Those high in authority in th© Church di rected the. bloody work, and prominent " Baint* " have recently been indicted by the Grand Jury for murder by par ticipation iu the in ansae re. It is hi be hoped they will speedily be brought to juntioc, tried, and if found guilty, suf fer the just penalty of their crimes. The United Btate* laws have been a dead letter in Utah Territory for years, but the last session of Congress adopted legislation which, though uot altogether satisfactory, has at least had the effect of setting the wheels of justice in mo tion. — HcituLlic. Took II Im Out. Tli© Delaware Railroad, says Max Adeler, rtins right through Peabody's farm, just below our village, and close to the track there is a kind of a mud hole. Into this one of Peabody's horse# fell, the other day, and defied every effort that oeuld be made to get him out. While I'ealxidy was working at the job, a freight train ran in upon the siding and stopped to shift some empty car# Tho engineer noticed I'eabody a trouble and finally offered to pull the horse out with the looomotivs if I'ea body would give him fire dollars. Pea body gladly consented ; and the en gineer got down for the purpose of fas tening a rope under the horse's belly. Just as he completed this job, the fire man, a greenhorn, got meddling with the starting liar, anil the engine sud denly gave s jerk and began to move off. In loss than a minute that iron steed was proceeding down tho Delaware peninsula at the rate of s mile a minute with Psabody's hors* liehind, slashing up against th* fences, swishing through ditches, hutting against the cross-ties and dancing and frolicking and jump ing about in the most extraordinary manner. When the engine was stopped twenty-three miles below, by leaping th* track, and rolling over into a gully, there was nothing on the rope but four ribs and a piece of the backlione, and these Pee body concluded not to drive home. Tho engineer says all he prom ised to do wo* to get the horse out, snesra that th* big snake has again broken out up near I'lscervilla. From time to time we have seen ac counts of this monster snake published in j-apera of that region, but we were of the opinion that it was all owing to the lo*r quality ol the liquor sold up that way. lteorutiy a well-known official o| this oouutry returned from California byway of the i'lacerville route, bring liig the latest intelligence in regard to the doings of his suakeahip. Tne gen tleman- who refuses to have his name mixed up with snake stories says he is of the opinion that there really is a big snake of seme kind up there in the mountains. The region principally in fested is about four miles this side of I'lacerville. Four days ago the big snake came into a man's dooryard, where there were a lot of fowls, and gobbled up about twenty young ducks before the very eyea of the inmatee There were in the bouee at the time e man, three women, and several chil dren. There waa no gun or other weapon iu the house with whioh to at tack the snake, aud th* man waa obliged to let him have his own way among the ducks. The women and children were so frightened that they would not re main in the house after the snake left, and all bauds went over to a house on the maiu road, and remained there for a day or two, nutil their nerves had quieted dowu. They all declare that the snake wan at least forty feet long. The stage-driver with whom our official rode stated that he saw the snake the day before he went after the ducks, anil Lad a good square look at bim as he lsy by the side of the road, lie says that he oould have shot the monster if he had had any one to hold his team. II is only passenger* were Chins men, and they were so badly frightened thst he Jid not dare trust them with the line*. Th# driver as serted that the snake appeared to him to be between thirty ana forty feet in length, and of large size in the middle. Whether or not there is such a snake as is described in the locality named, all the settler* believe there is, which is about a* bad as iui realitv. The people up there—particularly the women and children—live in constant fear of the big snake. Our informant is of the opinion thst there may be run ning at large a boa-constrictor which some time or other escaped from some menagerie ; that the ansae may now be of large size ; bnt be thinks the fears of those who saw him added a good many feet to his length.— liryinla CVy Enterprise, Funny Scene In Charrh. The Alexandria Oaiettm contains the following : An episode somewhat unusual is re ported to have occurred at the pro tracted meeting now in progress at the M. E. Church, South, in this city. The pastor, Kev. Mr. Wsngh, who has bean most zealously engaged iu the duties of his ministry, was fervently prearing home the great truths of ttie Gospel, when an alarm of fire was sounded without. Many of our most publio spirited citizens are members of the congregation, and the alarm drew nam hers from an endeavor to svoid'eternsl flame * to au effort to extinguish a tem poral fire. The hasty exits naturally attracted much attention, and the pa* tor seize.) the occasion to point a moral by reference to the zeal with which men b are the promises of eternity at the calls of time, and how much more in terest was felt in saving brick and mor tar than in saving immortal souls. At this point, the alarm being a falsa one, many had returned, among them Mr. Robert L. Wood, a member of the church, wbo rose, and said in sub stance : " Brother Waugh, you must not apeak so ; I went out not to save brick and mortar, but, it might be, to rescue some poor family from destruc tion." Rev. Mr. Waugh said he did not in tend to give his remarks a personal ap plication. but had endeavored to draw from a fleeting occurrence a suitable leason. as was his duty as pastor, and he again pioceeded to cote how soon the sanctuary was deserted when the calls of earth were heard, whereupon Mr. Wood rose again, saying, " Yon must not talk so, air, to this congrega tion. " Rev. Mr. Waugh—Sit down, Brother Wood. Mr. Wood—No, air; I have a right to speak. Rev. Mr. Waugh—Sit down 1 but Mr. Wood not heeding the command, it was repeated five times, Mr. Wood remain ing in a standing position, and the ex citement becoming so great among the entire congregation that the services bad to be abruptly cloaed without the usntl ceremonies. The Open Polar Sea. Dr. Hays, in a letter on the Austrian Polar expedition, says : The highway to the Pole was, I believe, open to CapL Ilall, and bad he lived I beUeve he would Lave reached it I believe the-same thing oould have been dons by my old commander, Dr. Kane, in August, 1853, and by myself in 1860, bad either of us been cleaned with steam ; and I believe, as I tiaTe repeat edly asserted publicly, that the Sound can be navigated with steam-power any rear ; and in proof of this we may cits the fact that Oapt Hall eiperienoed no difficulty whatever in the Polaris.which, as if it* were lint s pleasure voyage, steamed in six days from Upernavik to the highest point ever reached by anv vessel; and even-the land lie sighted beyond must, I think, have been some thing further north than Ist, 83°, which seems to have lieen the northern most point—Cape Vienna—seen by the gal lant officers of the Tegetthoff. For in 1861 I traced tho outline of the land, which I named Cap© Union, on tli© t. cat side (imperfectly traced, it is true, owing to the great difficulties of the situation), to Ist. 82°, 45 seconds, and Cspt. Hall must have seen land beyond this. Dr. Hays adds : As for myself, my going bock to the scene of my oll contests ha# been, as those interested in Arctic exploration well know, merely s question of money. That forthcom ing, I shall lose no time in once mors leading an expedition into Bmith Bound. Shutting Off Criticism. " Did you ever see that picture, grandma f" asked a young lady, as they took a view of tho family portrait gal lery. " Bee it! Why, it's a portrait of my self when I was seventeen." " I thought you'd forgotten it, or yon wouldn't always be lecturing us girls about modesty in drees." Grandma looked over her spectacles and declared the girls now-a-days were very impertinent to their elders. A Hros BILL.— Mrs. McGnffey, Dayton. Ohio, while traveling in (Switzerland, took the small-pox, snd was for many weeks confined to her room at a hotel in Vevay. When she reoovered she fonnd a bill awaiting her attention, which was figured at the modest anm of $1,300 a month. All the guests in a panic left the hotel, and during her illness the small-pox patieut was the sole tenant of the houee. She oonsidered the bill reaeonabl# enough, and paid it, Terms: 52.00 a Year, in jYdvanoe. Tki Du|rri of oirrtu4 Trawl. The Mowing card appeared, numer ously signed, in the Han Francisoo JtulUtin : " We, the undersigned par ■una, have just arrived in California from Omaha, and we feel it to l>e our duly to warn the public that neither life or property ia aafe on the emigrant traina of the Central Pacific railroad. This thoroughfare of travel ia infeatad from end to end with thievea, gamblers aud sharpers, who are little better than highway robbers. The osml actors and brakesmen of the trains sre either afraid to exercise any authority or are in league with these marauders. There ia no law and no place of appeal for protection, as is the oaae on shipboard, Lut every peaceful or unarmed psaaen ger is at the mercy of any ruffian wbo chooses to maltreat him. The conduc tors refuse to take any notion of such outrageous actions when oomplnlned to. On our reoent trip, many pour men of our party were fleeced oat o! their last dollar at three-card moute— several of them being family men. We do not oumplaiu of this so much as we do of the fact that our train was literally captured this side of lteno, by s gang of eight or ten moute brigands, wbo, because they ouuld get no one to bet with Ibem, passed through the ears calling the passengers vulgar names, striking them, spitting tobacoo juioe in their faces, flourishing bowie-knives and revolvers, and thresting to out our throats or blow oar brains oat. They were all heavily armed, while few of us had w capo us of any kind, and. in fact, did not ooue to this Btate with the ex pectation of having to fight oar way through. At Truck.ee we were informed that a passenger on an eastward-bound emigrant train had been barbarously bos ten for refusing to gamble with these scoundrels. It was also staled that more danger exists on the east ward-bound trains than on the traius fur the west. All of these gamblers and capper* are personally known to the railroad conductors, but an* never disturbed, but, on the ountrary, usually ride in the same oar with the ound no lo ra aitef they have ooneladed their devilment for the trip. Ho far as we could discover, not the slightest sem blance of law waa observable along the Central Pacific railroad in Nevada, everything being controlled by ruffian ism and threat# of murder, and we be lieve that the traveling public, es pecially the poorer olaee, should be made acquainted with these facts." Married Women's Eights. A oaae waa triad in New Turk whioh is illustrative of the rights and respon sibilities of married women. In 1869 the plaintiff, Isaac E. Liuekworth, be came a lodger in a honae in Weat Ninth atreet, and after a time he bought the huuae and became landlord aa well aa lodger, executing to the huaband of the landlady a written leaae, which at the expiration of the term waa replaced by a ucw leaae reciting alightly different terma, bnt retaining the name of the landlady's husband aa leasee. The huaband waa then an employee of a Dry atreet mercantile firm at a aalary of $3,800 a roar, from which ha made hia wife an allowance measured by the amonnt of the rent of the honae., which laat year waa SI,BOO. The firm in 1872 opened a bran ah office in the Weat and aent the huaband to take charge of it, ao that be waa neceaaariiy away from hia home the greater part of the time. Meanwhile, hia wife carried on the boaineae of letting aparlmenta in the honae, and eupported beraeif and other* dependent upon her from the income thai derived, paying the rent out of the advances from her hua band. She waa careful to take several rece pta purporting to acknowledge payment* of rent by her huaband. He loat hia situation in February laat, and ainoo has not given hia wifa any money with which to pay rent. She left the house on the first of May, taking the fnrnitnre, which waa her indtvidnal property, and leaving a quarter'a rent due—s(so. The plaintiff sued the wife for thia amount, with ooeta, saying that after the expiration of the laat leaae evi denced bv writing, he made a new leaae, oralW, to the wife, regarding her aa the real tenant, and giving credit solely to her, because abe waa one of the pair who paid him his rent. On the other hand, her counsel contended that the original contracts made with the huaband were aimply continued by parole, the wife acting aa hia agent and doing nothing to charge her separate estate. Thia answer wsa sustained by the jury, who found a general verdict for the defendant. lioeomoUve Caprice*. It in perfectly wall known to expe rienced engineers that if a dosen differ ent locomotive engines were mad® at tlie une tim®, of the name power, for tb® name purpo®®, of like material*, in th® earn® factory, each of theae looo motive engines would com® out with ita own peculiar whima and way*, only as certainable by experience. On® engine will take a great deal of coal and water at once ; another will not hear to anch a thing, hot lnalsta on being coaxed by apadefnla and bucketful*. One i* dis posed to atart off wben required at tha top of speed; another must have a little tim® to warm into it. Theae peculiari ties are ao accurately mastered by skill ful drivers that only particular men can persuade engines to do their best. It would seem ss if some of these *' excel lent masters" declared, on being brought from the stable, " If it's Smith who is to dries, I won't go ; if it's my friend Stokes, I tm agreeable to do anything." All locomotive engines are loir-spirited in damp, foggy weather. They hare great satisfaction in their work wben the sir is erisp and frosty. At snch time tliey MO eery cheerful and brisk, bat they strongly object to lies* end mists. These are points of charac ter on which they are united. It is in their peculiarities and varieties of char acter that they are the most remark able. Capture of a Slave I>how. Her Majesty's ship V alt are, says the London Time*, Commander A. T. Brooke, was cruising off the northwest coast of Madagascar when a sail to the southeast was reported by the mast head-man. Chase was given, aud near ly five hours afterward the dhow was come up with and boarded. It was full of slaves, forty-one men, fifty-nine wo men, and one hundred and thirty-seven children. The slaves were suffering acutely from weakness and cramp, hav ing had to remain in one position for a long time. Several of the children were unable to straighten their legs for three or four days after they were re ceived on board. One woman was found buried up to her neck in damp sand at tne bottom of the Blave dhow, under the lower slave deck. The own ers of the human cargo were thirty-five armed Arabs, and the captain deter mined to take them to Zanzibar and have them summarily dealt with. The Vulture sailed for the Seychelles after burning the dhow and picking up four boats that had been sent away cruising a few days previously. The passage was made in ton days, and during that time seventeen liberated slaves died of dysentery and extreme debility. This is the largest oaptnre whioh has been made for a very long time. SO. 43. A TEXAS YEJfDETTA. History of Ifc. Tifhir-taUM Warn*— aiStlMB II.SUMM Alr*djr. A member of ons of tha two military compautM sent from Galveston, Texas, to Indianola M guards of the prisoner William Taylor, accused of killing Wil liam Button and Gilbert Slaughter on the Morgan steamship iMt spring, baa contributed to the Galveston Noun the following account of tbeeatcagM out of which the murder and arrest grew : " We reached the wharf a few minntee before eight o'clock, where we wen met by District-Attorney W. H. Crane, who accompanied the command to the court bonae, and caused the sheriff to receive the prisoner and place bim in jail; and by bia request Gapt. Weeks placed sentinels around the jail to pre vent either a rescue or an attempt to lynch, M the Governor had been in formed might be attempted. On the wharf there were fewer persona than 1 expected to see, judging from rnmora we had heard ; and on the streets very few of the partisans of the antagonistic factions wrre seen. In fact, scarcely a dogen of them were noticed; they were very quiet and orderly. In this con. nection I will add that the much re gretted feud between the families and friends of Button and Taylor should cease. It hM already oust a sufficient number of lives to cause those now liv ing to reflect and stop. From twe gen llemen who reside in that portion of the Bute I learn that the feud originat ed in Alabama about eighteen years ago. Their account of its subsequent progress is M follows: Shortly after the death of a member of one of these families at the hands of the ether, one family moved to this Bute and settled in Western Texas. Subsequently the other came and settled, unknowingly, in the same neighborhood. Here they lived peaceably np to the end of the Lste war, when one, Charles Taylor (though no relative),came among them, and, being accused of stealing horses, fled to Bastrop oonnty with a friend, Jim Sharp. They were panned by several citizens, among whom William Button WM said to have been. Taylor and Sharp were caught and shot, After the return of the punning party to De- Witt oonnty. Book Taylor, ancle to the prisoner, and Dick Chiabolm expressed their feelings so strongly regarding the killing of Charley Taylor and Sharp, M to give offense to William Sutton and a Mr. White, from which resulted a fight and the death of Taylor and Ohiaholm. It ia stated that the next two killed were Littlejohn and Btannard, who were shot in Wilson oonnty, both friends of Sutton. The supposition was that Tay lor's friends committed the act. This WM in 1870, when Davis' State Police were in force, and with whom, rumor says, Button WM friendly, if not con nected. In 1871 C. 8. Bell, SUU po liceman. abet and killed Hays Taylor. In 1872 Dobey Taylor WM killed by a man iq Kerrville. In 1873, as Mr. Cox and a friend were riding in advance of Messrs. Tixnlinsoo. Walls and Itagland, friends of Sutton and party, from Helena toward Yorktown, tbey were shot from the bushes and killed, it was supposed by the Tsylor party. During the same year Mark Taylor WM killed by a party with whoa Jack Helm was, and in the same year Helm was killed in Alaacoaa county, it WM believed by some of the Taylor gang. Ia 1873. Pit kin Taylor, another uncle of William Taylor, was called out of his bouse and so badlv shot that be did not long sur vive. Shortly afterward two more of bis relatives, the Killett boys, were killed. Karl? last spring the Sutton party, under Capt. Tomlinsoo and Wuliam Sutton, completely surrounded Uic Tavlora, and would hare ended the dif flculUeebad not good citizens interfered and secured a treaty of peace, which waa signed by each member of the two parties, and waa kept until the killing of Sutton and Slaughter on the steam ship Clinton last March, and aa a prin cipal in which William Taylor, the prisoner, it now under accusation. Within a month from that time. Scrap Taylor, the only brother of the pris oner, who had been oaptnred in Co manche county and sent to DeWitt, charged with cattle steeling, waa taken from jail by a mob, consisting, it waa thought, of Sutton men, and shot to death. These are all the homicides I could hear of, yet my informants admit that there may hare been others, aa the two parties ars always in the saddle, arrayed against each other. At present the Sutton party are largely in the aaoend anU lam alto told that the fend has drawn into it many others, and if a general fight should at any time begin, there would be 1,000 or 1,200 in vol red. It is thonght to be utterly impossible to obtain an unbiased jury in any of the adjacent counties, for these parti sans hare sympathisers in them. Yet in Indianola* there would have been no trouble. At the court here the venire of sixty summoned waa a very intelli- Cnt one, and men who would have en just without fear or favor. Speaking of this difficulty, an attor ney stated it waa with regret that the people of a eounty like DeWitt, with 1,600 voters, felt it necessary to call upon the Executive for protection and tiie enforcement of the law. All with whom I conversed expressed themselves favorable to the passage of a more vig orous police law, even the re-enact ment of the Davis Police oill, with the objectionable features, such aa the sus pension of the hatea* corpus, assess ment and collection of money from counties to defray expenses, and the power of the Governor to declare mar tial law. They believe anch a law, in hands of good officers, is absolutely needed in tha West. I hear only the moat flattering reports aa to the oon ductof Oapt L. H MeNelly and his command, and wonld auggeat that by some means he be appointed Sheriff of that county, and allowed to retain hia command to enforce the law, whioh he would do if the Legislature would en large his powers. I believe it wonld break up both gangs, or at least their earrving weapons. It ia conceded, by a large number of citizens, that had no troops oome, either an effort to release, or oao to lynch Taylor wonld have been mails. Several of the leading men of each party were in attendance on tha court. ' Then and How, There is, says an exchange, a striking contrast between Banmm's first and second marriage. When he waa " Taylor Barnnm," helping his widowed mother, who kept tavern in Dan bury, he courted Charity Haltett, " a sewing girl." Charity Hallett yielded to the youth's ardent affection, and beeame hia bride. They oommenoed house keeping in the second story of a small building, on the first floor of which the bridegroom kept an oyster saloon. Let this be compared with the Barnnm of to day, with a property of three mil lions,' and with a palace at Bridgeport surrounded by a park, the establish ment being unequaled in all New Eng land. _____ A St Louis woman, who appeared against her husband in court reoentiy, swore as follows: "Since he married me he has never given me a penny, and I've pawned my watch, my jewelry, and my false hair to get along." More Masked Robbers. The Pittsburgh a*mkto fivuu the following Seconal of ft daylight rob bery by mooUd nam, which occurred in Beaver county, Pi, recently: " A furrahonae bttwwn Hookiten i aM- About three o'clock in the afternoon four rob bera appeared. Tbey first bound fiiimi acd thee demanded to be in* formed where bb money WM eeeteled. t J refuaed to tall, and they tbreeleoad to kill bim if be did not divulge im mediately. Being unable to eeu for aaaiatanoe, be told them where a smell aom WM aecreted, but they warn not satisfied by any means, and again re tnrnad to the victim. Be aMnred them that be knew nothing of any other money, and bia penu.tence in proUst ing bia ignoranoa aeemed to be believed by the robbers. They pot the viatim on a bed. and then prooeeded to search the premisea. About half-paet four o'clock John, who ia sixty-nine year* of age, and who had been to the poet offioe, returned home. Aa soon ashe entered the bonae be WM samed but be made stteh e vigorous reaiatanoe that one of the aooundrela atrnck him on tba head with a hatchet. The blow rendered furl her reaiatanoe impossible, and be WM bound and laid on the same bed with bia brother. Be WM interro gated about the money, bat would not tell an til be felt oonvinoed be would be killed if be did not impart the desired information. The mooey. M sUted, had been buried in the cellar in 1881, and an old barrel had been placed over the spot. There WM originally about 12,700 n gold, but at various times money had been taken frem the stow, and it WM supposed there WM fully $2,000 remaining. Hie robben re mained until evening, having made ample arrangements for getting away with their plunder. Tbey had only gone a abort distance when they found that John had released himself. Tbey then returned to the bowse, sots tied him. and placed bim in a bed by him self. About nine o'clock John again obtained bia freedom, and started at onoe to a neighbor's boose, about a mile distant, when he gave information of the outrage. "It appears that the brothers have been aooumuiatingvoo! for twelve or fourteen yean. One day reoenUy a man called upon them and represented that be WM buying wool, and offered to take their entire stock. They wanted 81.36 per pound, but he refused to pay that asm and left. Ba WM walking, and this fact made them suspicions. The circumstances, however, had been forgotten until tbey were recalled by one of the thieve* remarking : * Will yon take lees than SL3S a pound for your wool now Y The news of the wto- Wry hM greeted intense excitement, snd persons living in the locality are making svery effort to obtain come el us to tha thieves." Hew Whiskey Acts. Nathaniel Van Lewen, wbo resides on Green and vlto has hitherto borne a'good reputation, but who has of late Decome involved in domestic difficulties, landing him to drown his sorrows by indulgence in intoxica ting drink*, waa ameUd on complaint ofOvereeer of the Poor Biley, at Weal Troy, N. 1., lor noo-snpport of hia family, waa discharged the next day, and again commenced drinking. Be waa again arrested and sentenced by Justine Remington to jail for ten dnys. Nothing nnnsnal waa noticed until Saturday night. About twelve o'clock at night Dr. Oobb, the jail physician, waa summoned, and foond the man then Üboringnndar strong mental ex citement. The doctor administered strong opiates to quiet him, and no more trouble ensued until the next day at one r. v., when Dr. Oobb was again sent for in haste. The man waa then eoffering from ddiriona convulsion*. He was laboring under the delusion that he had murdered a portion of the members of hia household, and was suf fering all the agonies of remorse for the fancied commission of Bust crime. He had attempted sell-destruction by trying first to batter his brains out Jainst the walls of the oelL Finding the walls would not serve hia purpose he then got on hia bunk and sprang from thence head foremost against the door of the call, which la composed of stent oaken bars three inches square, set vertically three inches apart. Af terward be grasped the bars of the door in hia hey*. and in that poeit.oa butted his bead repeatedly with grast force against the door until the alarmed keepers aeourad him. Tha wounds he inflicted are absolutely frightful, one wound nine and one-half inches in lenuth extending from the forehead ££ the base of the akull Tha de tached scalp from this wound had fallen over on his shouldsr. Another wound i five and one-hall inch* in length ooin meaeed at the top of the bead and ex tended down over the right forehead, thus making a T shaped wound, the loosened rcalp from which hung down over hia right eye, presenting a fright ful appearance. One piece of the scalp, two and one-half inches square, at tha crown of the heed, wna entirely crushed off and waa found in the oelL The cell presented the appearance of a alaiigh ter-taoose—the walla and door bespat tered with Wood in every direction. Dr. Oobb, assisted by Dr. BuKogton, dressed the wounds in the beat possible manner. Afterward Dr. Oobb pro cured an order from Juatioe Itemington to remove the wounded mah to St. Pe ter's Hospital at Albany, where he may receive such careful nursing as hia pre oarious condition requires. He is not expected to recover. It is said that he has before attempted suicide. A Thiers Triek. At the risk of increasing the facilities of the criminal classes for their raids on society, wc would call attention to an invention —French of course—known as an " escape-box," which is swallowed before going into prison. This oon trivanoe is for the special use of rogues who have the misfortune to get into prison and would be glad to step down and out. It is of polished steel, about three inches long, and contains turn screws, hammers, silk thread, and other implements necessary for escape. When it passes the bowels the prisoner is pre pared to cut the thickest iron bars and set himself at liberty. Notunfrequently this emetic fails to operate satisfac torily, and tha death of the patient is the oonscquenoe, so that after all per haps no harm will result from the in formation here imparted. SWSAIIM. —A pious elder of the Scottish kirk on his way to service of • Sabbath morning saw A little boy and girl playing mtrbln. Ho wmthfully inquired : "Do von know where chil dren go to who play marbles on Sun day f 7 "Ay, ay," nnsweied the boy, " they gang down to the Held bv th brig" (bridge). "No!" roared the elder, 14 they go to hell and are burned." 'Ae little fellow, looking shocked end frightened, called to his sister: "Come awa', Jeanie, come awa', here's a man sweariiig awfully." RATIOCIHATIOH.— 'Tourist (who has had a mouthful of bread and cheese) — "Ah, well; good morning. Mrs. Shark good morning ! Ah—by the bye tho', you seem to be very much troubled with rata here !" Mr. Ob, 70s ; that we are indeed, air." Tourist— > "WelL I'll tell you a oapital way of getting rid of them." Mr. S. (eagerly) —" Oh, indeed, air ; now will yon ? I shall be so glad." Tourist—"Yes, charge *Olll hsli-s-crowß for breed End cheese; they'll never oome again."