A I.nllahy.
Roekaby, lullaby, bom in th* elover '
Oooolng o dv>w*ilj\ erring so low--
Rockal y, lullaby, dear little revei '
Down into wonderland -
Down to the nnder-land -
00. oh go!
Down into wonderland go'
Roekaby, lullaby, mm on the clover '
Tear* on the eyelid* that waver and weep'
Rockaliy. lullaby bending it over'
Down on the mother-world.
Down on the other wot M 1
bleep, oh simp !
Down ou the mother-world aleep '
Roekaby, lnilaby. dew on ihe clover'
IVw on the eye* that will sparkle at dawn !
Roekaby. lullaby, dear lmle roves '
Into the *(. ly w.xrld
Into the hlv world.
Oon*! oh gone '.
Into the lily-world gone'
Dr. B.&ind
1 Mused Last Night In IVnalre Mood.
Oh, there', nothing half eo eweet in life
A* lore's yonng dream !"
1 mused laet night in pensive m.vvi
Albeit not often arnumeiital -
My beart was. heavy and my ftamn
Woe miked with ache* both head and
dental
1 ay. a once I've eaid l>efore.
My mood w ..* some* bat e*d and pensive,
1 oast up n the Pat a glance
Foud. Urgertng and comprehensive
1 saw once mere thai roowv I auk.
By which the nior ripple* floaty,
O'ershad.-wrJ 1 y lb* silvery veil
Of willow b;ancle* drew puijc lowly.
Reelivwii with wild spring floweret* dyed
Io every color of the pn*m ;
Where oft we sat. May Brown and I.
Nor ever duvatu.-.l of rheumatism.
Ws lows!. Ah. vsc ' S. rue might have
KIT*.!
Refer* a*, i. their liumCrnm fsnhicn
Rat ii*n r v t-i the world hat known
So Wild so it**: i no pure * passion'
We nvkivl not of U.e hearties* crowd.
Nor tit e-lcd oraei parent*'frowning ,
Rut lived in iv <* 1. g t.!i**fu! dream.
And spouted lvimysob and UrownHig
A'ltt v. hen th* cruel fat** decreed
That for a season 1 must leave her.
It wrung mv very heart to **•
Ho* much our [wrung seemed to gneve
her.
One happy moment, too. her head
Reposed, eo lightly, mi my ahoulder!
In dream* 1 live thai scene again.
And in my arm* again enfold her.
She gave me cm* long auburn curl,
She wore my picture in a locket.
Iter letter*, with bin* ribbon ueil.
I carried in ruy left ooat-poeket.
(Thoe* note*. row-HWiilad and puik-hued.
Displayed more sentiment than knowl
edge )
1 wrote four umes a week
That year I away at t'ollegw
But oh. at length " a change came o'er
The *p rit of mt dream' One morning
I got a chilly hue from May
In which, without the slightest warning,
She raid she shortly meant to wed
Torn Barnes (a sailor, fat and jolly!;
She sent my notes and ruby ring.
And hoped I would " forget my folly."
I **i.; her all her letters back.
I called her false and tickle-hcarted.
Aud swore I bailed with joy the hour
That saw me free. And o we parted,
quoted Byron by the page,
i smoked Havana* bv the dozens,
And then I went OQt West and fell
In love with all my pretty cousin*.
—Auct WtLI.IAXS.
THE MORAL OK IT.
Mr. Baker was going from the house
to the hay field with a pitcher of mo
lasses and water in his hand, when a
boy, or rather a half-grown young man,
came rushing into the yard in breathless
haste, and making wild gesticulations to
attract his attention.
"O, Mr. Baker," shouted he, while
yet a great way ctT, " I've come to bor
row your taekle-and-falls I Old B.ack's
fell through the trap door, and they
can't get bim np."
"He has ! When—how did it hap
pen f ' replied Mr. Baker, setting down
his pitcher, and hastening to bring
forth the machine.
"They found Lim just now—don't
know how it happtiiij," said the
other.
"Is Le much hart ? Do theT want
mj help ?"
"Tutre's lota o* folks there now.
Don't know whether he is mach hurt
or cot—guess so—they've sent for the
doctor and with this fragmentary re
ply, Joe Toxer darted away as rapidly
as be had come.
"Very <xtraordinary 1" said Mr.
BaVir to iiimstlf. " Don't weigh more'n
a hundred Tlie trap door mnst have
been awful rottm. I should think they
might raise him without a tackle-attf
falis."
Then Mr. Baker, like a dutiful hus
band, went in and told the story to his
wife, saying that he feared tne acci
dent was a serious one, as they had
sent for the doctor ; and when he had
reached this point, his wife exc'aimed
"There he goes LOW— jnst the other
way. Hadn't you better nail him ? '
DO out ran Mr. Baker, beckoning to
the doctor as be ran.
" Whoa, whoa !" drawing hs reins.
" Nobody sick, I hope," said the doc
tor ; though I fear, if the truth were
known, he was eecreily hopiDg just t tie
oontrary.
" None of my folks, doctor, but
there's been an accident at Mr. Black's.
Have you got a message from them ?"
"No; bat they may have sent one.
I've been off all the morning, and
shouldn't have got it if they bad."
" Then there's no time to be lost, for
the old gentleman's had a fall. lie was
cat in the barn, and went throngh the
trap door. He's a good deal hurt, I'm
afraid. His boy Joe was here a minute
ago, and said they'd sent for yon."
2ho doctor turned back" withont
more words, and, jnst SR he was driving
up to Mr. Black's house, was met by
Deacon Adams.
"Anybody sick here?" queried the
deacon.
" No, bnt the old gentleman has met
with an accident—pretty serious, I'm
afraid," jumping out and hitching his
horse.
" How did it happen ?"
" He was np in the barn loft, and fell
through the trap-door."
" Bho, yon don't say ao 1" said the
deacon. He had no chance to say any
thing more, for the doctor was now
hurrying towards the honse.
it happened that the deacon's route
took hitn directly past the dwelling of
Mrs. Nndd, who was Mr. Black's niece,
and, furthermore, that at the identical
moment when he came opposite the
dwelling, she was in the yaid hanging
out clothes.
" Good morning, Deacon Adams.
Any news np towr . called she.
" Wa-al, nothing special. Of oeurse
yon've beard about your Uncle Simeon?"
" Uncle Simeon ? I haint heard any
thing sinoe Sabbath day. I see him
then. Nothing bad, I hope."
"Pretty bad, I should say, seeing
as he fell from the loft clean to the
barn-floor. It must be forty feet, at
least."
" Mercy sakes ! Why, it must have
mashed him to a jelly 1"
" I don't know the extent of the in
jury—the doctor was going in just as I
drove along. 'Taint very likely he'll
get over it—a man of his age."
"Get over it 1 It's a wonder it didn't
kill him outright. Well, Aunt Spear
ought to know it. Josiah 1 here, you,
Josiah. run over to your Annt Spear's
aud tell her Uncle Simeon's met with
an accident, and's just alive I Stop a
minute ; teli her I'm going over to see
him, and if she wants to go too, I'll call
for her. Then you oome back and
tackle np."
" O ma'am, mayn't I drive you over ?"
•Yes, yes; there, go 'long; don't
stop to talk."
Away flew Josiah, liis grief at the
tad news somewhat consoled by the
tact that lie would be the first to tell
it, and still more by the prospect of a
riaf
" Mow lucky that I'd Just finished
FIUsD. lvl irrz, Kilitopond I Vopriotoi
VOE. VII.
my wash I" said Mrs. Nudd, at slio took
her empty clothes-tiasket ami we tit to
the house to array herself IU garment*
befitting the oivaaiou.
" Attd how lucky tliat I should hap
pen along just iu the uiok of time I"
said the deacon, a* he drove ou.
When Mrs. Nudtl stopped at Aunt
Sjear's door, she found that lady ready
and waiting, bandbox iu hand.
** Bo careful ; it's a borrted buuuit,"
said she to Josiah, a* he hissed lite
bandbox into ihe track of the wagon,
while she elamlreretl tip iu front.
"A borrted buuuit ? What's that
for ?" queried the uieee.
" It's a mounting oue, dear. It's
well to be prepared for the worst Poor
Simeon! he had bis ways, but still he
was my brother" -already beginning to
speak of him iu the past term.
" I can put a black ribbon ou mine,"
said her niece, alluding to the Ivonuet
Mr. Simeon Black sat in his easy
ehasr reading his paper w hen the doc
tor drove up to the door, and, hitching
his horse, entered the house without
knocking.
"Is your husband up stairs?' he
said to Mrs. Black, who, hearing the
front door open, had put her head over
the baluster.
" He's in the sitting-room. Walk
right iu," said she, blandly.
The doctor obeyed. but stopped
short iu amazement when he beheld
the mau whom he hail been led to sup
pose had hardly a whole bone in his
iHvly, sitting upright iu his chair, with
his paper before him. He instantly re
covered his professional coolness, how
ever, and, depositing his medicine
chtat ou the door, seated himself by
his patient.
" Glad to see you so comfortable,"
said he, smiling blandly. " I feared it
might be A great deal worse. Nothing
more than a sprain, perhaps ?"
"Worse? Sprain?" repeated Mr.
Block, wonderingly.
" Do you mean to say that you were
not at all injured by the fall?" asked
the doctor.
" 1 don't kuow what fall you mi an,
unless it's Adam's fall," replied Mr.
Black, facetiously ; " and I s'pose that
didn't hurt me worse than other
folks."
" Is it possible tliat I've been the vic
tim of a practical joke ? ' exclaimed the
doctor. " Did you not send for me
this morning, post-haste?"
" Send for yon ? Not I. G'ad to see
yon, though—rather you'd find cie well
than *iek."
"Um, am—some mistake—another
person," mnrmuied the mortified doc
tor, snatching up his mediciue-chest
ami making for the door.
41 Don't hurrv, doctor," eaid Mr.
B'ack.
" Thank you—driven to death !
Good morning, sir."
" Lost his dollar this time,"chuckled
the old man, as the doctor shut the
door.
Scarcely had the dust of the doctor's
wheels subsided, when the minister's
tall form was seen coming through the
gate.
He rapped softly, as if fearful of dis
turbing those within, and the summons
was answered by Mrs. Black.
She was rather surprised to see her
pastor, for she thought be kuew better
than to makecslla Monday morning ;
but she settled her cap, smoothed her
apron, and received him graciously.
"I'm glad to see that you feel sub
missive under this melarcholy dispen
sa'ion," said he, taking htr hand
" The old gentleman is still alive, is he
not?"
"The old gentleman," repeated she.
" Excuse me, madam ; your liu.v
"My husband alive ! I guess so ;
he was when I came out o' the settin'-
reom five minutes ago."
" He can't last long, I suppose."
" Wal, sir, I don't know why he
mayn't. He's well along in years, to
be sure, but he's hale and hearty, and
likely to outlive many a younger man,
for anght 1 see."
" Mrs. Bi&ck, there must be some
mistake here. Hasn't your husband
met with any accident ?"*
" None at all, sir. Did you hear that
he had ?"
" I did. bnt I rejoice that it was a
mistake and the minister took hie
leave, promising to call again at a more
convenient season.
The next arrival was that of Mrs.
Nndd and Aunt Spear, who opened the
door softly, tiptoed up stairs, and made
their way to a chamber where Keturah
sat sewing.
" Why, bow glad I am to see you !"
cried she, starting up and greeting them
both with a kiss. "Take yonr things
right off. Give me the band-box. A
new bonnet, auntv ?"—raises the cover
and peeps in. " Mercy, it's crape ! No
boly dead, I hope."
" I hope not, dear," said Aunt Spear;
" bnt I didn't know how soon I might
need it. I calculated to stay till it's all
over, if I could be of any use. How is
your poor father, dear ?
" Father—why, he's well—never bet
ter in his life," said Ketnrah, opening
her blue eyes to their fullest extent.
"Then there wa'n't no bones broken,
after all, said Mrs. Nudd. " But yon
mustn't raise no false hopes on that ac
count. He can't be well, after such a
fall. Most likely there's bleeding in
side."
"Why, Consin Nudd, what do yon
meaa ? Father hasn't had any fall, "nor
nobody else in this house, unless it's
Tommy. He fell down the back stairs ;
but he's always doing that; it doesn't
hurt him any ; he bounces like an In
dia-rubber bail," langhing merrily.
" Well, I never was so beat in my
life I Bo nothing has happened to mo
body, and here we've come all this way
on a fool's errand, and washing-day,
too," said Mrs. Nndd, in a tone of vex
ation. " I've the greatest mind to just
turn round and go home again."
" Yon shall do no such thing, cousin.
You shall stay and spend the day, and
we'll have a great deal better time than
if there was sickness in the house;
only, for pity's sake, don't say anything
to father aboat the crape bonnet !" and
Keturah fell to langhing again.
The matter was not destined to end
here, however, for the news of Mr.
Black's accident had spread through
the town, and persons kept flocking to
the door to make inquiries and offer
aid.
The worst of all was, when little Mr.
Moses, carpenter and undertaker, ap
peared at the door, and announced,
with a solemn visage, that he had oome
" to measure the old gentleman."
He received his answer from the "old
gentleman" himself, who, being natu
rally of an irascible turn, and unable
longer to control his warth, bawled at
the top of his voice—
" Hadn't you better wait till I'm
dead ?"
Mr. Moses probably thought that he
had, for he slunk ont the gate without
another word.
"Now," said Mr. Black, "if lean
find out who started this story, I'll
have a settlement with him on the
spot."
"'Twas Dea. Adams told me," said
Mrs. Nudd.
" Then Joe shall go to the deacon and
see who told him. I'm going to sift
tbii matter to the bottom."
So Joe was dispatched to Dea.
Adams, who said he bod the story from
the doctor t and sueh was the good
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
deacon's indignation at being so
that he himself accompanied Jtre to the
doctor, who said that Mr. Baker had
told him.
Then all three weut to Mr. Baket,
who, having listened to their errand,
turned to Joe with an unexpected out
burst
" Who told me the atory ? Why,
; you yourself, you rascal. Do you mean
to deny it? Then come along with me
to Mr. Black. I'll see if I'm to be
made game of iu this fashion."
l'oor J ere attempted to say some
thing in self-defence, but being per
. eniptorilyordered to " Shut up !" every
time he opened his mouth, he at length
abandoned the effort.
" Here'a tlte culprit, sir," said Mr,
Baker, when he had brought Joe into
his master's presence. "He's at the
bottom of all this mischief !"
" Wliak yon, you jackanapes you
! you," gasped Mr. Black.
" 1 didn't ! I never !" said Joe.
" What, do yon pretend to say you
didn't tell me your master, here, had
fa!leu from the loft ?" asked Mr. Baker
" 1 never said no such thiug," satd
Joe.
"Perhapsyon didn't intimate he was
injured to that degree he couldn't be
raised without machinery ?" continued
Mr. Baker, sarcastically.
" 1 never," persisted Joe.
" Then perltapt you will bo good
enough to state for what purpose you
did ask to borrow mv tackle-and-falls."
" 'Cause old Black had fell through
the trap-door."
" You hear him, geutlemeu," said
Mr. Baker, with a triumphant glance
from Mr. Black to the doctor and the
deacon. " And now, perhaps you'll
be good enough to state who you meant
by 'old Block.' "
"I meant l'age's old horse, o' course ;
they aliers calls htm that."
A smothered laugh was heard from
Keturah, which emboldened Joe to
add—
"Golly! I should think you'd a
knowed nobody\l want them things to
raise up master."
"So I did, so I did, Joseph ; but—
hem -ha—yon see, geutlemeu, how the
mistake arose. Well, 1 must bid you
all good-day. It looks likely for a
shower, and I ve got some hay out."
" One moment, if you please," said
the doctor. "I should like to know
tiow / came to be mixed up iu this
affair."
" Yes, Joseph, answer that," said Mr.
Baket. " Didn't you say the doctor
had been sent for?"
"Yes, bnt I didn't say it 'twas him.
'Twas Wattles, the horse doctor."
SJ Mr. Baker, the deacou and the
doctor departed, looking very crest
fallen ; and Aunt Snear remarked,
" Wal, you can't believe all you hear,
hat's certain."
Which remark we will adopt for the
moral of our tale. *
The Old l'uinp.
Near John Knot's house, in Edin-
burgh, says the Danbnry man, is one
;of those massive box-shaped pumps
so oommon here. It is the author of au
incideut supposed to be characteristic
ol Scotch humor. Tuero was a woman
who was suspected of mauy thefts, but
no responsibility could be fastened
upon her. She had a lover who, from
a brain defect, was called " Daft Jim
my." In despair of detecting the
woman, the police seized on " I>aft
Jimmy," and after a night's confine
mcut proceeded to worm the secret out
of him. But not a syllable would he
give uutit there were brought to him
the provost and magistrates. Those
dignitaries, realizing the importance of
the intelligence, lost no time in coming
to Jimmy.
" N'ow,"sai I the provost, with breutb
: less interest.
" There will no harm come to me ?"
asked the traitor.
They solemnly assured liim that not
' a hair of his bead ahould be harmed.
Still he hesitated. Probably because
he was bald, and did not consider the
figure of speech axactly applicable to
the occasion.
Again they assured him that hcsbonld
not snfler.
He looked anxiously over their faces
I for a moment, and apparently assured
' of their sincerity, said :
"Ye ken the well anent Knox's
I house ?"
" Yes, Jimmy," they responded.
"The squsre wan ?"
" Yes, Jimmy.**
" I>o ye ken the handle ?"
"Yes, Jimmy," (with marked eager
ness. )
" Could ye lift it ?"
" Yes, Jimmy," in quivering voices.
" Well, go pump it then, for ye'll not
pump me."
The andience dispersed,
A Lesson Taught.
Traveling from Harrisbnrg to Al
fcoona, in Pennsylvania, says a well
known physician, last summer, we hap
pened to occupy the next seat to a lady
aid gentleman who carried with them
on their journey what was
evidently their first baby. It is bnt
fair to the gentleman to say that be
took upon him reasonable share of
the trouble of minding the little one.
After a short sleep in the father's arms,
it awoke up hungry and noißy. The
baby cried and screeched, it knew well
for what. The mother dandled it,
chirped to it, showed it the window
and how to look out of it, but failed to
pacify baby, of course. At length the
father, pained and mortified enongh,
turned to me and said, " I'm snre, sir,
baby mnst annoy you greatly." I re
plied, " No ; the child does not annoy
mo in the least ; the crying and
screeching, and useless efforts to pacify
the infant, do annoy me very mnch.
They are all due not to the child, bnt
to the mock-modesty of the infant's
mother and, I suppose, of yourself.
The child I Bincercly pity. It ishungry.
Its mother knows that. And she is so
modest, forsooth, that she cannot nurae
her own babe in a railroid carriage 1
Take my advice, as u family man, and
it is this: Tell yonr wife to nurse her
hungry infant, and get rid of this silly
humbug of mothers who are so modest
as to starve their own children rather
than let it bd known that they could
nurse their babes."
This was said load enough to bo
heard all around. Of course, the
mother listened to every word. After
a few further fruitless efforts to quiet
baby by drumming on the window
and a few significant winks from the
hnsband, the roaring young fellow was
supplied by his mother with what he
had made all tho noise about. Wo
tangbt that father and mother a lesson
that day which we expect they will
never forget.
TRY IT. —A Sootcli minister was once
ordered " beef tea " by his physician.
The next day the patient complained
that it had made nim sick. " Why,
minister," said the doctor, " I'll try the
tea mysel." So, patting some in a
skillet, he warmed it, tasted it, and told
the minister it was excellent. " Man,"
says the minister, "is that the way ye
sup it ? " What ither way shonld it be
snppit ? It's excellent, I suy, minister."
" It may be gude that wav, doctor ; bat
try it wi' the cream and sugar, man I
try ft wi' that, aud then see boo ye
like It I"
CENTRE MALE. CENTRE CO.. PA.. Til I'RSI) A A". DEC EM RER 3, IK7I.
INCREASE OE IHHTLATION.
I Itn I 111 rir al lug Slallxlr* lltlalll* In
III* Pull*.l Stale*.
The resource* of this country, savs
an exchange, for sustaining the |n>pit
latiou are so vast, thai it is almost im
possible to ear to what extent the in
crease need be limited. The I'm ted
States contains, it is estimated, some
three millions of square miles ; and the
Territorial extent of the Mississippi
and valleys alone, is nearly five times
as large aa Great Britain and France
combined ; one and a half times as
Urge as the whole of France, Great
Britain, Austria, Prussia, Hpaiu, Por
tugal Belgium, Holland, and Denmark
together. The Russian Ktupire in Eu
rope ia only one-fourth larger, and the
ancient Uomau Empire only exceeded
it by one-half.
These valleys embrace nearly owe
half of the national domain. They
have peculiar advantage* for produc
tion, and a century hence they will, it
is supjvjsed, contain one-half of the
population. In all the States are more
or less mres of uncultivated lands,
so that there ure almost unlimited
resources for sustaining the densest
population, however rapidly it may in
crease.
Tlie increase iu population from IT'.K)
to Hi's), the period before the com
mencement Of the war between tlie
North and the South, was uniformly
within a fraction of three jKr cent, lu
17lH), the aggregate population was
nearly 4,000,0(KI ; iu 1800, therefore, it
would be over 5,300,000; ,u IS2O, i),i>oo,-
000; iu 1840, over lT.OOO.OlW; and, iu
1800, over 01,Oik),Oik).
During the next ten years, however,
the increase was not in the same ratio,
for in 1870 the census returns was 38,-
5fi8,00l), so that the usual decennial
gam was reduced from 3d to "10per
cent., the lesiilt of the destruction 'f
hfo by the war ; the takiug away of
husbands from their families ; dimin
ished marriages, and tit* checking of
immigration iu cotUMqnraoe of the
war.
The increase of population from 1860
to IS7O by States was : New Kugland,
332.633 ; Middle States, 1,374,6*);
Western, east of the Mississippi,
2,11)7,633; west of the Mississippi,
1 838,1*9; K->nthern Atlantic, 354.463 ;
Gulf aud Interior, 738,8<>4 ; and Pa
cific, 218,531.
Supposing that the ratio of 3 j>er
cent, increase which hsld good from
1790 to 1860 should still do so after
1870, the population of the United
States in 1880 will be, ia round num
bers, nearly 52,000,000 ; iu I*9o, 69,-
5u0,000; and m 1900, 5)3,000,000. A#
regards the means of sustaining the iu
j creasing population, we may state that,
iu 1870, there a ere in the twenty-one
States, 148,326,699 acres of improve*!
laud, and 156,016,042 acres of uiiim
proved land; a total of 306/278,741
acre*. The U. 8. population at that
time was orer 30,000,001), and it was es
timated that these {states could sustHiu
about 135,000,000. This was of course
based ou ar* a, but some of the States
have more wnate lands than others,
therefore no accurate estimate could
be made. With improved methods of
oultivatiou, the improved land in these
Stales could be made, it is believed, to
produce double, tuid in niauy instances
treble, the present product. The un
cultivated l-inds oould bo cultivate*!,
leaving sufficient waste lands and for
ests for fleet upon the rnln fall and
other purposes. By this moans, with s
density of popnlstion to the stinsie
mile equal to the d< nsely-|opalatcd
portions of Europe, these State.* could,
it is auppoaed, tie made to sustain a
population of one hundred aud forty to
one hundred and fiftv millions.
Capital PuuUhmeut.
About 1807 a poor womou with twi
children, one at the breast, stole from
inside a shop door a piece of linen
worth some seven or eight shillings.
She, however, had not proceeded far
when she repented of her crime, and wu.-
retuming to the shop with it when she
was arrested. She was tried at the
Old Hailey, convicted, and condemned
to death. The jury and the prosecutor
unanimously recommended the woman
to in rev, on account of her husband
having been pressed as a sailor, het
starving condition at the time, and her
previous unblemished character. But
all in vain. The judge refused to iu
dsrse the application, and the womau
wss executed at Tyburn, the child be
ing taken from her breast at the foot of
the gallows. In the minds of a large
majority of the public this execution
created great indignation, and a hill
was brought iuto Parliament to atxilish
the punishnieut of death for stealing in
a shop, to the value of five shillings.
This bill was at first thrown out iu the
House of Peers, the Judges beiug
agaiust it. Tho bill subsequently
passed into law. On the introduction
into tho llonso of Lords of a bill for the
nlxilitiou of the punishment of death
for stealing in n dwelling house to the
value of forty shillings, the majority of
the Judges were against it. Lord El
lenborongh was particularly energetic
in his op(M>sitioii, arguing, ns the law
stood it worked well, and why then
should it be altered ? One of the Peers
was so struck with the validity of the
learned Lord's arguments that he said,
"We shall not bo able to place our
heads with safety on onr own pillows if
that bill passes into law I" In the
thirty jears from IT'.O to 1829, for
offenses against the Hank Act alone,
629 men were capitally convicted, ami
1,161 were transported ; yet, till public
opinion liecamo too strong to be disre
garded, the Judges offered little oppo
sition to such atrocious cruelty.— The
Saturday Journal.
Hlood of the Human System.
The axiom that " we die daily," is
aptly illnntrated in a paragraph of Prof.
Bedferu's paper on Biology, recently
rend before the British Association.
Inferring to the blood, it in naid that
the dnration of life in any of its par
ticles in lint nhort; they die and their
places are occupied by othem, and no
continue a substitution which only endn
in death. After every meal an amazing
number of white oorpoaolea are added
to the blood ; breakfast doubles their
proportion three times, and dinner
makes It four timcu an great. They
come from nuch nolid glands as the
spleen. In the blood going to this
organ, their proportion is one to 2,2(10;
in that returning from the nploen, it is
as ono to sixty. Perhaps the most stu
pendous fact of organization in the
steady maintenance of but slight vari
able characters in the liviug aud mov
ing blood, which is every moment un
dergoing changes of different kinds, as
it circulates through each tissue and
organ of the body.
A Denver lady was going to a millin
er's one evening lately by moonlight,
and on passing a place where her figure
c ist n good shadow, she was astonished
t > behold that it wore no hat. Clap
ping her hands to her head, 10, and be
hold there was no hat there. 81ie was
confident that she started from home
wearing a new ten-dollar hat, but al
though she immediately retraced her
steps, the lost article was not found,
and has not bean seen by her einoe, A
true story,
THE I'NITKD MATES ARM!
VVbal Ucueral Ibtrsias liai I* •> In A Helton Talon ham h*r I kIMNs and
III* Annual Hfpnrl. Wurdcrcd —l)au|liltl Trallßr*
lieu. Sherman, m his annual report
j dated Headquarters Army of the Put
ted !SUt<-, Bt. Lotto)
i"The latent returns received up to
Oct. 15, 1864, show the strength of the
army to lc at that ilate 'Jtt.tfl eulisted
' men," and adds, "I hare no doubt
that by Jan. 1, IK7B, the number of en
-1 listed men will tie reduced by the or
dinary casualties, discharges and
deaths, to the number limited by law,
vil: '25,000 men, and will venture the
expretsiou of opinion that thia limit
forces the puinpaiiies to no small a
i standard that the efficiency of the ser
j vice is grestly impuired thereby." It
; is utterly impossible to maintain the
companies in remote stations up to the
very small legal standard, lieeauac
mouths must necessarily elajme, after
the discharges ami deaths, before re
cruits can be seut from the general
rendervous. General F.hermau then
refers to the report* of the officers com
manding the diiTereut divisions and
departments, which accompany his
report. Hefcrring to the Military Di
vision of the Missouri, commanded by
' Lieut, (tea. Hheridau, he says: "This
important division embraces substan
tially all the territory east of the Mis
, sissippi river, and east and including
the States of Illinois and Minnesota.
Within this immense area are grouped
most of the Indian tribes who are in a
transitive state from savage barbarism
to a condition of comparative civilisa
tion. it la withiu this area that there
has been, and must coutiuue for years
to come, that coutact of the frontier
settlers with the aboriginal savages
resulting in a chrome state of war.
Durin | the past year, by the extraor
dinary activity of the troop* and the
good sense of our military officers, the
frontier has beeu comparatively safe.
On the northern hue of Texas and the
southern line of Kansas the untamed
savages, Kiowas, tVmaucbee, Cbey
••nnt-s, and Arrapahoes, began this
season their usual raids, and as the lu
ll.an agents confessed their utter ina
bility to manage their respective tribe*
by the usual humane and Christian
troatuirnt, the whole subject was
turned • vi r to the War Department and
committed to the management of the
Lieutenant General, who ha* laid hold
of it with accustomed energy, and for
full details 1 refer to his admirable re
port, together with th<*se of the De
partment commanders. Generals I k op
snd Auger. Geu. Ord has maintained
admirably the safety of the great Paci
fic railway, now one of the grand av
uaes of travel for the whole world, and
Geu. A. 11. Terry at the north ha* in
like manner given security to an cxtcn
siv* and valuable frontier, and has
pushed exploration into the lllack Hill
region, and into the beautiful valleys
that lie along the stream* which con
stitute the sources of the Yellowstone
and Miaaouri rivers.
" I inclose the annual reports of all
these general*, and refer to them for
valuable information touching tLcae re
mote States and Territories. They are
luckily ao remote from headquarters
that to the officers on the spot are left
HpNM control <>f ail the detail*, and
the consequence i* the utmost hartn< nj
of actiou and economy of administra
tion. I have not the least doubt that
to Gen. Hehofield's judicious njr
vi*i<>n aud the prompt action of Gen.
Jeff. C. Davis in Oregon last spring, we
arc indebted for a peaceful solution of
what for a time thicatene*! to tx* a war
with the Shoshone* and Hnake Indians.
Also, Gen. Crook, lieing armed with
full authority aud but little complica
ted with civil agents and their adminis
tration, has maintained an almost unin
terrupted peace iu that moat difficult
country, Arizona.
" 1 inclose the reports of sll these i ffi
cora, aud refer them with pride as sam
ples of military literature, clear and
concise in the statement of fact*, and
demonstrating that the small army of
Uie United Htates called s peace estab
lishment is the hardest worked Ikmlv of
men in this or any other oonntry. The
discipline and behavior of the officers
and men have been worthy of sll praise ;
anil whether employed on the extreme
and distant frontier, or in aiding the
civil officers in the execution of civil
process have been a model for the imi
tation of all good men." In conclusion
Gen. Hherman refer* t* the assent of
the President and Secretary of War to
the removal of Army Headquarters to
St. Louis, and says : " Where lam at
present established, prepared to exe
cute any dntiea that may l>e devolved ;
on me by proper authority, I am cen
trally located, and, should occasion
arise, T can personally proceed to any
|>oint of this continent where my ser
vices sro needed. The report of Lieut. 1
Gen. Hheriilsii gives n full account of !
military operations conducted in his
division during the year, all of which j
have leen published. Gen. Hheridan j
expresses the opinion that the definite
settlement of the Indian troubles iu
the Southeast will be accomplished be
fore or about mid-winter by the troops
now operating in that locality. He
does not agree with Gen. Pope as to
the causes of these Indian troubles, but
attributes them to the immunity with
which these tribes have been treated in
all their raids for tho past three years.
Their reservations have fnrnisheti them
supplies with which to make tho raids,
and sheltered them from pursuit when
they returned with their scalps and
plunder." Tho report shows conclu
sively that tho only way to doal with
the Indians is to punish them severely
when they commit depredations on the
whites, and that the protection hereto
fore afforded them by the order pro
hibiting the military from going on
the reservations to punish raiders has
encouraged the Indians in making raids
into the adjoining settlements.
A Quaker Printer's Proverbs.
Never send an article for publication
without giving the editor thy name, for
thy name oftentimes securos publica
tion to worthless articles.
Thou shonldst not rap at the door of
a printing office ; for he that answereth
the rap snceretli iu his sloovo and
loseth time.
Never do thou loaf about, nor knock
down the type, or the boys will love
thee as they do the shade trees—when
thou bravest.
Thou shonldst never read the copy
on the printer's case or tlio sharp and
hooked oontainer thereof, or ho may
knock thee down.
Never inquire of the editor for news,
for behold it is his business to give it
to thee at the appointed time without
asking for it.
It is not right that thou shonldst ask
him who is the author of an article, for
it is his dnty to keep such things nnto
himself.
When thon dost enter his office, take
heed nnto thyself that thon dost not
look at what may concern thee not, for
that is not meet in the sight of good
breeding.
Neither examine thon the proof sheet,
for it is not ready to meet thine eye,
thou mnyest understand.
Prefer thine own town paper to any
other, and subscribe for it immedi
ately.
Pay for it in advanoe, and it shall be
well with the* nd thine.
HEM Altti A III.E MIItHEK Tit IA 1..
Oue of the most remarkable rase* in
the annuls of crime in the Htate has lust
closed in Newaygo, Mich. Mnuroo Lin
don and wife had been living on their
farm in the towuship of Hheridan,
Mich., t <r several years prior to the
I nth day of last May, where they raised
a family consisting of two children, the
eldest, Mary Lindou, a girl of about
twelve or thirteen yearn of age. Mrs.
l.indon hud other children, living in
the neighborhood, by a former mar
riage.
On the evening of the date AIWJVO
named, Mrs. Limlon and the children
retired, ail sleeping iu the same bed,
leaving the husbaud and father sitting
by the fire, smoking. Iu the morning
Mary was awakened by hearing her lit
tle brother asking for his mother.
When she arose, her father seemed to
be very anxious about Mrs. l.indon,
saying, in substance, that something
awful hsd hap|>ened. Soon all was
commotion about the house, aud Mr.
Lindou looked where he usuallv kept
his raxoi, finding it gone. lie luirne
diatelv Ix-guti searching the premises
for his wife, bnt soon gave up the
search, going to call his neighbors to
unite in the search, saying that h s wife
was missing, and be feared that she bail
made sway with herself. The neigh
bors fl eked to his place, and a dilli
gent search WAS made. Finally he
went to a pile of logs, and there, lying
i in a depression of the ground, he found
her lying dead, with her throat cut.
He did not go near the body, but gave
the alarm, saying that she was dead,
and that she looked as though her
throat had been cut.
A subsequent < lamination allowed
that firm when* he stood when he
made the discovery he oould not |oa*i
bly tell whether her throat had been
cut or not, a* Dr. Flora testified that
her hair lay over the wounds, which
were nine in number, ao that he oould
not eee them until he had removed it.
A jury wraa impanelled bv the ooroner,
aud after examining, aa tliey ooufoaaed,
very hastily into the matter, a verdict
of suicide waa rendered. It waa sworn
to bv lather and daughter that ahe had
tried to choke herself previous to tliia.
Thus matters rested until the Thursday
following wbei. Mr. Liudon'was arrested
i on the charge of having murdered his
wife. A close eaamination of the sur
roundings had revealed a large pool of
blood about eighty six feet from where
the laxly was f <uud, and a few drop* of
blood were found ou some of Mr. Lid
don's clothing. Where the body lay
there was but little blood, the raaor wa*
partially closed and lay under the
shoulder, and there was no blood on
either hand, except where the left hand
lay on the body, and the blood had run
, down the clothing under it, nor was the
clothing disarranged, bat lay nioely
disjoined about the body. At the pool
of blood there were some twigs broken
iff from the surrounding bushes, and
the testimony of witnesses on the trial
was that they looked as though a man
i hail used them to wipe his hand, and
had then dropped them aa the wads
were found on the ground.
Itut now comes the most remarkable
fact in connection with the trial. Mary
Lindon Comes on the stand and denies
in Mo the truth of her own testimony
Iwfore the coroner's jury, saving that
she gave it under fear of her father,and
that ho had told her to swear as ahe
did. On her examination before the
court, ahe testified to continued mal
treatment of her mother by her father,
and that at one time he had told her
mother, in her presence, that either
her life or his would have to be awful
short, or that he would take a fearful
vengeance. At another time, her
mother having seen him piling up
brush outside, threw herself at his f>et
when lie came into the house, beseech
ing him not to burn her, but if he
meant to kill her, to rut her throat.
The defense attempted to show that
Mrs. louden was insane, and that iu a
fit of insauity she had taken her own
life. A desperate effort wa* made to
break down the girl a testimony, she
being cross-examined for six hours, but
all in vaiu. She is one of the most in
telligent girl's for her age that your
oorrea|Kiudont ever saw. Not once, in
all the examination, did ahe hesitate,
or cross herself.
The trial commenced before an in- j
telligent jury. Judge G hidings com
pleting his charge, the jury retired to
their room, aud returned with a verdict
of murder in the first degree.
A Brave t.lrl.
A Liverpool paper mentions that on
the Sunday morning previous s desper
ate encounter took place between a
housebreaker snd a girl fourteen years
of age, named Alice Slack, at a village
near that city. John Wallwork and
family went to church iu the forenoon,
leaving the girl and a baby in the
house. The girl was going into the
yard for a rug, when the man, who was
Iving under the window, sprang into
the house, seized her by the throat,
snd swore ho would murder her if she
did not tell where the money was. She
refused, and he pushed her down the
cellar steps and threw a chair after her.
She got up aud found he was going up
stairs. Hhe screamed and went up after
him, aud pulled him down by his jacket,
lie turned and knocked her dowu, and
pulled her across the kitchen floor by
the hair of her head. He then got a
heavy walking stick from the lobby,
with which he struck her twice en the
head, and several times over the back,
lie then got her against the lobby wall
and kicked her severely. She screamed
and struggled hard, and at last ho
pitched her into the parlor, abut the
door, and left the house, having ob
tained nothing. On the previous Friday
the same man came to the house with
n big bulldog, and said that Mrs. Wall
work, who hod just gone out, had sent
him to get his tea at the house. The
girl then shut the door iu his face.
A New Waj to lo 11.
M. Paraf is the first discoverer of a
method of doing without rain he has
salved (ho problem of artificial irriga
tion. He is known as a successful
chemist and inventor. Those who wish
to know more of him may be informed
that he is a pupil of tlie College of
Franoe.and a fellow-associate with Pro
fessor Schntzenberger. M. Paraf kuew
that the air is full of moisture, and lie
knew that chloride of calcium would
attract and condense it. fie lias ap
plied this chloride on sand hills, on
grass, on all sorts of soil, successfully,
and has ascertained that itwill produce
the irrigation of land more cheaply and
efficiently than any other artificial
ran hod. One of M. Paraf's applica
tions will produce and retain abundant
moisture for throe days, when the same
amount of water introduced by ordi
nary methods will evaporate in one
hour. M. l'araf states that his prepara
tion is less expensive than canal irri
gation, and believes that it will not
only produoe two blades of grass where
but one now grows, but will render
possible fields, meadows and prosperity
where now there is nothing but ssno
and desert waste,
r lVrm: n Ytr, in Advance.
A KIND IN TltOl'lll,E.
ll* I* I *|>iutd by III* Kaiulii on lb*
High baas.
It is the King of l'at*r<>nia who ia
in trouble now, and an officer of the
Argentine Confederation la his captor.
The original name of his PaUgonian
Majesty is Monsieur Orelie Da Ton
niens. lis la a native of souny France,
and bv education a lawyer. Joining
himself to a company of Gaols of his
own kidney, Do Tonuiens weut to Pata
gonia, where he established a colony
near the straits of Magellan. Now,
Patagonia, aa the well-versed reader
need not be informed, is en undesirable
country for a permanent place of abode.
Even a royal establishment, one would
suppose, would hardly tempt a gay
Frenchman to long live there. But
near the Magellan straits are some
islands reported (o be rioh in guano.
It is guano that has enriched Chili, aud
the sharp Frenchmen thought they saw
a chance to make a fortune from the
fertilizing deposit* of the Patagonian
coast. The people of that laud are
guileless and simple as their own at
tire. Though the climate is not tropi
cal, they usually find a light garb of
dried gross and guanaoo skins sufficient
for all purposes of comfort aud fashion.
When Bougainville and Carteret were
the only voyagers who pretended to
aur knowledge of Patagonia, we were
deluded with the fancy that the Pata
gonian s were a race of giant*. Thia
was a safe aud credible statement. No
body could contradict it
'' tin geographers, in Afric map*.
With eat age picture* tLU their gap*.
And u or uninhabitable duwne
Place *l*|'Lain* for want of towue.'
Hut, although the Patagonians are
not giants, tht-v are a trustful raoe ;
and when lie Tonniens, with his eye on
the guano beds, asked them to choose
him k tig, they were doubtless tickled
with the idea. Heretofore they had
had no government of any sort, unleaa
that feudal tie that oompelled the
weakest to give the strongest s few ex
tra trusses of pamps grass or guanaoo
skins ooold be called a government. M.
Lie Tonniens was made King of Pata
gonia, and, with his credentials in bis
pocket, he hied him back to the Repub
lic of France, to negotiate a loan on Ids
guano deposits. His suooeas was not
specially brilliant ; but some of his old
compatriots subscribed to the great
Patagonian loan. The French broken
and agriculturists know little about fer
tilisers. and they exchanged their criap
twenty franc notes for roval Patagonian
bonds secured by collateral guano.
Returning to his realm, King Orelie
Lie Tonniens was overhauled by an Ar
gentine man-of-war.
The Argentine Government claims a
part of Patagonia ; Chili claims an
other part. The two nations have
never thought it worth while to go to
war about the miserable country ; hut
King Orelie was a prise not to be de
spised. He was a usurper, or, as we
should more accurately put it, a claim
ant. Heing a mischievous person, with
money about him, he was, so to speak,
nabbed. Therefore the Department of
Dordogne rises up and demands of the
Duke Deoazeo, French Minister of
Foreign A (Furs, that this violation of
international comity shall be investi
gated.
The ducal Secretary of Foreign
Affairs must be puzzled by this appli
cation. What's the King of Patagonia
to him that he should make a row?
The thrifty Dortlogneac, who have put
their savings into Patagonian bonds
think that the Secretary has a good deal
to do about this breach of international
law ! It happens, however, that their
old friend has formally renounced bis |
French citixenahip. In order to secure j
the suffrages of the artless Patagonians
he liecame one of them. It is not j
likely that the archives of that far-off
land contain evidence of this fact ; bat >
Chilian newspapers have said that M.
De Tonniena abjured the country of.
his birth, and by some pagan rite was
admitted into the fellowship of the i
Patagonian freeholders. Whether this j
lie so or not, it stands to reason that a >
Frenchman, however French he may :
be, cannot become the reigning mon
arch of even a Patagonian and inde
pendent nation without at least tern
poraniy waiving his original rights of
citizenship. At any rate the Argen
tines have got him, and what they will
do with him, and bow the matter will
terminate, is the great question in
South America.
bowl lHnnen.
The (Ymnfry ffmflrman talks thus :
The present writer is one who thinks
that the entire Yankee people (ami a*
to that matter, prooaoly the whole
American nation), farmer* included,
are sufferer* from over-oating ; that, a
a rule, instead of seeing how little we
* may eat and enjoy perfect health, or as
uear that point as it ia expected of us,
we make it a rule to see how much we
may consume with impunity ; or, to put
it within a narrower compass, we fire
to eat. Especially are we apt to over
load the stomach when, after a hard
day's work in the harvest field or oilier
place, we sit down to a well-filled table,
moat temptingly prepared by the good
mistress, with the resolve in our own
minds— 41 Now I bsve earned a good
meal, and mean to have and enjoy it "
- perhaps a truth in itself, but yet aus
ceptible of grosa abuse. Indeed, rich
or highly seasoned food ia not neces
sary to make this an evil—one can most
effectually overload with good, plain
bread and butter as with richer food.
May it not lie s fsnlt of the parent* or
head of the house in nndnlv urging
members of the family to 44 take some
thing more " —another piece of this
cake, or another cup of this charming
coffee—to their children as well as
guests, when true kindness might be
just the reverse—as 44 My sou, I leave
for yon to say if you have not taken all
the food your system requires, so that
more would l>e injurious ?" I know
this has a sort of stingy look, but it is a
question in my ewn mind if it may not
often be the correct policy, towards the
young at least.
Well can 1 recollect at my own
mother's table never we.-e we children
urged to excess. And should not chil
dren lie taught to revere the memory
of a mother from a rather more exalted
motive than that sLe got them good
dinners ?
I think lam borne out by our medi
cal men in the assertion that the foun
dations of many of the prevalent
ohronie diseases of after life are fairly
to be traced to exoess in eating.
Pontics lu Massachusetts.
The last Democratic Govern
Massachusetts was Marcus Morton. He
was elected, in the fall of 1839, over
Edward Everett by one vote, and was
Governor during 1840. In the fall of
1812 there was a triangular oonteat for
Oovernor in that Btate, which resulted
in no election by the people, and the
election of Governor fell accordingly
ui>on the Legislature. John Davis was
the Whig candidate ; and by a combi
nation of all the anti-Whig elements in
the Legislature against the Whig can
didate Marcus Morton was again made
Governor. Bnt 1839 was the last year
in which a Democrat was elected Gov
ernor of Massachusetts by the direot
vote of the people until ♦)> of
Mr. (Hater,
NO. 44.
IIOW IfK WAS C'hEARKD.
A Wrong A I man., S.rcd a Hardrm'l
Mark trow lit. Unltewa.
The career of Abraham Lincoln aa a
criminal lawyer, furnishes more than
one instance which might with great
propriety Ire introduced into thia col
lection of the curiosities of criminal
jurisprudence. Pur many yean be waa
leading counsel in almost every noted
criminal case in the Bute of Ulinois,
and hia eloquence in pleading, his
keenest in retort, and searching ex
amination of the witnesses, were
famoua throughout the Wast long be
fore either he or hia friends began to
dream of the presidency aa among the
poeaibilitiee of hia future.
One of hia most decided triumphs
wsa won in the osae of William D.
Armstrong, who was tried at Boards
tuarn, Cass county, Illinois, in 1868,
charged with the crime of murder.
InLincoln'a early days, when he was
a poor, homeless, almost friendless
boy, be formed the acquaintance of a
family named Armstrong, consisting of
John, hia wife Hannah, and a babe a
few months old, to whom Lincoln, by
permiasiun, gave the name of William
!>., in honor of one of hia beat-loved
friends, who had died a few months
before.
The Armstrong* were hospitable and
kind, almost filling the plaoeof parents
to their guest, and he in tarn grew
7 fond of the child, which he rock
ed, carried, petted and fondled, day
after day, for weeka and months, while
he was waiting for employment.
At length a new life opened to young
Lincoln, and he gradually drifted away
from this port of generous weloome
into the wide, busy world, and for a
time bia old friends were loot sight of,
but never forgotten.
He studied law, became famous as
an advocate and a politician, and these
humble but warm and tried friends
wstchcd with pleesnre and pride every
step of kir progress up the ladder of
fsme. The babe he had so fondly oared
for grew to manhood, and although a
brave, generous youth, the crude
pioneer civilisation under which he
I[rew up unfortunately developed a
ove for the excitements of the cup,
and a taste for the rougher sports pe
culiar to the somewhat primitive society
in which be was trained.
In the summer of 1*57 there was a
Methodist camp-meeting in Madison
ooauty, attended by not a few of -the
riotous dement, and every night some
outrage was oommitted, which filled
the decent portion of the community
with indignation. A patrol was organ
ized for the preservation of order,
which was one night attacked by the
riotera, and a leading eitiaen named
Mitzgar brutally murdered.
John D. Norm and William D. Arm
strong were indicted for the crime.
Separate trials were demanded, aud
Norm was first on the docket He was
speedily convicted and sentenced to a
long term in the State penitentiary.
The feeling against Armstrong was
very bitter, and his counsel was per
suaded to take a change of venae to
Csss county, and the trial came on at
Reardstown in 1858.
Hannah Armstrong, the mother of
the accused, was in great distress.
Her husband, Jack Armstrong, had
been dead for aome yean. She was op
pressed by poverty, deserted by friends,
and now a shameful death or a linger
ing imprisonment threatened her son.
In this emergency she bethought her
self of the poor yonth to whom she had
onoe given a home, and who had so
olten played with the boy who now
stood in such imminent peril.
For many years Mr. Lincoln had
been known as a most successful lawyer,
and Mrs. Armstrong became possessed
of the idea that if he would but under
take ber son's case, he would be saved.
She therefore wrote to him at Spring
field, begging his assistance. Though
E tossed by clients on eve7 side, Mr.
inooln immediately responded that
the memories of past kindnesses were
yet green, and their obligations sacred,
and Providence permitting he would
undertake the de/ense of her son, if be
didn't try another caae that season.
Upon examination he found the ease
a moat desperate one. A jury had al
ready passed upon an alleged aooom-
K'oe, and rendered a verdict of guilty,
e same evidence would have to be
confronted in the coming trial, and
only by a miracle oould a similar result
be avoided. The only hope was to blot
out the record of the previous trial, re
fute the scutes of witnesses, and cause
the jury to forget both their duty and
their oatlia.
At length the day of trial arrived,
and the prosecution brought forward
their array of witnesses. Aa one after
another came upon the stand and gave
their evidence, they were subjected to
s rigid cross examination, but without
any very satisfactory results. The tes
timony M-emed conclusive, and every
word fell like the dreaded knell of
death.
When the proeecution had finished
their case, it appeared that only one
witness had directly connected the ac
cused with the crime. He swore that
he saw the affray, that Norris pounded
the deceased with a dab from behind,
while Armstrong assailed him in front
with s slung-shot, and the doctors tes
tified that the wounds inflicted by either
would have produced death. He ex-
Slaiucd that he was enabled to see so
istinctly, owing to the light of the
moon, wiiich was nearly at its fulh and
at the time of the occurrence, eleven
o'dock, standing in the heavens sbout
where the snn would be at ten o'dock
in the moruing.
It occurred to Mr. Lincoln to test the
truth of this statement by the almanac.
Turning to the clerk, he requested that
one be handed him, bnt it was not
readily found. Old almanacs are not
generally considered of sufficient value
in s court of justice to call for their
preservation, so one was not obtained
until a messenger had visited a neigh
boring stationery and book establish
ment, when the volume was procured
and handed to the clerk of the court,
with instructions to deliver it to Mr.
Linooln when wanted.
In dne time Mr. Linooln rose to
make the closing argument for the de
fense. It is said by those who listened
to Che address, that the like of it was
never before heard by the bar of
Beardstown.
He began by describing his early
struggles with poverty, how he had
been a friendless, homeless wanderer,
until the parents of the accused opened
to him their door, and henceforth had
been to him all that father and mother
oould ever expect to be. Their gener
osity had never been forgotten, and now
that befriended bey stood before them
to plead for the life of his benefactor's
son—the babe that he had fondled so
often in the dayß of his unquestioned
innocence. He drew a touching pic
ture of the widowed mother following
with a trembling, bleeding heart every
step in the terrible inquisition, bending
her ear to every word, and watohing
with inexpressible anxiety and dread
the faces of the jury—now seeing a ray
of hope in the softened expression, or
despair and death in the oold, hard
lines which might sometimes cross the
features of the perplexed and patient
men who held the issues of life and
death, and oould send her from that
room aimless, hopeless, sad childless,
!or fill to the brim the measure of b
joy. ~ ..
Having warmed up with hie exordi
um, he tool up the theory of the prose
cution, end with some lock), much
sophistry, eml una tinted ridicule, ho
mede it appear preposterous, if not im
|rfrrf iblfl.
The testimony wee then attacked.
♦ I.KJI individual statement analysed,
discrepancies pointed out, and ineoe
aiatendea exposed, end the fed clearly
brought out that bat oae witaeee baa
■worn to bavin* eeea the prisoner com
mit the assault—at eleven o'clock at
night ef a certain day, the moon being
very bright, nearly at the fall, and
about aa high in the heavens aa the ana
ia at ten o'etoek in the morning,
Mr. Lincoln then called npon tb
clerk for the almanac, opened it and
proceeded to chow that on the day and
at the boar mentioned there waa n<
moon at all, it baring aet at nine
o'clock—two honra before the affray
took place.
The reaolt of thia exposure waa lika
tbo bn rating of a bombunelL The mas
tarly eloquence of the plea had already
collated their sympathies, and the jury
had already been aeeking aeme pretext
for an acquittal, when thia exposure of
the boldest perjury filled the court,
judge and jury with indijpatioii, de
moralized the prosecution, incensed the
■pectetors, and in the tumult and ex
citement the ease wan abruptly closed,
a rerdict of " not gnilty almost in
stantly rendered, and the prisoner
walked out of the dock a free man.
Bat the moat oariona part of thia
■lory ia yet to be told. Home days
after tba acqnittal it waa diaoorered
that the almanac which had been giren
to Mr. Lincoln to read from waa not
for the year of the murder at all. lt
waa further shown that at the time
mentioned by the witness, the moon
waa in substantially the position he
described ; bat the mischief had been
done, and the verdict could not be re
called.
How that almanac eame to be handed
to Mr. Lincoln, has never been satis
factorily explained. That it waa acci
dental, there ia no doubt, and in the
excitement and ounsternation caused
by the speech and the exposure, no one
thought to call the accuracy of the
volume in question until too late.
heead la a Fag.
Professor Reynolds, cf Manchester,
endeavors to explain the feet that sound
does not readily penetrate fog. He
shows that the particles of water do
not, ee it bee sometimes been supposed,
break up the waves of sound by small
reflections, in the same way aa they
scatter the waves of light, bat that the
destruction of sound is doe to the fact
that when foggy air ta accelerated or
retarded, the drops of water move
through the air and expend energy in
fluid friction. He examines further the
relation between the sixe of the drops
and their effects. He finds, in the first
place, that if the air is subjected to a
uniform acceleration, then the energy
dissipated by the drape in a given time
is proportional to the square root of the
disaster of the drops. Starting with
drops the tone of rain, their effect will
increase as their aise diminishes, at flrst
in the direct proportion, then more and
mote alowly until a certain minuteness
is reached, after which, aa the drops
besoms still smaller, their effect will
begin to diminish, at flrst slowly, bat
in an increasing ratio, tending toward
that of the a ,uare root of the diameter
of the drops. It thus appears that for
any note of waves of aonnd there is a
certain sixe of drop with which a fog
wil' produce the greatest effects.
Narcotizing Horses.
We learn from the Gazette Medicaid
de Bordeaux that an eminent veteri
nary surgeon has informed the Medical
and Surgical Society of that city that '
the coachmen of oertain families had
been for some time in the habit of ad
ministering chloral to the horses in
their charge, so as to make them easier
to ride or drive. It appears that the
drug acted like a charm, for hemes
which bad previously been so spirited
as to give much trouble to their invert
became as quiet aa lambs after a few
days of this faypostbenic treatment
This great change naturally attracted
the attention of the owners of the ani
mals, and they aeni for the veterinary
surgeon to ascertain the cause of this
sudden gentleness, That functionary
noticed a certain tendency io aleep in
the animals ; bat scarcely knew to what
to refer this unusual ooaditktn. when
on one of his visits he chanced to find
a bottle half full of ehloraL Here,
then, was the corpus delicti, and when
the surgeon questioned the delin
quent coachman as to the use he made
of the drug, the latter, after much
hesitation, owned that, following the
advice of a brother whip, he gave his
hones s dose of chloral every morning
to make them go quietly, and further,
that many of the fraternity in Bordeaux
followed the tame plan. —London Medi
cal Record.
la a Tight Place.
A man in Baltimore, while under the
influeuoe of liquor, a few days sinoe.
climbed out upon his roof, ana amused
himself by jumping thence to the roof
\ of the adjoining house, and thence to
the next, till his antics had attracted
quite a crowd of persons in the street
below. Seised with a sudden idea that
the spectators were going to shoot him,
he songtit refuge in a chimney, and
slid down to within a few feet of the
first floor, where he became wedged in
beyond the power of extrication. At
about the same moment, the inhabi
tants of that story, unaware that the
draught was choked by a human body,
lighted a fire. The unearthly noises
which proceeded from the chimney
were attributed to aome ageucy similar
to that which recently caused the mys
terious bell-ringing in the same city ;
and it was not till two police officers
entered the room and maue an attack
upon the fire-place, that the scorched
inebriate was rescued from his perilous
position.
Hoed Eyesight.
Although the eyes of some animals
are incapable of motion, as the fly, the
beetle, and several other inseeta, yet
the Creator haa shown hia wisdom and
goodness in furnishing their eyes with
thousands of little globules, and by
placing their eyes more in front of
their heads, so that these little insets
oau see almost all around them without
turning their heads. A gentleman who
has examined the eyes of a fly says
that the two eyes of a oommon one are
composed of 8,000 little globes,through
every one of which it is capable of
forming an image of an object. Having
prepared the eye of a fly for the pur
pose, he p'aoed it before his microaoope
and then looked through both, in the
manner of a telescope, at a steeple which
was 299 feet high and 750 feet distant,
and he said he oould plainly see
through every little hemisphere the
whole steeple inverted or turned npside
down.
A Serious Jest.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph writes: "A
strange incident is reported from Ly
ons, of whioh I first heard some days
ago, without crediting it. On the 6th
of October two young people were
married in that town. Within a few
hours of the ceremony they became in
sensible,' and have remained so ever
since. The Lyonese doctors have ex
hausted their science in this case, and
the lack less pair, though alive yet, are
evidently sinking from mere starvation.
There can be no qnestion bnt tnat some
narootio of the most violent class has
been given them, probably as a joke.
We are told that a young man, appren
ticed to a chemist, has been arrested on
suspicion. Bnt it is believed that sev
eral of the marriage guests bore part in
the affair, which was neant as a jest
only."
Pennsylvania now has twenty-five
colleges,' divided among the different
denominations as follows; Five Catho
lic, four Reformed, three Presbyterian,
two Episcopal, two Luthern, two
Methodist, two Friends', one Baptist,
one United Brethren, one Cumberland
Presbyteries end two wedieal ■