Better it war* to nit still by the no*. Loving somebody and satisfied Better it were to prow lial-e* on the knee, T anchor von torn for all your day* Than wander and wander in all Iheee way*. 1 and forgotten atnl low denied. Better it were for the world. 1 nay 1 tetter, indeed. for a man'* own gonl That lie should *it down where he bom. lie it land of oattd* or of oil ami corn. Valley of poppies or bleak nort bland. White *ca bonier tw great hlaek weoil. th bleak white winter or bland sweet May, Or city of awoke or plain of the ami Than wander the world a* 1 have done, Breaking the heart into bit* of day. And leaving it scattered on every tiaud. MUtifui tx'v ' eo liU ttviitghl ; l.ittle |yik> face, 'twin nm> so bright ; W>n mother. with tearful eve. r*:ietitjv hoj<ing he will mn ,he. Oh. i* no grief * .Jeep ml clear, None spring* from ihe heart Uke * niolhei e Mar. Why wilt th<-U leave the bright grevn earth * Whw the sunshine an.l i\ee are banting forth. When Jot tin! plenty are on the wuig. A war to welcome the twautiful eprmg, And eloiitle of light from the orretal shore Are glstutg in at window an.i <l.x>r 7 Why wilt thou g-v m* own iroeel ctukl ? 1 the worhl too crttel, too mn-daAM ? I aiwt thou not IMllUre thy s|oieee eoul Where wares of the Jee|>eet irolor roll ? Nor dare to launch thy htUe l>oat. weet Ivy, on the watan- uttlvuud efl.wit Ahl hare watched thee with aealouw .ere. Ami wafted thy name on tiie rong of prayer ; Have listened thy Mm with earnest Joy, Ami iwirmsl thy form, my angel hoy. ilea roll wills it, 1 rise this Uet oN-v*. With llie faith and the trust of a mother's love. MARY MILTON. In all tho confusion of the inn at lioni] lon, George Pick eon oouhl not help noticing that wberewr ho went one pair of oyo.v foUoweii hitn, a* if to goiu his attention. Ho, howetit, said t. him self, " You have a tongue, my Frouoh friend, and can sjn ak if tou chrome, and thou thought nothing more alrout tho matter, but paal on tho cxtniordi uarv scene before him. The people were voting on tlio floor, on hearthstones, on tho Lxh and on tlio billiard tablo. They wore eating india iTimuiatolv everything thoy oonld cot hold of. and drinking everything which was liquid. Some wore still axleeji where tney liad fallen down tho night bofete, and there was a ghastly hilarity alront tho whole thine which disgusted George, and made hia two companions sogerly acquiesce in immeiliate depar tnro. •• Lot us get on. and get it over," he romarked, " anything is lietter than tlnvv* aerated boosing wretches." Tlion the Frenchman who had watch e-.l George came uj>, and taking him aside, said, in perfectly good English : " Sir. I am goiug to ask you for a groat favor. Will you allow mo to accompany VOUf" " Really, sir," said George, " our ox peditioK is none of tlio moot jm-osaat or safe." '• Exactly, bat you have two jtassoe, while 1 have actually no }xj>ers at all." "I cannot recommend yonr going for ward, sir." •• No. I would not rooommond it my self. I only ask it as a favor. My sixtr is at school in towu, while yours, Mr. Picksoii, is safe in London. Come, air. go hail for roe, ami lot mo g> > with you. If London was sockt\l, 1 would do the sain- by you." " You seem to know mo, sir," said George, Xaxy-K,uch surprise. 1. •• If you know much at >ut mo, you must le aware that I trusted a stranger once too often in my life, and am not prejiared to trust another." " Don't say that," wiid the French man. " I know that you are ouly here as a newsjiaper corrwqs>ndcnt. ltecaiiae yon trust.xl a Frenchman wlo wax false to you, I will not be so. I pray v#u m.wt earnestly to let me go to the fnuit with yen, and get new* of my sister. Surely you cannot r-fuse." " But, my dear sir, yon nuiy be a spy for anvthing I know, " said George. " M ell, I am," was the startling reply, " but not here, or in thia matter. Had I 'o-en acting ax a py I xliauld have liad |*qMrs ;ait is I have none. lam only a J.-sail, and we are getting nmc-h the worst of it. I will swear to you that my only object in going to the front is ta see aft -r the safety of my sisU-r. Come, your jskss from Bernstoriff is signed for yourself arol oue friend. Make me that friend. lam jmlv a Jesuit." " Yon seem to know a great deal alront me," aaid George. " I do," was the answer. "My onsin, Anne Herix-rt, was at one time your fri -nd. Y'on were together at sclool at I)i-ppe. Y'on knew him wh-n he g<H older, and Toil trusted him. He deceived you—for a time—and you liad to jwy some money for him." "One hundred mi l eighty pounds," wi 1 fieorgc. ruefully. "Y'ea. I thought it was two hun dred. I oon get that all tmck for y>>n. He will be able to pay m, andhe will pay. He is a very honest fellow." "I*he a Jesuit ?" a-k ,, d George. "A Jesuit I what are yon thinking of f No, he is like myself, a Free Ma pan." "Baft yon said von were a Jesuit," acid George. " I don't think I aaid that," said the Frenchman. "Y'on certainly .liiL" said George. " I am so worried that 1 don't know wiuit I say," said the young Frenchman. " What on earth oonld liave uidiioxl me t > say that f" " i don't know," said George. "Do yn know that I do not even know yonr name f" " Delaval. Y'on mother was a De la vol, you know." " Tl'iat is certainly tnie. I>> you claim f" the world*. I know nothing of yon save lids ; tliat you went security for your fellow student, Ainie Herbert, who is my cousin. In consequence of his failing, von have come here as a cor- ' r> spondent to a daily paper, imrroxliately upon liaving leen called to the liar. Herbert can pay now, and for your kind iios* to-day I will make him. In our s-xriety we have power which you do not dream of." "The Jesuit* are powerful," Raid George. " I have told yon once before that I was not a Jesuit," said DelavaL " And once that you were," aaid George, laughing. "Well, we need not talk any more. You are something, and you do not choose to tell what. I shall find out soma day or other." '' Yus, I suppose so. Meanwhile, I have a great friendship for you, and I should like it to he reciprocated. We night both of ns do one another some good." George Dickson had a good look at the mai, andk sharp young lawyer a he w.ia, could not make him out at all. He was very liandsome, shaved like a French i uin, with no hair on his face except the moustache; and yet he did not look an entire Frenchman. He said tliat he was a spy, a Jesuit and a Free Mason, all in the same breath. What was he I He ap peared to George Dickson something l>e tween a Greek and a Jew when he ex it mined liim more nearly. "Y'on are a vorv agreeable companion," said George Dickson, "but to tell yo t ie truth, I am iu no humor to talk busi ness. What has happened is so ghastly and horribie that I can think of nothing except the awful misfortunes." Th#y had crossed the frontier for some time now. The road through the forest continued to lie very L autifnl, and tiro v •-other was heavenly. But iD a turn of the road, at a place where the two offi i in liad paused, there was the first signs i i war, eight dead horses, a lumbering ' van standing across the road, on which i s-me German wag luui chalked "A is 'rlin." Then they all walked together. The I WSTMSsw ' Roaming. The First Sorrow. KRKI). Iv I Mtlitttrniul 1 Voprictor. VOL. VII. Mai atill wound tip tlio hillside. ftlove a flashing trout stream, i*vti far Is-low thaw in the valley, through trembling leavoa. Then Uiore iiune a turn to the right, ami thev jva.nt.sl through, the aoh tary street of tat Chapelle. (teorge Ihokaon *t.ssl tuiiongst the ileal, and looked aroutni bun. The place must have lawn beautiful at vine time, ami later traveler* have t.vhl n* tlutt it i* lUM. more Iveautithsl by nature, Uiough h> our even tt will remain a horrible chortiel houae uutil death. 'Hie l?th vvf the French hue lay in mm*, motiouh-H* except where thev were Ivemg dragged to the tietk'lM by German soldier*. " Why dvvee lxl allow such thing* ;" he NAi.l aloud. "There |voke a civilian," mud the Bengal officer. " I b*t yon ten rupee* that yvvn ae aotne mature ennoble,! bj tin* horrible hu*in<<MM Ivefore the day *s over. What do you feel yourself ?" I feol a terrible, inonuoeivable pity. I f,* I a* if 1 could lay down my own life to mend Una." "Then luuid me over teu nqs-es," said Uie Bengal officer. " For your na tnre liaa l>eeii euiiobUsl. War 1* utterly evil, but thai brine* goovl out of it *ome how. Imok at tliat uiau ; Uiero ia a woman ou Uie field, Uv-kiug at the d.wd men'a face. " " And them i* that Frenchman, Dela rul, wiUi her," said Ueorge. "That murtt lie hia iu*ter. He anl *he wa* in Uie tewu ; but he luta told me more In* IU vine wwk tlian 1 could Iwlieve IU a twelvemonUi." " lieally," EIUVL Uie Bengal officer. " And yet he doe* not look like a liar. " " No liar ever d.*w, my dear soldier,'' said tieirge. "If you were a lawyer you would know that." "1 found my sister at Foude de tii vonne," *aid IVlaval, apj>roaching (.teorge. " She is hioking for mime one whvvee death might lie important to you, Aime Herlwrt." " But you aaid he could jaiy me," said tlewrge, aotoniahed. " Mv dear sir, 1 required your assist anoe iu getting on. and 1 forgot wliat 1 told you. If any jmrt of it was true, I must have been a great fouL My object was to deceive you. IVi me the cotupli ment to say tliat 1 imeeeedod, vir I shall lie extremelv angry with TOO." (.teorge felt extremely incline,! to kick the man, but it was not a place for any demonstration of Uie kind. He said. " I never knew before a Frenchman to tell auch falsehoods as you have done, air." " But, my dear sir, I am not a French man." saiil Delaval. " Y'our sinter, who is approaching ua, can punuhly sjwak the truth, sir." " But she i* not my sister," *id IVlaval. She came towards them and raised her veil. In one instant the great {manage in (teorge Dickson's life wss over. Amidst the horrible ruin and desolation he saw the only woman he ever cared f->r ; the woman he had so seldom seen in hia life, but mi many tli< u-otid times iu hi* drama. Mia* Milton, of Milrteld lane. No other jierson in the worhl. He had met her twiiv at juirtie* in Highgate, and about there, and had fallen in love with her. He had also dared t-> walk with wiUi her in Milth-ld Line, big she had been cold, almost rude t-> him. He lial tried to forget In r. but it had been tt*e leas. For the last time, a* he believed, he lud met her in Miltield lame, and laid hia love before her. She t>ld hini the t'lain truth. All her people were Fri ncli x. --pt her father, whose name she Lir -. Shi- was fiancee to Aiiro- Ib'rb'rt, a. 1 x.uhl not lixt--n t him. H- then cummitt-d an awful at of folly ; he m.ab- the ao|uaiutan<x- of that young Frenchman, *• that he might sx* h-r sometim<-H, even wh-n an otl-r' arm was roiuid her waist. 11- folLwtxl Aime H-rL'rt alront, a-id at lost went security for him ; ail bt which HerL-rt negle<-txl to pay, and which for a time in>arly ruined George. He would ro-t be rich before his father's death. His fatlror was |>eiiurioaa and mean, ktx-ping him j#['r. and telling liim tlint he muxt moke his own way in life. That does not do man any harm if he can Is- got to believe it ; and if George's father liad xt"p|Md there all would have L-en well. But the old man thought tliat it would L- a tine thing far Gorge to marry w-U. He propoeed a match to hi.-n with a ri*h young lady, older than himself. She was verv good, and he in a state of infuriated dissp p'intuielit. George told h-r the he that he lovtvl her ; he knew it to be a h", but he told it. She believed him, arol was greatly gratified. In the ni<-an time, her father decided tluit they must wait for three years, and that ho must make his wray in the world. So he went to th- bur, and *o natural ' ly h went to literatim- ; so he naturally came to th- field of Sedan, tliat Aeehla ma of so many hojx-s ; arol so on that field he met his old, his only love, only to find that the eluiin of honor dragged him awav from hei forever. Wouhl he not have changed plaecs with the ih-ail when sin- told him tlu tnith; when she loeked into his eyes with hers, arol said softly, " Tliix is a Strang- place to nux-t you, arol this is a a strange place for von to find rue in. I was in town the whole of the horrible day. The German soldiers were verv kind to us, bnt the town was so horrible tliat I came ont, and crept into a house at Fonne de Givonne. I hnve come acma* the field where tiro 17th >tr ta I.iaii' pcriAsd, because 1 want-d to ma il I could nxxigniz.! the Lsly of one of my cousins." " Y'otir news is gool," said (xrg-. " Y'ou lookixl os'llv for the body of your lover." " I do not understand you," she said. " Y'ou are as rude to me as I used to lie to you; but in this ruin we must forget all. Mr nerve is gorol, Lx-atise after tin breach tietween myself arol Aime Her bert, who so grosnly deceive*! you, I have entered a nursing sisterhood, and liave become tusxl to ilsntli in all forms. I have taken my first vows, and I shall take the veil in'tlm-e months. Mv father sent Mr. Dwlaval after me ; InitT think among these kindly Germans I could liave done without his assistance." " Mr. Delaval said he was your brother. " Mr. Deleval mv brother !" sai<l she. "Mr. Delaval is a l'ole. I L-lieve known to most jiolioe-cfiirts in Eurojie. He is a splendid spy, and my father employed him, bnt could get him no papers; he is too well known. Are you married yet!" " No, not yet." " It is delicious to meet yon here, after all. Look round at these juror innocent young men, lying so (jui-t; in the prvi enoe of death one wx-ms to lie always with God. We loved one another om-e ; now your heart has gone to another human being, and niiuo is given to Heaven. They stood looking at one another. Their interview liad been short, but they had found out something iu it ; they had found that they cared for one an other, titill the man liad cast away his on the altar of avarice, and the woinan, a* women will, hail dedicated hers to religion. A loud noise of talking disturlied them. They retired into themselves. The Bengal officer came uj and said : " One of those alrominatioim of jx-rsus frion shells is lying here uuexploded. Come uj), Dickson, and look at it." Kho took his arm and went with liim. Ou g ntle pressure told liim the truth. She loved him stiff. Delaval had the shell in his hand. As THM CENTRE REPORTER. llioy iidMimvd ho was ihi-our*nig alrout it, ami holding it aloft. " I'tio porous siiill fuse in this one has gone wrong," ho said. " Ss', 1 will throw it down ant-tig us. tuid you shall see that it will uot exjdrole." Before any owe could stoji the mail moll, lie had ilolto it. Htore was a great blue llama, ami a sound totally different from tlio rojHirt of a million. A slialt-r ing, broken noise, thou otuoke, and an im-tniit's ailetx*-. Ih'laval was j>r\wtr*te, horribly ttijunh alrout tin- head, ami George Picksou lirol his 1< ft aim torn awav, ami wrna crying out for wat >r There was a burviug part* utstr, ttcranx tho rural, eomjrooed mainly of tin- citizens of tho town, who seemed to prefer thia dreadful occupation to watching tb ruins of their own Lottie*. They coimo and helpiil till' two woltmio,! utou; but a lsilidoli ilivtor wlio was there stu.l that there was no help for either of them. Thoy mrrn'd them in to Givmuio, ami laid them in a t<aru, in the straw, side by aide. The English doctor attended t.> George, and he trn-d to oieop ; but the man on tli' left of him wras resUesa, ami, iu trying to soothe him, ho found it was IVlaval, groaning heavily. •• Why, are you hurt, tsi ?" stud thsirge. " 1 tun very worry for that. iVltat a fool you were to plav with tliut shell." •• I did it wn purjwm'," stud I tela vol 11 1 saw that alio oared h>r you still. I wished to destroy you. Are yon bially hurt f" " I am miserable cripple for life," said George. " But God ku.'Ws 1 fui give you. Why did vou do it t" " 1 tell you that 1 saw she carisl for you. 1 love her, ami alio hates ino. 1 wante.l to kill Volt ami her Usi. Is she .Usui I" " So, she was not injurotl," said George. •• I wiali alio was. Hut now tliat you are utterly ruined it d>s-M not so much matter. Ouo comfort is that she will never look at you now." lielnval dted tliat uight, but George was delirious, ami dnl m>t know it. Ilia head was coufuwxl for a long tune, and he came to himself very slowly. The first [k.ttsui he knew was his father; he fancied he must Is- in Loudon, lecaus hia 'father never went out of Iudon on any pretence whatever, ami his father, as ho thought, would never take the trouble to come ten miles to see him; though he might sjwnd a hundred isutmls iu sending him a doctor, ami scsild him violent!v for the ei|wmsc afterwnr>l. When he saw his father at his Issbude lie concluded tliat he must be in London. But only at first these walls were rod Loroloti walls, so bright and so clean lunl thos' leaves tapping at the window were vine lsiv. s, which certainly grow in I/otnlon, but ill a most dingv state. The first .information tliat hia father g-.iv- hitn was tliat he was still at Givonue, and tliat l*urt whs Iswiiifisl. There was an intense t -ndeniess in his father's manner, which he liad never noticed Iwfore. He mode a guess at the nswsci of this when his mind fully returned to him. He knew tliat h- lunl lost his left arm. "And my father," he argro-d. tinuka tliat 1 have forgotten it in mv d—linum, and hesitates t<> tell tile of it." The next time that the immovable old f.ioe came n-ur lux, he threw the remain ing ann round the old man's neck, and said, "If I had two arms, father, I would put th-'in l>th round your nerk. Forgive yonr jnror cnjqile for any sorrow he hsx i-aiis.xl you." " My own Ly, yon liave caused nie no sorrow. I am going t> caiixe you *mi'-. Arc you xtrssig enough ti L-ar it " Is ElixaL-tli dead t" " Y'our faithful nuna-! G-mI forbi.l tint xit -ha thing should lim|>|m-d. Sin is cloro- bv. But the match L-twxx-n you and Aila is br-'S' :i of. She has L-liavixl more heart!—** tliau I couhl have con ceivtxl. Sh> In * n'fuwxl, do you under stand, to marry yon aft-r your accident. It ix all ir-r, my pM>r L>y." "Thank Giml !' xanl (itxirg-. " Ar- y*ut gin*l, then I" said lux father. " I don't know yet. Did V"U suy that ElizaL-th wax hen-S-tnl h-r to me. And, <h-ar father, go awav." When the father carat-Irnck, a Lxmti ful wman hml throwm off" h-r wimple, ami liml disclosed the msgnificent ra dionce of her hair, which one month afterwards wouhl have Lx-n cut away. She said, " I nm going t" marry your crijij'lixl son. air. I will be a giMMI ilaught-r to you. Try to lie n grosl fath-rto me." So they took liondaarol w<nt Jowu the stn-am of life together, nml never s-|>nrHtxl iu thought, mind, srdeexL A Iteterniined Suicide. A young girl nnunxl Diirant recently kilhxl herself at Bristol, England, by jumj'iiig over the suj>en>i"!i bridge there. The strongest part ef the story is the way iu which the girl jiimj>-d over. She went ujmiii the hriilge, ami the t<ill tik'r, noticing her loitering about, or ili-rtxi her off to the other side, 'llron she went down the hill to tlio ferry, crosxixl it, eliuiLxl the zigzag on the (Siutnii sil—just L-m-atli the briilg'- and agnin prenented heraelf at the Clin ton [-nd of the briilge. Sh' smih-il to the toll-taker, tendered a jM-niiy, snd iiaxx. il on ; but the gate-keeper snspr-chxl Ler and gave chase, "llie girl hml about one linmlred yar<l.x' start of her pursuer, ami ran, as the man anys, " like a d-r " pivxt the j'ii-r ami along the briilgi- itself. When she had gone alMint a quarter of the way she lookixl back nml again smiled, but did not stop. The man tnnied round for a moment, and while he did so the girl mounted the trellis work of the bridge, rlnmL'red down the rail at the other sale, and hung from the footpath only by her hands, her Lsly swinging in the air. The gnte kix-jM-r was two or three yards distant when she tlid so, snd he rushed forward ami at tempted to seize her. " Dimtlj I touched her haiiils," said the mnn in his evidence, " she hsikeil in my face and smiled, and th-n she dropjied." This is the t'-llth suicide which Las taken |>liux from the bridge, and the jury suggested that some methiHl of preventing isMijde from rlimbing the railing should Ih> luioj'ted. How It Ha|qx-nist. It is repirtisl in Loudon that the nimor aLnit the G u '" , ' n ' M alarming ill ness had its origin in the following circumstance; In a certain London ni-wsjiaper office there is a biography of the sovereign, which was writt-n ten y-ars ago, tuid Wr- editor, with the provident forethought of his class, deemed it desirable tliat it should L> revised nml brought down to date. It was given out to one of the staff and duly " revised and corrected." The editor thought it would be well to see the article in type, and he consequently gave it ont to lie set up. A eomjxisitor hajqiened to see the notice when it was in type, read the solemn and affecting announcement with which it o|>ened nml immediately circulated the melancholy intelligence. As soon as the story was fully set a-going it traveled in nil di rections and underwent all sorts of modifications. In one of its forms it reached a " London oorreapondaut," aud thiii obtained a wide circulation all over the country. A resident of Sewell's Point, Vn., who has lieen the hnsband of seven wives, and is the father of twenty-seven children, has obtained a license to marry again. CKXTRK HALL. UKNTRK CO., LA., THURSDAY, .JANUARY 7, 1873. TIIL } II KMII lit; I Kill 111 IS. % i MMMililrr I < IlUt ua Trll Mow Tl*r V tif ciliAHiiN f \ irkluiK, Mihh , u MaU'inriit forth tin- origin •( the taH- dlßictllUea there. George W Puveinirt, u uogro, was rltvled ehancerv clerk, arol was sole custodian of the <s>uuiy seal and tin' piddle roxrda. It Isuug ilisisivcrtsl tluit large aiuoiinta of forged warntlita were iu circulation, |tveU|>ort wa re peattwlly callisl ujsm t> moke a rejsirt to the Usird of suis-rvisorw, n |n<r sist<-utly fallisl to do so; he refumsl n oouuuitt<-e of tavpayirs pel mission to examine tlm retx<rds, arol it may Is iulihsl here that after his tlight it wan dowovutod that lie ImO no Is-ud what ever i'ii hhstil. At the Gatols-r t'rni of the circuit court IK>ra-v, PaveiijH>rt and I'urdo/u w< re indicteil by the grand jurv. ivmissHsl of ton blocks nrol seven whit's. Paring the inquiry into the offense the Iss'ks of the comity treon uror and other valuable records Lai ing >'V nl-uce of the guilt of the parties were stolen. The sheriff is also tax col ltvt<>r and rts|uirel to give L>nd in H<> guv • a worthless L>rol, iuil when ita wortlilesaneaa wan known Several of his sureties withdrew, thus making the instrument lUngu!. The sujierviaors' attorney i republican I do dorevl tin- bond illegal; but the Lwrrtl rvfussi t orth r a row one. It was generally tiuih r>tssl tluit th<- Lstrd acted under tin- llllhlvtuv of the sheriff and indicted officials who were lute real ed in keeping him ia offhs-. In vettlL-r the sheriff published a curd ivtll mg on the taxpayers to |>ay up, arol saving In- would hold tin- iuicnfl*s effic until ousted by the supreme court. This was the milditioQ of affairs Taxes amounting to tiv<- ler cent, of valu<- were due; the sh'-ntT, t" whom tin- tax.w were tiayable, was insolvent and Iroml lean; the Liar.l of sii|M-rviwrs, though ilU|N'rtlllid t" d" ao, lia.l failed to liik<- the tm-ivsnres required by law for the protection "f the |>eople; valuable public reoarvln ami jmvim-i*, invvMory an evidence ta iX'llVii-t t ardi'ia, IhlVenport alnl Ihirweyun the iudictun-iit found against th.-ui, lro.l L-n stolen from the court house, of which the sheriff in by law the keejs-r. Sheriff t'nwl'V was kuown to is on uitimat* |M-ra>>a.<l ami isihticnl friend of those crtinmais, and Lvnden Iw-mg cliarg'xl with the important dnty of sum tuouiug th<- juries by whom they should L' tried, was the rust.kluhi of r.xxirda, furnishing evidence of their guilt, ami liad failed to protec-t the Same frotll larc-uy ami o)m'llotion; and, t>> all np jiearoncssc, then.- officials aeeiro-d LtmUxi togeth. r for mutual pn>t.-cti<>n, and. iu strength <>f titimL-rs ami mutual rotuite lUUiee, were defvillg the laws of th- Slate and prostituting th. ir • ffiiv-s to lln-ir jTlvatc mL. Iu this condition of affairs th.- tni|>wv.-ra had a meetilig, and, an already known, denuuidetl the r. -ignn tioii >f the officials. Crosby resigmxl and tli- others th-d. ('nstby then went to Jackson to consult Governor Ames, and Allien lssit.xl a pr<M-laiuati>-i coin mamhiig the taxpayer* to disperse. ('onLmpoiwn- insly with Ann- prorluma tion si-nrl, sigroxl •• l*etr Cnmhy," wa. cirvtilal sl among the colurnsl p.—pie, ilanouiicnig the whit.se as nttlians ;uil Kirlmrtatis, and calling on lus friend* to conic to tin- rod of the shellff and Mile port him. On th- Xante tiny Governor Arro*. the Adjutant <liirrl arol aft' orrivixl in A'ickabtirg, and nLmt the satin- tnro -11 ill, the captain of a negro eoiaponj of militia, RMx-ivixi ortl< rx t-> hol>l liuuM-If in reaihrovw for onh r*. which orders W'jiv s*'nt dirvxT to Hall arol not through his sujM-nor ofti'X-r. tn Huiulav the taxjiayirx, (xint'-mplating no violent m-nsunei tln-maelv-e nrol ignonvtit of any (xmtempLt-d |v Crvwby and c>>iif<->l prt-oenh-u t ' C'luvinx jlor Hill tll publican i a bill of injunction against (Vooby, a,-ting oheriff, until he xhottld give a Lirol. The ('lminrollor prv|*xred an ord-r on Snrolny mght granting tin injunction, which would liav— Lx n ro-rvtxl on Monday morning. Whit- the consul latiou was L ing held ailli ( liHtnx-llor Hill, A. J. I "acker, Governor Airo-s' Al jutoiit (h'ticral, and Crosby ivtinc in t" get In r, and Crosby was infomi-d it was nimored the ro-griM-s of the county wouhl utn-mpt to iuvade tiro city upon th- f-l lowing morning. H- disclaimed any knowhxlg'V on the silbjx-t, but said h ha>l the jM.vr.-r te ilixjm th-rtl, though he saw no objection t* their txiuiiiig if they il"mL I'|"1I tills he was earn estly L-sought by Chaiiro-ller Hill and the citizens present t<> s-ud out orl-rs to tliem that night t<> return to their homes, as if such attempt was mad- much hl'ssl would L- rlkmL Crosby promis-xl to do so. NovMrtheb-sK, < rlv on Monday iro>mitig ro-grro-s marclu-tl on the city from several ron<ls. The citusenx, partly warnt-d the night L-fort-, anroxl nrol went to the defense of the city. They I-ann ul eontro-t with several Lsle-i f armed iiegrix-H uitmL-mig fnun "ADO t" -IRDeacli, ou tlirtM- diff-o-nt r<ud*, snd d<-f<-at<xl arol rejmlisal eaeli Lmlv. It is estimat<sl tliat from fifty to I<*l iiegrt-s w-re kilhxl arol wounded, olid idsmt thirty more cptiirixl, all of wlioiii, exrx-pting four of the Laden, Live Imen relca.xxl and |n*r nuthsl to go home. The Mormon, liee. John D. Is-e, the Mormon who is ac cusml of L-ing the leader in the Moun tain Meadow massacre, was Iront iu Ban doljdi county. 111., sixty two years ago. At twenty-four years of nge lie joimxl tie- Mormons, ami Leight some jiroji ertv at Nanvoo. He w>nt with liis brethren to Missouri, and in IH4B left with the first pnrty that settled in Utoll. He has hml over n dozen wives, liesides thrx' or four " m-ah-d " women whom he siljqsirt*. He says lie has taki-n no wives since the law against it was j>rt>- I'osed ill 18ff2. lie is the father of sixty two children, of whom fifty four are living. Two years ago he was cut off from the church, unjustly, he snys. He asserts hia innocence of the accusations against him, and is willing to submit his cam- to n jury of non Mormons. He lias lost almost all of his jiroperty. Twenty four children th-js-nd on him, the eldest L-iug sixteen. Engrafting. I lie Titusville Hrrnht says ; ' .fames Beach, who met with an accident on the cars alront four months ago, by which a large piece of the skin of Ills leg was torn, lins been the subject of the inter esting process called engrafting of the skin. In this instance the jihysician. Dr. Variiui, took live skin from the mother and brother of the patient nml engrafted it on to the bare part of the wound every week, and thus by degrees the entire denuded surface tieoainc cov ens! with a healthy cuticle, and u jsr fisit cure lias Ls-ii the result." No Mohh Paint. —A young lady in Paris, Kentucky, remarked to a coin juuiion in a conversation Hie other day that she would never jiaint her cheek's again before attending a funeral. " Why not?" asked her friend. "Because," r pliedthe young lady, " I was jaunted uj> when I attended a funeral last summer, and never wanted to cry so bad in nir life, and was getting my handkerchief ready, when, glancing around at , I saw that, coarse, yellow skin of hers through the tear tracks, and it looked horrible. I never had such hard work to hold my tears in since I wax born. I'm done jminting for fiuierals." HI I'll 111 Lit I A IN MASSU 111 MKTTI4. Trrrlblr I(>S|. at ike IIUmH- In a Swntl Toa friallalll) l lis Alluek*. The Village of Conway, Mann , has Iswii Htlhctcd for nouie tnro- pant with inuligiiuiit diphthona, arol the diM-aae oncuiN to L- ttendilv incrcaatug. A <S>rien|M>mleilt of tllf /icon suys. " INulal'ljr fully two thirds of the canes are now proving fatal, and parents iue LxSlUling greatly alarmed for tile naf'-ty of their children The lisal phyHlt'lUllS seem to Iw CUtrralv unable to su.'.snnfullv grapple Willi tfie dinraae, ami the outlook Is L-coiuilig every >lav more threabuiiig and discouraging. The dis>-aae iua>h- ita fimi up|s-aramv on the -ilst of th-toL-r, in tin- fuiuilv of Gil luon IV Harwell, whoae little dallght<-r, a remarkably bright ami amiable chthl of ten, illixt aft<-r a short sickness. The next dentil was on October 29, w 111'11 William llciiiant's wife ami two children died within a n|>ocn of twenty four hour*, the mother and one clllld L-llrg buried at the same litiur, while the other child ilied as the furo-ral srtvia* were ur pro grv-on. The ih-atli of Mr*. Bemelit, ami the utt<-mhitg results, were |Mx-u)iarly sad. She wan greatly dlstreiwd ut the sufferings of her Utile otiea, ami, in trv ing to remove, with her linger, the sulr stam-e wUeh si-eiroxl lo olwlruct .tin tliront of one of them, her hand was in oculated with tin |samnions matter, hr arm msui Lx*aiu mortilie<|, arid death reaulbsl ill it few h -urn. A slt-r af Mrs. Kemeut, living in a iieighL>ntig town, arrived mmii aft<-r to hml h r onsistaine t-> the faintly, ami, ur washing m'Un clothing w.iru by one of tile di-od cluhl ren, L'th of her lromls ulm> Ls-airo- af (•vti-il, and <h ath resulted aft<-r a aliorl ■• iii of iuteiis< suff'-rtiig. Tin- third victim from iros-uhdion wan a Mrs. I'oiimroy, of l.a-tlismptoii, a sister of Mr IW-mellt, who intended to remain lit the family Several weeks, but wan at tacked in a similar maimer to the otireiw, after wosluug some iufix-t-<l cl. 'tiling As a*sm on tin- diss*' appoortxl aire hastened hoiue, Inqung tliat a change- of air would rent-'ie In r lnwlth, but sh>- gnulnally failed, and du-4 in a few week*. Following tll<- deaths 1U Mr. Itelnellt ■ family wer<- tints- children f Gtsirge Truetwlell, whom- tlealhs <s>-nrrvxl th-t> L-r lid, Novemlicr 22, and Ikwuilw 3. Mr. TnisaMl also sufYenxt a never*- at tack of the dim-ase, which MUgtllorly dl'ivnl Itself ill Ugly (Vink'-rollfi sores Oil las luunls, fo-e, ami other |H>rtious of las Lsly, on well as iu his thrtmt, and Ills wih-, who Is-rume greatly rislnrvsl bv long watching f* 1 "! distress, is now suf fermg from the Jis.ua,>. One of the siwlil'tl deulhs was tliat of the It. I J A 1 VKof st, of the Methodist church, NoveinL-r 2H, who bun.si two bright children, one of them m-vm ami the other thre. years old, NoremL-r 17 ami 22. A little child "f L. I'. A lues ill.-ii Xovenilirr 'iff. ami tin- mother ami her sit.-r are troth sn-k with tin- dnwmm-. \rciul<ald Sinclair hmt tlins> children lceetiiL-r 1, t, ami ti mtpvtiniv, and two children of I toiler! St. iwe dlol, as did als>> Mrs. Henry I Hit. Altlioilgii tit- imnwluti' dsath of tin- latter wan iwilssl by chlUl bntli, it was L-llrvisi t>> 1m- attributable to oitxMty in regard to her children, nrol p ihajm a alight touch of th- prevailing tits,-one. The utimL-r of deaths from iliphth.-rta to ilaU-, in eluding two at childbirth, u mro-teon, which, in a town of only I,,'sxl j nla tion, is surely a terrible fatality for but little more tluui a month. The dlNcam gero-rally prove* fatAl in from three to tlve clays after its first ap|oarroiec, al though ironie live hot a alert time ofU r L ing attack'xl. In o-te or two i-us the •vxnk.-r, which first generally ap|Mni m th.- tliroat. Iron eaten entirely through the aid of tin- nx-k and made Its ap iM-arau.x- c>n the surfao-. The* mala>ly Las thus far lovn cmfiroxl t.i thror schMl districts of Burksriile, Lumpkin Hollow, and the ('enter, where the schools have L-u rkanL The Price of Par*. A New Y'ork fashion j.mrnni gi\<-x the •<t\h'-> of fur* worn tliix mxi,'-- >n arol tb- Jiricrs, as follow* ; Ihxil mink m-tx, of muff nrol ha or odlar, at K"jo, and £tn Ih-nl inmk m-te, v-rv *Lrk and tbie, 333, stn and 943. Flin-st ixe-t- rn mink xets in tb- mork-t. .<VI, > ami 870. lU-al Shetland seal ssojuea, L-st w-rk inaiishi|>, litHxl with the IJiiiul satin, Lwutifnllv embroidered, at 3"<'. S'v'. fJ."', $lOT> arol Bir>. Ih-al Shetland seal sackx, tin- lialid some*t tliat money can purclioee or t;o*ta suggest, 31.N0. B-al mxd m-t*of iniiff ami Lw. $22, s2.') and $27.50. B-sl Sln-tJoml seal sets, elegantly trinimxl, at slo. Sto and SV. French sel <>t.. with same trimming m the n-a! im-hI, $7.50, $lO ami $13.50. Ih-al lvnx a>'G, L-st quality, $2.2, $27 ami $lO. ' French lynx ets, wnrrantml xiuol t the rtxil. tU 97. $S .V>, $lO ami 813..VV lhxtl Alaska xnble set*, choice ipiolltv, $13.30, sls. $17.50 ami SJO. Black uisrt-u s>ts, $8,50, 810 ami $12.30. Ih-al ermine svtx of inuff Lvi and collar, at $25, sklaml $35. Imitation ermine sets, same trimming an the real, at sff.so ami $7.50. Imitation mink sets, ut $5,50, s)t.so and $8.50. lh-iil SiLninn squirrel set* of muff and Lvi or collar, at s>.so, $S and B-al black nstnu-han sacques, L>t tunke, ut $lB, $25 ami s'tO. Children'a fur set*, many new ami elegant designs, from $1.25 to sls jx-r set. Children's white coney sncques, $3.50, $4.50, $5, $7.50, s.l. \V!ut<' ixmey <vijx, with head and wings, ssoc. New style white coney lnxsls, luimlsoinelv trinninxl, at sl, 81. 25 and LsQl Caps in the newest sfyh-s at reasotuihlc rat'-s. A Haunted Man. In the theaters. hotels, niul other pub 111* place* of I m isb ill a man ix often xeen whom odd demeanor ix the *ubjeot of much comment. He wearx Rood cloth**, liaa mi intelligent appearance, and Uic KjMxyli of an (allientod man ; but bin eyex have the uiuniataknblc s'leam of in xanitv. He ix ulwnvx in a hurry, iuul al way* inquiring for < 'harloa < lamer. Tliix man ix rrank A. Hinitli, and hix mania wax xtrangoly developed, Alxmt five yoarx afju he wax in Kanxax. In the l>ar rixim of n tavern in which he waxxtavitig for a few dav he got into a i|iiarrel with a *IHI li ving iruiitiermnaa, and wax tinall v struck by hix aggressive opjwment. Ite lieving that hix life wax in danger, he drew a revolver, at which the acared desperado ran out of the rixun. .Smith followed and fired ; but the bullet prob ably did no damage, ax the man wax not necn that night, nor xfterward in that neighlxirhood. It ix xuppoxed that he dared not return to the tavern at once. The excitement of tin* encounter aeri ouxly affected Smith, who wax not in gixxl health, and hix morbid fancy made him think that lie had killed hix nxxail ant. He returned to hit* home in Itoaton, firmly imprexaed that lie wax a murderer. Hix friends have xmight for the missing man in vain, only learning that hix name wax t'liarlcx Garner, and that lie wax a dixHoliito vagabond. Smith rcfuxiH t* be convinced tfiat hix deluxion ix not fnct, yet ix alwavx looking for (lamer, whom he says lie ix certain he must have " aliot entirely out of existence;" In all other respects he ia sane. The Smoky Hill Massarre. The two little girl*, named Adelaide and Julia (ieriliain, who were enptured by U Indian* hud Hcplntnber, and rescued on the nth of November by a ***iiitmg party from (loueral Mil.-*' .-x ueditiou, |HUM<d through Tojs-ka for ismveuworUi, 111 ciiarge of .Surgrsr I'o well. Iu out lie-tiling ufsin the <*q> tare OIK) row-tie of IIK-M- children, the Ijoaveiiworth truly nay*, that in the whole history of frontier war fare, with it* cliapter* of Indian devil try and Navsge brutality, there t im met tier story Uiau that which clusU-rs around Uieae orphan*. llrn fly tclil it is thus: last Sejitemlwr a family of immigrant* named f iernuun, from the Blue Bulge regiou of (ii-orgia, were on a journey across the |>latu* b> Colorado. 1 bey en camihs 1 one night on Uie Kutokv Mill, not far from Kheriibtu stall--n, aiuli while at rest were eurjirioed and attacked bv a I>and of CheVeinie Indians. t)f the nine mem lien of the family live Were instantly butchered and four curried into caj tivity. The father, mother and infant, a grown sou, and an invalid <iaughter w<-r cruelly murdered in cold blood, and thu* escajMsl Uie terror* of captive brutality, infinitely worse than the horrors of death Itoelf. l'he remaining memlier* of the family all girls were planed on |s>uie, and forced to endure the ltardohipa of a rapnl flight to Use Texas frontier. Two of the girl*, Adelaide and Julia, aged re speetively five and *-ight year*. were re captured aome .lay* ago. The other itera, Lucy and Ada, tin- f< -rmer nine teen ami Uie lalt<*r sixteen jmrv of age, art- still held as prisoner*, and siip|HSHtl to I** with (hay Logic'* Isutd of t'hey ennea. The misery of the young ladle* still in caj'tmty can l*-tu-r lie imagined than tlescnlied. The story of suffering Lime by Uie two chlldreti rem-Wed frotu the savage laid was told in Uw-ir own hall naked ISHIIIW, emacist,*! fa,*-* ami Woe lw-golie eounti-uaiicea. The elder, a fnul girl, but old enough to know mental anguish, and iviuiprehi-nd the terrible tragedy which lunl lefallen li*r and her own, was a mere walking skelt> n, worn to the sluulow of deaUl, w hell her rescuer* aj>l**o**l. The younger, naturally the stronger of tin- two, and ]>ri<aji* uncon scious of other physical suffering. Is we tip much 1 letter than her sister did; but oh<- too I sire marks of haritahipn, and tin heroism of IM-T itiiiocwmt suffering aj> | 1 to every sentiment of symtitiUiy in Uie warm hearts of the gallant soldier* who rewrtied her. I'lie officers and sol diem at Caiup Sujtjily and in tin* field contributed s.> generously to the relief of the children tliat, after clothing them conifartably, there was left in the aur goon * hand* $1 Mo for Un-ir u*e. Tln childretl will laecouie the wards of the Protestant Oqiluui Asylum at IJkaven worth. A liear Hwater's PataJ MUlakr. (Icorge Miller, who lives at Uie mouUi of Iteaver t'reek, CL, was aliot by 1.. Turiey, who mistk him for a Imar. The jwrty w.-re <-amj*>l on the w>-st fork of Iteaver. having gonetherv births pur I* ssv of driving 'Hit of the mountains cat tie I* longing t<i Miller ami others. ShoiUy l*-f<irv< daylight, they were arottneil by the sltarji and savage Ixirking •if Un-ir d'g* a ohort di*iau<*- from camp, as if in conflict with a wild animal. A* they apjinsiclievl the scene of ivilltlict Ihev dtscovi-reil tlist Uie tlogN wi-re liav nig a Isxit with a lv-ar. Turh-y tlteu *Uvrt*l l*ck to camji for his gun, while Miller ami M rgap priswede* 1 on tnwarvl the ooinlt.-ints. The fight wa* taking plac- ill the lssl of Uie creek. Miller, thinking fr-an Uie wound* that the tiear WM getting UK- Ivtter of the dog*, dn-w hi* knife and impetuously rwsln-d for war-1 to the nSHistAiice of the latter. At tin* js>int the cTvs-k flow* through a nar row canyon, ami a tree had falh-u from •me side of Um canyon to Uie other, *o that its trunk lay across the ci*s-k and a little alsive its lsxL It liad Iss-ti rain nig ail night, ami tin* creek wa* con M-h rablv swollen and math- a deafening Uoiae as it mlled ami broke over ita rocky lw*|.. The Is-ar and dog* were waging their nucertaiu cattl at just that jstint in the crvs-k where it JSWV~hI under the log alsive ih-scrilssL Miller " <S*UHSI" tbt* Uig until h<- got iiumtsliately over the coiulsitaut*, ami then poising him *elf proossli-,1 bi tl*U a thrust at brniii with hi* knife whenever oojx-rtunity offered. In the meanUiue 'I urley luwl git hi* gun. and, en swing Uie stream on another l<ig higher up. name down to within fifbs-n >r twenty f**t of where the fight waxe.l h-tw<>en the dog* and the l*-r, but on the IIIIIHIHIU aide from where he had left Miller and Morgan. The roaring of the wiit'-m as they broke and dnahasl over the ns-k*. and the shrill barking of the d<ig* as thev auapjied at the Isvar. jin-veiitcl Miller from hearing him. He, on the other hand, jawring down in th" dark from flm jssution ill the side of Uie canyon, ilismlnvl Mil ler's form but mistook it for that of bruin, it never once occurring to him that any man could Is- o rash as to run in without firearm* to take j*rt in a hi'lrr lwtw,<eii a jsu-k of divgsainlu l*-)U. Firing. OS he *ujvp<i>*ed, at the lw-ar, his Isvll t,sik effVs-t in Miller'a left hiji itn nxsliat'-ly over the hip joint, and. lodg ilig ill the leg jn*t alsive the klu-e. Im mediately <ni nsviving the cluu-ge Miller cried out tliat lie wa* shot, and it was found that he wi* fatally injured. Thej Steal Eterj thine. There can Is- little profit or pleasure in raising crops when such a stb> of affairs exists as i* n-lated iu the follow ing extract from a jirivnte letter from Mi**i*si]ipi : Hay and night thievea HIKIUIHI. A* t,i *ini and lmg* : we make ivirn, and when we jiroceixl to gather it find one third of Uie shuck hollow. The thiev,* go over the field and " slip shuck " every third row. I know an en ergetie man who watched hia field through the night, and the thieves stole his corn in the davtime. We have aoine few hogs left, but they will Kin go. With all our care, as aoon as Uie jiig* get old enough they go one by one. The same way wiUi our fine fhs-k of sheep, which are gone, save two. When I hearvl of the last ali,**ji stealing, I said : " Well, I atn like the lar.y Scotchwoman who was glal when her Cow was killol%.id exclaimed : * (hsl !*• wi' mw-thing, for there's line trouble wi' it nae cow, na,' care." Ni-ar by every one has quit raising turkeys for the "thieves. I had twenty-thn*' two year* ago, but they kept giing in the daytime, for they were a I way* l<s-k)*l uji at night. They have also stolen my large flock of g*ae, and 1 have but few left. Our jmt*l,w>H arc nil "grabbled" over, and the l*-*t taken. We can keejt few chickcna all stolen. Wi- will aoon have no mast for our table, but mesa pork, and it is doubtful if we will lie able to buy that. Think of It. A certain Troy man, rather illiterate, but pivuliar in his way, lay alssl, quite aiek, reoantly, luid a visitor at his lied aide, iu converaation wiUi the aiek man'a wife, alluded to the transit f Venus, and the wonderful mathematical i-tU •-iilatioiia Hint aatrououiera work out. The aiek man, after listening intently, called lii-i wife to hia bedside ami said : "See, here, .Mary, van understand what he says I Now ji* think af it-—a man who ran do all tliat, can do Uiem won derful caloerlationa and all that figgerin' —jia think of it, that a smart man like that can lie jawed by a waman." TVrm: 542.00S 4 2.00 a Year,in Advance. A Had Htorj of a strong las's Life, A lardemr'* Wife. I hiring the oil cxcit**ui*-ut, my the "n*i-K J\tUiulit*m, J. J, Hurrvll of Mart villi-, fuiugn county, u iiutti who bad traveled tlw country <*iMu.li-r*bly, and who waa a |M-rnoii of n-fiin-d lawtt-n au<l a fiui tlcgiee of cultivation, m vested lit iVniiaylvaitia oil land* and moil*- a fortune nm* muting to |SH,UIIU or there wlMiuta. Hi* put tn* wt of th> money into building*. in I'ithoie, a growing town an*l MH-VMI by oil spis-ttbiiuirii to la- the OJIUIUK *|u*t*u of thai **<toti. Ho*m afterward tin- great tin- at I'ltholr swept away hi# entire JMMMOIMIOII tlie re, u|H in wlii'-h he Ino I not a rent of iiuui ruiu*-. lb-fore |w luul fairly rmivwol fr*tn the chock of fat*- which inipuveriah •-I hi til, lie iw>-ivi*i| a telegram from Marti ill** Minting tliat hia only children, two laiya, w-ie drowwsl. He went la one and found that one of hia hoya had l iroketi through a pond whit*- nkaliug the other heron wily altoiujited to save hut brother and l*th periab-d. Mr. Iturrrll hurled hia btiya, and, ohatUved in fortune and mind, went lawk lo fit hole to gather up the remnant* of hia buKiiuwf. Boon tln-roafu-r lie wan noti tied if hia Wife'h death; alie had fallen a prey to grief growing from the death of her children. He buri<-d liia wife lawn ti tle- Iniya, mid, Mripi*ed f family ami fortune, niitrtixi in t*< buffet the evil thin which aeeltietl to he wetting IU ao sternly inuint him. In early life Ilurrell Inti) learned hia trade of *li*M-Mialung, and be started a aliop at Mart villi-. One day tiiia fall In* concluded to go down to Fair Haven and pick up a few ordera for win ter If--in among hia old friemla, who, knowing lac miafortuiie, lie lielieved wuuhl help him at l.wat to earn hia brrenL He iut*eUl luuidaotnejy, and when nbllllliK for home found that the ticket ngent waa not in the office, and th< -refute |u*l the conductor $1 <>ti tin* tram. 11* leht-wd llint th-re waa aotne, change due lam, and ha*l aome word* with the conductor about that matter, but did U* it receive tin- chat Up- which he claimetL At Hterluig J miction lie got off to *p*<*k to a lady whom he saw upon the platform, and continued talking to h*-r until tin- tram wan under headway. He then mught tin- platform rail and swung himself oil. An he wan at* Hit to 'pen the door of tiie coach, be alleged, the conductor met low, thrust hi* del lar bill in Ida face no rudely and with am-h force tliat he fell, hia arm atrttck arrow, the track, and wa< cut off between tlie w-rint Mi.l oil tow. He wran n*w lie orived not only of bartune aud family, but tin- hand tliat liad .wrtnxl hia own scant living. H< authorised (Itnrrltill i Nutting, ••{ thin city, to commence action against the Soiitiieru (Vutral railroad company for .hunngea, ami caim- to On w-go to atop. He *-ngage<l a little fruit Miami irnu the Fitxliugh liouac, aud took a r*nin in that hob I. < bi<- m* truing thin week lie warn found nt lipid in lieii ; phrmciarin were called and found tliat he luul taken morphine in fatal ipuuititiea. N'.-it dav he dual. It wan wud that lie waa a Mason, but exoiumati-iu faileil to ahow lliat to be true, ami he wan buried with other ■uicidea and p<aii|w-r* iu ]'otter'* field. It i a plain bit of true hiatory, told witii the (Lulv iu wn|*a]*< rV r•} *rt<*nal ti-raeiicnn and Uuiituow, but wliat |wg<- of history n-v*-al a timr- dramatic nti.ry ' Frcparinr for (ollegc. Th<- (W/o/r <\iurat>f linn an article on fitting ImTi ami girl* for re.llego. It aav* that at ptVfiaraiury nrlun>l every thing not alwoluteiy lievwwrt to college in omitted, and whatever cannot lie omitl-xl in crammed into tiie Imv ami ar nuig*-d with *] aerial reference to a coming examination, while tin- student ta not uiatle to dtgoni and awa uulate it to hia mental U-ing. To "get in" and "get through " college in the groat end of the ■Undent's lalsirw. The (\norvttit all*' While a K]irria] preparatttm ta mi-canary U enter college, a general preparation in equally lifii-asary. if tie- student ln ex- I si-ted to " dig*-at aud aaainiilate " tiie ,u*>wlHlge he gam*. For Uiia general pr*-t*aratioii the iwrent and not tlie ti-ach er should lie lield re*|onlble. *iq*l-4ally where the parent line lumat-lf enjoyed gta*l <*lll(-utiotial ml vantage*. How ia thin to la* Jituc! Ily familiar ami fre quent cuuveraatiou with children on top ica auggextixl iii every *lav life, by t*wh lug tiuni tiie priuciphw if phyaiobigy, *-luiuu-try, natrononir, geology, iu fact of all the acu-lKx-a, uniug the techuical nonii-ncUtiire wli-n n*x*eanary, ao that tlu* young miud nluvll la-com*- familiar with it* early life, la-forv text Ixw.k* are taken up at all. ity dinx-ting the child'* reading and l*-*hng it, ntep by atep, to a knowledge *if the great wnti-n* aud tlu great facta of the |*nt an*l prvaont. Tb*- atory *f Huner'a " lluwl, ' of Milton'* " l'anulim- lawt," •( Sc*U' " Marmion " and " lowly of the lnkc." chihlren of *-Tcn rwra old and uowranl can be nuwle to tak- the ni<*t lively interest in ; tiie name i* true <*f nearly all the play* of ShakKpcare. IliHtoniwl Ntoriea may U< relab-d without limit, ami thu* a ta*te for geiu-ral information f ode rod iu the child. A lUoody Record. Among the ]jw>rn concerning our for eign relation* trnnainitte*! to (Vuigrea* wutli tlie Pieanlent'* im-aang*- waa the bil lowing extract from a lctt*>r wrrtU-n in Juuc )ju*t t> Sccrrkurv Fi*li by tlie Hon. Cnb-b Cuwliing. our Muuatrr *1 Madrid : According to tiie latoat official eati mntea here, the ■umber of trooji* o**nt frwtn the I'.-ninaula to Ctili* from tli> y*w |Hlil down to the preaent *lay is S2,. r **, >f which nunda-r .'ki.4l2 liave sm-cuiulwxl in the field or from diaraar. leaving only n nominal forc of aay 4I>,IMKI many of whom mu*t lie invalhk - for the present acrviiv of the govern ment. In addition to tliia. it deaervea to lie noted tliat a huge number of mitskwta. purrhaMHl by the last Captain (teneral f*r u**- in Culm, have lieen with*lrawn and ord*'r*xl home for u*- iu the IVnin aula. It is not atiqiriiing that under tlica*. circumatanoeN great discimrage meiit slionhl prevail in official circle* here, to any nothing of the uncertainty, more or l*aa, reejecting the purjsiac* and actiona of js.litieal |*artiea through out the country, with the great queatiou rising alxive all other* whelk** or not at aome unexpected moment the troopa may not ftronounor ; for it i* no exaggeration to nay that the |w>litiml frtutM>a f Sjinin at all tim<<* ditriiig the preaent gem-ra tion, ami never more *<> than at the pres ent time, are liuuiilv dependent on the will >f tie- army. It will alao yield to the trmenry at l*-iwt 500,000,000 of real* (81.1,000,(kill) on nmouiit* jwid for ex emption. Robbing (irate*. The Chicago Time* states that a few days ago n fanner named (hsslrich, re turning late from a grange mis-ting, met near a cemetery a wagon containing tlirs> meiulM-n*, one of theae a girl, of a family named McNontee, ami a fourth tigurv- drc—ed in black, who failed to re spond to the salute of (hiodrirh. The fourth figure proved RulMequantly to l>e the Is sly of a young man who luul l>eeu bnried the previoua hy, and hail IHH-H ri-snrr*s-t*sl for the ls-m-fit of a junior memlier of the McNomea family who waa a atiident at Ann Arlsir College. Two other bodi-H recently buried were miaaeil aud afterward found in the repository at Ann Arlsir College. MeNamee waa arrested and liegged for a double file of officers to protect him from violence. It i* aaid there is scarcely an unrobbed grave in the cemetery No/dik The laiwville JuumaJ publialtaa an interview witli a woman who w*a the wife of Hiram Hinith, the murderer, who ended hia life upon the gallowa at Water town, raoetifly It i* Hiiefly inter-wting aa illustrating the manuer in which peo ple of tin- lower atrata at wictety live. Kite mud: I fi ret lieoame acquainted with hint in IWVI, wlien I wax only twelve year* old; be then worked for £l*u H. lllakenuiii, at Hpernrville, in thia town; nft-r I U-twipe acquainted with hiin, one Thursday ha gave me an apple, which 1 am now aatiafled IM drugget for the purjxme of gaining my affee tioua; on tlie Hun-lay following he gave me aouie gum, and 1 waa afterward eun viiicd that that waa fixed iu tlie aauw way, aa he prevail**! on me to run away to one uf the ueighlKira and marry him; thia waa May 11, )HM; I m very large for a girl twelve yoani old; and I dia covered eoou after marriage that he waa a tied man, and I had confidence in him; lie would get very inad, and at one time stood over my bed with an axe and threatened to apiit my bead open. We lived t igeUirr a year, when he went to Copenhagen ami worked for Lewia Htorkwdl. He afterward aent for aw*, and £ went there and worked for Htorh walL I stayed but a few dav*, when, from hia cruel treatment, I left him and flame home. I have neeu him but a few time* sum- that. While I lived with him he never I-ought any clothe* or gave me a cent of money. He waa a Saxy, ahifUexK, good-for nothing fellow, aud didn't know anything only to tie mean. He compelled me to go out in the W<KKl* with him and cliop wood, and 1 alwaya rhot>|*d uion wood than he did. He never im-l any divorce from m- or 1 from him. I married my preaent hna lauid Decemtier 25, 1 H7<•' 1 met the iimrih-rer, Hi nun Hrnith, in Lowville, , one time in the atrwt, before I waa married thia tune. I was walking with another fellow, when lie stopped me ami aaid Uiat if I did not quit going with other feliowa be would allot it me. 1 told him to go hi* way and I would go mine. He told me to nswmler what lie aauL I Utink be ought to be hung, and I would have enjoyed it to have pulled the rope that hung lnm. The reader, after j*rtuung the foregoing, will be fully convinced that if there ex iael ui Hiram .Smith a *]rk of hu mamty or a kindly impulse, hia wife is not a woman who waa calculated to de velop those germs into anything very ennobling. TV I'rtini.; haaia Coal Trade. We ran now give a tolerably fair eeti mate of tlie dcrteaae in the mt)>ply of an thracite cad this year compared with last year, which will be in tlie rieigbtxirhood of HSO,<XIO to 900,0(10 toil*. Hie decrease iu tlie supply of bituminous cad from this region embraced in our table is HI, 101 tons ; bnt the ilermwte in the aumilv of bituminous cad in 1K74, throughout the conntrv, will be mwrly if it is not quite 1,006,(100 tons. This trade haa ■ulib-red more severely in the West than in the Kant Then- figures will vary I Hit little (nun the official returns at the end of the year, ■a at a couple of point* thev cannot he olAaincl until the chase of the year. Out reports embrace the coal aent to market outside tin- csd regions. The quantity carried in the cad regions haa to be es timated from reliable data, wbicli entlha ua to arrive at a very fair estimate. When the ivnn was taken in 1870 we can pared out estimate with tlie cusus returns, and it varied but little as to the ousninpUon of cad iu tlie cad regions, ami alao in Uie consumption of liitomin oiia cad throughout the whole, the ac tual return* of which cannot la- collect-*! excejit through tin* C-IISUK. Tlm- supply from the different regions compared with last year, ia aa follow* r isra. i;. De. tuSUilt.i: Illl.su 1.430.51* R.HJ - ixwua *.sa.eta :..II.JS >.* - WvnmliX t.tl.St C.MI.MI ■M.S7t - ShsmoktM r.si.sss i,IU *,tu - Ljrlca V.iWj„ sa.7l IIT.taT S.VS* m<iucii>..- <. l MUiM i.ssi.ui; xi.ioi A large jiortion of tlie cad aent byway at the Lehigh waa from the Wyoming and ,Schuylkill regnHiK. Tlie only avenues by wlihdi the aiithra- iU- trade wa* iucrea*ed in 1874 over 1873 was by way of the Lehigh Valley railroad north, bv way of the I*>high Canal, and byway o! the IVrnnayivania C-ad Comjwmy. Tliere was s decrease by all other sivuines. lStftn-illr Miner's Journal Iisa>trr on the Ukn>. A W(4ND JMJWR give* a list of disas ter* ou Ui> lakes during tin* year 1874, although there are still a uumber of rwk mrtndks and there mar le fur ther disaster*. Acoord tog to thin *Uto ment, there hsve Iwn 1.251 >f all kinds, major and minor, against 1,818 last year. Tb* estimated tlamage to property foots np $8,081,700, against 98,970.000 in 1878, a falling off of *944, 800. Tit is, in view of the fact that (In* tonnage afloat in 1874 was greater than in 1878. might ai>|xwr surprising were it out for tin- fact tlint the ]w*t scanon was one of Ui dullest pwr experienced in the history of lakr navigation. ami that in consequence a large amount of ton nape was laid up during the two moat disastrous months, October Mid No vein - lw. last year the looses in footed up nearlv twice the auioiuitof any other month of the season, via.: 1,407,- 000. Tilt* roar November make* the largest allowing, via.: $068,000. An entuneratiou of the loaa of life during the Year aliow* the immber to have been 24.8. spunst £2l in 1878, and 219 in 1872. In thi* respect the record, very unfortu nately, i* against 1874. A Smart lrl. In a Burlington dry good* house i* employed a young man of diminutive stature and aomewlmt feminine appear ano', although a tip top salesman and oWA. One day, not long siuce, a little girl was sent to the store to make some purchases, and it fell to the lot of this young man to attend her. She was n mere bunch of femiuiuitv, not able to talk plain. She asked if lie had any " totten flannel." He replied that he had, and asked how much she wanted. " I don't know," was the replv. " Well, what do you want it for said the clerk. •• Wan"t to make imp" a shirt." " Well, how big is your papa ; is he as | big as me?" "'Big as vou," aaid the little maiden, * I des* he ta; he wouliln't be Riueh of a J*pa if he wasn't." Ai.l Anon rr.—"What's tlie use of takiug so much pains alxuit the transit of Venus f" "It tells us the distance of the ami." What's the use of knowiug the distance of the sun i "It enables ns to tell its sire, the distance of the fix-d stars and the velocity of light" What's the use of knowing the velocity : light ( " Light, heat, magnetism, gravi tation, thought and life ana all said to be intimately related, and the knowledge of the properties of light may be the guid ing string which sliall lead *s into the profoniKhwt depths of science." Too BAP.— Very stem parent indeed— "Come here, sir ! What iu this com plaint the achwolmaater lias made against you <" Much injured ysutli—" It'B just nothing at all. You see, Jimmy Hughes lient a pin, and T only jnst left it on the teacher's chair for him to look at, and he came in without his specs and sat right down on the pin, and now he waste to blame me for it!" Item af Ifftrrrat. On* pill in the month make* the whols wnrkl MMa bitter Half the discomforts of iifo w* the ra mi! <f getting timi of ounwlvc*. Pnper ha* astualiy Iwwn mh from frog spittle ; the gr<*n scum of pond*. Troy, N. Y. f tuia been trying n*ihl ha street lamps and pronounce them fail ure*. One of the wedjiog present* of a voting married couple of Imlians recent ly ma ITII buabel* of coal. A Virginia paper lute twdtafld that laws are changed aa soon aa the |ouple t*- lomr familiar with tlietn. Maine rheea* factori"* made over half a million pound* this year, and expect to make over 800,1100 pounds next year. A y<iitiff jockey in OMHfstnia, who luia pidden horaee in nevend ratwa during tit raat two yearn, ha* been discovered te be a girl. ' Hekreta," ay* ioah Billing, "i a lanl investment -if you |>aaa it, jn loae the principal, and if yon Veep it yn kw internet." The report that a auccarfu) paoltry d ier aet up a carriage, araan from hi* statement that be had made hut coop pay, thin aeaaon. The city authoritea W Havana will in fnttue pay a reward uf fBO to tlie llrat tire engine arriving at a fire after the alarm ia given. At the prramt time the conntiim sub ject to the Emperor of Baama are eqnal ir extent to une-aixth at all the "dry land " of the World. He iwuml tliat when once a woman begin* to be ashamed of what aba ought not to be a*hami of, nhe will not be aaliamed of'wliat alie onght An Ohio editor orgaa hi* lady anb ■wribar* to write to bim often, aa he flnda the new style of elongated envelope quite convenient for weather atrij*. Notice how many fellow* have got new I lata Una fall. Know the manor t Well, m I egge<l for " that old feh hat you know; it would make over ao nice." A tiraaa band in Virginia City has ben requested to practice in a mine 600 feat under ground. It can play then- in the minor key and disturb no one. TV excitement in a New England lowa by the r**|KTt that i vein of ooppot had IMWB (imnrncd, nlmidid when it *m Mrailiuwd ttni the "me of oop psr " an old wrother-cook. Tolhlu j*jn announce that there is plenty of work in that city, but care fully conceal tin- fact that said work is sitting on a bench in front of a coal ■tore and wishing it vera spring. • An honest farmer, being asked why be did iio subscribe fur a wnpswr, ex plained. " Beauts* my father, when he died, left me a good many newspapers, and 1 liava nut read them through yet" A charitable Cincinnati man keepa a pair of dogs chained at his front doer, so that poor jwople who atop to " get a Ist*" out be accommodated without taking the trouble to go into the bona*. "If yon will jnst take notice," says the Detroit Free Frnm, " yon wili find that a bald headed man never raises hi* hat to a lady." It wookl seam, then, man's politeness, like Hamsun's strength, lies in bis hair. Mrs. PiUgeralil, of Han Antonio, Tex as. has taken a oantnut to grade nineteen miles at railroad. This is not her first venture, however, aa she has aoramn bttod wealth by previous undertakinga of the name kind. " What the dew is s garter, anywayf" inquire* the editor of ths Indianapolis SntHtteL A garter, vising man ! Tlu* ignorance is dejdunible. Why, a garter is a ribbon or shoestring that ladies tie up their hair with. A Pulton county (Indiana) man, while rs*irawing his district as a candidate for the Dngndatuiv, also U.uglit up hogs, and be not only secured Ins ekrthm by a majority of two. but chared $6,000 in his hug iHistnees. The rumors of the matrimonial en gagement of Mr. Jame* lack* Ben ue to a daughter of Admiral I). I). Porter, ao lung current in society, aw now contradicted upon what seems good authority—the Admiral. • If rou must know why Aaron Greene left (W <>n a rail the other night it may he explained tliai he taught school and was in the habit of making the boys sit down in S |>sii of cold water. A {topulsr clergyman says it is inter esting to otmsrae how many people go to the cirrus " jnst to ptoses* the child ren." and very curious to notice that sometimes it takes several aide-bodied men and motberiv women to look after one little hoy or girl on such an occasion. Diphtheria has been very prevalent in Australia, and one of th* moat success ful n iiKilie* ia said to have been a few drupa of sulphuric acid in a tumblerful of water. The result of this mixture ia said to be a coagulation of the dipth tlierie tneuibrsno ami its ready removal by coughing. An Acapnia) aarsspamtont of the Han Francisco HelUtiu says : " Marshal Ba xanie lias asked the government whether lie couhl settle in Mexico, to which be received an ■iftr uataT.- answer. Though his wife ia a Mexican, he would certainly find no friends in this country, whew he lielisrtM so shamefully." A matmu dwelling on the Vuuiks of ths Tee, England, under cross examination aa a witness at the Lhirltam Asaiaes, turned up her nose at the insinuation slut her daughter was inclined to wed a widower. "Very likely, indeed," said she, with s toss of her bead, "that my daughter should many a second-hand man !"" The next Untied Htates C'ongnws will develop many new names. THIS is no Washburne in the list, but there are seven of the name of Williams—-one each from Alalums. Delaware, ludiana, New York and Wisconsin, and two from Michigan. There are several BOUMOM, but only two Smith*. Among the new and singular names tliat appear axe New, Wike, Tarbox ami Sinnikson. A few ilays since s seedy person ap plied to a wealthv citixeu for help, and received the small sum of five cents. The giver remarked as he handed him the pittance: " Take it, you are wel come; our ears are always open to the distressed." "That may be," replied the recipient, " but never before in my life hare I seen ao small an opening for such large ears." Among the Brahmins in Southern India, when the hnstsuul take* a wife, he bind* aronnd her neck the liadge of own ership, a* you bind your hadge of own ership about the neck of your Hpitxber gen dog. She cook* her husband's foot!, stands behind and serves him, siul whetr he lia* fiuislied his meal she eat* what lie lias left, if he leaves anything, and if not, she gets along the Ixwt way slie can. Mrs. Lavermore says that Maesaohn sett* women liave in some respects got more tlian their rights. The last Vgi*- lature of that State pasts <1 a law under which a wife may go into business on her own account, and, no matter how ranch money she may make, or how poor her husband may lie, can force him to support her. Mrs. Livermore regards tins as unjust to husbands and as un asked for by wives. The social function of Albert Wagner, of Berne, Albany county, N. Y., iB to act as arbitrator in neariy all of the disputes that arise in that town. Sometime* quite important matters, such as disputed laud questions, or disagreements is families, are submitted to him. His decision is usually Anal, and his informal court is free, because he charges no fees. He ia an old man, and for more than twenty years lias arbitrated for his neighbors ac coptably. An Akron physician tells of a little Akron boy who came to him and said, " Doctor, 1 want some epicae." " What do yon want it fort" "Never mind, just give it to me." " Who sent you here ? " Nabody seut me, come my self." "I can't let yon have it unlewi you tell me wliat you are gsing to do with it" " Well, doctor, our hired girl has swallowed a silver quarter, and slie said that if I would give her something that v inM bring it up, I might liave it." > c
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