Casting i Shadow.
A wit stopped at a foundry, where
Home men wees easting iron ware.
And entering, said. " Ton all appear
To be engaged in casting here.'
- Yes."' said the foreman, "that • our bi*. "
The wit remarked, " I'm glad H ia.
For I have sought, and found at laai,
A place lo'get a shadow cast. *
Hie iron man ai once replied
That " Such a feat their skill defied
Rut recommended him to paaa
To a foundry where they worked u\ biwae.
Find lu the Rare.
Swift-gliiing o'er tlie icy track.
I watch you alyty turning back i
Your glowing face
With saucy look that tells ma plain,
" As usual, here 1 am agaiu
First in the race !*
And ae npcut'tl a glistening field
Your glauoing feet force all to yield.
Your skill defies,
So, too, you seem to think it right
All heartsaliould bow before your bright
8on)-ptermng eyew.
Resistance ? Why. the thing '• absurd !
You set the snare and ornch Mis turd
From k>\e of fun !
His efforts to be free again
Aiw but Lore's labor spet>riu vain.
Poor dim ru>g oue!
Hut has it never dawned on you
That woman yielding, tender, true.
Is mote iu (dace t
And thoee who wish men's hear:* to away
With gentle moves the game should (day
A waiting race?
But there! what use to argue thus*
You know full well, you little puas.
You hold me tight!
By storm or stege, 'tis all the same.
With me you (day a winning game.
Hear little sprite'.
PIPLEY, THE POLICE* \!t.
"It's all very well to report a man,
and make minutes about him, and ail
that sorter thing," said John Pipley,
policeman, as he wont down Great Bulky
street, beating his white-gloved hands
together, and rolling his eyes about in
all directions. " A man * can't le all
eyes like a peacock, and looking every
where at once. Here, just get out o'
that, now, will yer ?"
" I ain't in nobody's way, am I f"
" l'es, Tim are, so* go ou ! That there
hvndcart o' yonm's been getting bigger
everv week, and how's carriages to draw
up if you're here I"
This bit of feucing took plaoe between
Pipley and a man with an apple harrow
—the fruit vender going off grutnhliug.
and Pipley on the lookout for workers of
mischief against the laws. He was not a
perfect man, John Pipley; he was a
good officer, and worked hard for his
Ey; but he was uot j*rfect, and he
ew it. In early days, before Mrs.
Pipley agreed to rest in future upon his
manly breast, he had been seen more
than once t<> steal up from areas, and
close the gat# very carefully after him—
of course returning from voyages of in
vestigation and examination of locks,
bolts and bars. Of course he had on
these occasions tried the coal-cellar, and
dustbin. But why was a gentle cough
heard, and a door closed softly, wh <n
John came up f and, again, why bulged
those pockets to the distortion of the
3mmetry of his manly form—tlie kuob
wfyiug of his neat blue uniform I
It is a very old joke to accuse police
men of partiality for cooks; but the
charge is none the less true, and the
groat force need uot blush. Have uot
the greatest generals and statesmen
found solace in the society of the other
sei f
But John was now a married man, and
devoted himself moot strongly to his pro
fession. Kvildoers fear. J him, and many
were the scoundrels he had hauled off to
prison. It was not often that he inter
fered with applewomen. His orders
were to keep the way clear; but, as John
■aid, " We must all live, aud selling ap
ples is honest—as honest as selling tea
and sugar—houester, for you can't
adulterate your apples, though you may
boil an orange." But Johu was uow
under a cloud, aud he did interfere with
apple men and women; "chivied" amall
lwys; cuffed one w!k> had "cut behind "
a coach aud nearly I wen ran over. John
even had vrords with a political mag
nate's coaclunan, and moved him on, in
spite of the crest ilpon the panel and the
.lashing bays.
For John was under a cloud. Mys
terious robberies had been* taking place
on his beat, and though he had .lone his
best to catch the members of the gnng,
tliev had been too much for him, and tlie
robberies went an.
Now this was very galling to a man
who had set his mind upon rising in life.
Blue vraa all very well; bnt sergeant was
better; but inspector, and then superin
tendent—those were the goals that John
Pipley wished to reach in the race of
life; and now, instead of going forward,
his movement was retrograde; be was
threatened with reports, and all because
of the scoundrels who had been too much
for him.
" I'll lie down npon th n m, though,
one of these .lava," said John. "IU
put salt on some of your tails, my pretty
jail birds."
8o he went on, up and down, down
and up, and had nothing to report at
last.
And the robberim went on. A carpet
Iwg was taken from a coach in motion.
Next day. a shawl and a carriage time
piece were stolen, as the baronche stood
at a fashionable milliner's door. The
disturbance about that was hardly over
wh"n a boy was hustled, and a valuable
pareei wrested from bis hamls. Again,
a boy was garret- J, and a pet dog and a
mother of pearl opera-glass taken from
his encircling arms.
John Pipley was in despair.
Another day. Great coat and um
brella from the front hall of Rubble
mede's mansion, in Upper Crook street;
two umbrellas from No. 21 in the same
street, and a roll of carpet from the big
store round the corner.
John had a sharp lecture from the
captain and he went again upon his
beat, horribly wroth.
" 111 had "only tieen ly that shop door
I could have nailed tliem," said John,
angrily; "bnt a man can't be every
where at once. I'll have them, though,
next time, hang me if I don't, or else
I'll leave the force."
He was very busy that day, and took
up one man on suspicion; but only got
snubbed for bis pains.
"I shall be too many for them yet,"
said John, as he swung leisurely down a
street. "Every dog has his day, watch
dogs as well as mongrels, a running
about and doiug mischief; and when 1
do get hold, why then "
He paused before an orange woman
who [was encroaching upon the pave
ment, and, after warning her off, began
to ponder on her appearance. Some one
most have committed these robberies,
and why not she as well as any one else?
She was bulky, and bad a habit of sit
ting in a sieve packed with her legs un
der her, to keep her warm; her bonnet
was very much crushed, and her plaid
shawl all awnr—all of which proved
nothing; but they might be found to be
associated in some way with the late rob
beries. It was astonishing what great
things sometimes grew out of small, as
the detectives had often shown.
John Pipley could not make the sides
of the puzzle fit, so he moved on him
self.
Ah ! Now that was mine likely. An
organ-grinder. Ham! Always loiter
ing about and turning that handle, what
opportunities for thinking out villainy!
But no, it would not do. He couldn't
take np Giuseppe on suspicion; so the
man ground ont the march from
" Faust" like so much musical meal to
be blown away upon the wind, the sound
buzzing in John Pipley'sears, even when
he was out of sight.
"I'll have 'em yet—lHhave 'em yet,"
said John, as he chewed the cud of his
FTUOD. KURTZ, Kditor nnd 1 N-opriotor.
VOL. MIL
disapjxiintnicnL mnl thought of hi*
oapUuu's word*, but his business was
Killi'k, tile people Wt'JV awfully Well
behaved. wul it waa very disappointing.
A coach rattled by. laden with lug
gage, but no scoundrel nw dislodging *
portmanteau; and he -John INpley -
oouhl not run after Unit coach all the
way to the ili>]mt to see it it arrived there
safe. It wn.i uot reasonable, and would
lie horribly wauling in dignity.
How hia bond workixl ! How ho boot
together hi* gloves, in which hi* lingers
itohod tii get ot crime, or longed to lay
hold of hi* truncheon, nud hit at some
thing, luml—Tcrr liaril!
Up and down, here and there; but
nothing ou tlic wing. Not eveu a row,
uot eveu a horac ilown; all wa* JHNUV
whan ha wanted war—war to the trun
cheou.
It wax enough to make any policeman
sigh, and he sighed accordingly. Ah !
if siime daring scoundrel would only ilasli
a hrick through one of those great pmies
of glut*, and seise handful* of the glori
ous jewel* therein ! With wluU s feel
ing of exquisite delight he could bring
down bis truuebeon upon the evil doer's
arm, mid make him drop the treasure,
which would dv scintillating all over the
pavement; anil then, with 'the fellow's
cuff tightly held, the jewels gathered aud
plrnxxl safely in his -John Ripley's -
jxH'ket, how he ixmhl prouillv march the
thief off. enter the chiurge, and deposit
the culprit, like so orach honey which
he hail gathered safely in a cell!
Ah, and court next day! Yes. he
would shiue there as the active mid in
telligent officer. The jeweler would, of
course, come down Itandanme, and it
would be a step toward promotion. Yea,
if such an attempt were only made, and
he was at hand to star it. \Vliat a crack
at the gang it would be—if it were only
uot a castle in the air.
Piplev beat his gloves together and
sighed tleeply.
" I was on* the look-out when the hurt
carriage robbery came off, and I'd almost
go so far as to swear that I saw that roll
of earjwt perfectly safe ten minutes be
fore it was stolen. Though it couldn't
have been safe, or it wouldn't have been
taken. Ah ! I shall have "em yet."
" Now then, policeman, give's a lift
with this here, there's a good 'on."
John Pipley had been slowly approach
ing a great grocery, at one end of which
stood a light cart, with the tail-ltoard
down, and an ordinarr-looking man was
trying to lift a large firkin into the cart,
its fellow Wing alrendv there.
" Heavy I" said Pipley.
" Out an' out," said the man.
John Piplev was naturally good
nature.!. He knew, too, the value of aid
in a row; how often the law was glad to
appeal to a civilian for help in the can
tore of some ugly customer. So, with
out a moment's hesitation, he slipped off
his gloves, seized one end of the little
barrel, and with a swing it was safely de
posited in the cart.
" A little funder, old nn," said the
man; "now, then, both together.
There's sum mat elae to come.''
A vigorous pusli sent the tirkiu right
forward beside the other.
" Now this here," said the man, "and
then there's the priceof a pint," aa he step
ped np to an egg box lying close under
the window.
"All right," said John; " but just tell
your people as it niut safe to have these
things out like they do; there's lieeu a
good many robberies about."
" Well, I b>ld our foreman as it wasn't
safe," said the inau ; " but he called me
f fool for my pains. Now, then."
John Pipley pocketed the money
offered to him, got his lingers under one
end of the straw-packed iw, the man
got his under the other ; the liox was
rested on, the tail of the cart, leisurely
thrust in, the t ill-board rattles! up, pins
and chains secured, the man ctimbsd
into the cut, a mutual uod of guod-fel
lovrship was exchanged, the reins were
shaken, the horse flicked, and sway it
rattled, while Pipley slowly replaced his
glovea, looked eagerly round for scoun
drels and went on hi* way.
"Luck's dead against "me," he said—
"dead to dead; but I'll have 'em yet.
If some one would only do som-jhing.
If I'd any luck at ail, I should have
nobbed some one after them lmtter kegs.
Heigho! nothing never falls in my
way."
All through the afternoon, like a law
preserving and int -lligwnt officer, did
Pipley wanJer alxmt hi s Wat, longing
to get a shot at some rascal or another ;
but everything was quieter tliau usual,
and the time for relief coming, Pipley
returned to the station.
" Another robbery on your beat this
afternoon, Pipley," saiA the captain.
"Strang"- thing' Most mysterious!
Bat it muM be stopped. We can't go on
like this. I must put another man on."
" No, Mr, don't, please ; I'm down on
'em first chance," said Pipley; "but
what is it this time— another time piece
out of a carriage ?"
"No; a"—
" Not a coot from a hall!"
" No; a shop-door robbery."
" And I told 'em to be careful about
them there rolls of carpet," said Pipely.
" I don't wnnttobeluunh/'said the cap
tain, " and I suppose you were watched
out of the way. A man can't bo every
where at once, nor yet be all eye*, as the
press see in to think."
"Wliat was it this time, sirsaid
Pipley.
" Oh, a very daring affair—butter
firkins and egg chests, just delivered.
Two firkins and a chest taken from the
grocer's door directly after."
"Were tbey outside the shop, sir?"
said Pipley, rubbing his gloves softly
together.
" Yes, outside at Chedderby's. The
fellows must have had a cart. I'll put
on a couple of plain clothes men, for
this sort of thing must Vie stopped. The
super, will be furious."
"They're sharp uns, and no mistake,"
said Johu Pipley, with a peculiar look of
his eye; and then, being dismissed, be
slowly returned to his lodgings, grind
ing his teeth, doubling his fist, and
biting a bit of straw into the smallest
possible fragments.
"It won't do to say how I've been
sold," he muttered at last, as he sat
down to the tea table; "for I have been
sold, and no mistake. Looked as inno
cent as a lamb, he did; and me not to
see as he was the lamb of black sheep.
And use, after eight yean in the force,
not to have the perception to take a note
of the name upon the cart!"
John Pipley might have spared him
self all trouble about that; for the name
had been most carefully removed.
What Building Associations Do.
The rapid growth of Philadelphia,
which, with a smaller population, has
nearly twice the" number of separate
dwellings within its corporate limits that
New York aggregates, is due to three
things: First, accessibility and level
territory; second, the ground rent sys
tem, by which land may be perpetually
leased on payment of six per cent, in the
form of rent; third, the bnilding associa
tion, by which mechanics and others are
enabled to become owners of their own
dwellings. This system of association
has, in spite of dull times, kept the
building trade active wherever it exists
in any large sense. In the towns abont
Boston, largely in Philadelphia, and in
all the mid-Pennsylvania towns, such as
Beading, Pottaville, Harrisburg, etc., it
has kept building active by the demand
for separate dwellings it creates among
the frugal work people.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
THE COST OF A WAR.
What ike Ult 11*11 Mai la Ike tailed
wtnla( nal *tMlUtlcn at ili> l rnur!*rit>
•IMH VI ar.
The following atateiuetit of the coat of
the late civil war in the I'uited State* i*
taken fnnu mi eaaay furmahe I to the
Colxleu t'luW of England ;
The whole cost of the war to the
Northern and Southern Statea from Ifltil
to 1 Haiti IN eatimaUHl ON follows : Live*,
1,000,000 ; property by destruction,
waste, etc., #0,000,1t00,01i0. 'Hie gross
etjiendlturea of the United States from
June, 1801. to July, 1806, ss,Tyi,is7,
000. Of tins the actual war eipciira
were about s.'>,Ht'J,Xt7,ooo.
'Hie exjie>nsxi of Slab a, counties, cities
mid town* in the Northern States, uot
represented by funded debts, have been
estimated at fd00.000,000. Tile increase
of State debts ou the war aeeouut was
Slid,ooo,ooo. The iticrease of city,
town mid oouutr debts ia estimated at
#2ttlt,ttoo,otlo. Total war expenses of the
loval States mid uatioual government,
86, 165,207,000.
The estimated direct expeiulitnrea of
the Confederate Htatea ou account of the
war were fc1.00M.000.000.
Aggregate estimated expenses of the
war to the country North and South, 88,-
165,237,000.
The total noaipb from all source* dur
ing tlie aeeoud Tear of the war were I<•.-**
tliau $42,000,000. The expenditures
wore $60,01)0,000 jx*r month—at the rate
of $700,000,000 a year.
An another illustration we have the
{peculiar reunite to Framv of the late war
with Germany, which is thus summed
up by a clever statistician in Paris :
War indemnity, 5,000,000,000 fnuira;
interest on the same fur two years, 300,-
000,000; the keep of the (lemian troops,
'273,637,000 f runes, requisition, 227,-
581,000 francs; value of objects taken
without requisitions, 254,172.001) fnuica;
war contributions levied on I'arts, 200,-
(100,000 franca, and ao on till the accouut
forms a total of 6,673,811,000 francs
i £266,952,440f. Hut this enormous sum
is exclusive of peuaions U> the army,
the damage done to material ami the ex
I >euses of reorganization, which swell the
total to 13,000,000,000 franca (£520,
000,000). The average value of a day's
work in France is one franc and a quarter,
and thus it would take 1,000,000 of rneu
thirty yeara to work it ant.
Tweuty Ear* of (orn.
A local corresjioiident of the Pittsburgh
(Penn.) Cumrnrrdal writes : Autlirwcite
coal was discovered in Pennsylvania
soou after the wttlemeut of the Wyo
ming valley, bnt its tlnrt practical u*
was by Obotliah Go* in his blacksmith
shop in the year 1768. In 1791 Philip
Ginter discovered anthracite on this
Lehigh. lu 1802 Robert Morris, of
Piiiiadeiphia, formed a company and
purchased 6,00 l) acri-a of tlie propeity on
which Giuter discovered the coal. The
coal company was called " The Lehigh
(V*l Mine." This cunqmny opened the
mine and found the vein to W tifty foet
thick, and of the very Wat quality of
coal. The conquuiy tim.lt- every effort
to secure a demand for the coal, but
without success, and having become
thoroughly disgusted with their sjiemtla
tion, leased the 6,000 acres of this mam
moth cud field to Messrs. White k
Hazard, of Philadelphia, for tweuty
years, at an annual rental of oue ear of
corn. Messrs. White k Hazard tried t>
use the coal in the blast furnace iu 1826.
but failed; the furtiaebs chilled. In 1831
Ncilson conci-ivel the idea of the hot
blast for suviug fuel, and in 1833 David
Tliotuas sdo]>t'sl the idesof the hot blast
au.l anthracite together. Whit.- A lluz
ar.l hid. prvvioull-> this, formed a coui
i*ny and bought the property. In 1839
)avid Thomas mail.- tlio use of anthra
cite for making pig metal a sucr sis, by
wlqch the tweuty ears of corn were trans
ferred into $20,000,000. And this is the
early history of the great Is-high coal
mines of the present ihiv. I remember
well the banquet given by Bnrd Patter
son and Nicholas Biddle, at Mount Car
Wu, in 1840, at which time thev paid
William Lyman, proprietor of tlie l*io
noer Furnace, SB,OOO, the premium they
lial offered for the first successful n*
of anthracite cool as fuel in the blast
furnace. Bnt David Thomas was tlie
lion of the day. It was he who showed
them how to do it, anil hale and hearty
to-day, as then, he stands a worthy rop
rnoeutative of science. Ixnig may he
live, and peaceful W his death, and may
the memory of his deeds never be for
gotten by Pennsylvania. He is a mas
ter mechanic, and I should W pleased to
see the Chair of Metallurgy iu the Me
chanic's High hDbool of Vennsylvania
marked Thomas.
Babj Styes.
Loudon, having harped upon its lathy
farms for some time, has now coined a
new word—" baby styes." The I'uli
.Hull Uazettr tells the story of a tliroo
vear old child lately kilhd in one of those
ilens. It appears tluit the vouugster
had lieen pnt to nurse, and tlie woman
to whom it was intrusted was fnsjuently
intoxicated, and was in tlte habit of
going out and locking the child in her
room for hours, without food or tire.
One morning at nine o'clock she went
out leaving the child in charge of her
boy, who himself went out, transferring
the child to an old woman living in the
next room. The old woman hushed the
liaby to alee]>, and lit noon Mrs. Davis,
the nurse, returned " slightly intoxi
cated." She went into the room where
the child was lying, and was next seen
by the old woman at six o'clock in the
evening in Yauxhnll-wulk. On the next
morning the boy, who had lieen to the
theater, returned home at lialf-past
twelve, and going into the room found
the lby dead. latter in the day Mrs.
Davis returned home "the warse for
liquor." The doctor was called in, and
having made a ptmt-morU m examination
of the dead child, said that "of all the
horrible fever dens he was ever in Mrs.
Davia'a room was the worst. It was in a
frightful state of negleH and dirt, ami
the very place to breed fever. The
death of tne child was canned by as
phyxia, but how caused he could uot
say. The organs of the body were
healthy, but there was not a particle of
food in the stomach and inteatines."
What a sad and pitiful commentary the
whole wretched story is upon the boasted
civilization of the age.
All a Mistake.
Marcus J. I'arrott, a well-known
American, some years ago, while at the
Langhain Hotel, in London, dispatched
to the Grand Hotel, in Paris, to reserve
apartments (or him. On his arrival
thsre great was his astonishment to find
that one of the grandest suites of apart
ments in the hotel had been reserved for
him, while he wan greeted with the
greatest display of respect by mine host
and his stall". This extraordinary atten
tion to a simple American sovereign was
caused by a ludicrous misconception of
Mr. Parrott's name. The dispatch con
veyed to the landlord the impression
that the apartments were for the Marqnis
de Parrot, a distinguished foreign noble
man.
WANT FCNDB. —The return rifle match
between Ireland and America will take
place in June, and the National Associa
tion has issued an address to patriotic
citizens. Funds are needed to insure
the international contest, and, as the
amount is comparatively small, it will no
doubt be speedily supplied.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. 25, 1875.
CouimtittUl Societies of the lulled
State*.
('has. Nurdbuff ha* been inspecting
UM Communist societies of the I'uited
States,wuid he Amis tluit then* ars eight
societies, or seventy-two communes or
dtftmut settlements, in thu country
which arc successful. 'l'lm oldest of
these liave existed for eighty yea re, the
youngest of which he treats, fur twenty
two. Titer nunilmr alioul five thousand
|IIWIIU O I all (ages, and are scattered
through thirteen Htutes, owning nearly
one hundred and eighty thousand acres
of laud. A thev are sometimes accused
of being html monopolists, it ie interest -
iug to see that the communists owu only
about thirty-aii acres a head. Tlim fact,
uieutioued by Mr. Nordhoff, contrails
ourioualy with the statistics of Scotland,
where the Duke of SiiUierlamt owne
1,3*20,433 acres, the Karl of Bmulalbone
TW.TVt aerea, the l>uke of UuccleiU-h
418,615 aerea; where utore than a quarter
of the land ie owned by twelve men, and
one ludf of it by seventy-live. Our
author computed the wealth of the com
niuuitiea at twelve millions of dollars. ,
One of the societies is French iu origin, i
two American, and the others Herman. I
Mr. NordhofT* detailed accouut of tliw '
life at the various communities, with !
their history, ia extremely intereating.
The general im pie anion left u|*n the
mind of the render is of moderation in
every way—plain una* often nmouutiug to
bareuetM, industry, regularity, and piob- '
able monotony. Kefiueuient, high edu- •
raiiou, or geucrsl intelleetunl cultivation
is uot common. Hut immorality, dis
oriler, dissipation, arc seldom found.
Mr. XuruhofTa general summary is
that while they are uot re lined or rulti
vated, while art is unknown among the I
communists, ami U anty and grace ars |
eveu despised, yet they work but moder
ately; they are cleanly, honest, humane, |
and charitable. Tliey provide plainly
for iM'rsoual comfort, live well, are un
usually healthy, temperate, never iu
debt, and the most long-lived of our
imputation. They keep regular hours,
live in the ojwu air, avoid anxietv, are
tenderly nursed iu ilhnws, ami in old age
are most carefully considered. Kighty
yearn is uot au uuusual age for a com
muiiitt, and in every society except the
French colony of 1 curia Mr. Nordhoff
saw or heard of people over ninety and
still lude and active. If the communist
life seems in theory hi be dull and
dreary, yet be found the |M*oule cheerful
and quietly merry, ami consider* it in al-1
most every way a higher ami Iwtb r ami
plcasanter life than that of the average
mecliauic and laborer in tin city or the
average farmer in the country. Imbed,
when the render thinks of the tenement
house in the city or the wasting toil and
pinched household of the poor farmer,
and then of the life which is described in
this book, the author's opinion has grew!
presumptive supjH.it,
Par it In Tronblr.
Due night lately. 4 bo street* and pave
luouta of Parr* mw tMfitnd will* a tliiu
coaling of 100, which made thom exees
ively slippery. It wan with the utmost |
difficulty that any vehicle could lias*
along the streets, and pedestrian* fell in
all directions. A* many parte* and din
ner* liad bm given that day, a large I
number of permw wore about. Tlie
theater* wore all very full, and loud were
the lamentation* on tlie turn out at mid
night at to the iuipcaaubility of getting
home. Sotue alopt in empty owuilmoes
ami iwl: many got Its In iu rounnon
lodging bouse*, and not a few (mased the
nigld in the street*. It waa a carious '
night the next uioniingto see ladie* aliiv
ering in their liall dresses making their
way to their bunw. One gontleuuui cut
up a railway wrapper, and making stock
itiga for hia horse, drove home. A man
with a 1111:111111 v of lint ahppern made a
little fortune, but hit utock was soon ex- .
Icinttel. Many JMI .plr people passed the
night at the various j vol ice station*. Hrv
eral people lost their livi**; a young man
fell autl fractured hi* ahull iu the llttede i
la Poix; a woman slipped, came down,
broke her anu. and tlie child alie was
carrying wan killed on the spot; numer- j
oua 'fnu'turea of leg* and arum occurred, 1
and ilangerona wound*. Nearly 300 per
son* were taken to the hospital*, luring 1
either broken linil*i or severe contusion*. !
Aa omnibus line lost 2t* horse* by acci
dent Tbete iaa well known lieggnr who,
having loot both leg*, by mcaiu of aharp
poiuted stick* propel* hiiuHelf on a go
cart. Tin* man clashed up the Bouie
vard* at full speed, and, a* a reporter re
innrk.i, 44 avenged the humiiutioii of
year*." A blind nun who clung to the
railing* of the mayoralityof tlie Kleventh
Arrondoriemeiit wn* fastened there bv
the tij>s of liif* fingers, which liecatue
frozen. He UH n>leMHl liy n piquet.
A Religious IMfßeiilly.
The distubranoea which have taken
place in Caraqncttc, New Brunswick,
resulting in his* of life, had their iueep
tiou in the bitter feeling existing between
the Roman Catholics, who are in the
minority in that province, aul the Protes
tants, upon the subject of taxation for
public schools. Tbo Catholics refuse to
send th'-ir rhihiren to the non-s(>etariun
public schools, ami many of tiiem have
carried their resistance to the payment
of the school tax to the ]>oint of suffer
ing imprisonment rather than comply
with the law; while not long ago the
Catholic bishop of St. John }>ermilted
property belonging to him to be aeized
and sold for non-payment of his school
tax. The assessment of the school tax is
left optional with the local trustee*. In
Cumquette, a Kinnll town on the eastern
coast of the province, the citizens at
their annual meeting voted against the
assessment for school purposes by elect
ing trustees opposed to it. These trus
tees were removed by the government
and others appointed in their place who
made the assessment, and this led to the
attack of the mob upon the residence of
Mr. Robert Young, president of the
executive council, who strongly favors
the school bill, and was believed to have
lieen instrumental iu .'orcing the assess
ment. Several persons sre reported to
have been killed and wounded in tliia
affair. It will lie investigated by the
oonrts, and the trial of the rioters will
doubtless add to the bitterness of the
pnhlic feeling. In Ontario and Qneliec,
as well as in New Brunswick, religious
animosities enter largely into politics.
In Cases of Poisoning.
If a stomach-pump ia not at hand give
the patient ground mustard and salt dis
solved in wntor to produce vomiting.
We mention thin an throw article* are w
mot id way n on hand in every house.
Then give the wliito of a few egg*. In
regard to special antidotes; For arid
potaona give, OH quickly OH poaaible large
dranghta of chalk, magneton, or a erenm
made of aoap and water; for alkaline
poiaonn, such aa soda, potoab, or am
monia, give lemon-juice with water and
sugar, and if thin cannot be hod, give
vinegar; olive oil, nlao, will relieve anrh
caeca. For araenio the hydrated aenqui
oxid of iron ia the special antidote, in
doaea acme thirty timoe larger than the
amount of poison token; for baryta give
Hulplinto of magneaia or soda; for anti
mony or tartar emetic powdered Peru
vian bark or the infusion of the aame ia
the apeciflc antidote. For corrosive
anblimate the hydrated proteaulphuret
of iron is the antidote if administered
within twenty minutes: if later, give un
boiled white of egga, then worm water.
For salts of copper (verdigris, bine vit
riol, etc.) sugar and the whites of eggs.
A Sailor lu CousUulluoplc.
The captain mine down and called out
that if 1 wanted to go up town to come
along; ao 1 jumped ashore with my blue
shirt and broad collar and went into the
town. All the carrying here ia doue by
men or horses, for the aire -la are so usr
row there ia uo room for wagons, al
though you occasionally sec one. Lsniles
going out shopping use a se.hm cliair or
go ou foot. The itimer* use a |ole
about fifteen feet loug, with knolm on
the end, and two little iron pius iu the
mil Idle, where the rope] goes around,
to kisqi the hunt in phice. 1 luive seen
eight men carrying a large lade of hay
this WHY, using four poles, ami the bale
being .dung diagonally so that the men
could each rest one liamt on the other's
shoulder. It made it quite exciting
when ten or twelve loads were coming at
the aatne time, the men all shunting for
tlie jvis.ple to get out of the way, and
the street lieing so uarrow tliat auch a
thing was almost iuqioMHible. Hinall
light tilings like trunks are carried by
one man, who liaa an affair of pigskin
strapped on his luck of auch a aha|M*
! that the articleacarried almost stay tln-re
' without being tied. After we left the
i ship cliaiidlcr's we came out into an open
place, where 1 was surprised to see horse
mrw. These car* were divided into two
compartments—one third of the cars be
ing for ladies and the other two-thirds
fur geuUenien. Next we went up a very
hilly street; NO steep that it was all steps.
It is lined ou ItoUl sides with liamlaoiue
storm of all deauriptiuua, ami is crowded
with jsM.ple. 1 saw hds of those eastern
lieggatw we read of—aume iu bualiel
iMsketa, with nothing to lie aeeu but the
head ami one arm, ami a variety of other
; aorta. At a building that was being torn
down we saw them carrying away the
lricks on donkeys, a big bundle of them
< lieing slung ou each other, either one of
the Imm iim weighing more than the
animal, while the poor littlefellow wonhl
try to walk, with Lis leg* beuding under
him like rmla of whaleltoue. When we
arrived at the American Consul's the
captain went up to hia office and I stood
!at the door. There are any quantity of
peojile going around selling things you
never heard of iu the Htates, and lu a
mode of selling yon never see. For in
stance, there are men selling drinking
water; tliey liave a kind of wooden tub
strapjied ou their lawk the tub lieing on
tirely hidden by leaves and branches of
trees, which tower high altove their
heads. The water is drawn through a
leather pipe, which lias a brass nozzle
and cock ou the end, the mouth of the
uozxle being also surrounded with green
leave*. In front at tlmm thev carry a
little brass tray, with two tumblers, and
a sponge for washing the runs of the
glasses. Tliey also rinse them out when
Tim take a drink. The price is one pars,
equal to one cent, ami you are entitled
to two glasses. The water is good.
Then there arc fruit men, selling plums
| and grwjjee, and other fellowa tlut lure
a regular cold lunch on a trwy before
them and a stool slung babiad Uieni, so
tlut von ran retire to a quiet corner and
feast your ap|x'tlte.
How They are Sow (hoses.
Presidential electora in the United
Stl<-* arc now chosen by general ticket
The names of two men oirrv*| winding t<>
the number of Senator* to which a State
is entitled in (kmgrwsa, together with
tlie name* of aa many other* aa there are
ltepre*eiitalivi** ~f the Stale iu tlie lower
House of < Vmgroas, one to reside in each
<'ongnwaiotu! district, are (dared upon
I tlie wine ballot, anil every voter votes
for the whole nitinlver of Presidential
elector* to chosen iu the State, and,
, by a law of Congress, the electors are re
quired to be chosen iu all the Stab-* on
the Maine day, which is the first Tus
day after tlie first Monday of November.
The elector* so enosen in each State
meet in tlieir respective States on the
first Wednesday of Deaouhar, and vide
i for President and Vice-President, and
make and rngn three certificates of all
the votea given by them, and seal up tlie
j name, due of these certificate* is to !*•
seiit, by a per*ou duly appointed by
them, to the President of tlie Senate, at
the scat of government, liefore the first
■ of January next eusuitig; another i* to
I lie forwarded by mail, also directed to
the President of the Senate: ami tlie
j third is to I** delivered to the Uniteil
States judge of the district in which the
I judges are avHcrablcd. On the second
j Wednesday of Pel unary, the PnriilMt
of the Sfnate, in the presence of all the
Heuators and KepreacnUtive*, OJM-IU the
certificates front all the States, and the
vote* are cmnteil. The |ierwon luring a
majority of all the electoral votes for
President is elected. If no |ieraon lias a
majority of the electoral votes, the
House of Representatives must choose
tlie President from those candiilatea, not
execmling three, who hud the highest
' unmlier of the ehetoral vote*. Hut in
no doing the raemliera do tint all vote to
gether; bat those of sseh State vote by
thcmselvea, and tlie candidate who re
ceive* the vote* of a majority of tlie Bej>-
nwentativea of a State has imt one vote
1 for such majority; from which it appear*
that there are ouly as turner Presidential
' votea as there are* State*, the person who
receive* the votea of a majority of the
State* is elected. The pnr|*>*ed amend
ment to the United State* Constitution
provides that the people shall vtite di
| nsrtly for President and Viss-Pnwi
dent.
On an Icy Roof.
There came near being a fetal accident
at Richmond, Va. A yonng gentleman,
sou of an Episcopal miuinter, in com
pany with a party of young ladies, paid
a visit to the capital. Like most parties
who visit this place, they went up on the
roof of the building for the purpose of
viewing the city. While they were on
the platform, which is not over four or
five feet wide, one of th. party proposed
that they should step to the roof, and the
gentleman and one of the ladies did so.
Scarcely hod they placed their feet there
on when they found that the roof, which
is on inclined plane, was covered with a
thin coating of ice, ami to the horror of
their companions, both slid with start
ling velocity down, the yonng man in
front, Their friends and other ol morvers
expected to see them slide over the roof
to the ground, but, fortunately, in their
descent they came in contact with one
of the chimneys on the very edge of the
roof, and thence managed to creep hack
again. _
It was In Paris.
An elegant lady goes out alioppiug.
While alio ia engaged, there ia a heavy
fall of rain. The streets are flooded,
and, to a<ld to her distress, her carriage
stands on the-far aide of a large, open
square, which has become a lake. She
signals to the driver, but his horses,
being young, will not face the water.
She stands on the edge of the curb,
stamping her little feet, and not knowing
what to do. A gentleman passes and
takes in the situation at a glance.
Throwing his cigar aside, he steps up to
the lady, seizes her by the waist, deli
cately, plunges into .the tide, and landa
her safely on the lower atop of her ear
riage door. Recovering from lier aston
ishment, she turns around and mutters,
" Insolent!" The gentleman loses no
time, but steps bock to the lady, seizes
her by the waist, delicately, plunges into
the tide, and lands her where she stood
before. He then takes off his hat, bows
politely, and walks away.
UK. MAXO* tiKTH KMMTBD.
Ilsw bis H'll* KssaS tl Osl.
J sin as Maxoii is a duly initialed ami
valiant Knight of PyUuas, residing on
Fourth street. The otlier night he left
home, telling lira. Maiott that he was
going to the lodge. About hai/psst
eight o'eloek two well dressed men rang
the door bell, and when Mrs. Mason ap
jiewred Uiev introduced themselves as
companion Knights of Pythias. They
■Mid the lodge ltad just held an election
and tliat Mr. Maxuu ltad been nuaui
uiously called to the Chauusllor'a cliair
the hlg heel jioaitiou ill the lodge.
Tliey liad lieeu duly ap|siinted, in ac
cordance with the <mstom which is p#
ruliar to the Order, to inform her of the
distinguished honor that had lieen con
ferred ou her huslsuid and to solicit her
consent to his acceptance of the office
another stipulation |mculuu only lu the
Knights of Pythias. Mr. Mason, they
wind, according to their rules, would hohl
the office for three ream, and wonid re
ceive au annual salary of t1,102, this
Iwiug the exact amount, according to
tlie tribute levied ou each knight by the
superior council. Mm. Maxon was over
joyed, thanked the courteous gentlemen
—who ltad meanwhile seated themselves
iu the parlor—and gave her freest con
scut to the acceptance of the high and
lucrative office conferred upon her
worthy husband. The visitors mac to
leave, and, as they were si mat to with
draw with all the thoughtful etiquette of
thorough geuUemeu, one of them sud
denly remarked, "Oh! by the way,
Mrs. Maxon, ! almost forgot to give you
tliia note. Mr. Maxon especially im
preused it upon me uot to forget its de
livery." A hurriedly written note was
handed Mrs. M.. and, excusing herself,
site retired to the lighter parlor and
read ;
DKAII WIRE I have been selected
from among the tiiree hundred and
seventy-five membem of my lodge to
act a* chancellor -a flattering office—
worth ueerlv $1,200 a veer, ll ia aiway
customary /or the newly-elected chancel
lor to furnish refreshments for the
knights. I have only $5 with me. Pleaee
neud me at least SSO, for I must do the
thing tip well. Keml SIOO if you have
it liaiidy, or Itarrow it of the neighbors.
It will ail coins back when 1 get my
tlmt month's salsrv-—sloo. Your loving
huslsuid. ' JAMEH MAXON.
Mis. M&xon's eyes ojiened and idle
thougiit a moment. Then *be went to
a wardrolws, plunged her hand into the
pocket of her black *ilk dress, (Hilled out
a pretty Russia lest her pante. snd, from
it* MI ugly tuckeil-uu corner took s bill.
It luokei nice and fresh, snd hail in big
figures upon it 44 9100. " Going to tlie
door she inquired uf tlie waiting gentle
men: 44 Will you take the money to
Uiin !" The fine looking fellow who
handed her the note, iirofensing not to
know wlut was iu it, *poke up, 44 Oh,
certainly, certainly, I'll see tlut he get*
it safely'. tila Ito accommodate you,
ma.lam"
Said Mr*. Maxou, 44 i luve ouly a
SIOO hill, and James want* but fifty,
snd, 1 Hondas tlut, I dou't waut to send
tlie w hole of it. Will yott get it changed
for me,* please!" •
The tw o geutlemeu consul ted a mo
ment and men said, 44 Ob, me have
change." Straightway they nude up
950 and gave it to Mr*. Maxou in ex
change for the lull, ami. wishing her *
very good uight, retired with all the
• h-gaiit grace ami luanhues* characters
tic of tlie noble Pythian Knight*.
Iu SIHIUI tweutv minutes Mr. Maxou
came home. 4, \Vhy," said the wife,
44 1 thought yon were entertainiug your
knightly sMsoriate*. 1 didn't expect you
home till midnight, considering tlie
amount of money you wanteil for your
feaat "
4 4 What do vou mean t" inquired Mr.
Maxou. 44 1 iLo't understand vou."
44 Why didn't you send me this ?" said
Mr*. Mason, a* *be handed him tlie
note. 44 Right after you left two very
clever UMiking gentlemen calle>l and said
you lud been elected to some high office
cluuicellor, I think- sm 1 I, of course"
Maxon. who had glanced over the note
ami discovered it* complexion, ejacu
lated, 44 You gave it to them ? Why,
it's s ilialiohcai swindle. Did you give
them any money t How much f '
44 Why, I gave them a SIOO bill, ami
thev gave ne 950 in change. Here it
is."
Mr. Maxon iu a despairing way took
the money and carelessly glanced it over
at first, then more eagerly, Noanuiug
(wellbill carefully. 44 Well, well," *aid he
at last, 44 this is a double outrage. Why,
all this money i* counterfeit except two
$5 note*! Rut wriiere iu the uaiuc of
common aenae did yon ever get a sl*lo
bill t Yon didn't borrow that of the
nciglitiora, did you 1"
44 No," said Mr*. Maxon, who ip
JH-ared to her husband to lie strangely
undisturlied, 44 1 took tliat a 9100 note
you gave iue about a year ago. Don't
you remember I You told me to h*k
out and not to spend it."
44 Whv, that * * counterfeit!" said the
linaliami.
" I knew it waa. Did you suppose I
didn't see through their stupid game,
Mr. Maxon f Your wife isn't a fool if
she is a woman. (live me them two
good & p > bills, if you please. I just want
a new lionnct."
A Itrakcman'M Rraiery.
Charles Cramiail. a hrakemau on the
New York and New Hareu railroad,
saved the life of Mary E. Jones, of Port
cheater, at the imminent risk of his own.
Miss Jones was crossing the track, when
she recognized an acquaintance in a lit
tle boy and stopped to talk with kiiu.
He was not on the rood lied hu' Miss
Jones stood on the track, which was
trembling with the approach of a Bos
ton express- at full speed. A freight
train stood on the other throngh track,
and the men were bnav switching cars ou
a ride track. ('randaft was on a freight
car that was moving, and hearing the
express shouted to Miss Jones to get out
of the way. She seemed not to hear,
and continued her conversation. ('ran
dull jumped from the uidviug car, and
rati toward the woman, who, too late to
save hei-self. saw her danger.
" I thought all of a sudden that I'd
try," said he afterward, in relating tlie
story to his friemls, " aud I knew that it
must lie au awful quirk try. Site didn't
sec me coming, hut just glanced over
her shoulder quick like, ami then shrank
all together with a sort of shudder, and
whispered: ' I'm gornl heard that
whis|H.'r. and it seems as though the en
gine might have heard it, too. It was
nlsuit as near her as 1 was. It was
which and lather between me aud the
express. The girl put her hands to her
face and tottered backward. I just
caught her aronud the waist, and lugged
her off the track as the whole train scur
ried past. I looked down at the little
woman, and she was as pale ivs a ghost
and hardly breathed. Then I was afraid
she would faint, aud I wouldn't have
known what to do theu. To pull a
woman out of danger is earner for me
then to liriug them to when they faint.
But she opened her eyee and stared into
my face in a wondering way, just as one
d>aw on waking from a sleep after being
sick and lightheaded. I think the scare
itself came near killing her. Hhe found
out where she was quick enough, and
bounded away. ' Don't yon ever come
around this track again,' said I. Then
she laughed and started for her home, as
she remarked: 'I think I shall remem
ber this forever.'"
Term*: $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
The lightning Rod.
Kwaer had lightning rude placed
upon his l*ru throu or four yearn ag..;
but during last otUWOM the buftittur
wa* struck by lightning and burned.
WHEN lie got the MOW ham ilotio a man
nunc around with a rod wagon and
wanb d to soli htm a sot of Holt k Bui
nam's (latent lightning rods.
" I believe uot," said Keyssr, ** 1 had
roils on the I sum at the time of (ho
" 1 know," exclaimed the agwut " 1
know you hail, and vary luudy that's
the reason you wero struck. Notion's
more likely to sMnu-t lightniu' than
wort blew* rod*."
" How do you know they were worth
torn i"
'• Why, I was driviu' by yor in the
spring, and I seen them rods, and I
says to myself that tauruTl bo struck
aome tiiuc, but I here's no use in Iryui
to ixtuvinoe Mr. Kevwr ; so ( didn't
call. 1 kuowod it, because they bad
iron tips. A rod with iron tips is no
U-tter'u a close prop to ward oil
lighttiin'."
" The man who sold them to m# said
they liail platinum tips," remark*!
Koyaar.
"Ah ! this ia a wicked world. Mi.
l&eyaer. You can't ba t <*utious.
Houic of thaws yer agent* lie like a gas
meter. It's awful, sir. They are wholly
untrustworthy. Thein rods wax the
most ridieklu* aliam I over see. A regu
lar gouge. They wa'ut worth the labor
it took to put 'em up. They vm'ilt, now,
Unit's the honest truth."
•• What kind do you oilerr"
" W*li, air, I vm k>H the oulv genuine
lightuiu' rod that'* made It a tun
strticted cm scientific principle*. Pro
feasor Huxley xava its sure to ran off
the electric fluidevery time. Twitted
charcoal irvn, gins* insulators, eight
point* on each rod, warranted auud
platinum.. We give a written guarantee
with each rod. Never had a house
•track since we began to offer thia rod
to the public. Positive feet. lie;
ltghlmu'll play all around a house with
one of c-in and never touch it. A
thnuder Ktortu that'd tear the bowri*
out of the American ooutiucnl would
leave your houae aa aa its an a icoiar bear
in the middle of an i.wberg Hindi I run
you one up f"
" 1 don't know," aaid Ktywr, mua-
ingly.
"I'll put you up uur cheap, and tiien
you'U have aomethiu'rehakle. Monet bin'
there's no diacount on."
" You my the old rod waa a fraud t"
" The deadliest fraud you ever heard
of. It hadu't au ounce of platinum
within a mile of it. The man that sold
it ought to lie prosecuted, and the fel
low that put it up without insulators
ahould lw shot. It's too had tlie farm
erw ahould 1m guged in this aurt of
way."
" And Bolt A Buruaai'a rod is not a
fraud r"
" A fraud f Why, rnally, my dear
sir, lust oast your" eye over lVtrfaasor
Huxley'a letter and thaae certiflaatea,
and remember that wa give a written
guarantee—a )NWtive protection, of
courae."
"Jurt cart your eye over that," saul
Keywr, tuuiding him a piece of paper.
Well, upon uiv word ! Thu is in
eked what —that is to asy it is, as it
wore—it looks—it look* s little like one
of our own certificate*."
" Just so," mid Keyser. "Tbst old
rod was iue of Bolt A Barnaul's. You
•old it to my aou-in-lsw; you gave
this certificate ; you swore the points
were pktiuum, aud your nuui put it up."
" niSii I ttuppoee w* can't trade !*'
" Well, I should think not." said Key
*er. Wht rvuiwo the man mounted tits
ml wagon aud moved uu
The Horrors of the Iqhm.
The luilknium will have been brought j
nearer to a* by a great uuuiy tiuxusHvi j
years when the people who are paid for I
the performance of public duties are
selected by uo other rtandanl than their
own qualifications for |>erforming them
faithfully and succesafully. That the
selection of the fittest doe* not now pre
rail in this department of human
economy is a fact that the people erf the
Unit-sl States have luul thrust upon
their attention with wearisome iteration
in the past t nor twelve years. It ha*
rarely been thnurf upon the attention of
auyliody with more sickening details
than iu the two stories of cruel lnccxnpe
teuce in the care of the insane. An old
man miilc-rgoiug treatutent in tlie King*
County Asyltun was murdered in puiv
wautotiuor* by s lunatic whom a name
allowed to take a plasterer's sdse to
amuse himself with. The mufderer of
cxmrae is s fitter object for pity than lus
victim; but what sliall tie said of the
nnrae wlsise indecision of character cr
ignorance erf the duties lielonging to hia
position it respontible fur this tiaiuftil
cvdatirophe ? AU>ve all. what shall be
said of the system under which it w*s
possible for so incompetent a man to got
into a fiorition where the results of ut
competence are lisbls at all times to be
so Appalling ? The case may be an ex
treme cm, Kir there are few duties which
require for their performance a more
{leculisr fitness tiotn of natural parts and
special training than do tlmae connected
with the care of the insane. But wbera
H|>ccial qualifications are needed tlie
precautions against incompetence and
unlitnees require to be made all the more
stringent; and it is to be hoped that this
. saving truth has been doubly impressed
upon the guardians of the Kings County
Asylum and of similar institutiona rise
where bv the deplorable incident which
luis followed its neglect. The story
which coincH to us from Quriiec is far
more iiarrowing in its nccuniulation of
painful details. Through lack of propcr
preaaution in guarding the arts of a
woman of known violent propensities an
asvlnm near the Canadian city was art
j oii fire, and tlie four hundred and thirty
odd demented women who were her
fellow prismier* in the bnilding were
tin own into a panic which may lie more
easily and vividly imagined than de
soribed. Three of them perishecJ with
the burning building. That no more
than throe perished where more than
1 four hundred were rushing in evety
direction away from safety rather than
towards it, may be accepted as sufficient
' proof that the officers of the institution
i did all that lay in human power to
do to snatch thrae poor dosed creatures
from the jaws of destruction. But a few
onuoesof prevention would have been
far more efficacious than all them many
]>ounls of attemjrfcd cure. The patients
who survive that wild scene will be all
the worse for their night of high-strung
terror. One act of neglect lias for them
undone years of work in intelligent and
conscientious treatment —if, indeed, the
inmates of tlie destroyed asylum were
accustomed to receive intelligent and
conscientious treatment at the hands of
their faithless guardians. —X. Y. World.
Ha* tirateful.
A Chinaman was arraigned in a San
Francisco court the other day on a charge
of murder. The judge asked him whether
he had retained couusel. He replied
that he Itad not; he was nothing but a
Chiuaman, mid might as well beaxecuted
now as any time. Tlie judge assured
liini that lie liad as many rights iu the
court as any other man, whereupon the
Chinaman arose from his seat, nia face
beaming with gratitude, and bowed his
acknowledgment. Counsel was then ap
pointed by the bench, and the tt* P>-
' oeeded.
NO. 8.
THE WAK OP 177A.
FFCR Hw.lm. KARATE* ED kf IK* (Caulk* In
Ik. WrlNl—wry Vw.WkN Tfcer
< mm fiMh.l. iMrraallee MkMefc.
All Atlantic ewapoudMit gives w
the story of th* tmapn known a* H<*
moan. employed in th* Revolutionary >
mr ly the Fingtiah, Afte* filing on;
thai Ureal Britain bad empkip|H!>t Im
her own troops, and moat hire
tight her IsUtlre is the colonic, Bit *ey*
tiiat *|pli<tiow waa made to RnanwW
Uhui to Holland, who <Mloal tler
uuuiv wnm thru divided into petty prin
ciptililiiw, over each of which reigned
au almost nlwlflP inonarrli, who vm aa
Suor aa be waa aristocratic. The B*vn
earn' war had ended and each of three
primes had au amy that waa of no nae
at hoiue.
Col, Win. Fawoitt wm* employed by
the Kngliab government to make tin
negotiations, and aet about hie week.
Th< And contract waa mad* with the
Duke of Brunswick. Mia tittle territory
of about sixty square miles bad a popu
laliou 'if our hundred and fifty thou
sand, ami an income of a million and a
half. Hia debts amounted to nearly
twelve millions. Ha paid thirty thou
asml thalrra a year to the ilirwctory of
hia opera, and the offer of Pawmtt met
him when he was sorrily in need of
money.
The A rat body of men employed coo
mated of four thousand infantry and
three hundred light dragoons. This
waa made up of old men and raw re
iTint*. They were sent off without over
costs ami n shore or etoefciogs. The
Kngliah lmd to supply these, ami when
the vessels got to aca and the boxes were
opened it was found that the shore were
thin, made fur ladies' wear, ami utterly
imalaaa.
Hhortly alter the second division erf j
the Duke of Brunswick's troop*. on ,
kialing of about eighteen hundred men, i
wan neutered in. They were nearly all j
recruit*, levied ewiecialiy fur service in ]
America; tnany of them, aa ie the ftrrt, 1
too old or too young, or imperfectly
grown and ton fertile to carry * tuuriurt
Faweitt having olrfoined ail the troopa
he could of the Duke of Brunswick
went to Htwae-C—a' 1. The Duke of
Hewae Ceaart, like hi* brother of Brtta*
wick, felt no scruples, no humane una
giving*, no paternal doubt* about traffic
rag in the blood of hie subject*. A
(VMittcripticio waa ordered. A cruel erne
iit was. Wh'-n a father asked fur hia sun,
whom the coewcriptioo had torn from
Itim, h- waa aeut to the mines. If a
tuotlier lieaoiight that be to whom ahe
had looked for the ttupjiort of her age
might be natored to Iter, abe waa went
to tin* workhouse. Some erf the bar
barous punishment* by which soldier*
were terrified into rttadaence were in
flicted m the street*. "Never," aaya
Weber, in his " Travel* of a German in
Germany," "did I we w many pour
wretches rhaaed through the street* as
in GttaaL ft is lam injurious to the
health tluui running die gauntlet," the
officers told him; and well it might be,
fur that gauntlet waa run through a nar
row lane of men, each provided with a
stout cane and Itouitd to apply it with
full force to the barton rf the drtinqueiiU.
In caaes of desertion, the greater* of
crime*, the og.nder waa made to ran
this gauntlet, two daw in aucomuon,
and twrtve time* each day. Can we won
der that the temlde punishment often
ended in death I
The first divirion erf H.SfT men ww
men red. and they entered Now York har
bor the 12th of August, 1776. On the
27th they took a brilliant part ia the bat
tie of lexig Island under De Heiater.
A gale of wind, a ]h rsistent calm, any
of Uie common cluuices of the ocean, and
they would have been too late, and Howe
would not haw dared to fight the Ijattk
which won him his kuigtrfhood; Wash
ington aonld haw had time to strengthen
his work* on both inlands: Greene, who
of all the American officers was the oulv
one perfectly familiar with the ground,
would haw recovered sufficiently from
his untimely fever to resume bis com
mand, and the whole aspect of the cam
paign of 1776 would haw been altered.
Henceforth let it lie borne in mind thai
in every battle of the war of mdepend
euce lured men erf- Germany play an im
portant part.
On the 3d of June the second division
was mustered into service. On the Irftl
of October it landed at New Hochrile.
It oouriated at 3.937 men. This divioiac
wa not so easily raised as the fin*. Ia
spite of all the efforts Urfh of the king
and the Isndgrave, tlie deaertion con
tinned; tie difficulty of rinding recruit*
increased; native Hesrians able to beaj
anus di*appeaied from the towns and
field*, and it was only by stealing mac
wherever they could be found timt tb*
landgrave could fulfill his promises
Meanwhile he wvnt to Italy to enjoy hi*
money and form new plans of emtiriiirii
merit."
From Camel Faweitt hastened to Ha
nan ami to other small provinees, when
after negotiations he succeeded in mis
ing email bodies of troops, paving dif
fen-nt prices for them. The Margrave
of Ansparh encountered serious absto
"rte* in wndiug his troops to the place ol
einlmrkstiou. At Ochaenfurt they re
rolled ami refiraed to emhark. A skill
fnl leader might haw opposed a tor
mutable resistance, but thrtr ofticert
were not with them in heart, and infor
mation of the untoward event was im
mediately sent to the margrave. He in
tantly mounted his horse, not stoppinfi
long enough to take a change of linen oi
ewn his watrti. and followed by onh
two or tliree attendants rode at full
speed to the scene of the revolt. At
the sight of their master the hearts ot
three bold men, so daring in the face ot
the enemy, mirfgaw them, aud they
penitently returned to their allegiance.
The Duke of Wnrteraheiw offered foui
thousand men, and Faweitt had been in
stnicted to enter into negotiations will
him. But upon a closer examination it
was found that he was bankrupt. H<
had no arms and no uniforms. To pre
rent the men from deserting they wer
kept without pay. The officers" tent*
lis*! been cut no to eke out the decora
lions of tlie duke's rural festivals. Tht
troops could not be equipped and ooulc
not lie furnished.
By the contract made with the princei
a certain-sum was paid for each divirioi
of men. For every man killed a eertaii
number of thalers additional was pair
aud three wounded men- counted aa on*
killed. As near as can be establishec
by a careful comparison of the Engli&l
authorities, the sums paid under varioui
names by the English treasury for thorn
troops amounted in round numbers U
seven million pounds sterling, or, at tin
present standard, fourteen million pound
sterling.
The number of Hessians employed b;
the English and the number who return
ed home are given in the foUowini
table:
No. Mo* No. i*i<uw
fatntahad. bo**.
Brunswick 5.758 . sjo
HMM-Cosml 16.093 10.403
Hwiße-Hanau 1433 1.441
Wakteek 1.335 505
Aiupaoli 1,644 1,188
Auliilt-Karbttt 1.100 964
Total 39,166 17.113
Tlius the total loss was 11,653.
Advehtikino.—Newspaper adverti;
ing is an art. It is not enough alone t
advertise. It is neoewary, in order t
win snooeas, to advertise in the mo*
effective manner, and to employ the be*
skill, as being both the best and by man
times the cheapest.
(tenia of interest.
John Thicken • the author of the
Miiwankee directory Rival rilliagaa
aay He too thin.
rarmiinu is better than force.
When • Chinese baa anything heavy to
carry he dose it by mesne of bamboo
•Beg.
There are many who talk m from
ignorance rather than front knowledge,
and who And the formerau lIHmMMWMO
fund of couvernathm.
In all good things give the eye and ear
fall scope. for they load iutii the mitnlj
restrain the tongue, for it HI apemter;
few men have repented of atkoee.
The tree wealth of a eummanity tire
in the integrity of ite citi* n*. end Be
chief honor nrbwe, net Srwa the powsre
rion of great riches, hut the powcoiAon
of true men.
A women of the world ssv : Tlie state
of widowhood ie inconvenient, for coo
t moat aaanme all the modesty of a young
! girl, without being able to feign her ig
norance.
According to a recent statement there
arrui this country seven Catholic arch
bishop#, fifty-three bisbopa, 4,878
prirehi and ,W0 churches, chapela, ami
station*. ||.
A Western editor asserts that it ie "no
pgr trying |o pafciieb nonpareil new*
initiated,
A Nevada ma* who bad seven hoawdy
ffot ft ndrnwr to li.ii.il llml Im*
V® P
had seven k m- nlied Mill g Id *' •*
cellar, and every girl woe WW*ii hi 8 ?
11M very last onriJfa|*kM of in
the papers is a wheel thai ape a a
dog', tail when it waa^Hfigfo.'
man who dieoovetwd n |jte retire® from
South hs'Et amine!
(•post, jind published, fiA974 white
and 3g.lk.Wi colored cMJSrrii attend
w4„wl ia Ihe Btete. J-'
The joy resulting fomjHßdtWnaioii of
bieaainfstu aUaronndHpi* the purct
and aabliai -4 that enter tle
human and can ' .• ec: • -1 only
by those who have etpeMsoed it.
Idteores is the Jred tm licit swallow.
Xail virtues, and the MfhrnoAl eepul
• erf a living wan. *Qte idle man in
die devil'* urchin, wMßteay ia rags,
and arhoae diet ami wage* are famine
and disease. gßt
King Alfonso's olkmaeceWkp been
fixed at 38,000,000 wate-Ahat it #8,500,-
000 -which will, no doubt, prSjpateal
comfort to him, and ought te'fuswore
him food, lodging and dutbre of a
anpericw kind.
A little boy in Wooneocket, 8.1, put
bis tonga# to a body lamppost on a cold
night, and a bowl of hot water and a
spoon bad to ha brought into requisition
to releaee him, and then a part of We
tongne waa left on the poet.
Merchandise <rf any aart, not wc'gb
; ing more ha four pounds, can now be
.wot by ntail. For two cents one man
send a padMgr weighing a quarter erf i ,
pound from Maine to CUtfocnie, and
eight rente will cany a pound across t h*.
continent.
Oil and aalt fish, immoderately used,
are aaid to render the poorer inhabitant*
erf the inland off Crete especially suscepti
tile to leprosy. Those article* mot being
in favor with the rich, the wealthy turn
| lies am rimori entirely exempt from this
i Juatlisuui# disease.
In was Henry Fielding who begun the
oractior, now so oommon, erf potting tlw
marriages and deaths together in news- •
paper*. Thia we in tha Jrncobitr't Jour
nal, art up by Fielding in 1747, one
number erf which was aWll by a
"-**aaas,
The servant of an amy offlteer one day
tart, a tray, who inqraml of him how
he got along with his fiery master. "Oh,
• loellantanswered the aerrant, " wa
live on friendly terms, every morning
we beat each other's coats; the only dif
ference is, he takes his off to ba beaten
nd 1 keep mine on."
An Indiana paper aaya of the columns
.if a quarto oatempowiy: " They bear
the word ' cheap ' tu every wrinkled and
1 tinned feature, and have the appearance
•rf miptwrious from wrabbterf ivi*-, •.
liy cvauy rate, fed to a warped preoa by a
*orr-ryed feeder, and superintended by
a drunken pi oasanm."
Edward Everett Hate oar* of the
salaries of teacher* tie* " they generally
range at a grade not modi above ttarva
; tion; tliey are far inferior to the salaries
■ of a Html-class cutter in a large tailor
shop, or a that-rises cook in a hotel, and
very far below the ndanes paid to first -
otesa cirrus rideea and balk* dancers."
A hill has been introduced in the
Senate of TeeMahee providing for the
establishment of a State board of phym
rtans, to hone licenses to all the jihyxi
riaaa prscticing in the State, and to ismw
none nutria Die applicant has been edu
I rated for a phwkria. Its object is to
! prevent the practice of whet are known
at quacks.
Owing to the many cases of shipwreck
in which the survivors are for dan at
sea in open boats with but little il any
water to drink, the question so to the
best method of allaying thin* when there
is nothing but are water at band is erne
of great importance. The examiner* of
the London Board of Trade think the
best way is to keep the dothetc. especially
the shirt, soaked with mm water.
Mr Robertson, the British Consul at
Ckaton, km announced that in connec
tion with the recent capture of the
steamer Spark and the murder of the
master and others cm board, nineteen
men have been arrested and eight of
theor have been executed, their head*,
together with that of another mm taken
dead, bring afterward exposed as a
wwmiwg Ap, ,1 tli- mt of the prison
ers proceeding* were dill pending.
I*oor people living along the lines of
the great coal transporting rosds do not
snffer for want of fueL All through the
summer men and women (rf the poorer
dames sally in the morning at an eariy
hour and gather up what has fallen from
the trains pasting in the night. They
easily pick up a bushel per head, and
store it sway for future use. The shrink
age on cargoes of coal carried one hun
dred mile* mm* be very considerable.
A mail agent affirms that one of his
ingenious mountain neighbors wrote a
letter on a postal eard that had been used,
and that he accomplished the feat by
wcroteltiug the name on the address tick,
and covering the other rick with white
paper. When it arrived at its destine
tion it bore this inscription on the mar
gin, the opinion of some postmaster
through whose bands it had passed:
"The man who did this is the meanest
man alive."
Statistical tables show that there are
in the whole world about 164 cities with
100,000,000 inhabitants; nine with over
1,000,000; twelve with from 1,000,000
down to 500,000; twenty with from 300,-
000 to 400,000; thirty-three with from
300,000 to 300,000; and ninety with from
100,000 to 300,000. The aggregate of
the population erf these large cities com
prises 50,000,000 of inhabitants— that is
to say the twenty -eight part of the entire
population (rf the globe.
"Captain Jack," a shepherd dog
owned by a ritisen of Detroit, was
poisoned. It was the animal'* custom
to go to the police station every uiglit at
a certain hoar and accompany one of the
officers to his beat, staying with him till
he was relieved at four o'clock in the
morning. Jack had a keen scent for
prowlers and drunken men, and had in
the course of his career assisted _in the
capture of many a burglar. The police
force became very much attached to him,
and the news of his death called forth a
general expression of sorrow.
A tteewt Kept.
When Lord Elgin, a shrewd, far-see
ing man if ever there was cms, made his
treaty with Japan in IS8, he never for
a moment dreamed thai the Tycoon with
whose Ministers he treafed, and who was
supposed to ratify ths compact, had
been dead several months. Yet such
was tire case, and the authorities had
managed to keep the news erf his death
from the people of Japan, is well as
from those of the outride world.
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