Faith.
"Mid naked bough* the rehin rings!
Tliat hnd* will break he i* so sure ;
Boenre that flowers c -1 sit sweet 1 Tioga
Will b!casom while the years en.luro.
Though cold the wind, he ha* no doubt
Of warmth and comfort on the way ;
He knows that at', green hiade* will sprout.
However late Uie frosts delay.
He knows, by wonderful prevision.
That summer soon will haunt the wiswl,
And tiring the barren bough fruit ion.
And to the empty neat He brood !
A Sketch.
The sky i# blue and bright above.
The ireee have donned their soft greeu
dreaeee,
And prattling out ite lazy love,'
The river takes the sun's oareesee
The air with swwet spring scents is rife.
And pleasant with the talk of thrushes.
And glad with a new sense of life
The year toward its noon-day rushes.
Within a eorner of the wood.
Where the sun'a might come* something
fainter.
Am! dulled the voices of the ff,*od.
There sit a lady and a painter.
Inteut the scene's delight to trace.
He deftly phes hie practiced dagera.
With eyes that grow to* aid her face.
And most on her his labor hug era.
And while he works Uie day glides by,
Until with pink the hillside flushes.
And with a half regretful sigh.
Thus speaking hd dings doan his brushes
"The light that travels doan the stream.
Or, pterciug through au opening slender.
Falls through the leaves with fitful gleam
This light my skill can catch and render.
*' But, sweet, your eyea give out a light
That, though 1 strive from morn till even,
I never can reflect aright—
-1 paint the earth, and not high Heaven."
THE BOOST AFFAIR.
Oae et Ike Meat Evtrssrillaarv Cases sf
Clreanssiasilsl ItvMrsrr KeearU.
On the morning of the 26th of No
vember. 1819, I read in the Rutland
(Vt.l Herald the following notice :
" Murder ! Printers of newspapers
throughout the United States are dCM red
to publish that Stephen Room, of Man
cheater, in Vermont, is sentenced to IKS
executed for the murvier of Russell Col
vin, who has been absent about seven
years. Any person who can give nfor
mation of said Colvin xuav save the life
of tho innocent, by making inimidiate
communication. Colviu is nbont five
feet five inched high, light complexion,
light hair, blue eves, and about forty
veara old. Manchester, VL, November
&6th. 1819."
This communication wits copievl very
generally by newspapers, and created a
great deal of inter.-st. Before describ
ing events that followed, let as go back
to the year 1812 and to the little town of
Manchester, Vermont.
llaruey Boom, au old man, had two
sons. Stephen and Jesse, and a daughter
Sarah, wife of Russell Colvin, a half
crazed, half-witted day laborer. They
were a bad lot, poor, ignorant, and in
doubtful repute for honesty. Two mis
erable hovels served them for shelter,
and a few acres of pine barrens consti
tuted all their possessions. They raised
a few potatoes and garden vegetables,
and eked out a scanty livelihood by
days' work for the neighboring farmers."
In May, 1812, Colvin was at home.
In June he was missing. At first this
occasioned no remark. He was always
a tramp*, absent from home sometimes
for weeks together. But this time he
did not come back. As weeks grew into
months inquiries began to be made
among the neighbors about the missing
man. There are no tongues for gossip
like those which wag in a village. One
spoke to another. Excitement grew.
Wonder, like a contagious rlisease, af-
fected everybody.
It was known that there had locg
existed between the old man and boys a
grudge again ->t Colvin ;it was in proof
that the last time the missing man was
seen he was at work with the Booms
clearing stones from a field, and that a
dispute was going on. and Louis Colvin,
a boy, son of Buaael, had stated that his
father had struck his uncle Stephen, and
that he, the boy, I>-coming frightened,
ran away. Again, a Mr. Baldwin had
heard Stephen Boorn, in answer to the
inquiry as to where Colvin was, say:
" He's gone to h—ll, I hope!"
"Is he dead, Stephen I" pursued Mr.
Baldwin.
"I tell yon again," replied the man,
" that Colvin has gone where potatoes
wont freeze."
For seven years the wonder grew.
Colvin*s ghost haunted every house in
Bennington county. There was no
known proof that the Bohrns were
guilty, and yet everybody tielieved it. A
button and jackknife were found, which
Mrs, C. believed to have belonged to
Rnssel; dreams, thrice repeated, were
had by old women and kitchen girls—
and ten thousand stories were in circula
tion.
Five years after Colvin was missed,
Stephen Boorn removed to Denmark, N.
T., while Jesse remained at home.
After the former bad left, some bones
were accidentally found in the decayed
trunk of a tree near his house, and
though all surgeons said to the contrary,
it was universally believed that they
were part of a human skeleton. Of
course, then, they must be Colvin s
bones. Jesse was arrested. Stephen
was brought back from Denmark/ and
both were held for examination.
Although all the testimonywhen sifted
was found to be worthless, yet the two
brothers were remanded back to jail,
and Jesse was worked upon to moke lum
turn State's evidence. The jailor
tormented him with suggestions, which
his wife followed np with womanly
adroitness. Neighbors helped. Beset
with 'directions—told that there was no
doubt in any one's mind bat that
Stephen committed the murder—nrged
to make a clean breast of it and thus
save both his body and soul, what wan
der that the man confessed, or was al
leged to have confessed, that Btepbeu
Boorn did murder Rnssel Colvin?
On September 3, 1819, the grand jury
faund a bill of indictment against
Stephen and Jesse Boorn for the mur
der of Russell Colvin. William Farns
worth testified that Stephen confessed
that he did it, and tliat Jesse helped him;
that they hid the laxly in the bashes,
then buried it, then dug it up and burn
ed it, and then scraped together the few
remains and hid them in a stump. Upon
this unsupported evidence* the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty against both
Erisoners, and they were sentenced to
e hung on January 28, 1820.
Aud now the men came to their
senses. They asserted their innocence.
They said that they had confessed as
their last hope. Some compassion be
gan to be felt for them. They might,
after all, be innocent. A petition for
their pardon was presented to the Legis
lature. But it only to obtain
commutation of Jesse's sentence to im
prisonment for life—no more. Stephen
was to be hanged.
Let the reader now torn to another
chapter of this strange history.
In April, 1813, there lived in Dover,
Monmouth county, N. J., a Mr. James
Polhamns. During that month a way
farer, begging food, stopped at his
door. Being handy, good-natured,
quiet and obedient, homeless, and weak
of intellect too, he was allowed to stay.
He said that his name was Russell Col
vin, and that he came from Manchester,
Vt.
Not far from Dover lies the little
town of Shrewsbury, then a quiet ham
let, now invaded by the cottages and
villas of Long Branch pleosura-seekers.
Here lived Taber Chad wick, brother-in
law to Mr. Polhamns, and intimate with
the family. Accidentally reading the
New York Evening Pott, he met, not
with the notioe of the Rutland Herald,
FRED. KUJtTZ, F.ditor and Cropi-intor.
TOE. VIIE
lul with an mvount of tin* trial of the
IWrw, Convinced that the Russell
Colvin, alleged to hare l>e*u murdered,
w the very man thou living with Mr.
PxlhutU, ho WToto to tho Utemtty
/W letter, which vu pnblhbwl ]>v
comber 9, 1810.
Upon the arrival of thi* p*a|ur at Man
cheater it excited but little attention.
Tho lot tor wai lelie*ed to t*e a forgery
or a fraud. Had not tho boat }H*|>lO in
tho town long believed tho Booms U> l>o
guilty t llaa not ouo, j*erhap> both of
thom, mailo full oonfmaion I Tho louce
of tho murdered man, a button of his
o**at, Ins jackkuife-—hail tlley not all
been fouuii 1 Had not an upright judge
math* aoletuu charge that tho evidence
was conclusive, ami an intelligent jury
found thom guiltv, and tlio ljogialaturo
sanctioned tho findings I Thoro was no
doubt of thoir guilt—none whatever;
ami therefore m> benefit of a doubt hail
Uvu given by jury, chief justice or court
of apiM-a).
Mr. Chad wick's loiter was, neverthe
less, taken to Stephana cell ami read
aloud. Tho uews wan ao ovorwhohuing
that nature could scarcely survive tho
shock. The psror follow dropped iu a
fainting tit to tho tloor, and liad to bo re
covered by dashes of ©old wator.
Intelligence oamo next ilav from a Mr.
Whelpley, formerly a real dent of Man
chester, that Imhimself hail Iteen to New
Jersey ami *en Kussoll Colvill. The
members of the jury which had convict
oil tho Booms, however, hesitated to ae
"eept any thing short of tho man's pres
ence, and Judge Chase, wln had sen
tenced them, pointed to Stephen Bourn's
confession.
The third day came another letter.
" I have Russell Cilvia with mo," wrote
Mr. Whelpley. "I personally know
Kumell Colvin," swore John Kemptou;
"ho now stands before mo." "It is
tho same Russell Oolrin who married
Ann Boom, of Manchester, Vt.," made
affidavit Mrs. Jones, of Brooklyn. But
it would not answer. Pride of opinion
is stubborn. Doubt of opinion tlios
hard.
However, Colvin, or Calvin's double,
was on his way. As ho paused tlirough
Poughkeepuie, tho streets wore thronged
to see him. The news everywhere pre
ceded him. His story was priutoti in
every uewspttpver, and told at every tire
side. At lluilson cannon were fired ; iu
Albany he was shown to the crowd from
a platform; and all alung the road to
Troy tvuiiLs of music were playing ami
banners were daunting, and cheers were
given as Colvin passed by. Some men
become famous from having l*en mur
dered. Russell Colvin was famous be
cause he was alive.
Toward evoiiing of Friday," December
22, 1819, a double sleigh was driven fu
riously down the main street of Man
Chester to the tavern door. It contained
Whelpley, Kemptou, Chad wick, and the
bewildered Russell Colvin. Immediate
ly a crowd of men, women and children
gathered around, and as the sleigh un
loaded its occupants and they took their
places on the piazza, exhibiting the last
man to view, "That's Russell Colvin,
sure enough ! There's no doubt about
it!" came from the lips of scores of
gazers. He embraced his two childreu,
asked after the Booms, and started for
tho jail.
The prison doors wore unbolted, and
tho news was told to Stephen Booru. i
"Colvin has come, Stephen," said the
Rev. Lemuel Haynea.
"Has hef" asked the prisoner.
" Where is he ?"
"Here I am, Stephen," said his
brother-in-law. " What's them on your
legs f"
"Shackles!" replied Boorn.
" What for?"
" Because they sail! I murdered yon."
" Yon never hurt me in your life," re
plied Colvin.
The sequel is aoon told. Stephen
Boom was released from prison, as was
Jesse also. Russell Colvin returned to
New Jersey. Rut the judge who suf
fured an innocent man to lie convicted
of mnrder by the admission of extra
judicial confessions—the members of the
jury who deliberated but one hour tie
fore agreeing npon a verdict of guilt
upon evidence that should not hang a
dog- the deacon ami raoinhi r*
who urged confession and preached re
pentance, and the ninety-seven inemliers
of the Legislature, sitting as a court of
appeals, who refused rehearing of evi
dence—what became -ef them I
He Never Saw.
Two gent! men from New York, one
of whom hail been in California for
nearly a year, and the other just ar
rived, were overheard in the following
conversation at the Sutter House, Sacra
meuto. The now-oomer was lamenting
his condition, and especially two beauti
ful daughters, who were just budding
into womanhood—when lie asked the
other if he had a family.
" Yes, sir; I have a wife and six chil
dren in New York—and I never saw one
of them."
After this the couple sat a few moments
in silenoe, and then the interrogator
again commenced:
" Were you ever blind, sir ?"
"No, sir."
Another lapse of time.
"Did I understand yon to say, sir,
that you hail a wifo and six children liv
ing in New York, and hail never soon
one of them ?"
" Yes, sir—l so stated it."
Another and a long pause of si
lence. Then the interrogator again in
quired :
"How can it be, sir, that yon never
sawouoof them?"
"Why," was the response, "one of
them was born after I left."
"Oh ! ah !" and a general laugh fol
lowed.
After that the first New Yorker was
especially distinguished as the man who
hod six children, and never saw one of
them.
The Two Men and the Bear.
Two men hail to go through a great
wood. One of them was short and stout,
and one was tall and slim.
"I cotild not run fast or climb well,"
said the short one; "if a foe, man or
beast, came on rae, I should have to
stand my ground."
"Have no fear," said the slim man.
"lean run fast and climb well; but
still it is my rule to stand my ground—
I would fight for you to the last. I fear
no man or beast, not I. Hark ! what is
that noise ?"
"lam snre," said the short man,
"that is the growl of a bear; I know
there are bears in this wood."
The l>ear was soon in sight. The tall
man ran a short way and hid in a tree.
The short man fell flat on his face on
the ground and held his breath. The
bear came to him, smelt him, and thought
he was dead. So he left him, aud with
a gryff growl or two went on his way.
When the bear was out of sight the
short man rose from the ground, and
the tall mail came down from the tree.
"What did the beast say to you, my
friend ?" said the tall man to the short
one. " I SAW him put his mouth close
to your ear."
"He told me," said the short man,
"to put no trust in one who Drags in the
way yon do, for those who boast so much
are not brave!"
One of the modest little fanning
patches in Illinois is laid ont in 19,000
acres of corn, 2,500 acres of flax, 1,000
acres of oats, and enough grass to pro
duce about eight thousand tons of hay.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
DISASTER* l> CHURCHES.
•i Trrtlklr Hrr*r4 ml (TtUailllri •< Ihr
I.KU l>w V ran Nn MrrJ l'ald la
Waralaa*.
The French Catholic churoh disas
ter at ll"broke, Mass., bv which aisty
six men, women, and children lost their
lives, is not the llrat nppttlang disaster
of the kind that Jiaa occurred. The
warning* have lxtui many. On tho
evening of the 2Hd of June, 187-1, while
a strawlterry festival was in progress in
ill the Central Baptist church of Syra
cuse, N. I„ without any premonition
Uie floor gave way, precipitating the
people iuto the story Iwlow, The uum
t>er iu the room was variously estimated
at the time from three hundred to five
hundred, and thirteen persona were
killtal altogether ami one humlred and
seven more or l*ss seriously injured.
At a service held by Sjmrgeou in
Surrey Gardens, London, a false alarm
of danger was given, causing a ueodless
rush, and over fifty persona lost tlieir
live*.
The terrible catastrophe at St. An
drews's church, New York, on the 25th
of February last, is still so fresit in the
public mind that this new ami appalling
disaster must have a powerful effect iu
forcing public attention to the neceaaity
of adopting proper precautious against
such accidents.
On the feast of the Immaculate Con
ception, December 8, lSiwt, Sant lugo,
the capital of the republic of Chili, was
visited by the most terrible calamity
that has ever been known in connection
with a church. The Church of tho
Jesuits, one of the most inagiiitlcent in
South America, was crowded to suffoca
tion. An eye w ituess thus describes
the sviie :
A few uiiuutes la-fore seven o'clock,
and when the religious jwrformance was
alnuit to commence, they were still
lighting the last lights in the chancel
when the portable gas iu the half moon
of canvas and wood tliat formed the JK
dcstal of a colossal image of the Virgin
Mary Is-gun to burn one of tho extremi
ties of the apparatus. Some one rushed
on the rising tlamo and succeeded in
suiotht ring it, but by a fatal rets>umlthe
gas, compressed bv the effort, buret out
with redoubled vigor at the other ex
tremity of the false half moon. Imme
diately a tierce tlame rushed up. The
people who thronged the church tlew to
ward Uie sacristy crying, " Water, wa
ter!" while the women, who filled the
nave, arose in tumultuous confusion,
screaming for help. The fire spread with
wonderful rapidity to the rtrtdo* of
wood and hangings, and thence attracted
by the current of air that always circu
lates between the upiprer Uiarduig and
the roof, rolled through the church. In
a few moments all overhead was a mass
of flames. In the mean time the men
liad succeeded in escaping, for in this
church the sexes were separated by au
iron grating, and th^ women had fi.d as
far as the middle of the church in a
state of the most terrible confusion. But
the headlong hurry, the fainting, the
obstruction of the bell shajs-d drawees
and th' frantic eagerness te gain the
street, which, by a culpable imprudence,
gave access to tlie fresh air only toward
the open space in front and the small
court on the west side of the church.
That obstacle was the barrier of death.
And now what appeared most horrible
was tliat, seeing the salvation of lives
within reach of our arms, it was impossi
ble to save even one of the victims, piled
one ujnm another on the very threshold.
Hardly had the noble men, who devoted
themselves to save lives at the peril of
their own, seized by the anus or the
clothes a prostrate form tlian the other
women, mad with terror from the near
neas of the fire, clutched the victim
about to be saved, and, in some casee,
dragged those w!io came t> help them
into that fiery vortex. It was almost
impossible to extricate even one from
that heap of lies pairing wretches and to
undo that ghastly knot. But the fire ac
complished that which bullied man, and
the passage into the doomed ehnreh was
cleared ouly when that impenetrable
phalanx of beautiful, precious life, was a
handful of cinders. At midnight the
smoking ruins of the fatal temple—so
soon a silent cliarnel house were
risible, and by the light of a lantern
every step showed to the appalled gaze
fearful groups of carbonized corpses,
that preserved still the supplicating or
despairing attitude of their frightful
martvnlom.
Three thousand women, comprising the
beauty mid fashion of Santiago, wen- iu
• the church, and 20,WW enmphene lights
■ illuminated the edifice. When the fin
■ occurred the scene was terrible. Women,
; seized in the embraces of the flames,
were seen to undergo a transformation,
: as though by an optical delusion; first,
daxxlinglv bright, then black statueo,
; rigidly fixed in agony. The silence,
• after the piercing screams were hushed
in death, was horrible. It was the
silenoe of the grave, unbroken but by
i the bitter wail or fainting cry. Over
2,000 souls liad passed through that
ordeal of fire to the judgment seat of
God.
Almost a Hoi)oke Disaster.
The congregation of the Roman
Catholic Church of St. Leonard, of
Port Maurice, on the Ilushwick meadows,
I Long Island, bail a very narrow escape
from the ami and shocking fate that re
cently overwhelmed the little Imnd of
French Catholics at Holyoke, Mass.
A solemn high mass was hningcclohrateil,
and the rite of confirmation was also to
bo administered to a large number of
young persons of both sexes. In order
:to give greater impvmsivenees to the
services a full military band and a
company of militia were present, as was
also the sodality attached to the church.
The interior of the euifico wax crowded
to repletion, aud the ceremonies were
1 progressing in regular order, and the
congregation were deeply impressed by
the solemnity of the occasion, when sud
denly, as the military were firing o/cti
dujoir outside the building, an alarm of
fire was raised. The celebrant, Rev.
Father Miller, in turning around toward
the altar, accidentally knocked over a
lighted candle, and the flame iiistaiitann
ously caught the light and inflammable
trimmings of the wooden framework,
which, in another moment, was in a
bright blaze. Before any panic could
ensue among the people, Father Ilnlx-r,
the pastor of the church, with marked
aud unwonted presence of mind ordered
all of the windows anil doors to lwi im
mediately closed, iu order, to prevent a
draught. He then quietly turned to the
blazing altar, and with the assistance of
Father Miller and others speedily ex
tinguished the flames. Very little
damage was done by the fire, but, hail
the pastor been less prompt in his move
ments and orders to his congregation, n
more deplorable accident than that of
Holyoko might liave occurred.
Captured.
One morning lately three men ap
prooehed Punts do Curias in a boat, and
one of them asked in English if this was
Cuba. The coast guard replied yes.
The men then tried to put to sea again,
bnt the guards leveled their rifles and 1
compelled the men to land and surren
der. Two were found to be Russians,
and one on American. It is suspected
that they belonged to the crew of the
British brig Mary Chilton, wliich was re
cently discovered aground and aban- ;
doned. The naval authorities are inves
tigating the case. The prisoners under
| examination have made contradictory j
statements. 1
CENTRE 11A EE, CENTRE CO., FA., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1875.
AX AIIEH MO 111 blt'H FATE.
I.Om Psna Is Otc Mlihla *llu *llll* Til.
U.r Ml kw lilrlkal- % Hsu-IM-l.rtW '• Is.
rrrl*lblr keertiip ir siraaj llnak.
A month ago, say* the New York
Ann, Harah Smith returned to her old
home iu New Jersey from viatLuig one
of her children in another SUtc. For
many years she and her husband had
lived tit tho little village of Franklin.
They were jxxir, not even owning the
cottage they dwelt in, but they so lived
that they earned the reajiect of their
humble neighbors. A year ago the hu*-
Luid ilicd, leaving little or uo provision
for tlie supjHirt of Ins widow, then sev
eiitv three years of age; but she had sev
eral children married iu different nartsof
New York and New Jersey, and with
them in turn she passed much of her
time. A* often as he could, though,
she came to visit the friend* who liad
lawn her neighbor* while her hiuil>aml
lived. She so came a month ago, and
after a few day* her son-in-law, benja
min ltobinsou, of Itaritaa, arrived oue
Saturday to take her to hi* home. She
started with him, and tlie two reached
Newark, ami there Kohiuaoit went into
a Haloou and got drunk. His fit-tile
mother could do nothing to rest nun him,
and shii, in the midst of a street row,
he was arrested, and she was alone and
IHunileaa. She Ixirrowed a little money
rum tlie man who sold her sou the
drink, and liegsu a wearv trudge back
agaiu toward Franklin. Iter route Ink*
easily tieen trtusnl, for she *ttip}M-d fre
quently on the way to make inquiries,
ami her *ad, old face impressed all to
whom slie sjxike. At one time she was
sitting by the roadside, when two young
men approached her ami asked whether
she needed help. •' Please raise me on
my feet," *aid she, "for 1 am very weak,
and tell me, if you ran, by which way 1
can reach Franklin." They aided her as
they could, and she slowly tramped on.
She was then only a mile from her home,
but she lust the road soon and kept
getting further away. Later she met a
party of workmen returning from their
work in Yautamw, aud they pointed out
to her the spires of her distant village,
and walked along by her side until their
road* ported, and then giving her a
word of cheer, they stood for a moment
watching her as ahc wearily left tln-m.
Her gray hair, louseued by the wind,
straggled from under her hood. Her
sliawl had fallen from oue shoulder, aud
her short dress of daik siuff was covered
with dust. One of tlie men offered his
support for a bit of her journey, but she
thanked him, saying that she had but a
little distance to go ami she would not
trouble him.
Soon she became too weak to con
tinue, and turning aside from the high
way she jiaMxod a rude foot bridge over
a narrow stream to a heavily-wooded
island in Acquackttmmk. Then she
climbed to the summit of a knoll a few
rods away from the beaten path, ami
folding her hood to make a pillow,
straightening her dies*, ami covering
herself with her shawl, alio turned h-r
face so that she could see, scarcely a
mile distant, the home toward which she
had been journeying, ami lsid herself
down to r-*t or to die. She did not
move from the snot, and her friend* did
not miss her, for those in Franklin
thought ilie wan witli her daughb r iu
lUntau, and her sou-in-law, Robinson,
supposed she had safely returned to
Franklin. On Sunday morning a tailor
ing man strolling through the woods
found her laxly. Immediately the coro
ner and n jury was obtained, who found
simply that "Sarah Sniitli died oitSstur
day, May I, from cold and exposure.
Her children gathered, ami quietly
buried their mother, decorating her
grave with flowers.
Man's Enemies.
There have lieen periods in tlic earth's
history, nays the .Scientific Ameriean , in
a chapter on bedtigua, when nothing on
the globe wax of the slightest human
utility; man couht not even exist.
Again, still later, the earth, though in
hahiteit by living being*, wan unlit for
humanity, for the creatures which thou
flourished would speedily have extermi
nated it. Because, then, the human
race now dwells and multiple** upon the
globe, there is no reason to stipjame that
ite enemies have utterly dumpjoaml,
any mor* tliuu there is to warrant a like
*up]>usition regarding thing* hostile to
any other living creature. That the
number of enemies of man i* constantly
divreasing is true, and tliat some time
they may altogether disappear is not
without the bounds of imagination; but
it nevertheh-ss is just as plausible to le
--lieve that the great cave boars and other
gigantic brutes which |*Hpled the earth
at mau'a advent did not attack him a
whit lew fiercely than rimrx does now.
Iu fact, we have no doubt that aoine
tropliHlyte in the recesses of his cavern,
or lake dweller jierehed on his pile-sup*
ported lacustrine habitation, has won
dered of what earthly turn cave Ix-ars,
and wolves, and hyenas, and gigantic
saurians were, with as much fervor as
anv modern individual has vexed his
brain with the same thought after a
night's eomlmt with the minute pests.
"Clearly, then, the attempted detrac
tion of ourselves by the bugs is only one
link in the chain which pervade* all ani
mated nature, and therefore it is with
equal plausibility that it may lie asked:
Of what use are we to the bedbug ? as of
what use the bedbug is to us.
We know nothing good of the bedbug;
he lias never foun 1, so far us we can
learn, but two defenders; one, an insane
Englishman, who made a js t of him,
and left, on dying, to his disgusted
heirs, a room swarming nt every point;
the other, a Haitian hospital at Surat, In
dia, in which n ward was devoted entire
ly to vermin, as other wards were to va
rious kinds of animals. Forlies, in his
"Oriental Memoirs," says: The over
seers of the hospital frequently hired
beggars from the streets, for n stipulated
sum, to pass a night with the fl.<ns, lice,
and bugs, on the express condition of
suffering them to enjoy their feast with
out molestation.
A Child Shut Up and Forgotten.
A Norwich (Conn.) letter to the Hart
ford Titnr* says: In the Greenville
school district some two week ago, one
of the female teuchor* inflicted what has
proved to be a terrible punishment on a
little l>y not yet five years old. It
seems he was detected in spitting Oil his
slate, and the teacher shut him up in n
room, locking him in. When the ac.hool
wo* dismissed for dinner he was forgot
ten. The child's mother, a poor widow
compelled to work in the mill to support
a large family, missed the child, and on
inquiry found him locked up and in a
state of imbecility. He is still under
the physician's care, with some hope of
his ultimate recovery. The mother, of
course, is obliged to give up work to
watch over her child, and beyond an
apology from the teacher there does not
seem to be anything done by the com
mittee or anybody else toward aiding her
in her difficulty.
PNKHENVED NR SNOW.— In an Immense
mass of ice anil earth, detached from
Mont Blanc through the melting of the
snow, has just been found the corpse of
an American actor, John Blackford, who
three years ago made an attempt to as
cend the mountain without guides, and
did not reappear. The clothes and fea
tures of tho unfortunate man were as on
the day he was lost.
THE HEATII OF ItlNllOl* FOLK.
An ArrMMl Ifcxl IHSctx Irum tknl •( lira.
NkwaM.
An officer on (lon. Howard's staff at
the time (-• iv< tin the following account
of the dmth of lilalioji Folk : (Hi June
14th, General Ho ward and staff loft
their h ndqu*rt -r* for the front, where
Staulfv'a division of Howard's (Fourth)
nor}* Ink) broken oauip and worn await
ing tho order to attack Pino mountain.
It wo* J unt after WflfilO. A nolo or two
1 in roar of tho advaiioo Howard mot
Mhormait, but tho conversation botwoon
thom I did not hear, an tho twp generals
oouveraod nnido. Howard and staff
joined Stanley ami hia staff on the road,
and in full view of Pino mountain, and
an wo drew roil, ami exelwnged greeting!*
Staidey exclaimed:
i '• Howard, do you aee that group up
■ there on the crest of the mountain I 1
wonder who they are I"
Wo all brought our Held glosses to
I war upon tho jxiint indicated and could
plainly see tiireo jmraoua atauding in
front of a lino of breaatwork* and a
larger group in tho Iwwkgrouud. We
could not toll whether they wore officer*
or private*, but a* it was evident that
! they were watching our movements
Staidey suggexted that a few aliote be
tired to drive them undercover. How
ard, who had suggested that jwrliaj)*
Ihahop Polk wan in the party, made no
objection*, when Stanley turned to (Jap
tain Simouaon, hia chief of artillery,
with the remark:
" Stwonaun, can't yon tmlimber, put
a allot into the group and give the bishop
a morning salutatiuu f"
" I'll try 1" wan Simonaou'a laconic
reply. And away he galloped to the
rear. A few minute* later a section of
tlie Fifth Indiana lottery (Simouaon'■)
wan unlimlx-red within twenty feet of
U*. The lieutenant nigh ted the gun ami
tlie allot exploded over and to the right
of the group. Here my memory fail*
me, but uiy impnvwuon i* that a second
allot was sighted and tired by tin* lieu
tenant with no I letter effect. ttimonsou,
when the gnu had boon relusded, din
mounted ami aaid : "Here, lieutenant,
let me try it," He took the range and
the inutiaenger of death sped on ita una
aion. Our glasses were uont upon the
group ami we observed a commotion a*
the aiiot took efTVvt in the group tliat
scattered to tlie rear. While Simouaon
waa it|M>u In* knees aighting the gun
for another diacliarge, (juptain Leonard,
chief of Howard a aignal oorjis, aitimg
on hia horae Iwaide me, r<*d the Con
federate aignal r*xlc thai our officer* had
interpreted at Lookout mountain, and
caught the word*:
"General Polk is killed!" With a
look of amaaemetib Leonard turned to
Howard and Stanley and exclaimed :
•* Hiahop Polk is killed! "
*' Wliat f" exclaimed Howard; " hare
you interpreted tlie signal correctly f"
*♦ Yea, general; Hinioiison's hud idiot
killed him. They are aigualing it along
the line."
Tlie young men of the staff who were
cracking juke* instantly c uatl, and for
a moment none *j*ke. Then Howard
said :
" Well, a Christian has fallen. Such
is war."
. Just then Simon son caught tlie word*,
"ftiabop Polk is kilhsl!"
He was sighting the gun, and, lifting
hi* eye*, that glared fearfully, ex
claimed :
" What i* that, Leonard I"
"Hinliop Polk i* kilhsl! Your last
shot diii it. Thev are signaling it over
the mountain," 1 replied.
Simonson's ln-ad dropjxsl nion the
"vent," where it rested for a mouieuL
Then, raising hi* eves, he exclaimed :
" Thank God ' Yesterday they kilhsl
my dear brother; 1 have killed a lieu
tenant general and am avenged !"
Without discharging the piece Simon
*>n arose, remounted and joined the
staff. Silently lie rejnurcd to hi* regu
lar duties, ami, the hue being formed,
we advanced slowly against the moun
tain, every one of 11* feeling that we
would have rejoiced hail some other
than Louisiana* fighting bishop pone
down before Simonsou"* tlrwt and ouly
shot. The enemy was so demoralized
I that he evacuated the mountain, ami
half an hour afterward we stood upon
tne sjKit where Polk fell and saw tlie
ground stained with his blood. A day
or two after p>or Simonsou, the only one
of us who rejoiced at the bishop 1 * death,
fell, shot on the skirmish line in Aek
worth wood*.
The World's Population.
The United States bureau of statistics,
getting its information from reliable
sources, furnishes the following inter
esting foots and figures on the above
subject:
The aggregate population of tho earth
is 1,.191 ,f 132,000, Asia being the most
populous section, ami containing 798,-
000,000 ; while Europe luui 300,500,000;
Africa, 208,000,000; America, 84.500,-
000. and Australia and Polynesia, 4,500,-
000. In Eurp]** the leading nationa ore
credited with the following mimlwra:
Kinwia, 71,000,000 ; the German Em jure,
41,000,000; France, 30,000,000 ; Great
Britain and Ireland, 32,000,000; Italy,
nearlv 27,000,(100; Spain, lfi,50fl,000;
and 'Turkey nearly 16,000.000. The
other countries do not exorad over
5,000,000 each. In Asia, China, which
is by far tho most populous nation of
the earth, is credited with 425,000, (X*);
Hindustan with 240,000,000; Japan, 33,-
000,000; the East India islands, 30,500,-
000 ; Burnish, Hiam and farther ludia,
nearly 26,000.000 ; Turkev. 13,500,000 ;
and Russia, 11,(100,000. The Australian
population is given at 1,674,500, and
the Polynesian islands at 2,703,500, New
Guinea mid New Zealand la-ing include*!
in the latter. In Africa the chief divi
sions are West Soinlan and the Central
Africa region, 30,000.000; South Africa,
20,250,000; the Gnla country and the
region east of the White Nile, 15,000,-
000 ; Samauli, 8,000,000; Egypt. 8,500,-
000, and Morocco, 6,000,000. In
America two-thirds of the jmpulntion
an* north of the isthmus, when> the
Cnihxl States has nearly 39,000,000 ;
Mexico over 9,000,000, and the llritisli
provinces -4.ooti.tMM>. The total popula
tion of North America is given at 52,-
(*>o,ooo, and of South America 25,500,-
000, of which Brnxil contains 10,000,000.
The West Indies have over 1,000,000,
and the Central American States not
quite 3,000,000. Aooording to these
tables Loudon, with 3,254,260 iubnhi
tuut-s, is the most populous city in the
world, whilst Philadelphia, 674,022 in
habitant* (in 1870), is the eighteenth
city in point of poiralation. The*e
eighteen cities, in their order, are the
following : London, 3,254,200; Hntelum
(China), 2,000,000; Paris, 1,851,792;
Peking, 1,300,000; Tschantechan fu,
1,000,000; Hangts-ta fu, 1,000,000;
Hiangtan, 1,000,000; Siuigunn fu, 1,000,-
000; Canton, 1,000,000; New York,
942,292; Tientsin, 900,000 ; Vienna,
834,284 ; Berlin, 826,341 ; Haukau, 800,-
(KKt; Tschiiitn-fn, 800,000; Calcutta,
794,645; Tokio Yeddo, 674,447; ami
Philadelphia, 674,022. Of cities smaller
than Philadelphia the leading ones are;
St. Petersburg, 667,963; ltouibay, 644,-
405 ; Moscow, 611,970: Constantinople,
600,000; Glasgow, 594,536; Liverpool,
493,405, and Rio de Janeiro, 420,000.
Advertising, to the trade, and plowing
to the farmer, are similiar in their re
sult*. The earth will yield somewhat of
itself, just as goods will sell, but both
will bo increased ten fold by careful cul
ture.
THE MOXEV-VALFK OF A MAN.
Wkal n k a* a< lal Melears Skr llir
l la[< .-A> lalrrtwilas |arllaa.
A ctinous eeonouiitml queatioii, often
diacnased, has arisen incidentally in the
recent American H>x-ial Hcmuon (Jon
grt-Ms, a* to tlie money-value of each in
dividual hi society. Mr. Wells states,
as the English experience, that the cost
of bringing up a child in a public insti
i tntiou, allowing nothing for education
or amusement, will amount, without in
terest, when he is fifteen years old, to
fHOO, and at eighteen, allowing for in
terest ami all ex|>euditurea, he repre
sent* a capital value to the community
of $1,500.
This is the value of a person brought
up in a public institution in England.
In this country it must lie considerably
greater. Jiut w hat ia the value of a pro
ductive laborer I J>r. Kugcl estimated
the cost of sup|xrtiug a laborer in Ger
many at forty thuk-ra a year for the first
five years of hia life, at fifty thaler* for
the next five years, and at sixty from the
eleventh to the sixteenth Tear, or say
seven humired and fifty thaler* for tlie
whole. It would lie reasonable to esti
mate the exjwuse of bringing up an
American farmer or lalxirer for the first
fifteen years of hia life at one hundred
• thaler* jx*r year, or a total of 1,500
tliolera- say about $l,lOO currency. An
oilier statistician of eminence estimates
the average money value of tlie foreign
lalxirer as SBOO.
The statisticians, however, the New
York 7i"ws says, make one frequent
: mistake in estimating the pecuniary value
of a human being. Value docs not de
I jx-u.l alone on tlie cost of production,
I) it also on supply and drtuamL The
cost of imxlucmg the best breeds of
horses might lie uo greab-r titan that of
raising poor breeds, and yet Urn demand
might be so great that tlie value would
ha proixirtionalely increased. There
might also be, for instance, an ovorpro
ductiou of sewing machines, or they
might be of jxxir quality, so that the de
mand would fall, am! their money-value
to the community sink lielow the o >t of
production. The same is true of all ar
ticle* which belong to the capital of a
.xiuutry. This principle applies atao to
! human being*. An idiot may cost as
much to bring up as an intelligent boy,
I bnt his money value to the community
will depend ob the demand for his labgr.
So with the wages or solar* of men in
! the profession*; these are measured not
! alone by the cost of their education, but
by tlie demand for their services in the
market. The capital value, then, of a
J human being is always determined by
two elements: cat of production and
demand. Hut the service* of a male
lalxirer are nearly always iu demand iu
the United Klalos, so that his value, like
tliat of gold and silver, will dejiend
mainly upon the coat of production,
which in undoubtedly near Uie estimate
made ntHive of on- thousand or one
thousand one hundred dollars.
If this be compared with the money
value of a wale slave iu former years in
thin country, it will lie found to be little
less, inasmuch as the jxnctuiiary value of
atavca waa somewhat speculative, lioacd
on the exjwvtation of profit from the
best cotton lands.
Tin-re is still another way of estimating
the money-value of cacli lalxirer to the
country. This must be the profit* from
hi* lalxir after deducting the oust of his
support. Now tlie average cost of each
lalxirer to his employor, including wsgos
and Ixsird, is about four hundred dollars
jx*r annum. Hie onliaarr profit on
common farm tabor is |owb|j from
fiftc-n to eighteen ami three-fourth*
jwr cent.; thin would have the gain to
the country from sixty to seventy five
dollars annually from each lalxirer.
Thin, at six or seven fwr cent, interest,
would represent just alxmt the value es
timated aVxive for a male labon-r, or
alxmt one thousand or eleven hundred
dollars.
l>r. Hill, iu bin paper on immigration,
has touched upon the interesting con
elusion we may derive trora taia estimate
an to the money-valne of immigration.
Thus, estimating tliat one-half of the
immigration of lost year was of prtxluo
tive laborers, it wonld make ail addition
to our capital in 1874 of one hundred
millions, a sum which spjiears in no
statistical records of importation*. Mr.
Wells in his paper makes a still more
impressive use of this vaiuatiou. If a
1 poor boy has reached the age of fourteen,
1 neglected by the community, he repre
sent* a capital of nearly one thousand
dollar* which is unproductive; and if he
iivei out the term of life for whicli he
i ha* a prolwblc eliaroe in the life inaur
anoe tables—forty years—as a psujxT or
criminal, he entails a loas iqxin his Stale
of five thousand dollar*. On the other
hand, every youthful criminal made into
an honest lx\v by our preventive institu
tions of cliarity and reform is a clear
saving of five thousand dollars to the
community. It may be somewhat un
pleasant to regard tlie human being
simply as a money capital, but the as
pect has its peculiar and impressive lea
se us.
Fun from Srrlbner's.
Here are the heads of a sermon once
preached bv a quaiut old minister on the
text, "Adam, where art thou?" "Ist
All men are somewhere. 2dly. Some
men are where they ought not to lie.
Hilly. If they don't take care, they will
soon find themselves where they had
rather not be."
Tom Sheridan once told his father that
when he got into Parliament he would
uol pretend to greater virtue than he
IMissessed, bet would at once write upon
lis forehead "To Ite lot." "That won't
do, " replied his father, "uulessyou add
unfurnished."
Meeting the author of a celebrated
poem, after he hail been seriously injured
by a railroad accident, a friend remark
oil: "You did not find 'riding on the rail"
as pleasant n* yiqj pictured it." "Oh.
that wasn't riding on the rail, but riding
off it. Don't you sec?"
"What kind of a man is Squire Sim
mons, any way?" "Well, you've seen
thorn snow storms along early in the
winter, when there's a good denl of wind
but not much sleighing? That's the sort
he is,"
Treatment of Children.
A member of the British Parliameut
lias recently called the attention of that
government to the case of a child, seven
years old, who hail lcen sent to priabii
for stealing sugar plums. The home
secretary did not deny the truth of the
statement, but said, iu explanation of
the extraordinary circumstance, that the
father of tho child was an habitual
drunkard; that anotaer child of the same
family had died from starvation, caused
by tfio father's ncghrt, and that this
same child, - ve' ••—•eld, had previ
ously I ►cell convicted ul bidding. and as
it was too young to be sent to a rcforroa
t >ry it was only sent to prison as au act
of kindness to remove it from tho evil
influences of the parent. The secretary
further added that the atteutiou of the
chaplain and schoolmaster had been
directed to the cose. At the same time
this is an extraordinary commentary
ujMin the state of society in England that
children of seven years ran only be res
cued from tho evil treatment of a worth
less father by 1 icing formally convicted
of a crime and scut to prison.
The advertiser who writes us to "pnph
up" his business neglects to remit a
phew phartliing* phor the phavor.
Term*: 5'4.00 nYonr, in. Advance.
The Ijul NliUm.
lb hod lieen nick at our of th* hotels
for three or four wi*>k, aud tlie ky* an
th* road had dropped iu daily to see
how lie got along, and to learn if they
could render iiiiu any kindneas Tlie
brukeuiau woa a gtsal lellow, and eun
oud all encouraged hiin i|i tlie hope that
h* would pull through. The doctor
didn't regard tlie COM* aa < longeron*, but
lb* other day the (aitieut Imgau unking,
and it waa seen that lie could uot live the
night out A dozen of hi* frienda sat iu
th* room when night cam*, bat hk
uiind wandered and he did not recog
nize them.
It waa near one of the depots, and,
after the great trucks aud noisy drays
hod ocaaed rolling by, the belk and th*
nhort, sharp whistles of the yard engine*
sounded painfully loud. i'he patient
had been very quiet for half an hour,
when he suddenly unclosed hk eyes and
nhoated:
" Kal a ma zoo !"
One of the men brushed the hair back
from the cold forehead, and th* brake
man clotted hk eyes and was quiet for a
time. Then the wind whirled around
the depot and banged the blind* on the
window of hk room, iu d he lifted hk
hand and cried out:
"Jack-aon ! Passengers going north
by the Kogtnaw road change cars."
'The men understood, i'he brakeiuan
thought he was coming east on the
Michigan Central. The effort seemed to
have greatly exhausted him, few be ky
ike one dead for the next five minataa,
and a watcher felt for hia puke to see if
life had not gone out. A tug going
down the river sounded her whistle loud
and long, and the dying brakeman
opened tea eyes and called out:
"Ann Arbor!"
He had been over tlie road a thousand
umok but had made tea last trip.
1 irara waa drawing a spectral train over
th* oUI track, ami he was brakeman,
engineer and conductor.
One of the yard engines uttered a
shrill whistle of warning, as if the flora
of the headlight had shown to the engi
neer some stranger in peril, and to*
brakeman called out:
" Yp-lauty—clukige oars here for the
Eel Etver road!"
"He's coming in foet," wtespeml
one of the men.
" And the end of hk ' ran ' will be the
end of tes life!" aaid a second.
The dsmpn as of death began to col
lect on the patient's forehead, and there
was that ghastly look on the face which
death always brings. The slamming of
a door down the hall startled him again,
and h* movt-d tes head and faintly called:
"tirank Trunk junction - - passengers
going east by the Grand Trunk change
oara F"
He woa ao quiet after that that all the
men gathered around the bed, believing
that he was dead. Hk eyes closed, and
the brakeman lifted tea hand, moved hk
head and whispered:
" lie"—
Not " Detroit," but death ! He diiwl
with the half-uttered whkper on tea
And th* headlight death's en
gine shone full in hk face and covered
it with such pallor as naught but death
can bring.—fV(* Prem.
The lokhioiubfe ( kild.
There is unqueationably in infaney on
intt-rferanci. with the natural instincts
which k far too great for healthful
growth. This, of course, from the oon
dition of the subjects of it, who ore
hardly mora thou vegetative Iw-ings, k
cteetly phywoal. Conaider for a mo
ment bow'artificial a thing a modern
(why becomes under the hands of a fash
lonsble mother ! Look at its manifold
wrappings of tiuery, with involution* of
lac>. and fine linen mora corn plicated than
touae of a mummy! See how carefully
it k handled and deposited lest a speck
should soil or a touch derange the dress
ed-up manikin! Notice how often it k
introduced to company, not seldom even
awakened out of sleep to be shown by
mamma, eager for a compliment, to flat
tering visitors with the ever ready
"What a fine baby!" on thvir lips.
What more unnatural usage could an
infant lie subjected to than being thus
oppressed with finery, deprived of ik
liberty, disturbed of its repose, torment
ed by strange hands, and infected, per
haps* in the closeness of a kiss by re- j
peoteil inspirations of tainted breath ? It
is a cruelty to an infant to clothe it in
any way by which its limbs are checked
in the "freest movement, to which it k
impelled by natural instinct. It should
have the fiilleat liberty to turn and roll,
creep or toddle, aa it may, without fear
of disorder from exercise or dirt from
floor. No superfluous swathing* of
finery should be allowed to interfere with
any of ik vagaries of motion. A baby
should be left very much to ikelf and
nature. The leas clothing it wears, and
the lees this shackle* ik body and limba,
the better. We need hardly insist upon
ik being allowed to get all tlie sleep it
will take, for a great deal of this, it k
well known, is essential to ik health. It
is equally obvious that ik natural in
stinct seeks for pure air, mid not the
atmosphere corrupted by human breath
ing.
Burning Iron.
A Berlin experimenter has demon
stratod the combustibility of iron in a
peculiar manner. He takes a straight
itar magnet of some power, and sprinkle*
iron filings ou one of its pole*. The**
filing* arrange themselvw in accordance
with tlie line* of magnetic force; and
however closely they may appear to he
placed, of course no two of toe metallic
filaments are parallel, and consequently,
a certain amount of air k inelooed as in
a metallic sjxmge. The flames of any
ordinary spirit lamp or gns burner
readily ignite* tlie finely divided iron,
and it continue* to burn brilliantly for
some time, the combustion hcinfit ap
parently, as natural and easy as that of
any ordinary sulistauee. If th* experi
menter with this operation stands on a
slight elevation and waves th* magnet
to oud fro while burning, a magnificent
rain of fire is said to lie produced.
An Extraordinary Case.
An lowa paper report* a remarkable
case of transfusion of blood and the ex
troorduiiuy consequence* that followed: ;
A celebrated lawyer was " transfused," a
noted stock-breeder furnishing the san
guineous fountain. The cure was per
ft>ot, but the attorney's ideas on Black
stone and Durham liecame so confused
that he wns eventually compelled to re
tire from the practice of hk profession.
In hk first case, after recovering, ho
commenced to make a plea for hk client,
accused of larceny, as follow*} "If it
please the short horn oourt, my client k
the victim of a thoroughbred conspiracy.
Although of honorable parentage, he
was arrested by this six distinct crosses
of constable, and hurried into a foul
dungeon charged with being a Devon
shire thief."
To Civil Life.
An interesting event transpired at La
Crosse, Wis., where fifty Winnebago
Indians, having complied with the law
ill abandoning their tribal relations and
adopting the custom* of civilization, j
made their appearance at the land office
and proceeded to enter forty acres of
land each under the homestead act.
The land is located near the Black river i
falls, Wis., and the Indians will at onoe |
occupy their new possessions, where
they will erect farmhouses, establish
schools, and generally cast off the gene- j
ric habits of their race.
NO. 25.
Where They Am
A oorreopoudent of tlw Ctnritouoli
("timrnrrcial, in winning to the Tweed
ring, mfn : Hw*ny k in Pan*. Ho
live# with his family in • large house on
the Chomp* Ely***, awl liv* in tyk-
A uiodkte. who waa jmtroniaed by Aim
city a few month* ago tliat the Bweenya
were ready to par any rtrjcwa, ami never
disputed any bilk. Mr*. Hweeuy had
the Iwwt dream* that iKHM be made, and
in the matter of laae, sb bought enough
to get up a reepeetali| retail atom.
" But I du*t think," aaid ahe, ** that
they are nice people. Uy onem to r
what you Americana aomaUmo* call ' off
color but tliey have bit* of money."
''The people of New York think a
great deal of Mr. Hweeny," replied the
lady. "They think ao much of him
that they would I* glad to nay but t
penarw back to New York, and it
wouldn't coot htm anything to live after
be get* there. They would give him
ajmrtmcut# in a palace at King King, on
the Hudaon, and let him live there free
for twenty yearn or ao."
" Really, tlmt ia very atrange," tlte
modiate roajmnded, " for one day I told
Mm Bw>euy to give ma plenty of time
before ahe went to New York, and I
would make her mob a wardrobe as
never waa. Bhe flushed up in the fane,
and aaid they were not going hack to
New York neither thia year nor the neat.
And she wasn't very civil to me all the
rest of her visit."
Connolly k in Italy with tea family at
iiraacnt He haa uaassd hk time turn*
tea escape from New York in traveling
about Europe, and never ramainiug long
in one place. He pttk in the winter in
Egypt, occupying a whole auite of rooms
in the Grand Hotel at Cairo, and spend
ing money at a rapid rate. In toe win
ter of 18734 th* bilk of hia party wane
not leas than fIOO a day, and hk son
1 (ought s Urge quantity of Egyptian an
tiquttn which he intended to take to
Park. The whokparty waa registered
in the name of J. Towtmend Connolly ;
that of "Hlippeey Dick," as be uend to
It* called here, did not appear at aIL
Connolly, to* older, appeared to be the
wreck of a man, and poor wreck at
that. Hour after hour he est oo the
piazza of the hotel quite alone ; be made
no ocquaintanoea, and whenever ad
dressed tea answers were monosyllabic.
He waa suffering from a nervous affec
tion that caused his hand* to tremble
like those of a confirmed victim of the
poky.
Tom Fields is in Belgium, and living
in poverty. All to* m<mey he stole waa
swept aw ay, with the exception of a few
thousand dollars, which are steadily be
coming fewer. Genet has gone to Spain,
after a somewhat chequered career in
England and France. He baa saved a
handsome amount from hia thefts, but
not ao much as have Tweed, Sweeny and
Connolly. I understand that be k more
broken down than Connolly, and has
several times attempted suiade without
having th* courage to make thorough
work of it. Sweeny k mentally broken
and oast down, but nk physical health k
good.
A Backwoodsman's Story.
A correspondent of the Ohio Slate
Journal tolk on astonishing story, as re
lated to him fifty years ago by an old
Maine hunter, who used to go an long
trapping expeditions far up the Kenue
bee river. " On* night," said he, "af
ter I had retired to rart in my bed, com
posed of blank eta and furs of animals,
and surrounded by tree* and thick brush,
I happened to look up overhead at the ,
branches of the two which formed a
sort of roof to mv rough sleeping place.
I discovered a lire- panther secreted
among the thick branchea and eyeing
me very narrowly, as if to say: "As soon
a* it gets dark enough I will moke short
work of you. Then, thinks I,this k not
ao good a place as 1 thought it wmo. So
I carefully slipped from under my cov
erings, and went into to* woods a abort
distance, and cut a dozen stakes, sod
mad* them sharp at both ends, and re
turning to my bed drove them down in
the ground, with ou* slurp end pointing
upward, and covered them with the blan
ket*. then carefully topped eway to
await results. Sitting down by a tree I
soon fell asleep, and did not wake till
morning. I then got up and went back
where I left things the night before, and
found the panther with several stokes
driven through hk body, and auite dead.
He hod made the unlucky Wp upon
what he supposed was me, but found out
hk mistake Too late.* "
Preservation ®f Wood by Lime.
M. Lostol, a railway conductor, ofFer
miny, has communicated the result* of
hk observation* on the effect of lime is
preserving wood, and hk method of ap
plying ik He ptlet the planka ins tank,
and puts over all a layer of quicklime
whicn k gradually slaked with water.
Timber for mine* require* about a week
to become thoroughly impregnated, and
other wood more or lew time, according
to its tfiicknns*. The wood acq aire* re
markable consistence and hardness, and
it k said, will never rot. Wood ha*
bUm prepared in this manner for several
mine*, ao that the plan will shortly be
tooted on a considerable scale. Beech
wood lata been prepared in thk way for
hammers and other tools for several iron
work*, and it k said to become as hard
a* oak without losing its elasticity or
toughness, and to last much longer than
when unprepared. It lias king been
known that wood wet in lime or mortar
k preserved from decay, but no system
atic plan for its preservation has until
now been attempted.
Trial* of a Carpet Dealer.
The Boston Trarrller aays that a sale*
man in a carpet store in tiiat city relate*
that a abort time ago a lady called and
wished to look at some carpets. After
examining about all in the place, selecting
here and there until she had chosen
enough for every part of a house, and
ran up a bill which filled the courteous
salesman's heart with joy, she was asked
where she would have them sent, and
said: "Well, 1 will call in and let you
know. Yon see, my husband has lately
bought a piece of laud, and talks some
of building, and if he does, why I shall
want some new carpets, and will oome
and get those I have selected."
EXTRACT FROM A YOUNG LAJDY'S DIART.
—What are those thoughts that surge
across my heart and wildly palpitate in
every crevice of my brain! What is
this strange longing after the unattain
able I Am I what 1 really seem, or is it,
as it were, not so much the infinitesimal
a* the unspeakable 1 Let me be calm.
I have reread Don Juan to-day. Ah,
alas! will there ever be another Byroni f
May there not be somewhere coming
toward me from the mist of the mountain
top or the flowers of the valley some
such crowned youth who— Here papa
called out: " If you don't come down to
dinner it will be* postponed till to-mor
row." Coarse idea ! I was obliged to
go for many reasons.
III
The effects of the iamine in Asia
Minor are still most distressing. Houses
are torn down in order, by sale of the :
materials, to get a pittance for bread. :
Many farmers are without reed wheat
for 1875. The statistics of two hundred
villages show that a population of 70,000
has decreased nearly one-half in two j
£sars. The Turkish government is ma
ing feeble efforts to relieve its subjects. '
The fooktop W U* B tolr.
I have rsry *"F trewire.
1 TlLm
i Tl,.a ifca **!< iie of lb* day i
tad & l.ttl* *hc* tb*f* fadml,
l*MlgpgWMiw that -
And I flaunt *b*u I tM It,
for a fiKXerep on tfa* tar,
For a i oner, patter, patter,
Of a t outetep tw aba atalr.
Now UioaetttUa feet at* wteut.
And th* fac# la taMdro tew, •
Underneath th* mad** grMMa,
And Um daidm fragrant am-* .
I And I autaihtui in Ut .
Pattering feel and face no fate—
But I listen moat at bedttm* l .
For the footetep on tla atatr-
Then abe d crane sod kneel Isolde use
In bar Dttla go* u of hbite,
Aa aU d way be. abort' prayer ow,
And would Ma# ma sweat good night.
And I baton in the twilight,
Though I know aha# not thara
But I cannot atils my pteming
For tha footatep m the atete,
For (tea patter, patter, palter.
Of the footstep on tbs stair.
Items of Interest.
No man k too -poor to keep the golden |
rule.
A patent modtrinn agent recently
mode band bilk on all the gravestoiusi hi
1 the cemetery at AM torn , Mom.
A shirt dealer hsagham up coaxing and
bullying thepntolie an
iiounom oft * placard: " Buy or 1 will
bust."
Ml*, (tonkins, of Outer county, N. C ,
weighs *tx handrod and forty pounds,
and one erf her stocking* am hold a
bushel of theJied aim.
Home of the greatest baoefitaare tfaoao
which wa are atowaat to detect, and a
man who moves into a quiet neighbor
hood with a family of boys k perhaps
cum of them.
The actor who supported Mka Httfkoo
Uus seaaon has the wdiafaction, accord
ing to a Western paper, of having
achieved a national reputation as the
worst Borneo on th* American stage.
Jefferaon Ilavte, in an nddrws* to the
Texas veterans of the Mexican war, en
treated tfaem to be as Loyal now to the
stars and stripes as they were zealous
and heave in the defense of their first
Js3g a
A tody whose family were very much
in the habit of making ooottndruma waa
<*wevtong asked by b>-r husband in on ex
cited tone: "Why are all throe doors left
openf" "I give it np I" instantly replied
the lady.
At a teacher*' institute in Ohio recent
ly • tody teacher waa given the word
" hosaritoua" to qpdl and define, and
did it in this style: "II -a-x- has—o rd,
ard—e double , cm hat,aniens, a fe
male hazard."
How's thiaf Bihd for having spoke m
of an alderman aa "a jail bird," the
Chicago 71roe* acta up the eariotia de
fence that the nhrase is really eulogistic.
I a d disUngnisheathe person named from
a State priaon btrd!
A gentleman odverttow Ida willingness
to exchange a omrk tog few a revolver.
This to the nearest approach to the old
kw of retaliation we have seen for a
longtime. It taut aa eye for aa eye
but it's a tog for aa arm.
Aa convincing proof that the grass
hopper* read the papers, it to mentioned
that they have this season entirely
avoided a certain county which was
mentioned loot year as raising the poor
est quality of wheat in Kansas
The purchase \rf flrf and .Vw by
Seribaer k 00. makes the fourth maga
zine devoured by ASnrfftncrX and m SL
.VtcAota* took in five of the old ones,
the Scriboer's will evidently soon con
trol the magazine field of the country.
She wae beautiful, but she had large
feet, and when she warn just recovering
from ulnves and mid, in response to an
inquir, that ahe "could jn*t nut one
foot before th* other," the spiteful friend
responded: "And that to a great deaL"
As a garbage cart wws dumped lately
in toe suburbs of London a human bead
rolled out of the mam. It wasfrwh and
bleeding, and the mystery k from which
one of the ash pan* emptied into the
cart toot tnoming it come.
To tost the quality of wool, take a
look from tha sheep"# back, and place it
on a measured into. If toe spirals count
from thirty to thirty-throe in the space
of an inch, it equals the finest Electoral
or Saxony wool grown. The diminution
of the number of fohk to the inch shows
the inferiority.
A paper in Eastern Oregon has thk
generous announcement: Ail those who
are in arrearage for toe paper, by calling
and settling the same, can have toe
uiarirn and brand* erf their hogs publish
ed gratuitously ; otherwise they will bo
placed upon the black list and their
names publiahctL
Aa adventurous little boy undertook
to cress the path of a huge elephant
which wm walking is a circus pooawiaa
through Detroit the other day, when the
animal aeiaed him in its trunk, held him
long enough to frighten him well, and
then act him down about three yard*
from the starting point.
Ex-Gov, R. C. Powers of Miiwiwsippi
was foreman of the grand jury of Noxu
bee county, and found an uniusual uum
bor of true htUa for larceny. After the
grand jury adjourned, the ex-Governor
found that one of his brother jurors had
relieved hina of his pocketbook contain
ing seventy fire dollars.
A Chicago jury being confined in a
room without anything to eat or drink,
the other day, lowered a string from a
window and* palled up a bottle of
whisky that somebody had reedy for
them, and one of them got so drunk
that he was unfit for duty. The judge
fined nine of them five dollars each.
The following appears in a will record
ed in the surrogates office in Bingham
ton, N. ¥.: A word of advice to my
wife. I think you had bettor sell every
thing you do not need for your own use,
on a credit. Take good, reliable notes,
to be paid when you want it Be care
ful bow you trust blood relations; they
are apt to be blood-suckers.
A dashing Pacific slope scamp lias an
out flit consisting of four M horses
and gilded wagon. He drives into a
place with a flourish, makes extensive
arrangements for a mythical circus
—usually calling it Van Amburgh's or
Banmm's—borrows several hundred
dollars on bogus cheeks signed by Ids
imaginary employer, and rides away.
James Fisk, father of the late James
Fiak, Jr., and formerly known through
the Hoosac and Connecticut valleys, in
connection with his son, as a peddler of
<by goods and notions, is going to En
rope. He will also visit the Holy Land,
and will publish letters concerning his
tour in a newspaper of western Mas
sacnusette. Mr. Fiak is sixty-six years
old, and of late y*ars has been somewhat
broken in mind. He has lived much of
the time at Maple Grove, South Adams,
and it has been quite a common incident
for the old man to be at the depot in
quiring about" my son at New York."'
A Dramatic Affair.
A dramatic affair, which created a
deep interest among the people of Alsace,
has jnst come before the assises of Col
mar. Toward the end of the siege of
Paris a young sergeant of the Mobile
Guards, * named Ligvz, was killed at
Clamsrt in a sortie. His death was a
terrible blow to his father, a poulterer,
living at Bourg, who, after mourning
the loss of hia son for three years, sud
denly disappeared. A short tune ago ho
turned up again at Mulhouae, and one
evening ne was arrested for stabbing to
death a Prussian sergeant whom he had
met in a beer house. At first he refused
to give his name, bat eventually he con
fessed that he had come to Mulhouse "to
avenge the loss of his poor boy." The
jury, being no doubt composed of
Alsatians, who sympathize with their
! late countryman, gave the murderer the
benefit of extenuating circumstance, al
leging that when he committed the mime
he was suffering from temporary in
sanity. The wmneqaeiice was that, in
stead of being sentenced to death, Ligez
pere, was sentenced to five years' lrn
' prisonment.
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