Spting and the Robin. A robin wbm flitting KWHT from the <*ooth. And. on a bush sitting. Ho opens hi. month , • Ho "pes nary ro*e*. Ho foolo nsry cpiing ; iR to tnhorooloaio In trying to sing. Catarrh sod bronchitis, KhenmatMa and oh ilia. And touts larrgiUo To finish his ills. Ho hositslos. lingers. Woops. shirors sod sighs, Twigs his noss with hit Angara. Keels oTsr and diss. Fading, Changing, lting. Everything bosnnfnl, darling, most fads ; Tho roso and tho lily, tho pride of UIS field. And mirtla. which hidst ths rods marks of lbs iptds, Where lov'd ones are sleepiug, wiQ sil bars to yield To times bnsy gleaner, who gathers the leaves And unopened buds in ths forest and plain. To oarefully bind them in bandies and sheaves. And carry them off to return not again. Everything beautiful, darling, muse change ; The woodland, 'he meadow, and eoerse of the stream ; Those eeenee now familiar, ere !eug will eeeci strange, And only be thought of as seen in a dream. Or picture# of memory long hung away, And faded by age. or the dost of the peel . Each moment of pleasure refuses to stay. The rotes of the sephyr is lost in the blast. Everthing beautiful, darling, most die, And that which increase* will rarely de crease ; The sturdy old oak as a dust heap will tie, Tbelong and the singer will both have to let there is a hope that each beanlifnl thing— Though not in this life— wtli have beuqg The hoaii. kk* tk* ivy. to loved oo* sill otteg. When fallen, and creep to *truit;' ahor. Erir) Uuu£ beautiful, darling, mast fade. Mut obaug* (ltd muat die, be it never eo grand ; And nothing endureth that ever n mad*. Pos time has the day in hia own cunning band. The cpuit immortal he homUeih not, lie build*. though, and erumblea ta dwelling of day; When everything earthly. and tune ia forgot. The apuit will laugh at the thought of SAVED. A TEMPERANCE SKETCH. The following CUM of delivaranoe from the power of a drunkard's appetite were related at a meeting for the iutem perate in the Hippodrome, New York. A middle aged man, of gentlemanly ad dress, aroee and said: I ha to known what it is to be a prosperous, even a wealthy man, a church member, and an active worker in the church of Christ. Bat the curse of intemperance seized me, held me, till it took my money, my frieuda, and my reputation. I at first neglected to go to church on communion Sundays, then altogether. Lower and lower 1 sunk, till suddenly brought to bit senses by the death of my little boy, a child ten years of age. How I loved that boy no wyrds can tell 1 I was not happy one moment with him out of my sight. I could not take a journey un less I could have the child go with me. On one journey in a steamer, our boat collided with another vessel, and we were obliged to run into port. Hardly had we reached land when my boy was seized with illness. 1 summoned his mother, aud together we htmg over hia bed. and watched his young life while it passed away rem us. Before he died, when be could o longer speak to us, he lilaccd his han in mine, folded one of us own little nands over both, and with the other pointed upward. When he was gone, I partially re formed. I changed my outward life. I tried to serve God with half mv heart. I became diligent in business; I pros pered; my friends came back; money flowed in npou me; I trusted in my own power to stami, and then—and then—l fell! Once having tasted the poison, I was forced to go on, and little by little, with ever increasing speed and force, I weut downward, till a second time, home aud health, friends and money all gone, I was a hopeless drunkard. In this condition I was persuaded by a sis ter, wbo, through all, bad loved and prayed for me, to tnme with her to one of Mr. Mo sly's meetings. His preach ing touched my he .rt, and started my tears, but I was very careful not to let my sister see tbetn. After the meeting she would not let me go till she hfci in duced Mr. Moody to speak to me. I was reluctant, but when he approached and asked me if I was a Christian, I took courage and replied; "A very bad Christian, indeed." Yet there awoke in my heart the desire to be again a man, and I persevered in coming to the meet ings till, at last, I found what it was to really have freedom from sin through the m rcy of God. lam free now, be cause he that is " free in Christ, is free indeed." He sat down, and there came forward a young man with a fair face, and an abundance of brown, curly hair. His story was a sad one of prolonged strug gle and repeated failare, and the bitter anguish of remorse. He begun to drink at the age of fifteen ; at twenty-one he was a hopeless drunkard. His father and mother never ceased to pray for him. Hie wife, after he had one, never would give him up, but these were bis only friends. And be did all a man could do to break their loving hearts. In the army all his evil habits became con firmed. and he had been enslaved by them all his life, except one interval of two years and seven months. And this period of reformation was brought to an end by the advice of a physician, at whose suggestion he resorted again to the use of stimulants. Soon he could not live without them, yet such was his at.gni-h of spirit at finding himself again nnder the dominion of the tyrant, that he took every vow, joined every society, even took an oath to alietuin be fore a magistrate. All was of no avail. He broke them all when be saw ihe enp —nothing could n strain him in the presence of temptation. Twice he would have taken his own life, but that his wife liad stayed his band when the knife hauL I oonld not go away; I oould not enter. Anil when at last I was en abled to rush U> the entrance, it was more as a maniac might have gone there than like a reasonable man. Onoe in side, the lights, the throng, the chorus of a hy inn—they were singing—all help ed to sober me. And when the hymn oeased, and Mr. Moody called out: "la there in all this throng any poor sinner who is so lost that he cannot help himself ? Let him come forward here and we will ask KUKTZ. Kditor and Propriotor. VOLUME IX. God to help him." I aaid: "That's me, that mcsaage is for me "—and down the long aisle, pushing my way through the crowd standing there, 1 almost ran to the foot of the platform and seated myself. When the invitation rang forth again I tried to rise, but tho people near me, seeing mv condition, took tun i by the arras aud held me down, wins ! oaring: "Sit still; sit still, you're | drunk." Druuk ! Yes, 1 knew It, but j I had heard the voice of God, and when : the invilattou came sgaiu 1 couldn't sit ! still, and 1 broke away from those who 1 held me, and rose. Ah, what an hour I followed ! What prayers and tears and strngglea ! And at its oloee, some one asked me if 1 would pray an hour after ! my return home, for, if I would do so, I | might know that at the same hour many hearts were praying in their own homes . for me. As we were about to separate, , one good Christian said: '' Why go , home to pray for this soul ? Let us , pray now and here." And we stared. I and* they prayed for me and 1 prayed for Saalt, and I was able to come to risk, and just as 1 was—yes, drunk as ' I was. he took me. And from that glad hour when 1 went home to my wife with the good news of my stns forgiven, He has kept me; He lias shown in me His power to save " to the uttermost" When he had oiaaed, s young man arose and said: 1 was a drunkard from my boyhood— a wreck before I reached the age at twenty one. My mother uevex ceased to prav for me, and to urge me to reform. When 1 was under the influence at dnuk, I would get as far sway from home as possible, and stay away until my money was all gone, and sick, broken and helpless, I would seek my father's house. During these ab sences, my mother's letters would follow me, whenever she knew where I was; and when I returned she always wel corned ine aud nursed me back to health. Here is oue of her letters, said he (.and be drew from his pocket and read to the audience a tender letter from his mother to her dear boy, begging him to come home, telling him now she loved him and waited for him, and wanted to see him begin again). In answer to some such appeal, he did seek his home one night, after having been on a debauch of weeks, in which he had fallen as low as intemperance could bring him. He came at night; he watched the windows till the lights were out; he approached and rang aad waited, and soon a step on the stair and the door was opened, and his mother held him in her arms— "dose to her heart, as if I had never gone astray." That night, he continued, with a voice husky and broken, she nursed me as she had nursed me many times before; but on the morrow she was not at my bed side. When I asked for her, they said that she was ill; and when I crept from my chamber and confronted the phvsi ciaus, aud l>egged them to tell me that 1 hud not murdered her, they replied : i " There is not a shadow of hope." Then my heart broke, and I pleaded with God, with many tears, to spare her only until her boy could repent. And God was merciful to me. He did s]>are her. and He did teach me repentance. 1 knew the way. I had been well taught. I knew that help was in Christ and Christ alone. And I sought and found that help, and have lived to see my mother's heart made glad by the answer to her prayers. He called upon the mothers whose tearful eyes were lifted to his face to work on ami pray ou and love on, until their wandering boys shoal J come The Pre-ident's Salary The following is the message of Presi dent Grant relative to vetoing the bill for cutting down the salary of the Presi dent of the United States : To TKB SENATE OF THE UNTTEI> STATES : : Herewith I return Senate bill No. 172, entitled " An act fixing the salary of the President of the United States," with ont my approval. lam constrained to this course from a sense of duty to my successors in office, to myself and to what is due to the dignity of the poei tion of Chief Magistrate of a nation of more than 40,000,000 of people. When the salary ot the President of the Uni ted States was fixed by the constitution at 825,000 per annum we were a nation of but 3,000,000 of people, poor from a long and exhaustive war, without com merce or manufactures, with but few wants and those cheaply supplied. The salary must then have been deemed small for the responsibilities and dignity of the position, but justifiably o from the irnjKiverished condition of the trens ury and the simplicity it was desired to cultivate in the republic. The salaries of congressmen under the constitution were fixed at $6 per day for the time ac tually in session, an average of atxiut 120 days to each seasior, or $720 ler year, or less than one thirtieth of the salary of the President. Congress men have legislated on their salaries from time to time since, until finally they have reached $5,000 each per an nam, or one-fifth that of the President liefore the salary of the latter was in- | creased. No one having a knowledge of the cost of living at the national capital will contend that the present salaries of Cougreasmi-Q are too liigli, unless it be the intention the office one en tirely of honor, when the salary should lie abolished, a proposition repugnant to ; our republican ideas and institutions. I do not believe the citizens of tbia repub lie desire their public servants to serve them without a fair compensation for their services. The sum of $25,000 does not defray the expense* of the Executive for on" year, or has not in my experi ence. It is now one-fifth in value what it was when fixed by the constitution in supplying demauds and wants. Having no i>ersoual interest in this matter, I have felt myself free to return this bill to the House in which it originated with my objections, believing that in doing so I meet the wishes and judg ment of the great majority of those who indirectly pay all the saluries and other expenses of the government. U. 8. GHANT. Executive Mansion, April 18, 1876. The Boston Belfry Murder. Thomas W. Piper, condemned to be execated on the twenty sixth of May for the murder of Mabel Young in the I*l - of the Warren avenue eharch, Bos ton, made a sworn statement that she received the injuries that c used her death from the trap door falling upon her head, and that he was frightened leat be wonld be accused of mnrdering her, and therefore he denied all knowl edge of the matter, trusting that his con nection with it would not be discovered. Jv&i WAIT. —" Young ladies have the privilege of saying anything they please during leap year," she said, eyeing him ont of the oorner of her eye with a sweet look. His heart gave a great bound, and while he wondered if Hhe was going to ask the question he bad so long desired and feared to do, answered : "Yes." " And the young men must not re fuse," said she. " No, no. How could they ?" sighed he. " Well, then," said she, " will you"— He fell on his knees, and said: "Any thing you ask, darling." " Wait till I get through. Will you take a walk, and not come here so much?" THE CENTRE REPORTER. FAiblon otrs. Turlaui* ami white straw sailor hah will be must worn by school girls fron tan wars up to ansae* in their teens. Tse wool tie I tog* ami ollior suits wort by young girls are made with tiasquei thai button behind and lung drop aprons Brown, gray and dark blito remain tin colors most in favor for young folks. Tho low sonh ti.nl around the hips am! fastened ttoiuud tn a Urge bow is tuadi of wide gros grain riblKtn, ami worn witl pioue prunv-as dr.ware by very stual girls. Their laoc caps are of close capoU sliajto, trimmed with ribU.u to motet the sash. The stockings are of aimihu color. The burnous overakirt has a long i wrinkled apron, trimmed with bowt down the middle and two bias Isolds ol silk. There is usually a o*m down th middle of this apron- -a thing that would not hare been permitted in the coetumei of a few years sgo. Cambric and print dresses for school and general wear are blouse waists but toned belaud; this waist is sc{>arate froui the skirt, with ends extending over the hips, and instead of a belt a drawing string is }eep wide round frills turned down and around the neck, are made of tho new lace braids, and worn by small chil dreu, both girls and boya; price gl .'iS. There are also broad Puritan collars oi Irish cord lace that imitates antique de signs; price fcl. What are called "basket snittugs " are the flue woolen stuffs used by Parisian dr.vssmakers for the dresses recently irn {H>rted for girls. TtaA colore are cream, pale blue, and French gray in small raised squares, all of one color. The trimming is merely kilt platting and silk facing. The oriuoesae style is adopted for the ptoue dresses of small girls, while larger girls have overekirts that are merely aprons shirreil to form s fun behind, and the basques are box plaited, with a row of insertion between the plaits. A Ham burg ruffle edges the basque and over skirt; two such ruffles are on tho lower skirt. To brighten up the dark ilromea worn for bouse toilettes are collarettes of plaited lisse finished with pearl edging. The most dressy ones are made of the new cream colored crepe lisse trimmed with folds of pale tinted China crape going around the neck, aud held by long looped bows of gro* grain ribbon. The inevitable crt am color lias found Its way iuto lingerie, and instead of snowy white linen collars and cuffc, a novelty is cram tinted cam brio for tnis purjxae, with the corners wrought with scarlet, blue, brown, gray or black, done in washing wools to represent Greek squares, or a vine cluster of flowers in tho corners of collars or oufK Valor of lHvipllne. Gen. Geo. A. Custer, in his war memories, thus describes the confusion at the flrst battle of Hull Hon: The value of discipline was clearly t-botrti in this crisis by observing the manner of the few regular troops, as contrasted with the raw and ttndisci plined three moutlis' men. The regular soldiers never for a moment o-an-d to look to their officers foi orders and iu st ructions, and in retiring from the A- Id, even amid the greatest ilisorder aud confusion of the organisations near them, they |>rserve.l their formation, and marched only as they were directed to do. The long lines of soldiery, which a few minute* liefore La.l bts-n bravely confronting and driving the enemy, sud denly lost their e ihoeion and lavam* one immem-e nuts* of fleeing, frightem d ii-Atures. Artillery hotxw wt re cut fiom their tract-*, mid it was no unusual fight to see three meu, perhaps la-long n g to differeut regiments, riding the fame horse, and making their way to the rear as faat on the dense mane of men moving with them would permit. The direction < t the retreat was toward Ontreville, byway of the Stone bridge crossing, and other fords above that i,iut. An cocanional shot from the • i.emy's artillery, or the cry that the Hiark Horse cavalry, so dreaded in the first months of the war in Virginia, were coming, kept the fleeing crowd of sol dier* at their best sf>eed. Arms were thrown away an being no longer of ser vice in warding ofl the enemy. Hereaud there the State colors of a regiment, or ]s rha|>s the national standard, wonld lw< seen lying on the ground along the line of retreat, no one venturing to reclaim or preserve them, while more than one full set of baud instruments could be ol>(rved, dropped under the shade of f me tree in rear of the line of battle, and where their late owners had prob ably iieen resting from the fatigues of Il.e tight when the panic seised them and forced them to join their comrades in flight. Population and Area of Brazil. Hy a partial census of the population of Brazil, the home of the Emperor Dom Pedro, now visiting the United States, IL ide in 1872, it was estimated that the entire number of inhabitants was 10,- The naml>er of s<]nare miles contained in the tweuty provinces of the empire is 3,27.1,320. In 1850 the nam- If r of slaves held in the country was es timated at 2,500,000, but after the law for their gradual emancipation was pass ed in 1871, this numlier gradually de creased. Aooordin? to an official return published in May, 1874, there were at that time only 1,016,262 slaves distribu ted over the whole empire. The popu lation of Brazil is mode up of an agglomeration of many races. While it remained a oolony of Portugal, but few women accompanied the immigrants to Konth America. The earliest European settlers intermarried and mixed with Indian women, and &ftorwnrd an exten sive intermixture of race occurred with the Africans who were brought into the ooantrr as slaves. In the northern prov iuoes the Indian element prefKinderates, while in Pernambuco, liahia, Bio do J ineiro, and Minns, the negroes are numerous. At the sea|>orta the chief part of the population is of Earopean descent. • The London Plague. What was the nature of the plague in London in 166(1, and has any sickness like it been known since r asks a oorre sj>ondent of Noah't Sunday Time*, to which qnery the following reply is made : The plague is an aggravated contagions fever, characterised by an eruption of carbuncles and buboes, en demic (and frequently epidemic) in Egypt, Hvria and Turkey, and through out the f£ast. Before it last appeared in London, in the years 1663 1665, it usually visited Great Britain every thirty or forty years. Marseilles lost nearly half its population by it in 1720, aulgy* to reach the Quaker City. The delegate* walked from the niy tavern, where tiny assembled, in pow dered wigs, knee breeches and buckled shoe*, to CAr|x-nU r's hall. The address of Tatrick Heury will never LefnrgoUen, and wlien he piisihumed himself as not belonging to any i"articular Bute, but as an American, he struck the keynote ot the newly born nation. The gran d'-ur and simplicity of this ilrst Con tinental Congress elicited the admira t:o iof the greatest minds of the day Ft >r fourteen years in all Uie Continents I Congress governed tho United Htales. It was, in fact, President, Cabinet and Congress—a kind of Venetian Senate withont a doge. It made war and con cluded |xoii)t<"d, promoted and degraded generals ; it sent aud re ceived amliasaadora ; it gave ns decimal currency. Sever was a government more defective and yet more successful, and having fulfilled its mission, it be came nnMuitnble and insufficient; aud when the country Iwcamo ripe for an other better organized government, the Continental Congress quietly and wisely went out of existence. Tho members of this Congress were freqnently tested dnnng the Revolution ary war by allurement* of wealth and office. John Reid was offered £IO,OOO to help undo independence. Hi* re ply was, in simple words : " I sni not worth purchasing; bnt, such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it." F.ffrct* of Business Repression. One of New York's eminent physi cians said to a friend of the ExprtM that the very worst eases among his male patients were men of business with no other physical illness than mental suffer ing. The past was full of lossea, the proncnt not encouraging, the future all uncertain, and the effect had so preyed npon them that they could not find rest of body or peaoo of mind. Many have lost all their earnings for ton and twenty years in the shrinkage of values aud the expenses of business. The labors and accumulations of years had all gone to gether, and resulted either in real or threatened bankruptcy, anil with only the most gloomy forebodings for the time to oomo. While tho general iu rreaae of wealth from 1850 to 1870 was very great, and in the latter year was more by 233 i>or cent, than twenty year* before, no man can begin to realize what the depreciations have l>een since 1872. Bat it is the effect npon peculiar persons, especially upon those of a sensitive nature, whose credit* have lieen impaired and who can neither hope nor rally, which is so alarming. When physician* report so many of their cases to lie the result of nervous depression, occasioned by business, the record is a sail one for both the country and maukind. It Was He. A man forty years old, and as long as a rail, w at into one of the banks of Detroit to get the cash on a thirteen-dol lar check, drawn by a party living in Nankin township. " You will have to be identified," said the cashier, as he looked at the cheek, " I'm the man," was tho reply. " But I don't know who you are." " But I do." " Yon must bring somo one here who know* you." " Don't I know myself I" exclaimed the check tenderer. " But I muit know you. Ton may be Tom Jones for all that I know." "You must bo a ooiiHarned fool to think I'm Rome one elael" growled the man in response. " You must be identifloil," observed the cashier. " That's my name, I tell ye, and this is me, and if this bank gets mo riled I'll lick the whole crowd of you over behind the railing 1" The cashier wouldn't pay, and the man oouldn't And any one who knew him, and at noon he was waiting " f<>r the feller who sassed him to oome out." IE CO., PA., THURSDAY. MAY 18. 1870. THE HKLFKY MURDER. Ths ( HiraaMl hhinr. t*tser, Trill** fcla Ni#rr at IS* TvrrlM* Affair. The lioatou Journal mtvs: Thomas W. I'iper, who lie* in the (Suffolk coun ty jail. condemned to death for the mur der of Mabel Young in the lelfry of the Warren aveuue Baptist church, ha* yielded st Jat so far as to confess that it was he who tlrst kuew of the death of the child. Hitherto he has douied posi tively that he hail any knowledge of the occurrence until told of it by others; but now, in contradiction of his oft-re itested asset tions made under oath at both his trials, and repeated in the must solemn manner at the very moment of hi* sentence, he comes forward with a stisnge story of the little gtrl'a acciden tal death in which he claims fur himself entire innocence. Piper's story was told in the presence of Mrs. Brown, of hi* counsel, the Rnv. Dr. E. 0. Eddy, of the Tabernacle Bap tist church; au officer of the jail, and a young man who was employed to take notes of what the condemned man might say. His story of how he oocupied the time ou that fatal Huinlay afternoon is the same as that told byjiitn when testi fy tug in his offn behalf un to the time when he wcut up stairs to prevent the boys who were iu the vestibule from en tering the audience room. From that poiut it differs from everv other state uieut which be has made Litherto. He said that some complaint had beau made of the lack of Iresh air in the au dience room, and that to remedy the trouble he went up to the belfry to open the trap door, and thus secure a through draft, as he had done more than once before. He took witli him the hat stick, which played so important a part of the trials, and, having raised the trap door, pia .>ed the stick under it as a sup port. Returning down stairs, he reached the gallery flour and there met little Mattel Young, who was coming out of the organ gallery. Noticing the direction whence he had come, she asked: "What's np tnere I" He answered that that was the Itelfry, and something was said about the pigeons. In a moment she asked permission to go up, and he told her that she might do ao if she wished. Hhe started up the stairs and he remained where he was. Boon, however, he re mctnemltered the way in which he had left the trap, and feariug that in getting iuto the belfry she might injure herself, he hurried up after her. When he reach ed the top of the stairs lit* worst fears were confirmed. The tat stick had been knocked out, the door had fallen, and there lay the little girl caught Is twceiithe heavy door aud the edge of the floor. Piper took the child out to place lu r ou her feet She moaned, but was unconscious. He hud her uu the floor, and after a mo ment's pause to collect his faculties started down stairs with the intention of making a fall statement of tho occur rence. On the way he met the Mimes Knight Alice and Jennie, who testified at the tiials, entered into conversation with them, and while standing with them conceived the idea of keeping the whole occurrence a secret Acting on this resolution, he went about his usual occupation*. In the Pott of 1 tec. 8, 1875, the fol lowing appears as Mr. Avery's presenta tion of the case: The child, he argued, could have been killed by the falling of the fifty pound trap upoo her. He argued also to show that perha)>a tHover went up there to get the young pigeons, and that the child straying up there might have been pushed aside by him without any evil intent, a* she i detecting him, and perhaps the door fell upon her then and he retreated. Piper lias no hope of a commutation of his death senteuce. A Fisherman's Bedding. Along a certain portion of the coast of Scotland, when a young couple agree to fpt married, the nearest relations of both parties meet to ratify the contract. This is an occurrence of great rejoicing. The women appear in full toilet, and a sort ot feast is prepared. The marriage ceremony is usually performed by tho clergyman of tho district at the resi dence of the bride. After the religious rites are ooneluJed, a contract is signed by both parties amidst a cloud of wit noases. The bridegroom wears his Sun day suit, and tlie lady is adorned with tho conventional veil. The marriages of these peoplo take place, almost without exception, on Fri day, and the celebration* attending the event continue until the dawn of the Sabbath puta an and to further hilarity. On the first night of the dancing the women are attired in white muslin gowns, with their necks and arma ex poaed, the latter adorned with any quan tity of gIa.HR bead* and ornament*. The men ore in their shirt sleeve*, with gor geous bloo waists, ornamented with brass buttons, ami wearing every variety of hat and cap. Their throat* are muf fled with enormous neck-handkerchief*, which they persist in wearing in spite of the heat. When the entire night has been passed in dancing, and daylight ap)>eara, a rush is made through the town to the fntnre home of the newly married erronle. The musician, armed with lus fiddle or liagpipe, as the case may lie, leads the procession, the bride and groom oorne next, and the rest of the party follow on behind. Scotland abounds in singular mar riage enstoms. One of the most re 1 markahle is called "creeling the bride groom." In some comities on the day after the wedding, while the marriage feast still continues, thojiridegroom had a creel, or basket, filled with stones firmly fastened upon his back. Willi this incumbrance he was compelled to run about the neighborhood followed by his friends, who would not allow him to remove it until his wife came after him and either kissed him or nnfasteued the creel. It sometimes happened that, as relief depended upon her, he liad not to run very far; but if the lady was either very Wahfnl or very sportive he had to carry his load a considerable dis tance. The custom was very strictly enforced, for tho friend who was last creeled had charge of the ceremony, and ho was naturally anxious that the new bridegroom should not eeca]>e. A Riotous Island. Barbadoes, the soene of the late riots, in which a large nnmlier of person* were killed, is the most eastern of the Carib heo islands, and the earliest settled of the British possciwuonß in the West In die*. It has a population of about 150,- 000 poople, of whom only atiout 17,000 are white. In 1810, and again in 1825, there were formidable negro insurreo tions in the island. The capital, Bridge town, is one of the gayest and hand somest towns in the West Indies. It has about 20,000 inhabitants, and is a strong military post Riots have oc curred throughout the island. Planta tions and bouses have be< n sacked, ani- mals destroyed, and an enormous de struction of property taken place. A Br.rNDKn.—According to the New York Herald the railroad companies have made an extraordinary blunder in reducing their passenger rates to and from Philadelphia during the Centen nial onlv twenty-five per oent. Negro minstrel troops and opera and theater companies can got better terms any time of tho year. A Story of A. T. Stewart. A short tune liefore the late war broke ont, the late A. T. Btewart entered into a out tract for ths building of hut house ou Fifth svenue and Thirty fourth r treat. The gentleman who made the estimate which became ths basis of the agreement made what he supposed was a safe and even large allowauoe for any rise in the prior of labor and all kinds of materia'.*. Hut the price of labor and material advanced far Myoud the wild est expectation long before the house I wan completed, in fact before its erec tion was fairly liegun, aud the oontrac tors became financially embarrassed. Mr. Htewart would not release them from their legal obligations, but entered into a supplemental agreement with them by which he was to advance the money, and they were to go on with the work, being held liable to the amount j that the house might eot above the contract price. The result was that the contractors became indebted to Mr. Htewart tu the amonut of a great many thousand dollars, and after very valuable quarry property had passed over to him in part extinguishment of his claim, he brought an action for the recovery of over 830,000 mure. Two of the con tractors were supposed to be the wealthy men of the concern ; against those he obtained judgment by default. The third jmrtuer was the Imilder, aud he ' was male the defendant in the action. Mr. Htewart had sworn to hi*complaint, and this would have made it necessary to have the answer sworn to. There would have been no trouble in swearing to a good answer ; bat it was hoped that the action might be compromised, and it was feaml that a sworn answer would put Mr. Htewart somewhat ont of hnmor for compromise. Delay was resorted to, and throngh the good nature of Jndge Hilton many extensions of time were granted. Finally it was stated that it was a matter of pride with Mr. Htewart to get judgment, since much had been said about mm relative to thia transac tion, and that now he wished to be vin dicated by obtaining judgment. It was understood that if the defendant would consent to Mr. Htewart s judgment he would give a release within oue week without charge. This exceeded expec tation, because several thousand dollars had been offered in compromise. To Mr. Stewart it watt a matter of pride ; to the Imilder it was a matter of flnan ctai existence. Hie condition was ac ceded to. Mr. Btewart obtained a judg ment of 83d, "JC against the builder, and the builder had the judgment against him satisfied gratuitously within a week. Made Them Shake. When John Brougham, the actor, left Burton's theater in Sew York city, it was whispered that Mr. Burton had no very friendly feelings toward his old M seriate. The frequenters of the theater were very fond of Brougham. Borne time after Brougham's withdrawal from the Chambers street comjany, a farewell benefit was given. The play was "John Bull;" Mr. Burton as Job Thorn bury, Mr. Brougham as I>*unis Bulgrudderv. The houw was crowded from ths foot lights to the dome. Mr. Brougham's apiuil*aagy, to the empress of China. The looking-gbus had to be carried all the way from St Petersburg to Pekin by human hands. Despite the immense distance which had to be performed in this manner, the looking-glass safely reached China; but, in the meantime, difficulties had broken out between Russia and China. The Son of Heaven neither admitted the em bassy, nor did be accept the present. A courier was dispatched to oh Peters burg, who asked the emperor what waa to be done with the looking-glass. The emperor replied that it should be car ried back by the same route, and in the same manner. When he gave this order the Grand Duke Michael happened to be present, and offered to lay a wager with the emperor to the effect that the looking-glass would be broken on the way back to St Petersburg. The em peror accepted the wager, and the bear ers of the looking-glass received strin gent orders to be as aareful as possible. If they should break it on the road, they would be severely punished; but if they should bring it back safely, they would receive a handsome reward. Tney car ried it back with the most incredible care, forty men bearing it by turns, and safely reached St. Isaac's palace in St Petersburg with it—where the emperor stood, with his brothers, at the window of the palace, and laughed at having won the bet But on the staircase of the palace one of the carriers slipped his foot and fell down, dragging several of his companions after him, and the pre cious looking-glass was broken into a thousand pieces. The grand duke, therefore, won his bet AN Arrucnxo MEETING. Sarah Steele, a young woman, has been com mitted for trial in England on a charge of bigamy. Both husbands attended m court, and on being confronted with her first partner, Sarah threw herself into his arms, and said: " Alec, ia that you ? They told me you were banged in Glas gow years ago. ' Itmi of lateral. Egyptian woman aw old at t*#" aw. The Immigration from Iwiand for If will ba th smallest since 1861. It * only 51.402 teal year. Hot teas than twelve thousand worn ar* eoploysd in tba flow trade in t department of tha Loirs, France, aloi Baaaia contains 12,318,668 children batwaon seven and fourteen year* only sixty-nine par cent. attr Whom a rich man becomes poor It bat }tu* that ba abonld ba oat by I Ear acquaintances wbo dang to him Iter daya. Tba March oointgr of tha Sao Fra I eiaoo miut amountad to (3,808,(10 against 82,642,000 in the oorraaondii month of teat year. A woman and bar daughter, the latt only twelva year* okl, both reeling wil I intoxication, were aaan in the atraota < Virginia Oily a faw daya ago, "Laugh and grow fat." aaya 11 proverb. If yiga could only laogl now, what a saving the thrifty farmi oouid make in oorn and potaU* . The habit of exaggeration, like drun drinking, beoomee a slavish neoeaaitj and they wbo practice it paaa their liwa in a kind of mental telescope, throng whoae magnifying medium they 100 npon themselves and everything aronn (hem. Sow mneh better it te to always pa Sor bill a promptly. Tradeemen do nc e to call "for that little aooonnt any more than their customers like t ba donned, and it te far better to pa; them without the necessity of a bin from them. In Philadelphia aeven school* Levi enrolled jcarlv two thousand beys ii societies for the protection of animate They have badges and banners, r.n trained to march to theaonnd of milil r] mode, and have annnal meetings at tin music bail. We've suspected for aome time pari that measures would have to be taken Ui check the alarmingly rapid growth oi the Smith family. And hew now, sure enough, a Pennsylvania man proposes to exhibit at the Centennial a " Smith roller sod crasher." A oow belonging to Bites Davis, of Vermont, "atelive skeins of Mr*. !).' carpet yarn, eU knots in s skeio, the same being hong cm a clothes line to dry," and they don't know whether it is best to keep the cow M a oow or to weave bar np into carpets. There era glasses and glasses. "Why," said s husband to hi* wife, "are you alwaya looking in the glass t" "Because, my dear," was the answer, "the glass I took into enables me to im prove my personal appearance; the one roe look into only degrades you." A partridge Haw through s window in a house in north Greeobush, N. Y., end striking a sewing machine near the win dow, broke it, and fell to the floor dead. Upon examination it was fonnd that the head of the bird was crashed into a shapeless mass, probably by its contact with the glass in the window. Illnaaa prevented Mia* Adelaide Neil aoc from appearing at a London theater the other evening, and with much fear and trembling the manager permitted a young American girl, just finishing her studies for the atage, to take her part. Bha did it so well that the Londoners Like bar nearly as well as Neiteon. Borne people seem to be extremely sensitive. At oaa of the churches in Norwich, according to the Bulletin, one Sunday the minister read the prayer for a person in deep affliction, ami a man who had just been married got np and went out He aaid be didn't want pub lic sympathy obtruded on him in that way. An old lady living in Saagerties, N. Y., while suffering from s severe head ache, fell asleep with a bottle of smell ing salt* in ber hand. In the morning die awoke with a blister on ber thumb, which had covered the mouth of the bot tle. In a abort time inflammation arose, gangrene set in, and death fol lowed. A safe deposit vault just oomplct ! in London is deemed invulnerable. It ia sunk forty sir feet in the ground, with walla of brink and concrete six feet thick. Inside this structure is the safe, three feet thick, made of fire brick and undrillable iron. The metal doors weigh four tons each, and are swung by hydraulic power. A well known Paris dentist, residing is the fashionable quarter, has been ar rested, and ia in Maaaa prison, accused of having for years past, whil < drawing and cleaning teeth, introduced alow poi son into rich patient*' mouth* at the in stigation of their heirs, and thus com mitted many murder*. Two hundred witnesses are said to be subpoenaed. A eon pie were recently married at Waynesboro, Pa., the bride being seven tj-five sad the groom seventy-one. The latter had never been married before, and he was so overcome that be fainted at the conclusion of the ceremony, which incident led the newly married wife to exclaim : " Poor fellow, I have feared all along that he couldn't stand H." The foreign missionary work by Prot estant Christian* is *ommerited as fol lowa : There are 1,559 station*, 2,132 missionaries, and 1,537,074 native con verts. The ananal expense is over 85,- 500,000. Great Britain is doing more than half the work, the United States about a quarter, Germany stands next, and other countries are accredited with very little. Brethren," said a speaker, 41 when I waa a boy I took a iiataoet and went into the woods. When I found a tree that was straight, big and solid, I didn't touch that tree ; but when I found one leaning a little, and hollow inside, I soon had him down. So when the devil goes after Christians, he don't touch those that stand straight and true, but takes those that lean a little, and are hollow inside." A New Orleans merchant was induced by a woman, who told a pitiful story of poverty, to give her sl4 with which to bury her dead husband. Before giving the money heVent to thejhouse and saw a discolored corpse that he thoaglit ought to have been buried days before. In his hurry to get away from the place he forgot his umbrella. When he returned for it he found the corpse sitting np and counting the 814. Dr. Moreno and hie wife of San Fran cdsod had quarreled, and he was anxious to make up. He told her to kiss him in token of reconciliation, and she refused. He knocked her down, and commanded her again to kiss him. She still refused, and received another felling blow. He continued to beat her until she could not have kissed him if she wished, as her injuries are such that site is not ex pected to recover. Dr. Payer's opinion is that, if sys tematic returns were kept the annual number of deaths from snake bites (ex clusive of all doubtful cases) in India would be found to exceed twenty thou sand. A larger proportion of women, it seems, are bitten than men, showing that the women of the working clashes in India are busier than their lords in the fields and other-places where snakes are to be met with. Finney, the great revivalist, was pass ing an iron foundry when the works were ia full blast, and heard a workman swearing terribly. "Young man," said the revivalist, addressing the swearer, 44 how hot do you suppose hell is ?" The workman reoognioed his questioner, and placing his arms akimbo, and look ing bim squarely in the face, said : "Well, Mr. Finney, I suppose it's so hot that if somebody brought you a spoonful of melted iron you'd swear 'twas ioe cream." An ingenious fellow has invented a new way of getting his liquor. He put-) two pint bottles in his coat pocket, one full of water, the other empty. Then he goes into a saloon and asks for a pint of gin, handing out the empty bott!e. When he gets the gin be puts the bottle ia bis pocket, and tells the barkeeper to "hang it np." Barkeeper naturally objects, and demands the cash or the gin. The man reluctantly hands him the bottle of water, and goes ont mat taring about " some folks being so con founded particular."