OTW TKR SM. Oh, boat of my lover, go softly, go safely , Oh, boal of my low, that bears htm from mol From the homo* of the olachan, from the burn singing sweetly, Prom tho loch a.vt the mountain. that he'll never more et-e. Oh, boat of my lover, go eoftly. go safely ; Thou beareet my eoal with lliee over the tide. * I ae>d not a word, bnt my heart it wae break- In*. For life ie ao ehort, and the ocean eo wide Oh, boat of my lover, go eoftly, go eafely ; Though the dear voice ie silent, the kind hand is gone; But oh. love we, my lover, and I'll live till 1 find thee; 1111 our parting ie over, an * our dark days are done. Tho Ud t and Hor Lot or. THK LADY s eossirr— TWOMß. I know no: why I choee to eeeru eo cold At parting from yon for eince you are gone I eee you etill; 1 hear each word, each tone, And what 1 hid from you I eieh were told. 1 who wae proud and ahy eeetn now too boM To write there litiee -and yet mint writ*, to own I would nutty my words, now I'm alone. From my dark window out apon the world I look. 'lVae through yon pathway to the weat I watched you alowly going while the light Went with you—and a ahadow eeemed to fall Upon my heart. And uow I cannot reel Till I have written—for I eatd : " To-night I'll eend your answer." Now I've told you alt TBK LOVER'S eosxrr —wmxiotrr. I waited through the night, while eununcr blew The breath of roses through my darkened room. The ehispenng beerie juat stirred the leafy g!oom Beyond the window. On the lawn the dew Lay g isteuuig in the starlight. No one knew I did net steep, but waited here my doom Or victory. 1 saw the lighthouse loom Ac-rosr the bay. The etlenos grew and grew, And hour by hour kept pace with my suspense. Each rustling noise, each passing footstep seemed The Coming messenger 1 hoped, yet feared. At last a knock—a throb . pause intense; Tour letter cams. 1 read as if I dreamed. Aim .ss too great to teat my blue appeared. trttUtxy. WHO WAS THE COWARD? " Yon lie!" Tho speaker was Nor man Webb, a burly built, fasluo:.ably dressed young mail, who had come to college to spend his father's money, and do as little work and have as good a time as possible. The words were addressed to Allen Ward; the provi-cation being an expres sion of opinion by the latter touching a recent hazing affair planned and headed by Norman Webb. All'in'a eyes flashed, and his hand some face flushed, as with clenched flats he made a step toward his insnlter. Every fiber of him was at its utmost tension, and every nerve tingled. It would not have been well for Norman Webb, big and strong as he was, had the two euoonntered at that moment. But, as if suddenly recalling himself, Allen Stopped. " 1 repeat my words," said Norman Webb, insolently—"yon he! and more—it is not the province of a beggar to criticise the conduct of a gentle man !" ~ A tinge a* -die flush which had lett Allen's face came back at these words, but disappeared on the instant, and turning from the crowd of students, who had heard them, he walked calmly away. "The coward!" more than one mut tered. Allen Ward had a widowed mother and a sister dependent on him. At school he had won a prize scholarship which gave him his college tuition free; and by teaching in vacations, and giv ing lessons out of college hours, he was managing to scrape along till he ouuld enter ;ne profession he had set his heart on. The discipline of the institution was stricL A blow was ground for expul sion. To resent Norman Webb's insult as he felt imj>ell—l to do at the moment, he knew would lead to his prompt dis missal, and he had not the means to enter anoth- r —-liege. He thought of his m- ther and sister, and of the career he had planned. He could not afford to sacrifice all these to gratify a passing re sentment. But the effort his self-re straint cos* was little appreciated by those who ca'led him "coward." To " give the lie," at that -lay in that oommnLity, was regarded eith r a* the signal for a blow, or the precursor of a summons to deadly combat. To take it tamely was a thii-g uot to be tolerated among gentlemen. Personal difficulties had iKieome so common among the stu dent* of the —liege, that the new presi dent had determined to use th< severest measures to repress them. Among his rules was one that a blow, or other act of violence, except in strictest self-de fense, should be punished by summary expulsion. But —Liege law —ulJ uot change pub lic sentiment; and it is not prohable that Allen Ward, with all his patience, would have brooked so gross an insult from sheer motives of obedience. In deed. —uld he have foreseen all—that his former companions would shun him, and even Mabel Gray would turn away her head when they met—it msy be doubted if all restraints wouid not have failed, and Norman Webb's insult been met with quick resentment. It was plain that everybody thought Allen a —ward, Mal>el Gray among the rest, and this hurt him most. He and she had long been friends ; and he had secretly looked forward to a time when he might declare to her a sentiment more tender than that of friendship. Now, she not only turned her back upon him, but begun to tolerate theattentioc* of Noi man Webb, whom she had before slighted. One night an alarm of fire was heard in the village. Everylxxly ran in the direction of a bl-zing light which shone out against the sky. "It's Mr. Gray's house!" shouted those who first approach--1 the scene. A heartrending spectacle met the sight of tliff crowd that quickly as seml! xl. The flaine* were blazing from the r .1 ind ?mr*ting from most of the windows. Old Mr. Gray, a helpless involi 1, who had escaped from one of the 1 -wer apartment*, stood wringing hishtt!ids,a_d4>efie<'ching tho spectator-, in pit ons accents, to save his daughter, who, pale and terror stricken, leaned from the window of an np[ er chamber, whence a leap to the ground would be certain death. Men ran in search of ladders, bnt found none, and every moment made the chance of rescue still more difficult. " Mr. Webb ! Mr. Webb ! will not you save her ?" appealed the frantic father, layin - his trembling hand on Norman Webb's arm. "The attempt would be madnea?." the Litter answered; " the staircase is wrapped iu flames, and no one can reaer. that chamber save at the peril of his life." With a piercing shriek Mabel fell back fainting from the window. Norman Webb made a movement as if to eut-r the door, but re—iled at the sight of the fiery path before him, and stood aghast and helpless. His burly form was brushed aside like a feather by one who shot past, and darted np the bluzing stairway with the speed of an arrow. The daring act filled the crowd with amazement, which had not time to abate before the intrepid stranger reappeared on the burning steps, uow crumbling under his feet, b-aring in his arms the inseusible form of Mabel Gray, care fully wrapped from head to foot. His hat pulled over his face, partly shielded it from the sheet of flame through which, amid en—ursgjng shouts, he on— more for—d his way, and a wild cry of exnl-1 tatiou rose when Mabel was safely pla—6 in her father's arms. Then nam tiiree times three of the wildest cheers i "FRED. KURTZ, Editor and 1 ropriotor. VOLUME I\. for Allen Ward, when the stranger raised his hat and revealed Ins scared and blis tered face. " Who is the coward now I" he ex claimed, as he suuk exhausted to the ground. No one ever called him that name again; and Mabel, we are sure, never thought Ilia face lent handsome for the soars it bore on her account, l.xhjr r. hat a Man Suffered. The Fond du Lai' (Wis.) (bwwoa eralth says : A uvea named Holland, Living out ou the (.huts farm, was attack ed witli a severe tc uhache the other evening, and thought his head watild split open. He would sit down for a moment, holding his face in one of his bands, and groan. Then he would jump up and pace the floor, and kick at some thing that hapjiened to lie in his course, and then sit down and groan some more. It was a bail case. Everybody in the house- was made miserable by the man's sufferings and lamentations. He tried holding alum and salt in his mouth, and binding horseradish leaves on the out side of his jaw, but they did no good. Finally romebodv ame across a recipe IK-ok, and therein was a balm for every ill. In two iniuutes a recipe was select ed and a courier dispatched with it to a drug store in the city to have it " put up.' He returned in due time, and a doae of the compound, which contained among other ingredients liberal quanti ties of ether and chloroform, was ad ministered. Presently the toothache was relieved and the patient felt him self gradually being overpowered by sleep. The suspiciou all at once crossed his mind that he had been poisoued. He became greatly alarmed, and ajq-eal ed to those present, in a frenzy of des peration. to save him from his impend ing fate. A doctor was immediately sent for, and while the messenger was gone the alarm was oommumcaU-d to the neighbors. One of the men seized a j-ail and rushed out into the | toll of new milk, raw eggs, lard, o>floe, and salt water, that he c uid scarcely ar ticulate, "a n't it poison, doctor?" "Well, no ; not exactly; and yet, a quart or two of it might kill a man—or it might not—it would depend a good deal on his oouditiou. A man of your health and constitution could easily get away with a charnful of it." The California Madam;. Speaking of the mustang race in New- York and the sympathy felt for the ani mala, a l*te California paper says: The man who undertake* to ride thirty five California mustangs, jumping from sad die to saddle, must be either a prof-* sional vaquero or a petrified po*t ln>y of the olden time. But when wo —nk tn plate the mushing us an object of com passion and humanity, it i* impossible to repress a sardonic grin. The army mule is a perfect Chesterfield of an ani mal in mpanson with the native Cali fornia mustang. It was the mustang that invented tho noble art of backing. We are aware that the army mule ha* experimented in that direction, bnt no other animal but the California mustang ever canst* 1 his rider to describe a para bolic curve of the same extent. Nor can the man who has not been bucked by a California mustang at all —n—ive the process. Tim victim, while under going it, would infinitely prefer being delivered to a Hyreaumn tiger or a Lernean hydra, or a Numidian lion for immediate mastication, and when the operation is completed, aud by a merci •ul dispensation of fate he is landed upon the crown of his head in the near est pile of road metal, with a dislocated spinal column an-1 a pang in < very nerve, muscle, sinew and bone, he re gards the author of his wo- s with a hor ror a d a detestation far surpassing the emotion that would IHI evoked by con templation of the most forbidding ante diluvian Saurian Prof. Owen ever re vived for the satisfaction of the curious. If Mr. B- rgh had taken it into his IK>- nevolent bead to espouse the cause of the persecuted grizzly or the friendless rattlesnake, we coold have descried some gleam of reason in hi* —ndnct; but the humanitarian who g-K-sont of his way to protect the California tnn-tang is throw ing sympathy away. The Suez ( anal. M. De Lesseps ha* returned from liis five months' trip to Egypt. He ha* as certained that Port Said is not likely to be filled in with sand, a* predicted, the work done by the dredging machines last year lieing still open. Iu winter, when the Bitter lakes are full, a tide sets into the canal, which turns tho current toward the Mediterranean. In summer, when the level of tho lakes has lieen lowered by evaporation, the current turns in the opposite direction. For merly rain wa* unknown ou this part of the Red sea, bnt since the building of the canal showers have fallen regularly about onoe a fortnight. The result has lieen to start vegetation up, even on the Asiatic side, in the most wonderful man ner. Civilization, therefore, changes the climate as well as the face of the country, aud if things go on ON they have begun, the sands of the isthmus will be covered with forests in another fifty years. An Original Marriage Notice. Dr. Wise, editor of the Cincinnati Israelite, announces bis own marriage in the form of a mock advertisement of a life copartnership. The agreement is that the firm sliaJi be dissolved three days after death ; that the doctor shall deliver all the public sermons, and the lady all the private ones ; the profits or losses shall bo shared equally ; and that no papers shall be accepted or indorsed, especially no love letters, except by mutual knowledge and expreea consent, THE CENTRE REPORTER. T GOSSIPY LETTER. Illai* far -iiimiri. 1 l.iilu* ihr C'eatsaaUl ..t fcntt|lM t lie lr I leMfcr--Tbc • I lint*-- Meeting IIM Irqunlntutti rs" IfIMN In ihr hlnln HMtNthfl. Kir. KilKtti TO HTKANHtUH, A few directions to a stranger coming to the t'eiitenuud are given by the 11'r ititl ocirrea|oudent, who says: A |*>r feet stranger IU the city aud one not used to traveling cannot probably do >etter thai- to buy one of the Lodging Hons*- Agency tickets, either for Imlgiug at $1.25, or one at $2.50 giving two meals, and then, before going into the Exhibition, to "look around," one should take time to make his inquiries, going from out- boarduig house to an other, and a place will *oou IK- found at reasonable rates. Tin* In st locality to stacreh, in view of the fact that one would naturally like to lie in the city, is ta-tweeu Twentieth ami Sixth streets, with Chestnut street iu the center pay ing no attention to this strt-et, for price* on it are everywhere dear. One ginnl way is to take a room, aud single rooms well furnished can, at this time, IK- had iu abundance at SI a week. Two going together will pv about $0 a week, and often there will be two beds in the room. Meals are to bo had at t-atiug houses at a cost not exceeding sti to $? a week. Some eating houses engage to furnish two meals a day at $5 a week, but their bill of fare is not varied. The beat way, however, for home people is to seek regular board, as the food is I letter cooked and it gives better satis faction—indeed it is more lualtbful. Thus, by taking a little time and looking sharp, one will be able to see the show at the lowest possible rate. It WHS sup posed, the correspondent says, that what is called the "lirauger Encamp ment " would supply the want indicated, that is, of supplying accommodations, not to exceed $l5O per day, but now it is reported that the terms will not la less than $"2 a day, which is decidedly unsatisfactory. CHANGED TH EI it CLOTHES. It will lie remembered that one of the chief attractions at former exhibitions was the many colored dresses of the hundred and oue different tribes, sects, and people who were for tho time as sembled together. Of course no oue imagined that such a display of what is called national costumes would tie made at Philadelphia. Still it was ouly rea souable to suppose that an occasional Austrian mountaineer, French officer, or Eastern diguitarv would enliven the scene by his peculiar dress or uniform. It is to la- much regretted that they do nothing of the kind. On the opening day a large number of Turks, Japanese, Chinese, Spaniards, and Germans ap peared in the costumes worn by their countrymen, and, as lias been already announced to the credit of the somewhat mixed crowd tliat thronged Fairmount park on the tenth of May, they wore treat**! while in the grouuds with the utm-ist RESJKVT IUUI courtesy. Of course the Turks and Egyptians were stared at, bnt they were no: made to feel out of place or uncomfortable. On the stri-ets, however, after the opening ceremonies, it appears that their treatment was very different. They were followed by large crowds of idle lioys and men. who boot ed and shouted at them a* if they hu I la-en animals of a strange sjieci- s iu stead of visitors who were entitled ouly to the most courteous attention. 1: is known that in at least one case the silkeu robes of a Chinese official wt-r • nearly torn from his Imck by some ni ilicioun person. Because of this kind of treat ment all the Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, •ind Egyptcommissions and attend in Is have alNindom-J th<- striking dress if their native countries, and with but few exceptions have made themselves uncomfortable and unattractive by ap ■ tearing in the conventional coat, vest, ind tron-er* of " the gr- at Yankee na ti.-n." The Japanese take remarkably well to their new dress, and api-car to be quite at home in the high silk hats which they almost invariably wear, but the Chinese seem to be out of their element. THK DISPLAY OF HATS. It has usually bee-i admitted, says a N-w York Tim** correspondent, that all the queer shajK-d high hats in New York make their appearance on St Patrick's day. The displav which is made on the seventeenth of March, however, is nt a circumstance to the truly remarkable "xhihit of high crowns, low crowns, nnr row brims and broad brims, which is now being made in Fairmonnt park. From the depths of many a box and clowt in the monntai.is of Tennessee or the prairies of the West these wonderful specimens of bead covering have lieen exhumed, and now, brushed aud polish ed until they shine again, they arc made to do duty in new and strange places. But even more different and ptculiar than the hats are the men who wear them. They come, as I have already stated, from all parts of tho Union, and although they are clad iu no nationnl oostnme, they bear the mark of their various sections of country stamjH-d plainly upon their faces and in their manner. And still they are all Ameri cans ; they have all come hundreds, some thousands, of miles to tie present at the nation's Centennial, and though they live far apart and appear in coats whoso cut and fashion differ as much as do Hungarian jackets from French blouses, they are all animated tiy one feeling. MEETING OLD ACQrAINTANCES. We are told by a correspondent that it is a frequent occurrence for old friend* who have not men each other for years to meet on the Centennial grounds. A jiarty of farmers—all strangers—wore discussing the merits of a machine in Agricultural hall, wheu one of them, a jolly faced little old fellow, dressed in a blue coat, buttoned up to his chin, nod tliug to his ueighlsir in a friendly way, and smiling pleasantly, said: "Well now, that's not bad, bnt would you be lieve it, I have on my place a well post that has stood for nigh on eighty years, and is just as sound as new oak?" " Well uow, that is 'mnrkuble," said the Western man. " Yes," continued he of the blue coat, " but the funniest thiug about that post is that the top of it is alive ami has branches springing from it in sll directions." While he was telling this apparently simple little story, I no ticed that the wife of the Western man regarded him with au earnestness which was altogether out of proportion to the interest of the narrative. As he con cluded, she asked him: "Where lie you from, sir?" "From New Jersey, mam," was the reply. "And is your name Sam 8., questioned the lady. "Merey me, of course it is, and who are yon ? exclaimed the little man. " Mary Ann T., that used to lie," re plied she, and then the little New Jersey farmer put his arm around the neck of that little Western woman and kissed her as if ho meant it. Then tho pair ex plained to the good humored but some what astonished husband that Ham was a cousin, and had lieen au old playfellow of Mary Ann, " and," said she, "I knew it must bo you the minute you told about that old pump post with the branches." Then the whole party went off together, telling each other of the strange things that had happened to them during the many years they had been separated. CENTRE 11A1.1,, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 187U the moss with a deadly wound in its side slid a terrible gash across the neck. It almost human eyes lis-k ap|K night it might come to j-ass that Bruin would 1-KK- his b-miK-r, and that Wild Bill might eti.l -l-'uly fln-1 himself seriously iu IIK--1 c-f a won- formidable weapou thiui a tin bowie knife, while the audience would yell and cheer ami smoko their cigars, and wonder " how they can make that seem like real blooii loroiug the growth of po tatoes by means of steam pi;—* under the ground, an-1 has succeeded in forc ing a growth of fifteen inches high in two weeks from -late of planting. The potatoes, however, have always turned out small in mparison to the vine. This is a new idea, but the practicability of fo? cing v- getable* by electricity -lat— Iwick a* far as IH4I, when a Mr. Pell, of Hyde Park, ou the Hudson river, forced the growth of tomatoes so that in a week from tho -late of planting the pLinte liore small ripe tomat>rate-l, ami, like the nests in -litaib-d, it was of usheu color. Home of the insects *till remained in the cells. They seemed to be of a whitish color and were encased in a shell like Hula-taiice an inch in length; their heads were sha|>ed like s |XHI auger, as if intended by nature to IK- great bores. In the case of a vessel in the dock they had completely j>erf<-rated the outer Hheathmg or planking of the hull, the place of the eutrauce lieilig small aud needle like, until they reached the framework of h-avy trees, wheu they turned hack and oouliuued their work of det-tructi-iu. The holes they make in crease in size from that of a pin's point to an ajK-rturethat a man's thumb would uot fill. While the reporter aas examining the wood a venerably ear|M-uter with adze in hand joined him and said: "1 will give you a bit of information about these worms that not many people kuow. You see this wood is punctured right up to a hair's width of the place it joins au other plauk. Now the worms never cross a crock, aiul you see they have gone right through the outer plauking, but thev have not touched the frame or the Ceiling of tho bark; if they had, you never would have seen her on the dry dock here." A well known *|>ar manufacturer and shipwright joined the group and added his valuable information. He said in effect : " Aspiuwall is considered by shipmasters and owners to be a very wormy port; I have heard of vessels that have only laid there for the q-ooe of six wt-ek* to sink at their anchorage. There is a marine copper paint that sometimes acts well as a defense against these de stroyers, but about the ouly sure refuge is metal f-lu-athilig. I have sent Veaaels In-fore uow on a ten mouths' voyage to liio Janeiro aud they have oorne back aith their hulls sotiu-1 and clean, and have sent others down to Texas and their bottom* have boon fairly eatcu out by the worms." Coal tar ami other coverings for hulls hsve la-en tried, but the only sure de fense a-ems to be metal. There is a oom|K>Hitiou now very generally used in stead of exclusive copper; it is inaiuly composed of spell, tiu and copin-r. The worms are even found in New York har bor, but th- y do uot usually do as much damage, 'lher will bore until they reach a crack or -earn which is made by the joining of plank.*, and will not cross it. An Experiment in Co-operatliVn. In 1M72, says Chaa. Barnard, iu Srrift nrr' M'tntKJ.w, a Urge manufacturing firm in New York called its workmen together, ami announced that after a certain date everv man would receive over and above hta wage* a share in the profit* of the business, IK- they more or leas, according to the aab*. The men n<—-iv*l the KtaU-mcut with incredulity ami r- turn >1 to their work. Six mouths i-at—ed, ami the firm anuoun—vl that it luad $4,000 t> divide among the men iu proportion to their wag--*. The itutne diate result of the actual division of the moucy uas gratifying to all concerned. The men r- *umsi work with remarkable animation and industry. Evrry one IK-- came jealous of his neighbor's work, - very one became his fellow's overseer. No idleness now, no " one liauded work," no shirking ami dilstorv piw lighting, no guards to watch {or tin* foreman, no waste of material and tune. Never before had ao much w-.rk lax n performed in a -lay; never had such skill, economy, aptitu-le and intelligence IKK-U sliowu at tlie Ix-m-ho*, ami u--vcr had better giMals la-en uia-lc. The men w- re apparently *ati*tl—l, and th<- firm was more tlnui >m|>eiisaD-.l for th<- (-nwHii outlay by the improved quality of the goods. Several month* passed, and the lion*-- annouu—xl that in a few week* it would have a surplus of t<-n thou-vaud dollars to divide among the workmen. Suddenly led away by some epidemic of unreason, the men struck for a reduction of time t eight hours. The proprietors would not consent to this, and as a consequence for two week* the shops were closed. In vain were the men shown the money coming to them; in vain wa* it demoiistraUsl that they were making more money tliau men in the same line in other shops. They per*i*t—l in the strike till they could hold out no longer, ami then resumed work as la-fore. The firm declined to proceed further with the 00-mK-rative experiment, and what had been lair with promise was thus brought to a disas trous end. YMtiug a Ka-hioiiahle Church, Home years ago. being in Philadel phia, John CocknriU, of Ohio, received au iutnnluction to a prominent diviueof that city. The reverend geutleman iu vited John to attend his church ou a certain Huuday, which invitation was accepted. They entered the sacred edifice to gether. It was one of the first churches in the city, ami its members were fash ionable and aristocratic iu the extreme. The minister put John in an elaborately furnished pew, well to the front. John nestled comfortably down into one cor ner of the same, and looked aliout as in teresting and contented as a toad under a cabbage leaf. After a while the owner of the pew ar rived, and at onoe gave Rigtia of intense disgust ami indignation at the presenoo of the interloper. He looked nt Johu, looked at the pew, scowled magnificent ly, and finally, after fumbling through his pockets some time, drew forth a card and wrote on it with a pencil: "This is my seat, air I" and, with an air of the loftiest contempt, tossed it over to John. The latUr took it up, read it with lamb-like meekness jx-culiar to him self, and then, with the most delightful coolness, wrote in reply: "It's a very good seat! What rent do you pay?" and tossed the card liack to its owner. The latter took it, looked at it with the most profound astonishment a minute or two, and then a broad griu overspread his countenance. Ho evidently enjoyed the sublime brass and coolness of hi* new acquaint ance, and when service was over he ap proached John, apologized for his itido uess, invited him to his house, gave him the best lie had, ami treated hun with the utmost respect and consideration during his sojourn in the city. What a Penny Did. About o year ago h young girl reaid ing in the town of Villowood, Ont., swal lowed a penny. No unpleasant result* wore experienced until several months ago, when nh was attacked at times with violent pains in her stomach. Phy sicians were called but they were unable to afford her any relief, and for some time she has been failing rapidly, aud it is thought she cannot survive long. For three weeks or more she has taken no nourishment that she oould retain. Her mouth, she says, tastes just like a penny, uud the saliva from the stomach is of a greenish color and strongly impreg nated witli the smell of copper. About the only thing that she has relished is a lemon. UNRAVELING A MYSTERY. n-rdiri tf Mmii I run t| Hraaabl Is lllkl l.al.urr llr'a I .111. la ibr IVmO l)tM|i|iursarr ml lbs C.allr ml a Mlval. lu 171K) Hir William l'ultney having placed in the market his vast aions iu which is now Mrulw-u county, N. Y., hundreds of immigrants from the Foist flocked to the section to take Up land. One mute to the I'ill tin y Patent l-asaed through Pcuuaylvauia, and the old ruined road near Kuowland was a part of the route. About that time a Frenchman named Pierre Latourette built a log cabin in the above rood, two miles west of Kuow lsud. in his employ was auother Frenchman called I'epow, and his wife. The 1-KWtion of the tavern was such that it Ix-oaine a favorite stopping place for immigrants. Lstlourrttr was au old French soldier, aud hia disposition was such that he was very unpopular with his guests. He hail not la-en long in this tsvern before stories of an ugly na ture became current among the immi grants. Many of them were robbed at the Frenchman's of money and valu übles. Cattle left in his iuciusure at night would be missing iu the morning, and could not be found until the owner paid Lsitourette fur looking them up, he claiming that they had escaped and were roaming in the woods. It was also alleged that men stopping at the tavern had mvHterioualy disappeared, aud were uever Lear-1 of afterward. Home months after the Frenchman put UD hia inn, a man named Vail, with his wife aud two children, were among a party of immigrants on their way to the I'txltney projK-rty. Noticing that the Frenchman was a grinding landlord, and only patronized from necessity, he ouu ceived the idea of building a house near by, ou the road, for the accommodation of immigrants. He secured some laud about three quarters of a mile fur ther west, and ereeted a tavern. This took nearly all of the Frenchman's business away. Three mouths afterward there was a temporary lull iu the travel. The tide soon started up again, and one night a j-arty stopped at Yail'a, but found the house closed. Returning to Latourettr's, the immigrants were told that Vail had become tired of keeping tavern, aud had gone toHtcuben county. Nothing was ever seen or heard of Yail or his family afterward, however, and it wan generally l* lt-v-d that La tourette had murdered Yail and his family and pillaged the house. Latou rette remaiued in the tavern uutil immi gration had almost ceased, aud grew rich. Pepow died on the place, and hut wife oouLnued to live with Lsttou rettc. At the breaking out of the war of INI'J Latourette sold his proiierty, and departed iu c-'tnj-any with his late assist ant's wife. The old log tavern was de molished Year* ago, and the site is now occupied f-y a farmhouse. The above reminiscence of nearly a century ago have been recalled l-y a startling Uisoov- rv made a tew -Isy* sines*. A hooppofe cutter uatr.- l Hoff was walkiug in the WIKKIS ntKint two mile* from the rite of the old Litotir- tu taveru. Iu cb-ariug away a thicket at the fiK>t of a l—lgeof rocks h - came U|KUI a large fiat atone standing np on its edge against the neb. Out of idle cu riosity he pri*d it over, and wo* *ur pria- d to *•■: thst it haoH-d to court retirement, but ou one occasion, wheu ou a visit to Columbia, ho Attended a military re view on horsoh. ck, wheu his distin guished and soldierly Waring attracted much attention. The story goes thst some French travelers, who were in the town at the time, declared most jKsi tively that it could bo no*other thou Marshal Ney. This gentleman, more over, always Wtrnvod a marked interest in every item of news connected with Napoleon iu his exile, and one day, sit ting 4u his qniet schoolroom reading a newspaper which he had just obtained, ho suddenly dropped from hia chair iu a HWOOU. Tim paper ou Wiug examined was found to contain the news of Bona parte's death. A Sudden Death. What they call a sudden death in Minnesota may be inferred from this paragraph from the Winona Republican': Frederick I'enser, one of the oldest citi zens of New Ulm, died very suddenly one Hnrnlay morning recently, from the effects of a gunshot wound reoeived on the memorable nineteenth of August, 1863, when the Sioux Indians made their aiteek en that place. TKHMB: Svi.OO a Yoor, in Advance. The Death I'malty. Samuel J. FR at was etecuted at the county jail in WoroeaU r, Mass. . for the mur-ler of his wife'a brother, Franklin I'. Towns. The murder was committed ! ou Huuday, July 4, 1H75, iu the bam on the farm owned by Towue. After com milting the -LEE-i Front went to the house and assinte-1 hia wife to get the children, four in number, ready for church. After they hail left the house he returned and buried the body under the baru. Several tunes after this he removed the body, cutting it into pieosa. At HIE execution, as soon as Frost was seated upon the fatal platform, Hev. Mr. latins- >U offered a short prayer. IM mediately at it* cluae the sheriff read the -leath warrant, and when he had uttered the dosing words pressed firmly upon the spring, releasing the drop. Frost had risen from hi* chair wheu the read ing of the warrant was begun, and the deputy sheriff behind him had fastened the strap* around hi* LEGS and arm*, aud L-efore the reading was finished had shut out the light from him forever bv drawing the black cap over hia head. There was uot au instant's delay, and less time than fire minute* had passed between the time the doomed man took hi* first step upon the gallows stair* and that in which his body was thrown down ward by the release of the drop. The drop fell with hardly an audible sound, and the light body of the murderer brought THE rope to a strong tension. The first thrill of a all u-lder had not run through the more sensitive of the spec latum when the body was seen spinning at the end of the rope, almost headless, S fearful tear extending over the trout of the throat, aud the blood gushing out iu streams. Every eye was riveted on the startling aud unexpected spectacle a* the body turned round, first discios ing and then concealing this gash. The blood, forced upward by the arterial movements, spurted fountain-like upward from one to two feet, the stream falling to the floor in a circle round the hang ing body. This circle extended even to the framework of the gallows, which was in many places sprinkled with the blood. The welling life-ulood poured from the wound down the front of the body and trickled from th% feet, forming a pool directly beneath the body. This recital doubtless seems full of horrors, but it falls far short of the realities of the scene. For some two minutes the arterial guabiugs of blood continued, and the slow dripping of the blood from the body continued S little longer. Physicians then stepped under the gal low* and made their examination of the body. The knot of the ropa had been placed tiehiud Frost's left ear, almost at the —-liter of the neck. Frost was a mac of no - special muscular development, and though be weighed but one hun dred and twenty pounds, the drop was enough uot ouly to break his m-ck, but to sever the spinal column entirely, leaving the body hanging by the iu tegument* of the rear portion only. The body was allowed to hang a few minutes after the examination by the doctors, when it was lowered and carried from beneath t' v gallows. In twelve minutes from the ari>arauf au im-vmvible doom, the ;>*K*agc on ward through massive doors that swing heavily close behind bim, till be finds hunr-elf nt length in his little room, closed with s grat—l door and fastened with a massive bar and lock, iu wliat seems to him a felon's oell, must power fully affect the vivid imagination of the young, no matter how hardened he may lie, aud tend to break down pride of character and self respect. The boy un der such circumstances must feel that the world has turned its tmck upon him; that he ha* lost all ; that every man's hand is against him, and thst hence forth his hand mu*t be against every man. The shock once over, and the mind of the boy accustomed to the terri ble ordeal, what dread lias Auburn or Hing Sing for him ? It is believed that a large proportion of the boy* commit ted to reformatories do no. require these forbidding restraints, and that some different and milder treatmeutcombining in some way the family system should l-e adopted for a large claaa of juvenile de linquents now being sent to the hotines of refuge. If under this method they IK- still found iu—wrigible, they might then be transferred to a more secure place and be put under stricter disci pline. It is thought, however, that if the experiment was onoe tried very few would need to be so transferred. At the Centennial. The following are the days fixed for the agricultural exhibit* at the Centen nial : StrawWrries, .Tune 7th to 15th. Early gros* butter and cheese, June 13th to 17th. Early summer vegetables, June 20th to 24th. Honey, Jnue '2oth to 24th. Baspberrii-s and blackberries, July 3d to Bth. Southern pomnlogiaal products, July 18th to 22d. Melons, Aug. 22d to 20th. Peaches, Sept. 4th to 9th. North ern pomological products, Sept. 11th to 13th. Autumnal vegetables, Sept. 19th to '23 d. Cereals, Sept. 25th to 30th. Potato--a and feeding roots, Oct. 2d to 7tli. Grapes, Oct. Bth to lrtth. Autumn butter and cheese, Oct. 17th to 21st. Nuts, Oct. 23d t.) Nov. Ist. Autumn honey siid wax, Oct '23 d to Nov. Ist. Applications for entry should be ad dressed to Burnet Isindreth, chief of the bureau of agriculture. Dairy products are to W shown on Wednesday of each week. The field trials of mowing ma chine*, tedder and hay rake* will take plaee on ground near Schenck's station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, Wtween Philadelphia and Trenton, from Juno 15th to 30th, and the trials of reapers from July sth to 15th. The bureau of ngricnlturo offer the following prizes : First Wst cow, $250; second Wst cow, SIOO. For first Wst herd, S3OO. The scale of poiuts to W adopted by the cl ib is founded n]>on that of the Royal Jersey Society. Forgot Something. There was a lawsuit lately which called iu a score of people. It origi nated from the sale of a horse, aud the defendant's wife was one of the wit nesses, or rather made a statement under oath. She testified thus aud so, and left the stand. Several other witnesses had been eworn, when, all of a sudden, sho asked to lie readied, telling the lawyer that she had neglected oil im portant portion of testimony. She took the stand, and he said : " Well, Mrs. , you can tell the jury anything further you have bearing on this cast)." "Well, what I wonted to say," she bluntly replied, "is that tho complain ant's wife has the reputation of wearing false teeth and doing her hair up in pa pers to make it ourl I I forgot to re fer to it when I was np here before." NUMBER 25. THE EXHIBITION. A BM'bll* %'l.w ml lb. Nil* IiIMIm Tb. rmmmrmmm trmm lb. Nat. aa* Trma- MtfHU The Exhibition spreads it* leaves and blossoms like a lilac, showing every day something new under the aun. AM a lgeaut >t Iwmomas more and more at tractive. To day, aaya a World letter, the interior of the Main building, ring itig with music and gay with trophies, present* from any point along the nave a gorgeoua and exhilarating eight. The colored arch way. and pavilion* but mounted by heraldic blazonry of the different nations, and thaaialea on every aide hemmed in by various product* of beauty and of uae, are animated by con siderably more than the usual number of visitors. The floors, except where occupied by packing boxes and exhibits in course of preparation, are swept cleaner than ever heretofore, and all looks bright, bewildering and fair. The troll through this immense building from end to end is, if one does not physically exhsuat himself by un profitable side way excumona, still likely enough to fatigue his powers of obaervs lion and memory, and irritate or dull the edges of his tastes. Happy the man wboeeanowtedge or conceit or instinct enables him to pass by the vast mass of things which he perocivea to ha on worthy, and to occupy himaetf only with those objects here which denote on the instant the fullest, ripest development of the industries of thirty nations. Otherwise the resources of his own country even will oppress him so that when he has passed them in review he will be as dazed as an oar! at noon. The universal Yankee nation triumphs over everv other in its extent and m tiiity. ami in nonut respect* in ita skill Its display of silverware, of household furniture, of colored and tinted marble*, of arm*, metala, must eel instrument*, minerals and cotton fabrics, ia superior to that from any foreign country. Some American carpets, too, and imitation laoea hold their own contrasted with their respective grades in England. Everywhere along the left for what seems a quarterof a mile until they reach the transept, the suooeesea and failures, the genu and the oddities of the United States exhibition keep people staring with eyes mostly fish like, bat occasion ally admiring or detective. In contrast to the perfumeries that vainly seek to rival the soentt of Cologne and the tapc&tries which show their sharp hues and sheen in oases which none bat the judges and a few intending purchasers are likely to compare with the magnifi cent modern tapestry work in the Span ish paviilion—besides these and many other showy bat inferior American pro ducts there are things of excellent merit in the form of jewelry, bijouterie, soar*, toys, "magic lounges," mirrura, and a thousand or two articles else. The show of hooks and bindings is not what might have been expected. That of iron and granite is superb. While there is no iron in America like the Swedish (which can be twisted, cold, into ropes and cables), some of our processes render iron sufficiently malleable. And here, in piles of rails and pyramid* towering near to the ceiling, its uses, and those of steel, brae* and copper, are expressed to the admiration even of some of oar British cousins. Of sargiaal instru ments, and surgical applications affixed to models and shining with silver, pol ished steel and flue embroidery, there ia an exhibition which might reoonctle a belle in the dancing season to a broken limb, and which a surgeon who baa gone through the building tell* me outrank* in merit anything of its kind from the other countries. To the right the panorama of Mexico, the NrUn-rianda, Brazil, Belgium. Switz erland and France and her colonies ap pea-a. Glimpses of the costumes, fab rics, mineral*, vegetable products and models of the architecture of the turbo lent but rich and advancing repnblk- on our Southern border; of the great maps of Holland and its dykes, which conceal the further illustrations of its industries; of the Belgium exhibit in chaos, and of the unique Swiss woodwork and other ornamental work, constantly engage and occasionally enchant the eye. The French exhibition arrest* it, and it is difficult for any one to pass through this comparatively epbermexal display with out yielding to the seductive demands it makes on the attention. Leaving out of view for the present tboae articles of legitimate use and luxury in the manu facture of which the French are without peers, some of the objects here net forth satirize most shockingly the taste of some of our leaders of fashion. There are dresses here that would make a Fifth avenue matron stare with horror, hosiery which she would order off her daugh ter's feet if she ever caught it on them, and gloves which she would fling into the grate or withal gratify her wash woman. Of the splendor of the silks and laces; the rich carpets; the sets, vases and jewelry of silver and gold; the inimitable trinkets; and at last the costly bronzes of the French exhibition, some dazzling apeearaaoes are caught as yon approach the grand circle under the central pavilion of the building. Round about at the four angles of the Eavilion are the advance ornamental ex ibition* of the United States, Ger many. Groat Britain and Frano,-. The matchless silver array from Tiffany's and the Gorham manufacturing com pany's, the Konigl Porzelhui manufac turer's highly creditable collection of German porcelain, and Elkingtcn A Co.'* exhibition of silver and gold, com plement the Paris bronzes which flank the mantelpiece of Merehard. To the loft again the glittering Aus trian and Hungarian spoctaole appears, lleyond that a few Russian goods (the Russian articles have not hay arrived) signify the beauties of the promised Russian exhibition iu the combination of marbles. jasper*, chalcedonies, lapis lazuli aud other stones used iu the fabri cation of vases for which the visitor must seek some distance back. The gloomy and rather tawdry inclosnre of the Spanish exhibition; the partially oc cupied space of Turkey; Egypt's show of heavy and vivid Oriental stuffs and objects of antiquity; the bright portal of the pavilion of Denmark; the exhibition of Swedish arms aud warlike effigies, aud the magnificent exhibition of the empire of Japan, all pass in rerfew still to the left. China and Chili next, and opposite these Sweden and Norway. As the thunder clouds shut out the light and the rain now begins to descend in torrents—cooling and even chilling the draught that sweeps through the great western dx>rway—the sight of the rare furs from Greenland and the robes of eider down from far Sweden is delight ful to the gathering crowd of ladies, who are oalling for their shawls and um brellas, and who almost pity the vaguely detlncd bronze figures which appear in the shadowy front of the Italian exhibi tion, unprotected again it the waft of the storm. A Long Imtjusonmxnt.—A man was lately released from Ludlow street jail, New York, where he had been oonflned for six years for debt. He looked thirty years older when he came out than when he went in. A merchant went home the other night and said cheerfully to his wife; " Well, iny dear. I've failed at last." " Oh, that's gd I" exclaimed the wife, with a radiant face; " now we can go to the Centennial, sure." A Bale far Preaching. Btgin low j Oe on stow | Ms* higher. And tab. firs; When most imprssstd. Bs aalfopeesamad , At th. sad wax warm. And sit down la a storm. Items of Interest, " The Oreat Unknown "—The mer chant who doesn't advertise. , A disbansßi grocer tine bean lying n weight for s customer. There are thousands of patents to facilitate ialior, but few to facilitate reel. Of the 311,000 persons employed in watchmaking in Switzerland, one-third are women. Moses L. Hwilt, of Reno, Nevada, has been granted a divorce from his wife on account of her ** mental cruelty." The manner in which William Penn obtained land from the Indian bureau is abont to be investigated. The Norristown Herald thinks they aall it insurance because the company is in, sure, if anything happens. A Halt Lake Oiiv paper assert* that the recent gunpowder explosion caused one hundred premature births. It is a fact of much significance that Japan has adopted the first day of the week—the Christian Sunday—as a day of rest. It has been figured out that the aver age American is worth §350. It ia there fore something to be an average man in this country. A medical journal states that a pebble carried in the mouth excites the ealivary glands to act with such energy that thirst is not felt There ia s time when a man gladly gets a pail of water or an armful ofwood for a woman. It is when he is a boy, and ahe ia a teacher. A young Philedelphiau, threatened with a breach of promise suit, says: " Hoe away. Contracts made on Hun day ain't legal-" Mistrust the man who finds every thing good, the man who finds even-thing evil, and Mill more, the man who is in different to everything. •' Madam," aaid a gentleman to his wife, " let me tell you, facte are very stubborn thing*." " What * fact yon must be," quoth the lady. A giri waa asked by a very thin man tf she dida't think nhe could learn to love him, "I might if yon was Stuffed " was the laughing reply. A number of American girls in Call foruia have married Chinamen. They get husband* who ate economical house keeper* and willing to do their own mW. Patient (to doctors after oonsaltation( —" Tell me the worst, am I going to die f" "We are divided on that ques tion, air ; bat there to a majority of one thai yon will live." Bingte drees skirts, more or lean trimmed, are worn by many ladies; some times these are quite plain, particularly if the material employed ia rich and handsome. An egg condensing factory has been established at Pasaan, Bavaria, wherein the eggs are dried and then reduced to a fine meal, which i* packed in air-tight cans, ready for shipment A city ordinance in ban Fraflcisoo for bid* ale* ping in a room contain n g leaa ♦ 500 cubic feet of air to each occu pant. Twelve Chinamen were arm ted some time ago fox violating it Annie Starch, aged thirteen, of Ki ni erville, N. J., found a rusty revolver ia a barn and rapped it on a atone to km -ck off dirt that had accumulated on it. ihe charge went off and killed her. Child—" Papa, Mr. Winkle thai died went to heaven, didn't he—be taught in the Sunday school?" Papa-" We will drop that subject, my child, Mr. Winkle waspnwidentof agasoccq any." We reed about a laoiviUe gent !■ man who took hia wife to the rink, and be cause of her want of skill became enraged and at the top of his voice oall. d her "an old bow-legged kangario on akeeta." It {)peu that Britain ha* already had an empreas named Victoria. She lived A. D. *7O, was the wile of Bono- SON, and contemporary with Zen obi*, being called the Empress of the West in contradistinction to Zeoobia' title of Empress of the East. * The Albany Journal aaya, anonl the Philadelphia Exposition: Ma-eachu aetta shines conspicuous among the States represented in Machinery haii; no other State baa anything like her Tariety of manufacturing machines—special ma chines for special work. An English officer who recently tried to get a drrorc- from his frivolous wife only succeeded in drawing from the judge a lecture on feminine flirtation. Hie honor remarked that there had of late roars been an alarming increase of this silliness among siren. The people of Akron, Ohio, are hurry ing up as much as possible to get their new lunatic asylum completed. A grand " musical festival " will be inau gurated there, in which twenty-five brass bands are expected to take part, all contending foe prises amounting to $350. We witneeeed a touching scene the other day. A fufl grown, healthy look ing married man waa going towards the suburbs with a base bail club over his shoulder, and, in a few minutes there after, while passing his house, we no ticed his wife sawing wood in tbe (mm* yard. An intelligent foreigner, passing through the street* of Philadelehu, took out his note book at the end of a long walk, and made a little memorandum to the effect that " eighty-nine per centum of the population of Philadelphia • members of the powerftu *—— - f Roomstolek" Some one writing for an Enguaa pa per a description of the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia says that Bel mont avenue divides them into two aones, the "temperate" and the "in temperate." On one side are all the fountains and the lake; on the other are the restaurants. A St. Joeeph man, one year marrtoe, says there is a great deal in the expres sion of a back comb to denote the state of the domestic atmosphere. When his wife's oomb nestles quietly in its proper place, all is well with him, but when it is lifted and leans forward, he says: " Look out for squalls." (Pleasant for George, who is enter taining "the governor" with the latest college gossip. ) Pater.— "Now, George, this is all very well about the foot-ball, tlio prospects of the cr jw, and the iwt of it; now suppose you let us knowalw* t the Greek and Latin, and this sffcutrX • we will go over all your bills." Years ago, before dams and mi kief | - stneted the shad on their passage > [> the Merrimac, spring found tire S* waters full of these ilah. They ® caught by the cartload and used If * ® farmers for manure. The old rule " A shail to a hill of corn." llf &K - etituted the phosplmte of the earfy da%* • A centennial incident: " An* Iwmiir might a square be?" said a I® 45 "' * stranger to a patriot driver oa a car. " Sure, and if ye was a Pkis\Ai' * phian like meself, ye" would know it wrfS to the next corner." " An'i&il tola, exclaimed the patriot stranger, "fw we New Yaarkere call a block? ' - 5 it is." From Burlington oome® news cs 1 little girl only nine years of age, woo has dt,vt>l