Hazg.
Roll* th long broakar In iplaador. and f IMX-M
Leaping in light!
Laughing and raging th* awift ripple dano>,
Sparkling and bright;
Cp through the heaven th- curlew it thing.
Soaring to h.gh!
Sweetly hit wild note* or* ringing, and dying
Loot in the tky.
Glitter the tailt to the eonth wind careening.
White winged and hrare;
Riving to hreete and to hollow, and leaning
Low o'er the ware.
Beautiful wind, with the tonoh of a lover
Leading the hour*.
Helping the winter worn world to recover
All ite loet do were
Oladly 1 hear thy warm whiter of rapture.
Sorrow it o'er !
Itarth all her music and bloom ehall recaptnre,
Happy once more !
tUW\
A Story Told Nantucket.
" There are DO her.aw now,™ said she.
And turned with scornful wearied air,
And looked across (lie navee to where
A dim sray island luet the era.
" I wish there.l be a ululh v'ruaade.
Or Arthur's knights would come ouce
more,
Oi of Nantucket's prosy shore
A second Ilium aught t-e uuda
'• No dime of genius hghss our page ;
Our muse is dumb. No martyr wakes
Out hearts from sleep. No hero tweaks
The level of cur stupid age."
He locked at her in sad surprise ;
Was she so heartless and MIM '
Was ihete no t ravery today
Could irake a hero m her tyee ?
•• And yet ou that puwatc shore
A i.elo may have been,'' said he .
•• A knight or iu*r:yr here might be
Who ut ver croee . r srtucr wore.
•• Just off Naatacsei'e rugged coast
One day last we:k a lxt went down
lu sight of dw .era iu the towu.
And a. ou board but one were loet.
" For there were two w ho caught an oar
Ai d doated Era moment , they
Had ooa.ra.ies been for many a day.
Had danger shaft d o.i many a shore.
" One fell tiie oar D*MI to > ink
Beuoath the .1 uUe weight; he kuew
It surwly count o. tl.wt the two,
And 01.s must go. lie did not shrink .
" His sacrifice his fneud uught save.
And pausing U.A to give bus choice,
Hi shouted, with a : tug.tig voice
That t ever faltered, strong and brave
** As when they scaled alt Alpine height
Ai d shouted to the arching sky
In tnem; h. • One mu-t go—good-bye—
tied b us you r and was ust from sight.
"His f neud was saved , lut now alone
He > ver hears that voice repeat
' Good-Lye—God tle-s you clear ai d
sweet,
Iu tides that roat and winds that moan !"
The red iips loet their scornful curl.
And quivered uov with tecder pain.
And tears fail Use a rummer ram
From the dark latin s of the giri.
" 1 hat inu a hero ' 'greater love
Ha' huo man !' " peaeionaielv thrilled
The vibrant lines ; her face was filled
With reverence ail words above.
He murmured to himself apart—
Watrhmg the languid cynic'* face
Transformed witn raoiaiit, tender grace—
" Ah " now I knew she has a heart!"
l'arfjta.
WHOSE WAS THE GUILT ?
Ell 18 Tremayue laid his fork down
with a gesture half of iu.patienoe, half
of discouragement, and a frown that had
no business on the forehead of a six
months' married man, the husband of
the prettie-t of women, a. r ruga ted his
hard *-oine wtiite forehead.
" You seem to have not the slightest
appreciate uof affnirs, Elbe. I have ex
plained time and time again that I am
living np to my income—not saving a
penny—ami yet yon still persist in de
manding money for every trifle that
takes yonr fancy."
Ellis IT eniayne spoke more decisively
than fiffie h-id ever heard him, and she
meutaliv vowed him horribly cross, and
jiartvi her r d lips and 1-aued lick in
tier chair with a vety aggrieved look on
her 1< 'V. ly face.
And ye t it was lovely.
Mi. Tremayue thought so that same
moon lit as he looked at the delicate
pink-and-enow complexion, and the
large di-k blue eyes that had played
such mad ha roc wilh his heart a year
ago—at the full, exquisite lips that had
only seemed made tor smiles and kisses
then, that now w. re rapidly cousummat
ii g their be-k of dnwvivering the clay
feet of Lis idol—that now were partiug
to utter *<>rda he knew were coming,
that did oome.
"Yon are just as mean and cross as
can 1-e ! What's the use of living at all
if you can't have what you want—if yon
cau't have things like other people I I
tell you I do think you murht let me
have some money this morning; I need
it most awfully."
Her blue eyes certainly looked plead
ing enough to give entire credence to
her assertions.
" I am almost tempted to say that
cannot be true, Effie, since it was only
a week ago to-day I handed you twenty
five pounds—a sum amply sufficient for
even the most inexperiences! financier
on which to keep a family of two."
Darker frowns wtre gathering on Tre
mayne's forehead, but Effie answered
with a sneer:
" Twenty five pounds ! You speak as
if it were a fortune! I tell you, Ellis, I
must Lav® thiugs like—like other peo
ple. How on earth do you suppose I
feel vrli'-n Mrs. Coddington or Mies Bell
burn calls for me to drive, wearing their
elegant o&rrßge costumes, and I in the
same dress I appear in in the street or
at church ?"
Tremnyue smiled contemptuously.
"no you hope to rival the wife of a
millionaire aud the only daughter of a
wealthy banker, do yon ?—you, the wife
of a cashier at Wing field A Sons, on
(•even hundred a year? Effie. have
nothing to do with women who are,
unconsciously, perhaps, sowing seeds
of di -•contentment and extravagance in
your heart."
" lam ne it her diaoon tented nor extrav
agant. Edus—you ehall not say so. But
I must bav some money to get a new
suit. Oh, Ellis, inch a h<evenly shade
of piune, ami y- n know I can wear so
well .me particular shade. Honestly, I
haven't a dress to wear to Mrs. Lamar's
reception."
Ellis ate his egg with very little show
of satisfaction, and his si<- nee, while bit
ter thoughts were rushing through his
mind, was taken by Effie as a sign of
consent.
She was not slow in pressing her ad
vantage.
"It won't cost over twenty pounds,
Ellis—very reasonable indeed, for I
Bhall make it nearly all myf*lf, and I'm
sore you can't be displease i at that.
Then ray 'yes,' won't you, Ellis u. ar?"
A settled, white look came around net
handsome month.
"If you care more for show and fine
clothes than for my respect and the con
sciousness that you are my economical,
prudent wife who is helping herhusbaud
save instead of almost goading him inio
debt, you can have the money."
Her eyes flashed as delightedly as a
child's over a new toy. She had ac
complished her desire, and his cold yet
touching words had fallen unheeded
before that—
"You can have the money."
She sprung from her chair behind the
coffee nrn, and threw her arms around
his neck, kissing his handsome, worried
forehead.
" You darling! I knew you would
not say ' no,' for aU you read me such a
lecture on economy. Really, Ellis,
when you see how lovely I shall look in
my new silk, you will not grudge the
money, will you ? You like to see me
look as pretty as I used before we were
married, don't youl And you're not
angry, dear? Yon do love me!"
Her H-vc.t, girlish face all slight with
happy enthusiasm, her blue eyes dancing
FI?ED. KlTirrZ. 1 Cditor and Propriotoi
VOLUME IX.
willi Mich houest delight, her smooth
cheek lying against hie. au.l lnr .Unity
little hand stroking Li* whisker* of
vvuirao Ellis lai.l down his napkin au.l
pushed l-ack from tlio table ami kissed
her.
She was his wife—sweet, pretty, deli
cate as a mountain pink, ami lit> lovnl
lwi—lovl her dourly, truly, as in tln>
day* when he had won her, thinking
what a rare flower she was.
Ho loved hor, ami was willing, yes,
anxious, to increase her happiuena by
every honest means iu his power only
Effie was extravagant and unreasonable
in bar demand for dr.se. and style that
wer< beyond the capabilities of the well
salaried man that he was.
So, now he kiaaed her tenderly, ami
then look out his purse and laid a bank
note on the tablecloth.
•• There's vour uew silk, dear—may
you enjoy it.'"
His forbiddiug maimer had so entirely
•lii-appeared, that KfHe's In-art was eu
courage.l to undertake another fad plan.
So as she demurely folded the note
awav iu her pretty little crimson Uu*<i i
poeketbook, she begun, so quietly thai
Ellis was quite captured by storm :
" I was wondering if it would net be
a good plan if we shut up the house for
August, dear, and went somewhere. It
will do you so much good, IT#sure, and
there will be no expenses here while
we're away. Oan't we go to Hastings?"
She opened the battery very suddenly,
almost staggering Tremayue.
"Oh, Effie, no. It would involve a
larger expense, ten tiuiee, than tt cost*
at borne."
'lheu seeiug that well known, martyr
like expression settling on her face, that
always drove biw to desperation, be
added, bastiiv :
"If you can manage it, go yourself.
I dare say some of your fashionable
friends will chaperon you."
"Oh, may I, tnay I, really? Indeed,
I will manage it! 1 don't need many
new things, I'm sure. I have enough
for the silk, and with a little more I can
easily get what I alwolutely need. Ellis,
yon are a darling !"
He laughed—not very joyoudv.
" I'm glad yon think so. \VeU, I'm
off."
Two hours later, Mr*. Effie Tremayue,
dressed in an unexo. ptiouably elegant
walking i-ostutne, started out ou her
shopping tour, to meet at the silk coun
ter Mrs. Godfrey Coddingtou, carelessly
tossing over rare pieces of evening
silk.
" I am so delighted to have vour
taste ou my new silks, mv dear Sirs.
Tremayue. Do tell me which you pre
fer, the sal trot!, or the (-earl blue, or
this sunnier pink? I intend to have a
couple of th*m for Hastings."
Hastings !
Mrs. Tremayue'* cheeks glowed.
" I hope to see you at the shore, Mrs.
Coddington, and in either this exquisite
maiz or silver pink."
"So you will lx- then* ? Do join our
party—only Godfrey and sister Blancbt
and Nellie B'llburn and I—for nex'
Thurstlay we k. Have you engage"
rooms? What shall you get uew ("
It was certainly very delightful to lx
talked to thus, but, once home, there in
curred little qualms of conscience, as.
very, very gradually, she felt hcroelt
drawn into arrangements she knew wer
far beyond her reach.
And yet she consented to Mrs. Cod
dington's kind off r that Mr. Ctxlding
ton should secure rooms for her with
hi* party.
She mad<- up her mind that the ele
gant stock of clothes that two hours ag
she thought needed onli a little renova
tiou and a small addition to make it ai.
that was nece>sary, would not do at all.
And so, besides the money her hus
band had given her being spent in the
dozen and one trifiiug accessories that a
well dressed toilette demands, there was
foldevl away in a seldom used compart
merit of Mrs. Tremayue's ixx-ketbook a:
nnreceiptetl bill for fifty jionuds, rna.l<
ont to Mr. Ellis Tr>'mayne.
Effio's blue eyes were dancing and her
cheeks flushed when she was sot down
with her pare- Is from Mrs. Coddingtou'r
carriage at her door.
She had time and to spare before Elli®
came in to the five o'cl-x-k Hnuer to look
ever her pnrchas-s, tln-t after ail seemed
very few and small considering that hor
rid bill in her p<x-ketb<-ok, that she
dreaded to show her husband, for all the
flusled gayety of her manner.
" Ah, is t)p-re any need to tell him
now ?" she reas -ne.i, while she removed
ber walking suit and donned a lovely
b'aoA tissue. " Not the slighb-st nse to
tell him before I go away. He'll only
make a fuss, and I do hate a fuss.
Besides, after I'm home again, perbap-
I can save it out of the house money."
So she quieted her conscience with
the hopefully specious promises, and
the next day, finding it impossible to
get ready by herself in time to go with
Mrs. Coddingtou's party, was oblrg. d to
employ the services of a high priced
dressmaker, whose bill for her work she
tucked away in her pockotbook also, and
thus swelled the indebtedness of her
husband to be paid when she returned.
Ah, when she returned.
If she Lad only known, a* she kissed
ber daintily hidden hand to her husband
ns he stood watching her off, with a look
in bis eyes that was mingled love, stern
ness, pride, annoyance and harassing
worry.
• • • • •
" Oae of the prettiest women at the
seaside, and certainly the !xst dressed.
Hhe must lx- a loiiiker's wife, at the
least Who did jou say you understood
she was ?"
Old Mr. Wingfleld put up his eyegla**
as Mrs. Tremayne went by, fair to see
as a lily, in her carriage dress of tender
cream tint, with her lace covered, pink
lined parasol making faint rosy shades
on her clear blonde face and brilliant
golden hair.
"Hhe is Mrs. Ellis Tremayne, from
London, with the Coddington's, I lx
lieve, and putting up at the Parade. A
regular beauty, isn't ihe ?"
Mr. Wingfleld put his eyeglass slowly
back, staring after the Coddington car
riage.
" Mrs. EUis Tremayne. I suppose
her husband is here?"
" Not that I know of. Indeed, I think
I heard young Bellburn say he was un
able to leave his busine*B—a bookkeeper
or something, I believe, for a firm in the
city."
Mr. W-ngfield arose from his chair
with an old smile on his face.
" Mrs. Tr emayne must either be mis
tress of the wonderful economy of
making a pound navel both ways, or
else"—
A boy with a yellow envelope tapped
him on the arm.
"Oh, a telegram; from my SOD, I pre
sume. Wait a minute?"
He deliberately adjusted his glasses,
and then opened the dispatch.
"Oome at once. Everything traoed
to T. Ja. V^INOriELD."
And as he returned the paper to the
envelope he looked up to see Mrs. Tre
mayne dashing by again, her face radi
ant with pleasure and excitement as
Bellburn talked and laughed with her.
* **
The pretty little house seemed so
lonely and deserted after Effie had gone,
and EUis Tremayne threw himself
wearily on the lounge iu her boudoir,
his faoe wearing marks of strangely
contorted discouragement and exeHe
ruent.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
For an hour or two ho lay there, his
eyes el-wed, his figure motion lees, ami
tiieu hearoaa with a half groan of men
tal distress.
" This will never do. 1 shall go mad
if 1 slay here with only my thoughts
for "
He had gone over to the little dressing
bureau, carelessly taking up two little
pietxw of paper that Effie had entirely
forgotten to hide, and a jailor, even
more maikcd than his late deathly |atle
ueas, oveixpread his face as he saw the
two formidable bills.
Then something very like an oath
came from his set teotli.
"My temptation be on her head
my "
He sprung suddenly to his fi-et as the
doorlx'll palrd imperiously, and listened
with no ordinary curiosity as a man's
voice demanded to see Nlr. Ellis Tre
uiayne, and heard thr servant usher his
company into the drawing room
Then he went slowly, slowly down
stairs, into the presence of Mr. Wing
field and an officer.
"Mr. Tremayue, you are discovered
iu yonr neat system of embezxlemeut.
Officer "
Ellis stepped haugi.tily back.
"One moment, gentlemen, if you
please. Mr. Wing tie Id, [ am discover
ed. Twenty four hours later 1 would
have been beyond pursuit; as it is, what
is the difference between a hunted life
abroad, or—this?"
Quick as a flash, the pistol glcamxl iu
the gaslight.
A r> pert, a heavy fall that thundered
through the house like a doom, and the
husband of a woman that was too un
womanly to !>ear her share in the bur
den of life— the woman eujoyiug h< r
brief hour of pleasure ou the sunlit
ocean shore—the woman who had it in
her power, as all women who are wives
have, to goad to destruction iu mime
form or another, or guide to happiness
and sue-ess, in some means or another,
this husband, who was less wicked than
weak, went to his reward.
And who ihaU say whose was the
guilt ?
Hers or not, who knelt and sobbed
over his d-a 1 face, and tried to reason
into silence an inner voice that refused
to le still.
Sister wives, lie you earetu!, lest, al
though your hands and heart* are not
stained with a crime like this—and many
a wife's hand* ami heart are thus red
dened to day I*' careful that it lays not
at your .hxr tha your husbands lose all
their faith and trust in woman's sacred
vow as well as blessed privilege to
-hare eagerly in tlie;r economies and
many petty grievances tin-.', no household
is without that small though they now
are, tf not accepted in the spirit of pa
tienoe, love aud forlx-aranee, are the
little vexes that destroy the vine beyond
the hope of recovery.
Murder In the King.
In IVnnsvill--, Salem county, N. J.,
lias Is en j-r[M trivU-d one of liio.-e re
volting crimes that baj often >h<x-k the
community, but which in thix ease ha*
[xxruiiarlv horrible accessories that tend
to magnify the occurrence. Two men,
or brutes clothed in the garb of hu
manity, hailing from Philadelphia,
fought a prize tight in the above nauuxl
locality, and one of them gave up bi
life ut the conclusion of the contest.
Battered and bruise*! until he was a!
most unrecognisable, the dead man's
Ixxly presented a fearful, horrible spec
tacle wheu found by the po.iee on a
Philadelphia dock. Now, possibly, the
poinx will endeavor to find the murder
er; but. had they noted with decision
and prevented the departure of the
roughs from their city, the fight and
murder could not have occurred. They
failed in their duty, anil the entire com
inanity is shocked iu consequence, li
is a sa<l commentary upon our boosted
oiviiiz.it i u and progress, that while w
.ire inviting the world to witness them,
such scenes a* this prize fight could oo
eur, and, alxive all, owing to Plu'adcl
phia's negligence.
It is well known that certain prize
fighters who had only recently been con
nected with a similar exhibition in New
Jersey, were among the a!* ttors in this
conte-t at Peiinsrille, and had been in
Philadelphia for dsys p eparing for the
fight. The police cannot plead ignor
ance of this fact, and thev deserve, as
they will receive, the condemnation of
every pure-minded citiz-m throughout
the land.
The v< ry contest itself, too, wa* a di*
grace b> tlioee concerned iu its further
Alice. The dead pugilist wa* a m-we
lx-y, only uin-b-en years old, and hi*
opponent was a strong, stalwart man of
over thirty.
The instigators of the contest will
prolably remain unpunished, but if the
contumely aud execration of mankind
can have any effect upon their future,
then can they rest assured that it will
follow them wherever they go.
The Montenegrin*.
The Montenegrin mountaineer and
warrior is a man six feet in height, with
grave, thoughtful faoe. singularly con
trasting with hi* quick, nervous gait.
He has high cheek bones, like an Ameri
can Indian; hi* eye i* black aud piercing
and hi* shonlder* have a slight *toop
produced by constantly lx>nding forward
a* be asceud* difficult height*. He is,
perhaps, the most agile human being
on European noil; there is no haunt of
the chamois which he cannot follow; and
even the goa'* sometime* hesitate to go
after their shepherd* when there is u
dangerou* path to be crossed. The
Montenegrin women are often the ob
ject* of pity to traveler*, but they claim
no Hympathy aud acknowledge no hard
ship*. Tlx ir destiny i* to work and to
stiff- r. They aro uot even welcomed
into the world,and the birth of a -laugh
b-r is regarded a* a calamity. The girl
glow* up neglected and oiten cursed.
Hhe carries fugut* of wixxl on her head
that she may earn a few coin* to buy
arm* for her brother. Hhe ha* no yonth,
and i old at twenty-five. Bbe i* mar
ried young, and Ix-ar* children while
enduring laixir iu the field* wliieh would
be too hard even for strong men. The
woman urges the warrior to the fight,
load* hi* guns, and dresses hi* wound*.
Hhe i* seldom Ix-autifnl of f- ature, and
the. OOUTM- work which sha perform*
aoon ruin* her form.
lleuioralizing.
The condition of the industrial classes
in northern Germany ahow* that (IIIHII
times are -jiiib- a* demoralizing an hard
time*. After the close of the Franco
German war wage* ro*e to ah unnatural
level, all clause* fancied that the flood
tide of prosperity had net it in, thrift
wa* discarded nud luxuries became iudis
penaable, a craving for wealth beset all
classes aud discontentment wa* foment
ed, aud the ultimate result was deteriora
tion of workmanship. Herr liculeaux
ha* summed it up: " The product* of
German workmen are wanting in finish,
wanting in soundness, wanting in taste,
and absolutely devoid of imagination."
The host work in the world is done by
contented workiugmen who aro moder
ately prosperous.
The claim holders in the African dia
mond fields are about to stop digging
until tbeprice of the precious stones ad
vance. Tlie Cape Standard says:
" Diamonds are dirt cheap.
CKNTKK HALL, CKNTKK CO., PA., THI 1 HSDAV. SEPTEMBER 28, 187<>.
The Hunting Forests.
It is a peculiarity common to all gn at
i fires, nays the New York Herald, that
they create their own winds l>y r usou
of the liHYil rarctioatiou of the almoa
phere. The ountiuuous indraught of air
assists ill extending the anat of dostrue
tiott and lends intensity to the flaiu*s by
supplying the oxygen needed for their
support The heat is so great iu advance
of lite hue of fire that the vegetation lav
conies cliarreil aud deprived of its sap
Ixdore the flaiut-s reach it, and it is,
therefore, prepared for rapid outubus
tiou. Without an abuuihuit rainfall it
will !*• very difficult to arrest and extin
glli*ll these forest lire*, esjxx'ially on
the I ore hex! mouutaiu alopes of uoruieru
New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Fortunately the coining weather changes
will have the effect of creating mm areas
ailing the line of the Ohio valley east
ward toward the Atlantic coast and over
the region in which the burning forests
lie. But certain portious of the fire
swept country will receive but little of
the rainfall, Ix-iug situated to the east
ward of the northern portion of the Al
leghany mountains.
Ranges of lofty lulls which lie trans
verseJy to the trunks of are:is of low at
mospheric pressure exercise the stone
influence on the movements of the latter
as the cushion of a billiard table has on
the moving bail that impinges upon it.
The area of low pr*s.-tire with its mar
ginal rains in deflected from its direct
course and forced to follow that which
gives it the readiest means of resuming
its eastward progress. The Alleghany
range lies norlhi a*t and aouthweot, so
that storm centers striking it on the
western side are caused to mo.' along
parallel to its axis until the termmnli -u
of the chain is r*a.*hed north of the
Oatskill mountains, whetiac the storm
moves eastward into New England. 1 or
this reason Albany luav have a * soon of
ixipious rains, while Newburgh and
l'oUghkx-jisie < xjierieuce a prolougetl
drought. The regions now suffering
from the fore*t firt s are particularly af
footed by this t< pographiixd influeno
on the weather couditions, and it is rea!
ly remarkable that they have uot long
since been denuded of their timler by
such txiuflagratiiiua
The attempts of the lixwl resident* a
fighting the fire* in an almost waterless
regiou will prove fruitless, so lung as
the efforts are confined to trying to ex
tingiii-h the fiaiut-H directly. Those en
gaged in such s work cannot approach
near enough to arrest the advance of the
devouring fire. AH post and rail fences
should lx t ru down and removed, and
a wide Ix-lt of forwt cut down about a
iiuarter of a mile iu r.dvant of the con
flagration. Ju felling the tre** i-are
should txi taken to cut them no that
thuee next the lirs* would fall with their
tops toward it, but all the others should
fall the olher way - that is, pre-ei.t their
butts to the flames. By this means a
wide space would Ixi created lx-iween
the most combustible parts of the tree>
tind time would lx> given to tx<at out the
(lame* when they reached the heavier
portion*. If possible, the trees felled
111 the center of tile clearing should t
lianh d a* far awav from the . x[>
line a* ponxible. With th- large fore*-
vv>m|x>xr..g the army of the fighter*, tlux
work could lx* -a*ily 800- -tupli-bed in a
single day. The a van ilea of clearing so
formed should lx' kept ojx-u a* perms
nent safeguards against future for<*!
fires.
Fashion Note*.
Ol 1 fashioned aprons with braces are
striving for favor.
Paris houses are slrna*iy designing an
tumu and winter c >stum< *.
Etubroi.h ry is seen on all materials
and mixtures of material*.
A uew material for net/Hye toilets,
'tailed "rendumac," has suddenly lx*-
-omo popular.
At Pan* watering place* the fashion
if tie hack skiit* i* L iiowisl to the fur
thest jxissible limit.
The uewwt stj le for fall i*th IL L sm
i-oatume, so called Ix-i-auM* the bodice i
fashioned alb r a uuxlicvat tyjx*.
A new porte b-iihenr i* formtxl of
seven porte-bonheur* twibxl one with
the other, and ooniixeunga single tirace
let only.
A popular way of wearing the hair i
in a French twi*t, with the ends ma le
in two or three finger puff* on the top
of the In ad.
Quilles or robing* made of silver
brant formed into network, will lie worn
during the autunm on sicilienuo drehxi *
of dark colors.
A bride indi<*ab'S to her bridesmaids
the precise oostume which she doairee
them to wear, but they purchase thew
themselves.
PoriHu'se hide or kangaroo skiu txxits,
and either thick woolen or silk stocking*,
ire woru by ladies traveling abroad, for
monntaiucering.
A new form of needle case just into
duced resembles a one-pound weight,
and when open discloxo* a pincushion
; and several packets of needles.
A novelty in jewelry are rings com
I posed of several narrow bands of gold,
either plnin or set with gems, miniature
| copies of porte bonbeur bracelets.
The latest fashion in bracelets is a
gold bracelet with the wearer's name in
Byzantine letters, but so interlaced and
I so large that they cover nearly half of
the arms.
Oat-agon nets, composed of silk braid
| and ornamented with a ribbon bow at
! the top of the head and another at the
| bottom of the net, are designed for
country wear during the summer
months.
There are batiste flounces nearly cov
ered with Eastern embroidery, to bo
used for ornamenting light silk dreases;
j tliey are worked in quaiut shades, and
! the silk of the dress matches the pale
j faded Huts of the background*.
Indian gauzes in which failed colors
are introduced, Persian gauzes with
arabesques, and Egyptian gauzes with
characteristic designs, are tiumliered
among the popular Oriental goods now
j in demand for overdresses to evening
i toilets.
Fall and Winter Wrap*.
A wrap of home warm material is nsu
; ally the first garment purchased when
: cool autiiuiu days arrive. Large irnpor-
I tations of these, Hays a fashion journal,
I show the fashionable shapes to be eu
' larged edition* of all the style* in vogue
! la*t year, viz.: Large mantle*, long
| sacks, large dolman*, and long clonks of
| both Back and circular shape. The size
j of those garments gives an air of com
fort aud warmth, and their simple trim
ming, usually a mere border, in in kecp
| iug with their plain and graceful style.
Heavier mater nils are used than the
cashmere aud drap d'ete that of late
have done service all winter, and theso
heavy goods are often wadded, and are
always liued with silk or with farmer's
satin. The soft pliahleneas of lighter
wool fabrics is given to luxurion*
camel's hair cloths that are one fourth of
au inch thiok, to diagonal stuffs, regular
beaver cloth, and to the figured, basket,
canvas and armnre cloths. A great many
rich black silk wraps are showu, but
very few velvet garments are imported.
It is said that flue cloth cloak* are to be
the first choice next winter, and will be
come fashionable for dreasy wear again,
just as lust season flue woolen staffs
were restored to favor for rich costumes.
Whj he WAS Anxious.
Mr. Itobiusou went out to the ceme
tery the day after the luteruidit of his
wife and had an interview with the su
|>nulciid< ut.
" What are your regulations iu regard
to monuments in this cemetery J" aekml
Mr. Itobmsou.
" Well, we iiardly have any s|eial
rule*. We let |>eopla do pretty much a*
they plea*e."
"You wouldn't tnake a fun*," said
Mr. Robinson, "if a man should put
something original aud novel over a
grove, now would you? Bomethiug ual
ctlluted to attrm.'t attention."
" No-u no, 1 gueen not. What have
you ill view ?"
" Well, you * o, Harriet wan uu uu
coumiou |iatriotie woman; made s-sjks
tor the soldiers during the War. aud was
all the time knitting fiddle-faddle things
for sanitary fairs, aud 1 thought uiaylto
I'd get her up some kind of a rod, white
ami blue monument, with a bras* eagle
ou top, and the American flag living
from a (*>le. Perhaps 1 might put 'lloii,
Columbia ' iu gilt letters uu the stone ou
one side, aud a picture of General AA'axh
liigtou holding the lhx-laratloli of lude
iveudeiuxi iu his Imud on tlie other,
low dix-s that HtriLe you f"
" It Would 1" unique, anyhow."
'• But what I wanUxi to see you alxiut
particularly was to know about the size.
Now, would you allow me to make the
monument alx>ut fifty feet high of some
solid kind of stuff that'd spr-a*l over
the ground a little piece?"
"Oil, yea ! 1 s'poae *•<. it will be
IXMUV, though."
" C)h, i don't mind the cist. What 1
waiit is t* get weight in the material so'a
it'll set heavy on the ground and wtay
there."
" Y->U must h .v thought a great ilea!
of Mrs. Robiuauu t< expend so much
money on her."
" Well, 1-etaiil you and uie that isu't
exactly it. Hho was one ut those rtatlcssa,
ouroay women that u- ver'd stay quiet
when you waub-d her to, and it •ax-urr-al
to me that may!— somt thing might hap
|x-u to reauneitab- hr, and to U-ll you
the bonct<t truth my idea was U run up
some kind of a nnuiument that'd hold
her down (x-nmuient— keep lu-r there,
you understand. 1 don't want bust
ling alxmt, now that she a stowed away
aa dead."
" You ar- probably not a wan- that we
have introduced au alarm here which
connect* the vaults w;th the office, so
that if a person returns to life out of a
tnun-e we can at once go to the rescue.
Mr*. Itobiuaon, you know, i* m a vault
temporarily."
" You don't mean to aay," exclaioied
Robiuaon, "that she's got one of the
alarms anywhere near her t"
" Certainly alio haa."
" Hee here, now, 1 want b< say some
thing t you in private. The honest
fa-t lx, I'm alx-ut U-marry the Widder
Join—, and if 1 can make any little ar
rangement with you to snip off that wire
for . f- w auyn until Mrs. Rohmeon i*
th roughly d-a-1, it'll be m--uey in your
j-ocket.
"Can't do it. sir."
" Becan.x-- you eee for yourself how
thundering eml-arraxxing it's going to
b if Uie old la-ly should come to ami
lx gin to stir around just after me and
Mrs. Jon--* were comfortably married.
Now wouldn't it i L-s-k t it in a com
mon scum- light. >S> if you (xiiiid inutile
up that inachiue somehow, or give tue
aotne kind of a writb-n guaranb-e that
she won't ream red, it'll be r- gar-!xt an
. personal favor. Io they ever conn
to ( '
" t)u old lady revived last w-x-k,
afb-r she had Ixx-u iu the vault tliree
•lava."
" Mv groci-.n*, man, you tak my
breath awrav ! Why. it'a awful ! Iqxin
the whole, I tx Iwve I'll run Mrs. Itoii
inaon out aud bury her iu the burying
ground. I'll scud over a man for her
this alb-moon, and put h--r in a hole
forty fix t deep. 1 never did like thee
cru-eterio* anyway, with th--ir uew fan
;!< d nrtion*. Ho you lx- ready to ship
uer off wheu that fellow cornea with the
w.igon "
Mrs. E ibins- u i* uov enUm-lx-d m--
ciir--ly, and Mrs. Jones and H -bin—-n
aro one.
Kufua Choate's Fence.
I auppoao that the sbiry alxmt Hufu*
t'hoite's handwriting has lxs-n told
often. It acenis that Mr. Choate, while
living ou a farm down iu MasNM-hus-'tt*,
wante-1 a tn-w- f-*nc- around the horn
lot Ho he called in In* cr(-nb'r and
h;ul a taik with liim alxmt the work, and
the next time he went b> Boaton h-' g -t
hi* archib-ct to make a rotigh aketcii,
showing hi* idea* of how he desired the
fence to lx- built. Ou the day appointed
for the work to begin Mr. Choate was
Bumtnoneii away. Just a* he wa alxmt
to start the carpenter appeared, and Mr.
Choate jmll-xl the jilau out of his vest
pocket, and hurriedly delivere-l it, and
then drove off b> catch the train. Re
turning after an absence of two week*,
on ajq>roacliiiig hi* home, he was fiil-xl
with amazement, and led to doubt
whether he knew where he liv-xl; lna
home lot wa* surrounded by a zigzag
fence of nux-t extraordinary design.
When he saw the old carpenter pound
ing lu*tily away, he felt reaaanred a* to
the identity of the place, but moat puz
zled by the marvel- us fenoe.
"Hello!" he ahoutod. " What arc
you doing ?"
"DoinM" *id the old carpenter,
smashing in a tenpenuy nail with one
blow. " We're doiu' some jxx-ty tall
work. We've just slung tliia fence to
gether iu a little bit leas time than any
similar alingin' wa ever -lone iu tin-
Commonwealth of Ma*aachu*-tta!
We're two day* ahead of ooutrnct time
uow!"
"But, for Heaven'* sak>, what kiud
of a fence i* this I"
" Don't ki-.ow. Thought wheu you
gi' me the plan it wa* the darndost fence
1 ever heard off, but I supposed you
knew what you wanted."
"Plan!" *aid Rufns, "plan? Let
me wee the (ilau !" and when the carp--n
--b-r handed it over the fence, Mr. Choate
realized that in hi* ha*te he had felt in
the wrong pocket, and handed him, not
the plan, but a nob- in hi* owu hand
writing.
Posh il.
The Burlington llawkeyr says : A
Gloucester letter writer say* codfish are
caught with a line thirty fathom* long,
provided with four hook*, which are
baited with " jwirgie." That kind of
*tufT may do to tell away down in
Gloucester, where the people aren't
posted, but out West here wo have seen
too many oodflah swaying from the
grocery awtdng in the summer breeze
not to know better than all that giblx-r
iug gosh about line* and ho->k*. Yon
don't catch codfish, yon buy them, ju*t
like mackerel.
COHN IN ENGLAND. —Indian oorn has
attained a permanent footing as an arti
cle of food in England, and b> our agri
culturist* this is a matter of much im
portance. In 1876 alxmt a million bins
of oorn were imported into Great Britain.
English people, however, do uot receive
the article iu all it* original - weetues*.
It must undergo a process oalled kiln
dryiug, or it would heat in the barrels.
This process is performed before grind
ing, and requires great care.
The Japanese have arranged for an
international exposition, b> take place
shortly after that of Franoe has closed.
A ilrAte W emuu.
A story in .V-ri/mcr'* Monthly, entitled
"A Little Centennial Isuly," has the
following regarding Hir Thomas Fairfax,
of OromwelltAu memory;
"There ore high paneled walls, on
which hang the old English Fairfaxes;
here u Vandyke of the great Parliamen
tary general, " Black Tom,'* of Crom
well's tune, clod in h-iather doublet, aaxh
and gorget, and starting from the can
van with a strange tire which a couple
of ncnturies have uot y< t dimmed any
more than they have the luster of his
fame."
Among many historical reminiscence*
of General Fairfax one in particular is
revived by the perusal of the alxive. iu
the year of grace ltiiA James, aeveuth
Earl of Derby, Lord of the lale of Man,
placed his vaxt wealth, numerous vas
sals aud hi* life (which "lie subsequently
hmt on the scaffold) at the dispoeitlon of
his king. Obliged to absent himself
from his territory iu the service of his
sovereign, he left in charge his Wife,
Charlotte ilc la Tremouille, descended
from the illustrious houses of Uourbou
aud Nassau. During that absence Hir
Thomas Fairfax came to demand of the
Countess of Derby jxaisenaion of the
island, iu the name of the Parliament
and Oliver Cromwell. Atone with her
young children, an insufficient and uu
discipUned garrison, she asked for a
month to oonsider the proposition. The
Parliamentary general, through a uieau
intrigue with one of the countess" re
taiuers, believing himself authentically
informed that th- garrison was not in a
condition to resist successfully a vigor
ous attack, curtly answered: "Not a
•lay's," and he departed to begin that
siege from which lie retired after three
months of incessant action, utterly dis
comfited, with a loss of 2,000 men. 'Hie
heroic courage of Charlotte do la Tre
mouille animaUxl her faithful soldiers.
She taught tliem by her owu lofty and
steadfast endurouce bo prefer death to
dishonor.
She f<-arxl neither shot nor shell, and
more thou once a cannon ball juuewd
through her chamber, but she made
light of every lxsril which threatened her
owu (x-rsou. The Eagle tower still rose
imperiously in it* untouched strength,
the lauiue'r of the Htanleys wwving
proudly over it. But she was destined
to encounter Hir Thomas Fairfax again,
under leas propitious circumstance*,
after seven years of coufliet, broken iu
spirit by Use death of her noble hus-
Itand, who had juxt bx*u executed at
ltolton, in laun-wshirt*. of whom it was
said: "Us died gallantly, piously, Ike
a Cavalier." In Uie sujireme hour of
her sorrow, on the very night of her
husband's death, while reodiug hi* last
letter, she received a summons from
Generol Fairfax to surrender the inland.
In thw extremity, her heart wrung with
gnef, the indomitable spirit of the line
of Naesan showtxi itself in Uie action of
the undaunted Charlotte de la Tremon-
Ule.
Hhe came forth bracing up her euer
gi--s to notion, resolved that the honor
of her house should not lx- lost so long
a* a w-mian"* lieod oould contrive means
to preserve it or woman's influence
xwuy the hands of other*. But treachery
liulllfie I tin-efforts of the betCAVed Ll-lv
through the agency of a miscreant who
had Iss-u fnun his earliest youth the re
el pi nt of niibouuded f\i rx from the
llirl of Derby, and to whooe can- on the
scaffold that confiding uobleuiau bad
committed his OODUIMI and her chil
dren. By the action of this cre-ature,
who ts-troyed them to General Fairfax
for • consideration, Charlotte and her
children found themselves pr aouero iu
their own castle. Hhe was cost into
pri-tui and kept there reduced to the
lowtxit penury, her children starving
around tier, whilst (h-m-ral Fairfax e
joysl her revenue* and revel- d in his
greatness a* Lord of Man. Her gr. tit
heart, overwhelmed with grief ami m-l
leas sorrow, burst in piece*. Hlie died
iu I<lsl.
tlolng to Sea
It is not many year* since, say* the
N--w York littirt, that our merchant
marine was almost wholly mauued by
meu from the aeoboord b>wn* an-1 vil
lage* of the New England and Middle
•State*. And though but few of the
prtvM-nt pr-'U-ctory law* tbeu exi-xbxi.
the trial* in court for ill usuage and
cruelty at sea were th-u oomnarotively
few ; and the desertion of the crew in a
fon ign jxrt was likewise an iufnxjneni
-•vent A hearty good f-x-hng aud
sympathy exiabxl l*-twe-n the -ifficer*
and the sailor*, who felt that they were
working tog-tlnr for a common pur
pose; and this wax strengthened by the
fact tluit the aolx-rdinatea were often
friend* and r-lativ.* of their HU|x>rior*
in rank, and were workiug for promo
tion. Now, however, there is a distinct
ty(H of Bailor, who is as much looked
down upou by the offl<x-r* of a vessel aa
the Helots were by the ancient Spartan*,
and perhaps as deservedly so. The
young man who g--ea U> *>a, Ix-fore the
nrnst, for the j.nr|x*w of acquiring a
thorough knowledge of the profession is
now an exceptional tx-rwon : and even
with our reduced commerce, there is a
gn-ab-r demand for -ffl-x-rs of veaoel*
than would seem poeaible to those who
have not looked inbi this subject. Those
who die off, or who, from old age, quit
the aervioe, leave but few to take their
place who have been properly educated
from the forecastle upward. The en
tire s. rvioe lia* lxcome demoralized,
an-i parents do not care to trad their
sou* nudcr such intlnenix-a.
l*ixs of Self-Control in ItMltle.
Count de Pari* give* some curious iu
stanees -if the loss of self-possession
iimotig soldiers iu the heat of bottle.
He state# that among 24.000 load-d
musket* picked tip nt random on the
Gettysburg battlefield, one-fourth only
wen- properly loaded, 12,000 contained
each ft -lauble charge, aud the other
fourth from three to ten charges. In
some there were six balls to a single
charge of powder; other* couta-ned six
cartridges, one on top of the other with
out having lxxn opened. A few had
twenty-three complete charge* regularly
inserted. Finally in the barrel of a
single musket there were found oom
pletely jumbled together twenty two
Iml I* and sixty two buckshots, with a
proportionate quantity of jxiwder!
"But wi> should not severely criticise
the American soldier," add# the antbor,
" for it appears that au examination of
the battlctii-ld* of the Crimea gave simi
lar mmlt*."
WHAT IT WOULD HAVK —Hjieakiug of
the laat prize fight, the New York Her
ald says: Two vicious brutes, known
b> pugilistic fame a* "Jimmy" Weed en
au-1 " Billy" Walker, both of Phila
delphia, met iu the prize ring and
pounded each other until " Billy " Wal
ker died. We raise no objection what
ever to ruffians like these killing each
other, but as the law has declared such
a mode of slaying murder we sincerely
hotxi that Pennsylvania law will send
"Jimmy" after "Billy" by the best
line that can be procured for the pur
pose.
THK ConiiLEK's LAST WORDS.—" I
feel that I wax weaker each succeeding
day, and that I am fast approaching my
end; a few more stitches and all will be
over; and I shall go whore there is rest
for the weary sole, aud every sorrow
will bo heeled." Having said awl ho
wished, he calmly breathed his last.
TKTiMS: S k ~i.OO a Year, in Advance.
THK THAMES' PAIIAIHHK.
Uoi -r iui urx la Ik' NtwJtrwi
sasain Haw Tfcat IJva.
The mam retr-at of the Iramjra in
East* m N< w Jersey, a oorre*|xindent of
the .Vun says, is" in the grovea and
swamps lxrd' ring tlm Pennsylvania roll
road a short distance above Waverley
slatum. As this jxiiiit nearly muiway
twtw.. u Elizabeth and Newark, the
officer of Ixith citn* diaclaim jurtadtc
turn over it. and the trftnpa, recxigutatug
it as neutral grounds, have taken p<>a
amnion. Night alter night during tiie
oust four months their camp fire* have
lighted up the swamp, and crowd* of
males and female* have held oaruiva!
beiieatli the tree*. Tramp* of every
nationality, age, and condition resort to
tin* rendezvous, and the farmer* of the
adjacent Ji*trict have suffered so severe
ly from their deprrxiation* that they
liave determined to take the matter into
their own hauda, and drive out the in*
raudere. Th Peuusylvanla railroad
company ha* ilsu auffertxi from liu-tr
|)iracie* and lawleaanexa, AX new And old
tie* bsve been liurtltxi, telegraph Jx.les
have been injured, and train* have beam
atoned by some of the drunken mis
creauU. A few nights ago at least thirty
of these outcasts were congregated iu
and around a blazing log fire far in
among the tree* in the swamp. In
teroperoed among the crowd were five
hideous looking women. One of the
peculiar yelps of one of the men in the
gang, while psuHung a farmyard at night,
it is said, will Bet every dog in the neigh
borhood to howling, and he is further
distinguished a* one of the most adroit
thieve* on the rood. Not far off sat four
men playing " seven up " for jieunie*,
and scattered around in various position*
were a dozen of more, chatting or mak
ing preparation* for " turning in" for
the night. Empty tomato cans, ham
boner, broken croekem, and feathers,
tile debris of former feasts, were oeat
tered on the ground.
A short distance above, cooking their
evening meal, were several strange
tramps, rugged, filthy, and, judging
from, their language, " down on " the
crowd below. One of the party, dirtier
and more piratical in appearance than
hi* companions, was pointed out a*
" French Lou." He said that he had
just reached "the letreat" the night
liefore, and had been robbed of a silver
watch by the other gang, (Hunting over
bis shoulder. " Wait and nee," said an
other, iu a significant way, " if we don't
get square vet wid dem fellow*. We'll
put up * j'ob on em that'll make 'em
sick.' When questioned as bo work and
the prospect*, the Frviictimau—who
spoke excellent English replied :
" Work ! What do we care for work
when there's plenty to eat without it I"
"That's so," chimed in another. "It's
no use for us to attempt to work; we
couldn't get any if we tried. Down in
Fhiladelpfav, the other Jay, I was arrest
xl and locked up for asking lor work,
aud do you think I'll run that risk
agalu 1 Why, the country is rich enough
to suj jort such gentlemen a* we Lx-,
and thi-u not loci it. Talk about hard
timea, why liieoe are just bully!"
" How alxmt the coining winU-rf"
The tranijxi made no r*ply for a mm
lib- or So, when a little dried-up follow
answered : " We'll get along well
enough. We understand our buainexs,
and if there isn't bet tiuies m the big
cities by ("nristniaa, I'm a fool."
" 'Tam t going to U* like it was last
winter, you can just bet your liottom
dollar," said another. ' We'll have
something to live on; ruid if we haw to
fight for it, why we'll do that."
The uight following, a Troy mahler,
while walking along the railroad track,
with u little bundle iu hi* hand, wo* ac
©osh-d by three trn.p from the swamp,
who demanded his money. The molder
knock-vl the apokesman down; but be
fore he could realize his peril wa* iu
turn knocked dowu, sad was robbed of
jl 50—all the money he po*e*ed. Two
oJ Ins assailsnts even writed to take hi*
bundle, but were persuaded by tlie
third of the (-arty to let him retain it,
aud h' was suffered to go on his way
upon giving hi* promise not to tell the
police.
"The r< treat," a* it is known to the
tramps, is silent during the day, it*
regular denizen* lx-ing out on
b-ur* iu adjacent town* or cities, or
among the farmers in the vicinity. To
ward dusk they may la- seen returning,
" dropping in from the railroad track
and country roa.l, singly, or in pair*,
and are hwl'sight of in the thicket winch
screens their lianuta from Uie rxul. A
farmer wi-o lives in the vicinity e*ti
mate* that, since the commencement of
the present y-*r, fully one thousand
chickens, young turkey* and g-x-s- have
Ix-eu stolen from hima-lf and hi* neigh
bors; their fences have been torn down,
their cow* milked in their i>**tnre*, and,
in several instances, their orchards
stripped of the green fruit. Tbey are
now apprehensive that the corn in the
fields will suffer unless prompt action
for the driving away of tram pa is inau
gurated.
Life in Arizona.
An Eastern gentleman engaged in
ininiDgin Arizona ha* writb-u to a friend
in New York, giving an acconnt of the
difficulties under which mining opera
tion* are prosecuted iu that Territory.
He *ays: The amount of progress I
make seem* b> uie small, but you can
have no idea of the difficulties which
have to lx constantly met and over
com--. The lalx-r i* very unreliable, and
it i* hard to get * day's "work for a -lay'*
pay, and there i* n strong feeliug of
jealousy Wtveeu the white* and Mexi
can* which i* hard b> overcome. The
weather i hot beyond belief. Never, I
think, less than uiuety degree* in the
shade, and from that np to 120 degree*.
There i* no lumber in the country, aud
all the building ha* to lx- done with
ootbuiwcxxl jxile*, and hauled five mile#
on jacka**--* to the mine. In addition,
1 have had hi |>ack wab-r five mile*, a*
we have had no rain, and tb* tanks at
th* mine are exhausted. We have now
killed three rattlesnake* iu the house,
beside* any quantity of scorpions, etc.
Iu opening"my trunk 1 was stung in the
fiugt-i by a scorpion. I bound a poul
tice of onion* and tolwoco -in the wound
au.l drank three full pint* of whisky,
it make me very drunk, and I think
killed the other poison, although my
whole hand aud arm was numb for a
day or two. It is a pretty hard country,
and three men have already died of
thirst near here. My last letters were
sent here from the mine (only
fourteen mile* distant) by au old Sootch
tuau. The letters did not arrive, anil
we searched for him aud found bini dead
only four miles from camp. Ho was
stripped aud his nails were worn from
his hand# by scratching in the sand for
wab-r. We have sent out twioe an-1
brought in men who were crazy aud
blind and speech I*o* from thirst. The
Run is terrinly hot, and the rocks so hot
that they blister the flesh if touched.
You can hardly realize what a eouutry
it is, nor how expensive it is, as well as
hard work, to accomplish much. Trans
portation, more than anything else, is
the great bugbear.
A few days sinoe the poor Empress
Charlotte escaped from the Chateau de
Lackon, where Rhe is still nnder oare.
After finding her it wa* difficult to make
her return, and Rhe was induced to do
so at length by the stratagem of fling
ing flowers before her, as she is very
fond of flowers.
NUMBER 39.
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The following has juat boon received
from a reliable oorrcapuudeot at Ken
ro.lt, Arkanoaa ; Subjoined are Ibo airk
••uiug detail* of one of the itiaogni
aid iii'o*t extraordinary tragedies CV<*
. uacted in tlm history of tho world. Be
fore referring to the murder a few curi
ous facta byway of introduotion are m o
eaeary. Al*out two an 1 one half milei
aouth of Hearcy. the aeat of White coun
ty, is a wild looking place known an
Gum Spring the residents of which are
known an Cobbitea, owing to the fact
that au old man named Cobb, who claims
to be ChriMt, rule* with an iron hand,
liis eraay followers claim to identify him
by curtain marks in the palms of his
hands, and he has during the past year
made many believe in his doctrine, the
main point of which is that every one
in the community should live in adultery
in order that the souls of the women
might be purified. The principal ren
dezvous of the Cobbitea is in an old log
hut in Gum Spring, which is on the
main road leading from Hearcy to Little
Book.
Hi:ring tha past few dy* the atten
tion of passers by hsa been attracted by
strange noises, and this fact I wing con
veyed to citizens of Hearcy they deter
mined ta investigate the matter. Mr.
C. I>. Humphreys, of Hearcy, and a
Mr. Blake, from Klrass, in this oownty,
determined to visit Gum Hprings and
see what was going on.
The strange noises were heard a-i they
reached that locality, and on driving
past the tint they were aoouated by Mr.
Hover, who claimed to be one of God's
people. Mr. Humphreys proposed that
they should run back and see what was
wanted, they did so, and were invited
into the hut, Hover asserting that God
was in there. Aa soon as they stepped
down from the vehicle Humphrey! ws
seized by four men and Blake by U .:r
women. The hitter snooeeded in break
ing away, but the former was unable to
do so.
Blake mn about one hundred yards,
and, on looking back, saw the men cut
ting his companion to pieoaa with long
knives. He at onoe started fur loan,
but the buggy was upset and demolish
ad. He then mounted his horse, rode
to Hearcy at breakneck speed and re
ported the terrible occurrence to the
citizens.
A force was at once raised and pro
ceeded to the rescue. On arriving at
the spring a frightful sight met their
gaze. The Cobbitea had decapitated
Humphreys and stuck his head on a
paling. A boy who was riding bv was
compelled to get off his borne and bow
to the bead three times. He was also
made to pray and then told to huiry
away or the bowels of the earth would
open and swallow liim. Wheu the poase
arrived M. T. C. Black, the leader,
shouted to Dover to come forward. The
I'itU-r wanted to talk the matter over.
He picked up Humphrey's lit ad at Inter
vals, caught it by the hair with both
hands, shook it Kick and forth and then
replaced it on the fence, ordering the
crowd, with a menacing gesture, to go
away.
Trie Cohhito* theu commenced to
jabber in their peculiar way at n furious
rate. Mr. Black did everything in hi*
power to *alm them, without avaiL Do
ver and his crowd then started toward
Black, with no good intention, and his
{Mieae fired, killing two men nd wound
ing on%. The remainder—four men,
four women ami two babies—were ar
rested and taken to jail. While in cos
todv they talked about their Jeans,
meaning Cobb, asserting thst be could
turn the gate* of hell at will and would
come and nweos them. This vw> about
-ix r. m. , and the town was wild with
excitement. It was feared that the prn*
oneis would be lynched. Scouts were
sent out to the vicinity of the log but
anil a guard placed over the dead bodies
there. Another jxwae, about two miles
the other side of Gum Hpriug, captured
a wagon load of Cobbitea—two men, two
women and three children. They were
on their way to the church when taken
and anew nothing of the murder. They
wen* brought to Hearcy and lodged in a
hotel, with a guard over them. A pre
liminary examination hM hekl, when
t hey were all released aud i eturned to
Gum Spring. Tliey talked inceasantly
about their religion and gesticulated
constantly. There i* no doubt that they
are ail oraz.v from the combined effects
of religiou and starvation. Men, women
and childreu are as gaunt as a pack of
famished wolves.
Since the above was written they have
all quieted somewhat, and apparently
begin to realize their situation. They
decline to talk at all, aud will not notice
au outsider. This extraordinary affair
created unprecedented excitement in
this vicinity.
A Model Wife's Letter.
True love, not content to book in the
Micshiu* without an umbrella handy in
ca*e of rain, finds fit expression in the
following letter, which the Danbury
Sew it has divulged:
Mr Dr.An Hi sbam' : I got here lost
night all safe, and was met at the station
by uucle and aunt. They were so glad
I" had come, but were sorry that you
wore not along. I miss you so much.
We had hot rolls for breakfast this
morning, aud they were so delicious. I
want you to be so happy while 1 am
here. Don't keep the meat up stairs. It
will surely spoil. Do you miss me now f
Oh ! if you were only here, if but foran
hour, lias Mrs. O'R brought back
your shirts* J hooe the bosoms will
suit you. You will find the milk tickets
in the clock. 1 forgot to tell you about
them when I came sway. What did you
do last evening? Were you lonesome
without me? Don't forget to scald the
milk every moruing. And 1 wish you
would ace if 1 left the potatoes in the
pautry. If 1 did they must be sour by
this tunc. How are you getting along ?
Write me all about it. But I must dose
now. Oceana oi love to you. Affec
tionately yonr wife, .
P. B.—Don't si t the teapot on the
stove.
A Queer Verdict.
The disaster on board her majesty's
ship Thunderer han been thoroughly in
vestigated by the coroner, and, after an
mquiry laatiug several weeks, the jury
haw returned a verdict of accidental
death.' This rendering is in keeping
with a recent one in the case of the run
ning down of a yacht by tjueen Vic
toria's pleasure steamer, the Victoria and
Albert. Of course it was a pure acci
dent that the safety valves of the Thun
derer's boiler were tightly wedged down
wheu the fires were lighted aud steam
was gotten up. The omission on the
part of the engineeis to examine the
coudition of tho boiler must be recog
nized as accidental. it was an unfor
tunate accident that .eater in a dose
reservoir should make steam when the
temperature was raised above the boil
ing point. It was entirely accidental
that the ship was built at all, for that
matter. If the English people are sat
isfied with the SMrdiot we have nothing
more to say, bnt the wood " accident "
has reoeived a new meauing.
There is a law in Wisoonsin that when
a man dies without heirs, his property
goes to the State school fuud.
A Bird'* Sour.
Ttshadow of a bird
On tea abodow of * booth;
Hwaet and cteur bio •oaf hi board.
"Hook mm now -I aoak thw now t"
Thm bird iWtnfa * of raoeb in tha swaying
tra*
Hot bia shadow on tha jraitten walb b|b bo*
louga to no.
Tbo phantom of US lova
Paiaa dream* with hopo do*b fIU,
HofUy ringing, fat oboro,
'• harm no ouil-1 tova that oUll 1"
Tbo crooi vlriona bovwr at my ood booit'a door,
foot tbo 000 l I lo?o to oooring 00l of rtooh for*
ooornoro.
Item* of lutere*t.
A pateul ha* Iwn granted to a Balti
more man for "au improvemfflst in oys
ters."
A Nw London lady lias taught her
. large Newfoundland dog to hold up her
train when aha in crossing muddy of
duzty street*.
Bug laud has waged forty-nine want
since 1300; France, thirty-eight; Bus
Him. twenty two; Austria, twelve; aud
Prussia eight
A Western man moves that the
hickory tree be made an emblem of the
j United Bute*, a* the oak is of England
aud the laurel of Greece.
Them la aaid to be something c;f
soling tor every ill in this life. For in
stance, if a man u bald headed, his wife
can't pull his hair.
A prize of SSOO is offered by the Geor
gia Bute Agricultural Society for a pre
ventive or cure of hog cholera; and an
other of S2OO for chicken (holer*.
A physician advertises in the news
papers that he has no power over his
sppetite for alcohol, and that he will
prosecute anybody who sells him any.
Jessie Cleveland, * girl seventeen,
year* of age, of Han Francisco, G*L # was
sent to the county jail for seventy-five
cays as a common drunkard.
They boast of a man in Pennsylvania
who, in eleven years, haa devonred more
than twenty thousand eggs, aomotima*
eating as many as twenty-five * day.
An exchange, in writing organ
grinder, always pule it organ grinder,
i>u the ground, it sayfc, that everything
Italian should properly be in italics.
Beef and mutton cost slxmf three
cents a pound in Berria,a turkey letch**
a shilling, a pair of fowls may be had
for six cents, and a draught ox only covte
from teu to twelve dollars.
Two young women in BL Louis got
into the parlor of a woman whom they
hated, and cut the upholstery to a
damaging extent, of S2OO. They were
convicted of the offense, and fined SIOO
each.
" Hid yon see a wolf and a dog go by
here Tasked a banter of a wuodcliop
per. " Yaaa, I did." " Well, how was
they—about nip and tuckf" "Not
quite, milder; the dog woe about nix
lengths ahead."
A farmer tb* other day wrote to a
New York merchant, asking bow the
former'* boo was getting along, and
where he slept nigbu. The me rchant
replied : " He sleeps in the store in tho
daytime. I don't know where be sleeps
nights."
There us cavern near Decorah, lowa,
nailed the ice cave. It is two hundred
feet deep, and in the summer the water
which dripe from the rocks freest* a it
fails. Th Ktraxigu thing is that in win
ter no ice forms m the cave, even that
of summer disappearing.
In Arkansas a man won sentenced to
be hanged, bat all the carpenters in the
neighborhood refused to build the soaf
folX As the condemned man war;him
self a mrrrrt" by trade, the sheriff
tried to induce him to put up a gallows,
but he steadfastly declared that he'd be
hanged if he would.
The biggest corn story of the mood
oomcs from Mount Carmei, 1:1-, where,
it is asserted, on the form of Wo. John
sou is a stock of corn the top of which
l* forty feet from the ground. There
!oe two ears of corn growing upon it id
tin- distance of thirty odd feet from the
level of th* surrounding ocuutry.
A Burlington schooUxiy views the
advent of school days without a tremor,
heoana*. be says, he is pained to on
ojl that his father lbs. him without qr.
nearly every day, worse than ever his
teacher did", Boris be the only unhappy
boy in town ; he say* he kaows a rwt.
the return of school day* wish eager
impatience.
A Maine minister, advertising for a
lost pocketbook containing SB, said :
•• Tho person who has it know* whose it
is, becsDM my name is in it, and if
honest will return it. If not, be will, of
course, keep it, and accept my advice to
use the money for the purchase of a
a stool of repentance that is charged
with ignitibie brimstone-"
A twelve-year-old boy jumped into a
riv* r at Roseburg, Oregon, to rescue a
1 younger brother. He was swimming to
ward the shore with the little oue when
his mother, who hod in her excitement
j gone too near the edge of tb* hank,
itlipped into the stream. He instantly
let go hi* bold, and went to cave the
mother, and all three were drowned.
When Mrs. Patience Remington, of
North Smithftvld, Conn., celebrated her
tuueti -fifth birthday recently, her three
sons--triplets—fifty-nine year* old, were •
present. When they were born their
father was offered SIOO to name them
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but his pa
triotism was greater than his avarice,
and be named them Washington, Jeffer
son ud Monroe.
Wood pavement* have a better name
for durability iu London than tu this
country. The city engineer reports that
after being treated with asphalt, which
keeps out the surface water, wood is one
of the most durable pavements. It is
cheaply laid, noiseless, smooth and elas
tic. Before a horse fall* be may be ex
pected to travel on granite 132 miles, on
asphalt 191 miles, on wood #46 mile*.
A convict who escaped from a North
Carolina jail stopped at a farmhouse and
told the inmates that he was an officer in
pursuit o! a fugitive and had put on
the prison dress in order to deceive him.
He asked for a revolver and got it. At
another place, by telling the siune lie, he
borrowed a horse. Several bloodhounds
overtook him, but be shot them. Yet,
after all hi* good luck, ho was captured.
A Chattanooga farmer's house was
robbed. Next morning a stranger called
and said that be was one of the robbers,
and be showed a locket The farmer
said that he valued the locket because it
Had been worn by a dear child. " Here
it l*," said the robber, seemingly affect
ed, "Let me make restitution. Here
are S2O for your little son." He handed
the farmer a counterfeit SSO bill and re
ceived S3O change.
The English court of chancery budget
for 1874-75 is an exceedingly interesting
document The enormous sum* admin
istered by the oourt are annually increas
ing. The assets in cash and securities
were £37,000,000, mostly in three per
cent securities and bank stocks. The
American stcurities amounted to $500,-
000. Among the curious accounts is a
long array of boxes with jewelry, etc.,
lodged for greater security in the vaults
of the Bank of England.
During his recent stay at Ischl the
emperor of Austria saved the child of a
I poor woman from a violent death. As
j he was passing through the Bettenbacb
gorges, a boy of four years old fell oyer
a precipice, and his clothe* having
caught ou a projecting branch, was sue-
Detided over a torrent some fifty feet
below, The emperor, whose proficiency
in all athletic sports is well known,
jumped across the precipice, freed the
boy from his perilous position, and
took him back to his mother.
The Virginia way to cook chicken is:
The fowl to be killed, plucked and evis
cerated in the shortest possible time; on
no aooount is it to be washed, but it
must be wiped dry with a dean napkin
and cut into six parts —the breast, tne
two wings, ihe back and the two legs.
The whole is then to be thrown into a
fryingpan with butter, cream, mush
(small cakes of Indian meal dough); the
whole to tie done before the flesh loses
its natural heat, and the fryingpan and
contents must be boated in advUM <
receive tin ahicsou.