A Question and a Reply.
TH* room HAS TO TS* Ol,l>.
S#v, whither *ri thon going.
Thy hand* upon thr lire* at.
Thy race toward the sunlight
Fat fading in the wot
TH* ol.tl HAN TO TUK TOCNII.
I *m going, slowly going,
Undismayed and nndatreawx).
To the last estate that'll left me.
To the last, maybe Uie beat !
To the region* of oblivion,
To the chamtxxra of tiie bleat,
"Where the wvoked eeaae from troubling.
And the wear* are at reat !"
TH* TOCNO HAN a KKPLT.
Itod have thee in lis keeping !
Ti* Hi*, not our tx-hest ;
But i* this all we come to
After our tod and quest ?
In nothing we aa|mv to.
O'erbunlemxt and oppressed.
Ever to nxxmqx'nse ua—
Nottung but jwaee and reat.
11 Ono Merc Mouth to Food. **
AY, "OM more month to fe*.l !" fall, on Ui>
ir
From INVMVI.XI tip#, this cry of despair.
Hot hark! Rmhalnuxl upon Iho ttacrexl j>gi *,
A Vok* rings out through all tiio passing
#g>*>;
"00, multiply, replenish; the oartti i* nuno.
I give tho heritage to thee and thine.''
AT, •' Ono more mouth to Fxxl in feehi#
tone
la echoed tvaok a woman , hit tor moan.
And yet from Palestine tho word# aro ringing.
" In pain and sorrow hfo hatli it* tx-guuuug.
But wheu Uio hour w i>as,xl. pnxlatui. tlio
Voice,
"A man i* born, tho wvtnian .hall rejoice."
AT, " On# moro mouth to f.xxl !" Ah. toll mo
why, *
Why rwe up toward heaven ttii* hittor cry J
Shall triumph greet tho Uto that need* muat
perish,
Whoae fix-hSe ltfo there ia no fixxl to cherish
Man's royal heritage *mce time began *
la wrestled from hitu hy Oio wrath of man.
Sot •• Ono moro mouth to feed T rang out that
morn
When heavenly hosts proclaimed: ••The Child
it born
•• The Ohthl i> born ' Yet who the Voice i
heeding.
In atom cotuniand and now m a:,giuh jvksd
ing;
•• My jvxw 'my p,x>r !" The tone, nug loud
and free :
•• L> ! what ye do to tho-e, ye do to Me."
Esther Chillingworth's Ring.
A TALE OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT.
Such a queer old ring! 1 picked it
out uI the vild lacquerad cabinet, where
Aunt Luciiuu's odus and etuis of ftuui! v
relief— memento moris, antique trinkets,
ami souvenirs of the past ; lier past, thst
seemed so very. very old; for she was my
mother's sunt. not mine—were stowtxi
awav in rows of tiny drawers, packed iu
8->ft jeweler's cttv'U, ami smelling sw.x-t
and strong of Tonka Ivans. It was a
ring of old yellow gold, curiously dressed
with the jacinth cut crescent wise, avid
act in tiny s<xxl pearls; anil the jewels
ami setting, as in many old rings, OJ-TI<X1
St the coaxing of a linger. MM Moved a
w.x* sjxuv for hair—whose ? 1 askvxl
Aunt Lucinda, hut she van hurrying tv>
ahut up the cabinet, ami only said":
'• lUraiud me to tell you aU>ut it in the
morning, child," for it was late, and she
wanted to send me off to Isxl.
" Can't I keep this, just to wear whil#
I'm here—it's r-o pretty —tin i I'll take
such gtxxl care of it, auntie ?"
" Well, put it on." said Aunt Lucinda;
" ami tlien run awav. for it's past eleven
o'clock. To think of you keeping me
up talking until this late hour!"
tv> I went away to bed, slipping the
narrow tiaud of fretted, carven, crusted
gold over my first finger, and watching
the rich, wtvTi fiake of light in the heart
of the jacinth—like a drop of clear
honey.
I slept alone at Aunt Lueiuda's, in a
queer old room, with an open fireplace
ami biwss atnhr-us, ami with a great,
high posted lied, dark witii flowered
chintz curtains, and a high and almost
inaocesaibie mountain of feathers, into
which I usually Raped with the aid fa
ciiair, when 1 bad blown the candle out
I always went to sleep drowsily speculat
ing upon the ancestral pers -nacre who l a 1
r-posed in tliis old ark of a bed, uruler
t; at ancient red silk quilt; and wonder
ing if any of their forgotten dreams ltxrk
ed romi't those flowered curtains, to
creep into my bram when sleep sots it.,
pates ajar. I did not dream, that night,
a*, any rate; I am sure of it, for I bad not
slept ten minutes by the old sh; aster
clock on the mantelpiece, when 1 via*
a-vakeued by the pressure of a l and.
It was not Aunt Lncinda's hand; even
in sleep I knew tlie difference of tiie
touch. Tiuy were young flugtrs ti u
slid coldly over mine—soft, round t.ps,
t at leit a damp chill upon my fl -L
where they cr.q t a'oug. As ravacnscs
awoke piahm'.ly, I f- it thewo" fingers
working at the rng on my left l a id,
a id I felt a cohl lm ath on my f. r* 1; ai,
like a puff of night air. I tr.ed to strike
away the hau l, but it fastened clingiiiglv
on mine, and a nv auing voice sai<l, { a*-
#:oiiatelv, anil vrt piteoualv, hke a hart
cliild:
*' Iy"t me Lave it—let me have it!"
"Who arc you? Where are yort ?
What is it ?" I gasped, struggling to #
upright in the deep trough of the f.ath.r
bed. " Aunt Lnrmda !
Tlie dork, still folds of the curtains
wavered ami moved, the streak of light
Iftween them widened, and then thev
w ere pushed quite apart. Then I saw
the anion shining on the floor, and the
fire dying on the hearth between the
brass and irons, ami a figure atanding bv
the lied—standing right in the areh made
by the jwrfixl curtains.
It wan a woman, and I saw her just ax
plainly as I see. at this moment tlie word*
written by the jam in niv 1 and. I could
t?!l you every item of the dress she wore,
even to the edging of lace on the tight
sleeves that reached her elbows, and the
little blue damask figure on her gray
gown. Her face wax very j-ale ami
quiet, and there wa no light in her ev<- ;
they were heavy and dark, and the'lids
were reddened as if with crying ami
waking; but she was lxxuitifu! for all
that—beautiful as some old, ilim picture
with a story in it. There she stood, with
her face and neck gleaming dull-white,
like old marble, atmve the grav gown,
and one lock of her black 1 a : r twist",i
r mnd her throat, like a soft neekla -e,
and her little damp, cold hand lying on
mine, and her lips moved yet, as if she
w ere saying over again :
"Let me have it!"
" Who art- you ?" I cried, trembling
anrl 1 ardly breathing, " What do you
want ?"
"My ring—mine and Roger's. No
other woman can wear my ring. Look !
don't yon see tlie blood on it ?"
Aunt Lncinda's ring ! There was no
s'ain on it when she took it out of the
old casket ; but I saw it now in the moon
light—a da-h of ugly red among tlie'
crusted carvings. I tore it off my finger,
and flung it away as if it were a coal of
fire.
" Who are yon ?" I cried once more.
And the answer came softly and slow,
Lke a sigh :
" Ether Chillingworth."
I stared up at her breathlessly.
" Look at me," she murmured. " This
is the face that Rsger Vane loved nigh
two hundred years ago; this is the hand
that wore his ring—that sent it to
him from Salem iail when he oared no
longer to remember how he slipj>ed it on
with kisses. They say I was veiy fair to
see in those days. Look at me. * Am I
comely now ?"
She swept back her long liair from her
face, but without displacing tlie lock that
curled like a snake around her throat;
and then, as I looked at her, she broke i
into a low wailing cry :
" I bad the fairest face in Salem—old ;
Chillingworth's daughter. 'The grass .
withereth, the flower fadeth.' The par- i
son used to .tell me it was a vain show,
aud I laughed him to scorn. For in the I
woods beyond Salem, when I was pick- •
ing Mav flowers, and rustling aside the •
brown leaves to find their pink and white t
clustered stare I met Roger Vane, and he
told me a sweeter tale than the preacher t
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor ami Proprietor.
VOLUME X.
knew . Ami 1 let him km* my mouth, f<>
he called it 'most sw-x't vrn, altogcthc
' lovely swix-ter than the imwtli of Ma;
flowers. Oh, the SaK iti wvxxla ! Ob
my hoe. lv>gv r, Roger !"
Her wail swept by likv l si gust of chill
. ing wind, ad the folds of the curtain:
strrnxl aud trembled with it; but slu
never slimx! not even u hair of he:
head was shaken as she st.xxl there.
" He was breve, ami young, ami haml
some, ami he eatne ruling in from |Lw
toil, Hiul rvxle vhiwn tlie stiwt of Saleu
that spring day. the gvxxlliest day 1 evei
ssw. In old l'.nghuul, >r in th<> new
. bleak ixumtrx. there were none to com
jvniv with h ill, ill my in-*; ami so I
> io\\l hitn. Ami he sfaytxl in Salcui, auv
I saw him ilay after day . and none knew
it at first, for we strayed far away n
those green w.xxl* that were just putting
i>ti tlieir leaves. ami lx>ke, I for May
flowers, and, later on, for the blue \n>-
lets that crept up through tin- rustliug
j vleiul foliage of last year. Ami at last lu
came to li.y father's house; but Abel
I'hilliugw.irth was old and stem, and ,1
feaied him, ami I had no mother; and sv
we kept our secret Roger ami 1. 1
feanxl nothing, osk<xt nothing, in my
love; I drained the cup of each vlsy dry,
and was content with its full draught ol
joy, and never dreamed, with summer
ami the roses round me, of w inter ami
dtxny, ami iliist iuul ashes, until one day
, came when we met in the Salem Wvxxlt:
t*> [xirt.
"' Xo tears, my little Mayflower,'
Roger Vane vu.l, isifUv, as he hehl me
j with ii his stroug, kindly arms. ' 1 hav.
never sxm the vlrojis in the-# swvt eyes
of thine Iwfore, ami 1 would not have my
last sight of them so marred. It is onlv
for a little space, swtx-theart 1 shall
ix>me Ixaek to steal away mv little Fan
tail maiden before the first leaf has turn
ed r>xl by her father's dix>r.'
" ' \\"hv —why will vou go, Roger?' 1
eritxl, as 1 clung round him; ami 1 aaked
it oulv fc hear over again what 1 knew
before quite well; how Gov. Wiuthrop,
wln se bhxxl relation he was, had sent
him here, anil now recalled him, on busi
ness i f the common wealth, ami m>wr he
must oliey; leaving me only for a little
while—"a very little while," 1 male hiiu
1 iu--jxr over an 1 over, with my arms
alsiut lis lax-k. Ami then he pullol
frvun his finger t'oat ring, with its dark
' yellow stone and the little bright j war Is,
and shptHxl it over mine.
" ' ,' he sunl. 'you shall wear tins
as my pledge of love aud loyalty; there
is a Wi of my own hair under the stone,
aud von shall givg uic one of tlx we pre
cious ,Krk lixflvs t" kvx'p aud kiss when
we are j irteil; and in two little mouths
I vow to exchange our love gifts b..ek
aga n, here in this very wovxl, my swx t
est,'
" He took the 1< ek of hair that curltxl
by my foreheml. and 1 t,ok his r ii,r, ami
his own kiss seabxl it on my finger. S>
we tunnxl away from each other, ami
start*xl on tlie long paths that Uxl our
hves apart, and never drew them to
gether again—never anymore! lo >ger
Vane nxle Iwek into Iw.xton town, anil 1
stole sadly to my father's house, to
mourn and wait for him. :i!i his ring
hung round my neck, low down, by iuv
heart.
" The summer crept on, and the hot
vlays shortened their fierce fires, ami the
August iiaze was in the sky ; the goldeu
nxl shook out its plumes all along the
vlry, dusty r< ai, ami the raggtxl white
ihisthxlowu blew here and there. I
watched for the first change along th
vlark Ixirilers of the woods—for the red
leaves, and f<-r Roger ; but, oue morn
ing, I woke up and saw the white fr>*t
glittering on some b!ai-kt iixl, drooping
vines around my wimiow, a i.l a IT. a i
splash of scarlet, like bhaxl. vla hxl
acnm the maple tnx-s. ami n<> lov, r
came riding down the reai, or straying
through the Salem w.xl to find me.
" Never, never, more ' I lui 1 the lu*t
kiss on my lip* forever, for none touched
them after R iger Vaue. The 1. aves
tunicd crimson, ami gol.len, and russet
brown, a id withered and dropjHxl frotn
tlie lre trix-s ; the vhirk Novemlier days
plowed over the land, and my lover nevvr
came. N-> won! ha 1 I from him —no
sign ; I knew not if he were among the
living or dead, until (1 .lx>u Giles, eoni
ing home in the early * inter from a
week s journey to lioston, told tue, a* he
fat iu the elbow clia r by our lnnrth.
tiiat h- hal seen gay young Roger Vane.
" ' Yon rememlx r h in. Mistress
Esther? A well favored votith, 1 it
* <mcti|:ies Lglit mindixl ; and yet I saw
h:ui among gisxlly <s<mj any, coining out
of the Snith church after nnvting, ami
with a fur young lady on his nnn.
liad no eyes for any of th- worshipers
but her, ami I pot no gjleech v. ith him,
else I might have brought I a-'k a kindly
message for his friends in Salem, and
for von. Mistress Esther.'
"He lookfvl at me with a keen, cruel
glance, ami 1 remember how once lie liad
crossevl our j.atli as we loitered in the
wo.wis, Roger and I. If lie s. arched for
any telltale sign in my face, it wat iu
vain.
"R> I knew that Roger Vane was
living and hml forgotten me. I could
have lsirne liis da'h. I could not l-ar
h s seorri. The bittertx'ws of luides erejit
into my soul, a id taught tue hatred of
a!! mankind. I shrank away from the
sig lit of human fas s, and iu gl.*nn ami
solitude ate niy own le art awny, with
bnHxhng ujvjn its despa r. Oh, my vain
Iwautv ! —Oh, cruel dowry tha' brought
my fall ' Two soft months of early sum
mer, against the long, dreary winter's
cohl—the warmth <f kixs.s in greim,
glancing W.KIS, a-i 1 the ice walls of
Salem ja l -the crowd on Witch's hill,
the strangling rope, the darkness of th"
death struggle, and th * trackless abvssee
of eternity—these things mr fa r face
brought me— me, old Chillingworth's
proud daughter !"
What aay she gnve ! In tlie dead
silenee of the night it clove*sharji and
shuddering, and sx ined to freeze inv
senses within me—turn mo cold anil
dumb with fear. The ghost girl wrung
her white hands, and flung tlieni high
above her head, and her shadowy figure
swayed and waved in the arch between
the curtains, as the woe almost two cen
turies old shook her with the strength
of yesterday.
I hail no fear of God or man,"
murmured on the voire again; " and mv
mouth wns full of bitter words, and I d.'-
ficd lioth in my heart and on my lips, fn
the glass I saw my beauty withering
awav. as if ten year* had spoil since
R >ger and I picked the earlier flowers to
gether; and yet the Mav flowers bloomed
only onoe since then. ' I wandered out
to find them, one April ,lnv, in the old
place where he and 1 had "walked; and,
as I swept away the heaped brown
leaves, I cried aloud to the merciless
powers above me—to (rod or Satan, to
whom I would have sold mv soul Hint
hour, only to have Roger back again be
side me. And there was ono iu the
wood that day who heard me.
" The land was all astir with cries of
witchcraft, and Parson Mather was at his
bloody work, in the name of God. On
the long low hill beyond Sulem village
stood the gibbets, where old Mistress
Nurse hail suffered, ami Goodwife Oorry,
and the old and frail, and the strong,
young limbs hail swung against the sky
for pitiless mobs to gibe a'. There were
cruel tongues in Sab m that whispered
aga rist me, and brought me before the
judges—me, Esther Chillingworth, nine
teen years old in that wretched April—
whom Roger Vane had loved ! There
were those who swore to bittar threats
tl a* I made, and to strange mutterings
a id waitings heard when I was alone,
and prayers and cries that hail another
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
" name in them tbati God's; and if va*
1 r >Ui*l that 1 Molt' oitt ill tilt* lor*t !• Moot
mv foul tiud worthy 11*K1IIII%U
Giles had lteanl me call him to mv side,
a* be' strnvixl thivmgh the tn••• near ine.
' Aud a chilil wlioni 1 liad puslnxl from mv
l! * av, as 1 walkixl ilown Salem street, bad
"' fallen ill, and cried, in it* strange fits,
l-r that l.stlier t'hilln. aortli tormeutixl
him; and mv 01, l fathei's honor and his
gray hair* ixnild not save me, nor luy
" youth and mv ixx>r, fating Is atity. Tin y
111 drav'gtxi me fiom his hoils< and eu*t tue
r into Salem jail; they loeked the heavy
r dis>r, and itrew the erv akmg bolts fa*t,
;l " and left me orouelnxl under the gmtxl
' aindoa . > stare up, in my blind anguish,
at the ghmjise of tender sky, that luul no
w pit\ for tin none. G *l, like Roger,
u had forgotten uie.
K "Then came the eroadeil courtivsim,
. v day after day; the solemn, untlinelung
K fa>x' of the gniv, old judge; tlie hot,
stifling tor. and the * undone through the
glaring !*> of window*, and the jeering,
' cruel women and tueieih .** men; the
i' writhing children, who, m their lying
*' fits, plavixl like devil's babi. * with my
life, ami flung it away; the screams and
y curse* liftixl up against me; the slow.
• ixilvl voices of t::*• w i.*e ilil men wlai were
'' giving lue to di ath for an old wife'.* tale;
' r and then the dark walls of tlie jail the
dump, the ley chill, the silenee, ami the
} death in life. So, day after day, I mine
'* ami wont, ami a*kxl no mercy at tlieir
, hand*.
' " Ihcre wa* one fax' iu the crowd
\ that had a pitying b.k for me, tliough it
was only a young hat's young Martin
Rrown's, whom 1 had ix'iuitixi a child
only i ie.ar.ig>. but who had grown of
j, late to Y >k with a man's eyes at me. I
saw the hot rage und bitter teals on his
fax- he st *sl with tliw crowd ill the
iMurtrooiu, ami listened and could not
j s'H'uk to tue; and one night i wild,
j rainy night he stole under the w mdovr
of the jail, when I w.s* pri -*.iig agonist
tlie gratixl bars, ami whnqiered my
name.
( " " K*ther ' Esther 'do y 'ti hear me ?'
he - aid, *o?tlv. • Esther, will vou answer
0 lue
u " And I sjx>ke, ami tin j*>r hid jx.tir-
B i*l out a ptuuti<>u of grief, and pity, ami
fl anger, with the uiuttenng of the wind
ami ram.
t " ' Ttiev say there is no hols', Estln-r,"
he sobbed up to me in the dark. ' Oh,
s if 1 could lut save you you, * > inno
ix-nt ! Gh, God ! what emi Ido agonist
■ nil thia cniel }TMVutioii ? You are no
.. witch, Esther' You ore purer than any
u sotil of them oil, and 1 must stoml by so
s helpless and see vou die b r tlieir w icktxl
k h l'" rl •'
" ' Mnrtiu,' 1 w! jwre.i t • hitu, cling
ing to the liars, ' if you coutiot suve me,
J will you do for me w hat y >u can ?'
1 •• • lbe f r vou, if 1 may, E*tlier,' h>
0 eritxl. with a ix>v'* own ag> rm—. Ami
1 1 reached tip and put my Inunl through
r the window bare, out to uitx-t him.
<- " • Will you carry a message for me to
r one in Boston, Martin? 1 have roue but
I you that I may trust t • bear it, an I my
i> father know* lad. Martin, will you find
r 15 >ger Vane for me ?'
y " 1 liatei;.\l arid held my breath till
he luisw ered. Thetl I lieanl luiu auv,
t softiv;
B " • I will, Esther.'
a " •('orry tins to him,' 1 said; and, o* I
i> felt i * uarm young hand, wet with ram,
e touch mine, 1 x',.pj>*l the love gift into
I his palui. * Take it t> It >ger Vane, ami
" tell liitn I hot E*tlier Cnllingworth Ins
i in tii ■ jail m S.ilvti villag", charged with
- w itehrnift, an 1 tlmt 1 ■ . n ! him ba.-k
t hi* t.>ki i.—;o more tli.n tliat. Martui.
" G>, for the pity of G i! Hurry , and
1 t:is<> no rest ts"l you ti el hi'u, <>r it wdl
1 Is-t s> lat< f-> late for me !'
r '• 1 felt the ls-y * 1 ps k - * my haml,
{ aud his young, clear v iiv Mine up
again, wit a a tremble in if
t " ' Aye, E*UKT, that I will. My fat'l
-1 er's more is in the stable, and, ties very
s h- nr. 1 will stiit!, ami take no rest till I
t ti : 1 R >ger Y' trie, a.d pit your ring in
i his baud, G xl heiping in".'
s "Gsibb -< you. Mart ti!" I wliispert i
r to him. a* he wr--.it; a nl, b.aviug blessed
> a Imuia-i criuture for the first time in this
bitter year, it st*m<xia. if pen x> stole
- into niy heart, and teuder tars into my
i ey -, aid lui the weight rolled awav
' freni my wreU-lnxl bosom a* 1 knelt oil
. the cold, 1 a.*- fl >r. I counbxl two day*
by, and I went b-r the lu t time from tie
* >a>l to tiie crowded courtr->tu. (tntlie
f day w lieu i looked for Martiiidiwk a an,
r tliey to! Ime that 1 wn* to die. And,
t while tlie. \ lices clamored all around tin
-1 f>r my inn< sx-nt bhsal, and from ls-vond
* the windows the siinl] cries rung in, I
* cure xl them a* I stisxl there all, grnv
, old judge* a-ul young cliihlren ami east
■ my murib-r upiii tlieir h a lsf revermore.
1 I lav by the gratis! window all the n-st
of the long, alow afternoon, all through
I the open twilight, and wa txl for Martin.
1 My blood was hot with fever, and there
* was ma Im ** in niy brain. 1 almost la-,
r 1 i-vixl, a* I CToucheil fle-r>-, flint u'l these
i tales were true, and ti nt devils ha I crept
into every pulse that Isnt iu mv hot
' In-a 1. s'ld whispensi in my ear as I
1 clenched my hamls over it. At last 1
r heard my name calhxl in a voice that was
t human, ami yet v.as kind a pitiful voice
f sounding under my grating: ' Esther!
* E*th-r !' I sprang up a-ul answered him.
I I pressed my face to the bare, and, in the
i growing starbglit, I saw him sfamling
i there—if art in all alone. I could only
speak his name, and all other sounds died
in my dry, pan-hed thr-at.
i "' I have done your errand, Esther.'
" ' You have seen—you have seen
R> >ger Vane ?' •
" ' I have seen him.
" ' And the ring?' I gasped out.'
i "lieseemed t<> hang his heal lower
ami lower, as if he bared to meet my
eves.
" ' I put it into his hand, Esther, as
you bade me."
" ' And he said—what did !n> say ? Are
you dumb, Martin Brown?' I cried,
stamping my b*>t wildly. • Why caunot
yon answer me ?'
" 4 Bix-auxe because I shall break
your heart,' the boy cried out, breaking
into bars. ' Esther, he will not come to
yon—he is ertiel and false, and deserves
not one sigh that you have sjmnt for him!
He is to be married to-morrow; he rannot
break away from his bride at Gov. Win
tlirop'a grand house to keep a trvst at
Salem jail!"
" Tliat wn* all I heard. The place
whirled round and round with me, and
the roar of gnat waters was in my ears
as I fell on the stone fhsir, senseless
while yet alive. But that wns the bit
terness of death ; wlint cared I for the
rest? To-morrow came, ami the April
sunshine glinted fair over the i-nrth, and
shone on the bride in the streets of Bos
ton town, and on the witch girl climbing
tlie cnnxl hill to die. I heard the
shouts r.ml jeers and hooting* of the
rabble riving the tender sj>ring air, ami
I sow, a* one in a dream, the s-n of hate
ful faces upturned to me, and the black
gallows drawn against the sweet, bine,
sunny sky, and I felt Hie hangman's
hamls touch me nnd turn cold the blood
in my veins, and I flung out my last
breath in a curse thnt should cling that
has clung—to all women Isirn of that
woman, down through unnumbered gen
erations—down to you, who trace your
lineage through Afalwd Daniells and
Roger Vane ! In that curse iny soul
wavered and fluttered out—sprung free,
and left, swinging between the black
forth and the sky, on Witch's hill, the
fa'r form that crept close into a lover's
arms in tlie green wood long ago !"
She stood over mo—this ghost o
Either Chillingworth—and tore the eoi
of dark hair awav from her neck ; ami
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, EERRUA R Y I, 1877.
in the fitiut, misty UKsMitiglit, I saw a
dreadful etrehug mark aiouml the fair,
white tlioxvt. M v bl.xxl eurdled wit It the
hot tor of it ; an t I led lot c v s, cower
ing away in tiie lllovv us she hung over
llle with u long, Itlmilillig sob, like the
la*t l-reiith of t! • dying 1 think that
teimr tinkle nu itseiixible u* 1 lay tlier. .
I heard -no mule, nor saw mv ntinng.-
visitant vanish with tin- glimpse of the
iii.xMt ; but when I op. insl my eyes
Ii will, the roollt wa* light with .lawn,
ami 1 wa* quite alone, with nothing
more ghostly than a dull old familv |>oi
tta>t to watch me between tin- parted
carta us. " \ dn-itm, I thought, siiud
dermg, a* 1 rublsxl my hands across my
<-v i s.
Estlirl ('liilhligwoith - ng was gone
from my finger. "1 u n't know the e\-
act story of it,' said Aunt Lucimla, at
breakfast. " The leg.-mi gis-sthuf it be
longed t-> a sweetheart of our ancestor,
R . IT \ atie, who was hung f- i witch
craft the gul, 1 mean, not Roger Vaue
ill the Salettl exeiteinelit of B'Mxl. 'That
was what iuv grandmother us.xl to t.-ll
lue. She never wore tin ring, for she
said it wa* unlucky. Bv th. way, vou
havti't .•t it ->n. have vou? i don't see
it on y>ttt !i..ger."
" Auntie, 1 said, aolemulv, with mv
eye.* a* round a* the sa-ux-r Iwfore me,
" it wa ■ tuhcu away fn>m me la*t night."
" Taken a->;iv ' NoQM BM'. M-l Aunt
I.ueimla. "\N liat are you talkine al*>ut.
child ?
S• 1 told 1;> .. " Tut, tut !" Ml *. 1 my
aunt, derisively; "you've had the night
mare ' The ring ha.* slipjxxl off your
linger ill bed, it wax a sire l.si loose for
Volt. Silsatl will find tt vvheti slie i* lin
ing up your nxmi. 1 11 engage !"
And *> slie did, but Iny faith v.t* in
nowise abak.m, li>>r ts-tild uny skej lieal
arguments d.-stn-v iuv firiu Ivelief in the
gh -st f Esther t hiliiligw rtli. \i Ito
this day Aunt Euciiula admit* that "it
wa* an ixld coincidence about the tiatn.-*,
that's certain."
Buxines* I'roxpccla ftu* Ivih
The New Y'-.rk ffrtanria/ Hullitm
say* : YV, enter U}>n 1x77 with this
luu-Liug in our favor. It cotupruwxi
several facta : First. It is rcavxMinnie to
assume that the pntcem f w.xxlmg out
insolvent firm* ha* lxx-n well nigh com
plet. <1 ; for aitlioiig'h the failure# of tin*
first nine months w.-re uuprecxxlcnted in
nutulver ami amount, y. I during the last
.piarter tlu r.> has lx-u a iii .rk.xl übat. -
tueiif, and it is very generally taken for
grant.xl that, in the nature of the ease,
this d.x-lension will lw> eoiitmin d. Sec
ond. The ebxirtng .-ut of a large nutulver
of firms wlr-. for the m>*t |>art. have
Ik* n ct'iupeting for btiMU.-aa in an
illegitimate way. leaven the I -.-Iter chance
for th"*.- wh > remain. Third. We have
had generally g.**l en>ps during the p.mt
year. Fourth. IVicc# of merchaudia..
aft.-r a protracted ami very s.vere d--
clti .-, apjxur t-> le.ve t -uch I b '.torn.
Yt least it may IK- s.u.l of live general
range uf article* that not only are they
no longer declining, but, <>u tlie x>n
tn-.ry, nh >w u iliviilnl stNnliiie* and itt
some case# an upward t.-mleuey, Tlvia
is imjvortaut not only o implying that
the reactionary tendency tliat set in with
th- p.iiuc lux* ntvout exhaustvxl itself, but
a!.*. tKCaune it lays a basis for confidence
in bati lbng ixviutinsbtK *. It may be
th at tht* procv-s* of decline has n->t yet
cu'.lilli.ate 1 in r.-s|K*-t to real Cstilta-, uli.i
the same may b true in re-jKx-t t > a
*, . pnxlucta least esseutial in the
g. icral cotistituptioti of the country ;
this renia-us t-> IK- t.xvUxl ; but, in nx,j* ,-t
t<> the ni'ire staple article* which con
stitute the letik .>f our c-uuin.-rcc, ties
j*i* tioii may be maintained w.th iqv
jiiiri-nt safety. F'tfUt. A* a rule, the full
:u wage* ,q>jKXtrs to have reiehel the
lowest point of vlept'i saint) ; tlrs may l*>
inf. rr.x! ftx>m th- fact thnt, for some
ti nth* past, we have e.-.uxxi to wittl'-s*
reductions of this kiiui. The nii|*>rtaticv*
of tli * fact is tliat a bos;, has IKXUI
reachixl nj*>u which comiu'slitu-a can VK
pnxluccl ch.xvply v>noiigh to inn-t tlie
diminiah" I pnreliasing ability <>f the
c -mmunity-, wh-ch is one of tlie first
iditiona prixxsh-nt to a revival of pro
ductive ojM-nvtioiis. Sixth. Sf--ks ol
merehiitidiae are generally in a very low
condttioii. llv. it if tins w. re IK>I com
monly r. |*>rt.sl t<> IK- the case, we u>- .it
safely infer it as mi mev.table conse
quence of the state of things existing for
th- la*t three year*. N>r do •* this rule
opplv to mere nicreantile sto-ks. In all
the hoiiaeli >l.ls ami wir.ir>ilK-* of tht>
country th-re is a c..inj>arativ.> exhaus
tion of n<N-UUUlhttxl supplies. 11l Ollf
productive establishments, fa-t-ruxv,
w -rkshopx, etc., there has IKX-II thr>x
years of |xistpotieinciit of renovations
ami replacements of machines, t*>l* and
instruments ; ami on nil our railroads
also the old appliances Irive b>--n itsvxl,
as far im jssvsililc, iu lieu of intr • luenig
Hew ones. This pr<MX-*s of using the old
instead of procuring th new-cannot well
IK- cnrruxl inm-h furtlu-r. There ome# a
|s>int at which n.x-essity compcla re
placement ; thnt point is Is-ing reiu-hc.l ;
and, once its demands begin to IK> re
suondo.l to, ; very important stimulus to
all k n Is of industry must result.
'•No tt;ic Man Can Stealee All."
Chinamen evidently believe in the
cynical iilen that virtue in woman ami
honestv in man lo not exist na a princi
ple. Their loose morality ami distrust
ful natures are evidences of this helief.
An attorney of San Francisco had a
claim of gI.'JOO against* a large Chinese
mereantile house on Clay street. They
acktiowlnlpsl the note ami Hes-misl anx
ious to pay it; lint, on being told to call
from day to day, the attorney's faith he
came somewhat shaken in Chinese hon
esty. On every occasion he notices! that
messengers were dispatches!, each bring
ing a man. until live or six were assem
bled, somewhat resembling a backroom
cancels wher" campaign slates are nianil
facturesl. In answer to an itiepiiry, tlee
attorney was told that the time e insisted
of seven members; there were seven
l<s*ks on the safe-, each lock opened with
a cliff-rent key, and t lint esech of the
seven members of the firm heal a key.
The Mlfe colllel not he o]>cned unless the
seven members with their seven kevs
were present; audit was nl suit as diffi
cult to get t Inseven Cliimunen togeth
er nt eiiie time as it was to tret a misting
of the Lie*k trustees. This vigilance
over each other was to prevent any mem
ber <if the llrm from stealing the com
pany's funds and going b tin* springs, or
as one of them plainly put it: "No one
man can stealee all."
A I'eior Constable.
Htonewall .laekson, at sixteen, was a
constable of the county of Lewis, Va.,
with his uncle Cununings Jackson ns his
securitv. The first execution that cnine
under fiis hands wees against a widow liv
ing some twelve miles from the court
house. Jackson summoned a man named
Charlie Post to accompany him ami to
assist him in elriving away the cattle
which ho proposed to levy upon. When
lie arrived there he found that the old
woman had but one cow, the principal
means of her support. So soon as he
learned this he turned to his companion
and said : "Charlie, I will not levy this
execution upon that poor woman's cow;
as poor as I am I would rather work
night and day and pay the debt myself."
Upon that he left there and stated the
facts to his uncle, his security in his offi
cial bond. He listened to his narrative
and then said ; " Tom, I see you were
never born to be a constable, my boy;
resign your office at once and I will pay
the execution,"
TIG: YHIITAIU M iHstsirii.
ail I t*it % I'hm uirr.
\|. Nllfjutltl, of Hi| mil, \Y is., one
of the stltiiTiirs of (lie Asht ibulu die
axb-r, gi*i the following mx'oiiut of her
vpeiientx-to tin Chieugo I'rihmo
1 left Ylbiiliy üb,nit two o'eliH-k, Slid
liudYi berth 111 the sleeping " I'nlatilu-."
I'here were twenty |nis*etigi-re on the
ears; two Indies wlieli Wi stsl'tixl and
two iinire itlterward A very severe
snowstorm set IU lit lt,M'li(->ler, mid we
nil cVpix-tcd to li, snowed ill. At Yslitu
bills bridge we were three or four hours
behind ; tin* wns between eight und nine
in the evening. I think in- were run
ning faster than Wt* tlld u few Utoitlellfs
previously. The jsxiple in the ear were
talking, luting or playing cards, and the
flret warning of any iinjrending danger
wa.* gi\< n us by u candle being knocked
down, tlie glass 111 the llllllpa Ix-llig hiUlt
tered Sliil the tadlmpe bteakiug. 'The
other light* fell, there wus u bump, then
a horrible crash.
A gentleman iitxir mo said - "fill!
my thai, we're going down. ' Then we
(NHUiaeniNxl to full, und We went down,
flow a, down, down. Sane remained in
their Mills, grn*piug tlieui, while otlien
rose, it wxt* quite ilurk now. I M-*l
up in the nt-r of the holding on
to tlie sea', ami tliuikiii..- I would )M> leas
liable to bt> injured by th>- breaking gla-s
ami the splinters i*ii the aide of tlie ear.
\ we Went down everything wa* a* si
i-iit a* the grave, but when we lui 1 struck
a terrible shriek aoroe froin tie- wn*-k.
Tliere wa* auothc- erasli at the snuie
inie, but not *.i I.ml a* the flr-d. YVheii
wx- w< ut dowit, spliuters, glax*. etc.,were
wh iliug aroilml u the ear, the Is-rlhs
w.-re slip}! Ill* down, ami tin I<* sits geli
-rwl eoofusioij. Soinefli-ng fell on me,
but tt wu* nothing very Inavv. S >tnr
gelltleluwu wh" > fell over uie, but recov
ered hitu-elf a moment wfterwwrtl. I
txillhl m>t tell wh > ll wa* as It was ihuli.
S *uie man *a-il the nu would Is- on fire
in a minute, wnd wt must hurry out.
Another nu-d " The waU-i is txiuiiug in,
an 1 wi- wdl lx> drowinxi." Gu IUV WHV
out a jierlevtly uniujuti I Uiwn grablte.l
me a* I groj..-d mv way wlong oil liautls
and kli'xx*, a-.id saitl : " I 111, help me;
d'li t leuV.- file, save Uie. "and ever so
tuwnv wuch things a* that, but 1 cxKildu't
sx- h'-S face. A woman wauled lue lo
hel|> hi-r husband, vfh > wa* jauitutxl in
betwxx-u the fl *trwisl v U rth. I tntxl to
gel htm out, but could n •!. Sonic men
• -all<*l out nil 1 said they Would coiue anil
help him. llten I went to the d'ir,
walking over the funia -e m my ixuiree.
'Tliere was no lire <*aught in our <-wi
How to get out alive i • Mild li
inc. The ear* around uie were either
nhliv/e or e vetxxl witii such uurwe* uf
rubbish us to altiiiixt COUiJvletelv lielil lue
in. But I -aw a man climbing up the
ruble*h, in. 1 I foliowxxl him. I got ou
the side of the ear, which lis 1 turnvxl
over, and rrawhxl ahaig on tt. It wx*m*d
to Is- lllbxl With js-ople, janmie 1 together,
wri-nniiug and crying for hclt>. Tliere
wa* another man ls-hm 1 me. am,! U-tli
truxl to lii-lp uie along, but it wn* Urn
shpjs-rv, an I 1 found 1 e.uihl do IsMlcr
ci-awhng wl-nig by lnvself. YY'li<-;i we gv>t
to the end of th - cur the*e men Mr,
Tyh-r of St. L ui* and Mr. White .f
Clitmg • In is-.i me d -vv n. When I got
lowii 1 found uiv*lf nt the water, mi n
ami lee up to UIV km*-*. Mr. Tyler WW*
lili-elmg ill self th lu aI, fax- ami hands,
Willi a dri-wlfill gash ov.-r hi- eye. Mr.
White wa* unhurt, and h- told uie it wa*
his eighth railma 1 aVnlent. I'mlor the
<xirner there wa* a man L> < hi a I lay
lowi-r tlriii the re*t of h> lsxly, ami hi*
liinb* were all crushed by the car. II
axktxl ua to help him, and w.- did so a*
ls*st we i iithl, unt.l others ca re ami <■-
ruxl him away, .offering int> -i*ely. 1 d<-
u t know wh >he wa*. All th * tune the
Aditaliuht Ix 'l* and tin- Is II tie
engine thul lui 1 )ia*-d over w.-re ringing
fur; n*'v Tie bin-.bug snow fell around
ua, ilium nn'e 1 by the light of the fir
wliicli ha 1 uftu -k< i the wre'k. Tlie
Istnks i •-ke 1 n> high s* th *•■ tieni Nia
gara n? firet. 'The lridg. lu 1 broken -iff
sli >rf a' each en 1. 1.-uving u iflimg but the
abutments.
B v th x t .UK' th Me We!.- pit i,tV ol 111.11
nretiiKi to help u. but th ii. wa* a |vr
fi- -t panic, very h liaviug any pr. *.-n.x
of mind at all. Many wh ..- >ul.t liaxe
sav.xl th.-Uis.-bi-* tt* we 1 ! a* not lui Ito ts
dragge 1 , ut of the >-r,*. .-j th-y w uld
have Ik-.' I burtu- I t > deu'h. The tv .men
really sh >we I the 1:1 •*! courage, a'i.l v.-l
then- were few of th nMI ■i. We wren*
h.-ljK- l up Ui- 101 l to the engine hot!*.',
Jitl-liiug through the *:iow a ui itx-. II'KI
elaiulN-ring tip tie- xtK-j>, rut'g.xl bank*
of tlii-i-r.' - 1 ,. The injure 1 were bp.Ugllt
in, some of them horribly init-iglc I, but
very f. ->f tin-m nimble t-> *p.-k. Then
wi-r.- t!-nx- !n lie* there a Mrs. linthn-n,
of N'.-w Y'-.rk, Mi>. Bingham, of Chicago,
a-iotli -r la ly ami mv .. If. Mv WHS
most remarkable, my only injury being
no Hi-ire tluxu n *-nt'eli up- n my wn t.
Mr*. < J nil in in wa* only slightly injure I.
Mrs. Bin -ham Im 1 ln-r left leg nml *j>nie
hurt, and the other lady, wh *• name I
don't kn >w . was also terribly injur.*!.
Before we had got tip tie- 101 l the
whole train wa* oti fir.-; we In-ar.l the
shriek* of the wounded mil drill r, and
the whole scene wax a* bright a* ilitv.
M'-ti were working a* lmr.l a* lliey could
to help tin- sufferer* out <>f their fi.-rv
|>risoii. A pliv -ician came >n alxnit haft
101 hour, and w - t.*<!t 'l>u*ex an-.l w. Nt to
the village. We were drenehe I thnuigh
nml through, aud our clothe* froze t<> us.
A SAP INCIKkVr.
'Tiie rentennial el.#wxi ii|>n Sj>img
field, Ohio, says a letter from that place,
with darkness. gl.H.iu ami sadiies*,
eausixl by the lo*s in the Ashtabula hor
ror of the worthy principal of the high
schools, I'rof.-ssor Henry G. R >g.-rs, and
hia lovely young wife. They were mar
ried tinder the most happy nnspiees
Tuesday, and, after visiting Buffalo ami
Niagara Falls, were to return here <>ti
Friday, only t> lis swallowed uj> in n
horrible, fi.-rv death, with nothing left
to tell the story. ,
Tin- young pi-oplo were ex|>vbxl home
on Saturday, ami preparations were
made for it grand reception. When news
of the accident was first r.-eeiv.xl fears
were at once excited that Mr. U .gei-s
might have taken that train. Mid n tele
gram was sent to the )>roj>rieb>r of tho
hotel nt Niagara nt which they stopped,
which was responded to with the r. ply
that the pnrl v had left tliere taking the
Pacific express at Buffalo, the ill fitted
train.
There was lh>- in-s| intense anxiety
among nil classes UJMUI Hie anbjeet, and
any scrap of information was eagerly
nought after. At n sjiec-nl session of the
SI-IKS>I honivl npi>ropriate resolutions
wetx- adopbvl. Tlie mxeurrenee east n
deejt ghsun over the whole eitv nnd in
the main |>ut nil end t-> tin- usual festivi
ties of the ilnv.
A f.liiixtlv Iterard.
The New York Ifcralti'* special rcjiort
of deaths from unnatural causes in that
city is one which calls for more than or
dinary attention. During 1870 more than
a thousand persons died from violence,
and there is an excess of more than a
hundred over the similar record of 1875.
A peculiar feature of this exhibit is that
the increase is due to accidental causes;
the increase of deaths from sunstrokes
and drowning more than account for the
total excess over last year's casualties.
In spite of law ami precaution the hid
eous roll of homicides and infanticides is
as large as 1875, and that of suicides is
considerably greater. The increase of
hydrophobia is alarming, five doitlis
having occurred, against none hist vear
111! IAM OF TIIE THIHK.
HUM lit. SUliiui I U> k IHIIIHIW nl l.u* IslsuU
bavr in. ,1 Oui-.Tbr 11. *t l ibrir V uuu#
Vteii l,u*l bv tl, t ir> H.VIHU'. VV re. b.
By the Wieek of tin- Cit'eassiau, B tlilw
of ImlutiiM whose history is a strung.- one
is pia -t eallv obliterattvl. 'Ten stulwart
voting men nt the Hiiiumsxick trils-, which
before th<- diswater nuiuls*rel Im7 souls,
l""t their liv.-s on thut night, ami the vil
lage is now d<-a.<latc iude.xl, being bereft
of its iu<nt active ami energetic workeis
I lie hist ify of the I.mg Island Indians
is one of jsNMibar interest.
At the time of the Kttrop<-a 1 diH<x.v.-rv
of Long Island there were twelve distinct
tribes of Indians inhabiting it. On the
north shore of the island, nutulx-ring
from w. *t I i east, tliere were the .Ylstui
•x-ock, N isse.piag, Setrths.it and ( orcliaiig
irils-*. On the aoiith aide, in tiie same
order, the Were the t'uliMlTex-, K x-kltwav,
Meme, .Marsajvesgue, Hixxit >gue, I'ub ii
"gue, Htiiuinvxs*k ami Monlatik trils-*.
1 his hitter trils- lui 1 Mtlslu.xl all th<se
• a.*t of fanarwee, iuul one of its chiefs,
\\ ysudauk by iunne, w.u> the giaini
Ni diein of I, -ng Island. This uifoder
ation wa*. howev.-r, itself umler Lrilmte
to the more |siweifttl I'etjuot nation of
<-sstent Connecticut, the ('.uiatxsx* tube
is-ing umb-r tribute to the Mohawk na
tion, bad oblig.-d to jiay nu annual n**<xw
luent of wampiitu and dried elams. 11--
fusing t • do tins oil one ixx-asloli, tliev
wer. wip.xl from ex.si* nee by the Mo.
hawks. It mav have la-en this affair
which induced the other trilss. of the
island to up|H-u! to the wdiite man for pre
tix-ti.-u ; in lt-til, however, the chief* of
all t!u- Eastern tnls-x placed theuise've*
under the e.iltlr.il of tf.e c liuiutxsioner#
of tile vxihaiie* of New Kuglslei for Coliu
*<l and protx*tioii, ll is probubb tliat
flu- lavages of a terrible dnsxuve in 1 G.VC.
which .h *trov.*l nearly two-tiur.ls of the
Indians of I, mg |*hutd, was tin- <-nue of
this UioVe ueiil. These Indians had, how
ever, fi MI the v. ry first, IKX-U uti friendlv
terms with tie- whit *, which isnttubutwd
by the several WriU'lS of I.l*l irins of
I. lUg Eland t i tin- kind aud jus! ixiUlxve
invariably pni-surxl t >wurd lin-iu bv the
Eunip. utib. They w.-re very little niter
f.-rixl with by tiie whites, tin- 1 take's law,
lua.it- in lt'itx, wh eh pr>4tibitel
imw, a form of worship t > tlie devil,
Ix-mg the only interference r.x*'ixlexi in
early his'-try of iln-ir .b-aling witii the
while im u. Civtliratiou among them
was tiiu* nut It a e uupurutsvrly easy tnst
n-r, and freiu the first, the irilwa at the
•NAxU-m eii.t of tlie island cxhilute.! in
dust in MIS habits, none more a., than Una
l*.r trils-, tlie Shmiie--ks, who inlutbit
<• I the lt. ren lull* aivd adjacotil x>pntrv
in what is IK-W the t -wuship of S-ulii
smpt in, Suffolk county.
till Ui<- s;\t..-liUi of August. ITtCI. the
people - -f ri-iithampt -n |tur,-lian.xl ol Uns
tnlie Uir lan-1 they .aVUJii.*!, and gate
tlieiu a Utotisauil >-ar leas.- of ultat was
<-albxl ShuiuceucY tract, and which ID
elud.xl tlie hills, with tile tieck of land
adjoining on Un* s->uth.xt.*t. Bv the terms
of Uns b a*, thev were "allowed Uic
privilege of plow.tig, |>biul litaan 1 cut
ting tinilvr for fencing an 1 fuel, also to
cut ting*, bulrushes, ami u<-h gia.xx.-s a*
they un.- m making mats and IK-IIK,-#.'
I'll.- t'lWUhlop rexerted t • itx-lf llliwlowx,
mar*lie, giax*. hertiage, t.xsjinii jiaxtur
age, tinilvr, stone ami emv.-nunit high
ways Iliat the |*. >r Sii iiiixx*-k tnls*
iluptvn.xl itself, even under th.-x.-disa.l
vautag- . is pr>>v. d by Uu-ir mlwcjtMot
history ami by th.- rising up among them
of m. i > ndow.Nl ;th n > inferior talent*,
s im. wiii-re s!-ut 1750 It * P-t -r John,
a nat v. of the tnlM-, went foiUi t > !al*u
aiiK-ng h>* In-lian lin-thr.-u, an 1 sue
ixxxl.xl i,i .-stal.bsli tig churches at Wa 1-
ing river, Paoqa'tick and (slip. Peter
J- )tu wa* follow.xl in lTtt) by tlie fatuous
Paul Cttff.x-. a!s.. a Sliinne - ch.
After one humlrr-1 an I fifty year# of
living under the .-mliarrwxxnig t -rtus of
this lease the S.'llliUec - ks Sought f>>r
Is-iter term an 1n March 15. 18.V.1.
tluiewii a change liuab ill the l.wxe.
and they were given Uie slitsdute owuer
!i JI of t! a' p rti.wi >f Sloiinc.--k neck
which lies .-u the * >nth-a-t b -un-larv of
Ui • hills.
111.- Inst ix-iisn* put the r tpitnber at
1 *<7 mm, women an-1 children, the pn>-
porto' - being alanit the same ax with
white p-->pl-. Five children in iwli
family is the av. rage. The majority are
twr-.ly African; but u>- family is pure
lmiiau, tliat of J.-liu Y\"nlk.-r, who j>er-
I'h.xl in the wpx-k. He left a wife ami
eight children. Hi* father a Sluu'ie
rx\l and In* m -th.-t a Motitunk. Hi#
wife is jUlie Indian.
TIK- men an- nut dv einjilov.xl iu fish
ing and wlulling, it few hiring as farm
hamls. The former art- noted a* excel
lent rx*.ks, ami furnish imt <>f the do
ni.-xt <- tliat region. The tribal
organization is very simple. They are
governed by three trust.*-*, who are
elected annually at the regular towiialiij.
m.vting*. The tlir.x-ln*t elecU-1 trust
ee*. including John Walker, u.xtc lost in
the wreck. 'The h Hue lota ami fann*
varv fa nil a small garden to twenty-tlv,-
acre*. Their allotment re*ts entirely with
the trust. who may, at any time, u.-
ereaxe <-r .hvrews.- the aimuuit f land in
the p H.M>xHu>n of auv person.
The lc-t*.s IK >t lieing jn-rpetual. when
a Shi unco vk dies all the itnj>r>>vetu*iit.s
iu the shaiK- of cultivation, eleaiiug,
fencing and buihliug revert tothetrilv,
ami tin- trust.*-* mav r>-all>>t them to jvr
sou* who are utter strangers to the dead
nuin. M'>r.- >vei-, au ludiatff eaniMit lease
<>r sub-let the land allot.-.1 t > hint. These
fa.-ts have had u very depressing influence
u|*>n the attem|>ts of the nls>rigilies to
eultivute tli<- rear-rvnti.m, and have driven
them to settle outside. Numlvrsof tlieni
are n >w scattered a!l over the I mt.xl
Hta l . l #. They have at their Long Island
home two onbnary districA schools and
two ehiire'ie*. t>ne>f the latter i* ('oti
gregn'ional and the other i# f tin- Heo
> lid Advent demqninntnm.
The singular orgnniaatHi f the L >ng
Ishiml Indians *• "ins to have IMXUI
eff.-et.xl with but little ln-lp from the
wlnt>>s. The M'Uitauks n lh>' end of
the i*ln:ul retain their <>l>l tribal system
intri t, but only twelve of them remain,
and one <>l these is King Pharaoh. He
holds as n perquisite the right f j>astur
age n the Moutauk h 11*. ami person#
wish ng t> pasture have to " sc.-" the
kinc. \Vh.-n Phanw>h'afather die.l, tenor
twelve years Bgo, the uncle of the pres
ent king succeeded t > the throne, but
Pharaoh, made etiurag.xms and vicious
by whisky, gnth- red his faniilini-s nnd so
terrified hi* uncle by tlirtxtts that th>-
Intb-r resigned, and " Pharaeli reigned
ill his stead." These M-nitniiks were
always known n*a warlike tribe, but they
were crippled nml most of them slain in
177(1 by tli" I'eqiiot* of Connecticut,
against wliotu th-y wAi> marching, and
wiio lure l tlieui i > destruction by nu
ambuscade.
An attempt was made about five years
ago by the Oneida Indians of New York
to institute intermarriage between their
tribe and the Shinneeoeks. A deiuita
t;on of Oneida* came to Long Island,
bringing with them soine s|cciinens of
their young women. Hut the big In
dians of Long Island turned up the r
noses at these damsels, and they de
parted.
Unt 1 about thirty years ago this tribe
nsod the ancient thatched lodges. The
last of these was burnt at that time, with
its occupant, Mary Tut, who was over
eighty years old. Tlr'ir homes are now
small, one and two st >rv jieakod roof
clapboard houses. The tribe dressed
in the traditional blanket up to ten years
ago. Thev own no boats but fishing
smacks. I'here is only one basket maker
among them. One woman, Kitty Wal-
TKKMH: a Year, in Advance.
ker, Mill narriet the " lwi-k basket " a
long, nuilow wicker affair, sujpoited
by u btiiq> passing uround the forehead.
I hc I top Returns.
'The l>oeelnl>r l-lsvrtscif the •tgitctll
lural ili-jvurtnu-nt of the t'uitod Htatos
*uy * tliat alimvsl the uly eomplauit alvcmt
tin l apple eiop is tlvat its *ujerabund-
SIKX- has greatly diminished its market
value.
'The Iteee.liver letilllVS iudlitlte tliat
the averag. a winter wln-at has Iveeu in
i-nwMnl alsvir five js-r cent, over tliat
of the previous voar. 'Tlie sinali area
shown in the New England States is
fully maintained, and some additions
were exjvectod to lie made after our re
turns were sent 111, as 111 notue counties
it is etistoiuarv to delay a.wing this gnnu
until just In-fore fr.x-zmg. All of the
Mnldle State* return an average equal to
tliut of the last year except New York,
which bvses eight |K-r c*ut. The South
Atlantic ix*t*i State* rejs.rt a considera
ble iiier.-*e, a stual! deficiency in Geor
gia I wing overcome by a marked m
crvfuw HI North Carolina umlS-aith Carve
liuu. Tin (Suit Stat.-*, Alabama ami
Mm* nutq.pi lejs.rt an iucreaae which
c-vunt. i bslvUK'e the decline iu Texas.
Florv.la un>l E >uv*miia grow but lusigm
tb-aut crop*. The inland Southern State*
All rejs.ii aii LUCIEAO-'l acreage. North
of the Ohio river, Michigan ami Wmeon
siiv rejsvrt a decrease of wheat acreage,
but the other States rejKirt increased
brendtlis, enlarging tiie acreage <vf this
section alsuit thrx- |-r cent. West of
the MiaiHM)ppi river, Mma>Hiri enlarge#
lu-r itrreage at least one-third, Kansas,
one-eighth, and Nebraska nearly oue
lut'f. The Pacific States also report a
large increase. The ixvuibtiou of the
•Top ajijMxtr* froui the returns to lie
al*iut ten jwr cent, alvore the acreage on
the whole.
The average of winter rye in lW?(i doe#
nst materially differ front that uf 1870.
A I hange of Ufc.
AI Mint six years ago two r>bl-is lying
iu w;.,i in n ravine near Nashville,Tenn.,
■wNx.st.xl n Mr. Detitsey Weaver, t.sik huu
Itvuu his buggy, gaggvxl und tied him,
earn.xl him into a dense tiueket, rolilved
hint of sls, nml left him to free himself
ax IKX.I he collhl. It\ il.*|rml<* exertion
he frvxxl himself. Oue of Uie robber#
was arrested and ideufltbxl, alid subse
quent Jy the other Was capture.l. Ii >th
men were eolivi.*tel and ***ut<-mxxl to ten
or fiftvx-u Vrxtiw' unpriixinineiit. Soine
titue aft.-r lie Wits sent t> the penitentiary,
one Ixviiuir a class leader IU the ouovict
Sunday-scltonl, and detennimxl
1.1 leud a l-tter life, .lust lief on- Christ
um*. 1875, friends of tie* reformed con
vict up}>l uxl to Mr. Weaver for hia ac
quiescence ill the |iardoll of Uie mail that
Christmas. Mr. Weaver couacuttxl, and
the convict tliat Christmas morning
walked out of Uie prison doors a free
niiui. He dx>ired U> *•*■ Mr. Weaver for
Uu- purptwc of asking ins forgiveness for
Uie neigh manner in which lie had treat
ed huu. and to return the money of
which they liad loblsxl him, wiUi inter
< -t. Mr. Weaver lieing sick at the time,
his sou went to see the fxuivict, who
tllixle the same pixqsisiUou. But the
money wo* refits.*!, sml moliiug more
has IKKMI liearvl of the man until a short
time ago, when it was ascertained that he
hud txx*uue a pastor ef a church aud
was leading a piotts, useful life. It is
aaid that tins reformed convict revx ived
In* education at Bethany TVilleg.*, and
wa* r>xdly a man of much mental cajva
citv. Another convict, who ha.l jiartici
jatxl in the jK-mt.-ntiary Snndav-schiKi]
work, His in leaving the penitentiary was
orvlaitiod a minist.-r ai E.-bai-.oii, and j#
now iu charge ufa congregation out
West.
Thoughts for Saturday Mghl.
The true man is Uie hajqiy man.
There will lie ever a place for virtue.
Chancier i# a js-ri.x-tlv rdticntod will.
Time's chariot win. Is make their road
ill fairest faixx,.
In the commerce of sjieerh use only
ixiin of gold ami silver.
'll ie greatest truths are the simplest:
so are th<- greatest men.
B- >rn. livixl and died, sum uji the great
epitome of man.
One must do more when on# is old
than when one is young.
1. >vo is the ladder on which we ehinli
to the likeness of Gtsl.
They who have light in themselves
will not revolve n* satellites.
Smie p*sl, loving, self-xacrifieing
dixxl will transform the homeliest face
into lienuty and sanctity.
A little management may often evade
rexistamxe, which a vast force might
vainly strive to overcome.
Pleasure, like quicksilver, i# bright
and shy. If we try to grasji it, it still
elude# us and still glitters.
They who do sjieak ill of themselves
do s i mostly s* the snr>st way of jirov
ing how m.sl>st and candid they are.
Things right in themselves are more
likely to Im- hindered Uian a.lvanee.l by
an injudicious t>-al for ]imin>itiug them.
A New Court.
Senator Wright's bill, in the I'nited
Stat<-s SeiiAte, jirexented some wix-ks ago.
looks to the settlement of the Presidential
question by tin l establishment of aconrl to
divide all such Contests as that now js-nd
ing. The bill provides in snlmtanee that
" the iNUirt sliail consist of the chief jus
tice ami six judge* of the circuit r dis
trict courts of Ul>" I'nited Stat.-*, to IH>
elected by the snxl ehief justice from
those of different jsilitical parties, mid
who slmll not la- interest.*! in tlie jiartie
ular .*>nt<-t, nor in any manner related
thereto. Tho court shall meet in Wash
ington and the ehief justice shall preside.
Before acting the jinlgea shall take ti
special ath for the occasion. The court
slinll have js>wer to make and enforce all
regulations not contrary to law. The
court shall have power to allow amend
ments to pleadings, but then* ahall lw> no
unnecessary delav in the hearing*. Each
of the judges have J*>Wl r to admin
ister <>nths, and the court shall have
power lo send for jiersona or jwjvrs and
.-nforee attendance. A majority slmll be
conns-tent to decide all questions ami
shall keep a rvonl."
A Wicked Fiieiay
Tito wickedest nml most audacious fish
of all that preys on the oyster is the
drumfish. When he lights on an >yster
htil he isn't satisfied with eating the in
side, but ehews the oyster shell up als<i.
He is n great, eoarse fish like a sheep's
head, and has big teeth. He mashes an
oyster ui> the sumo n small boy eats |>o
nuts. Drumfish eotne in schools, and
Princes bay is their favorite resort, East
river and the bays in the sound lieing
comparatively free from them. They
don't come every year, and it is tive
years since n largo who >1 paid its respects
to Princes bay. They make a noise like
a drum, and a large school feeding would
beat a drum corps. When they have
gone through an oyster bed they will
tackle the bottom of an oyster schooner,
and eat the barnacles off. Druuifish pay
their visits generally in the months of
September and October. They have de
stroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars'
worth of oysters in years gone by. In
two weeks one firm lost $2,000 worth of
oysters through them,
NUMBER 3.
THE PHEfiIRETTIAL COUNT.
ImpunMMi AriiuM It? ib# llnw M*e>al <#m-
mlllr#.
Tli<- following i* tui aix-urate stbtviiient
of the in'turn tJiUn tar taken ly tlx* itjie
nul committee appoint**! to mqgire into
tl<o power*, privilege* iui<i dutieo of the
House of Reprt*>eiittivea in tin* count
ing of the i-ui'toml votes for lVeoideiit
ali<l Vice- President.
liie colli mil'.w lias held till Of meet
ings. At the aeooad meeting .Mr. Tuck
er, of Virginia, presented a series of
■>ro|>oaitioiiM, iu form sulaitanOally aa
follows:
Flint- Tlie juiwer to ixMint th%elec
tornl votes in not conferred by die Con
stitution IIJMIU the president of the
Kenate.
Secoud- That the power to <xiuut tlie
electoral votes is <vinferred by tlie Con
stitution 111 ion the Heuwte and House of
lteliresell til 11VCS. •
Third—That. in tlie execution of the
leiwer to ooiiut tlie electoral votea, the
louse of H<*preseutati ves is, at leant, n>-
onhuate and ejus] with the Beuate.
Fouith- Tliat in the counting of the
electoral vote no vote can be counted
against the judgment and assent of the
House id Representatives.
These propositions were discussed by
the committee, ami much ability lias
I wen ahowu bv several of the members.
Two of the Republican niemliers, Mr.
Hurebard of Illinoia Mid Mr. M'-Dill of
lowa, took gngtnd ui favor of the right*
of the president of tlie Senate to count
the electoral votes.
Mr. Srelji- of Manatu-hilM-U*, the other
Republican mcmlier, livid tliat, a* th
ixaumittee sua appointed to ouuaider the
ftiuetion of the House of Representatives
iu counting tlie ehx-toral vote, it wu* mi
part <4 its duty to patm upon the }H>wei
of the president of the Setiale. He lieUl
tliat tin- method of couuliug the electoral
votes should lie determined bv a law
JMUUMXI by Congress. Mr. Seehe *ub
luitted tlie following aa a sultsmwp- for
Mr. Tucker'a pro|*isitiou*:
h'rmAitd, That it is the privilege of
the House of R<-l>re* titaUves to atteud
with the Semite when tlie electoral votes
are opened, to apixuut tellers, W'lio, in
ixuiuection with tellers appoiuteJ by the
Senate, shall register and compute this
vote, and to object for any reason which
it deem* projM-i to the rm-priou of any
electoral \ot . That it is ill the jsiwer
of the House (if Repixxieutativew, witii
the concurrence of the Senate, to reject
auv electoral vote ahicli may lie contrary
to law.
That it l* the duly of the House of
UitimvultlivM to sccept every properly
cx*rtill(xl electoial vote which the two
house* do uot agree to reject as coutrary
to law.
Thai the privileges, tlie powers, and
the duties of tlie House of Itepreseut*-
trie* iu counting tlie votes for Preaideut
and Vice-President at tlie United States
are no more and no lew* than thnae of
tlie Senate.
At a late meeting of the committee,
Mr. Rurchanl moved to amend Mr.
Tucker's pro)K>!Uti'Ui by affirming that
the president if the H-nate luid the
power to (xiunt tlie vote. This was uega
tivenL Tlie four projaautious of Mr.
Sx*lye were next voted upon, and the
conunitice *Uhkl four to three against the
motion, tlie Republican members all
voting for it. The committee uext voted
up-u the first three of Mr. Tucker *
prop<*itiou* luriatiui, Tlie two first
acre adopted by a jwrty vote—four to
three—and the third one receivxxl the
unuiimous \<>te of the committee. Tlie
fourth proposition, which is the most
imjairtant of all, will t*e votxxl upon at
the next iiux-ting of the committer, and
it will probably la- adonUxl by a party
vote. It reaffirm* the Aoctrinw* of the
tweuty-secoud joint rule, that the House
alone lis* the |*>wer to rejart the vote of
a State.
The stand to IK> taken li* the Detuo
rrttir metnlten upon tin* proposition i*
indicative i'f the purpose of the Demo
cratic leaden at the House, which is to
insist *t r.mgly uj>u the highest power
which has e\<-r lieeu exercised by the
House over the electoral votes.
The Electoral Vote.
Liic I'mteJ States House mmAtti>c on
the counting of the electoral vote lias ile
citlod to sit in Mvret session and to witln
hold any publication of it* proceedings
until later iti the session, or until the
cnnmittee ha* reached something like a
unauimoiif sentiment. It will not meet
the Senate committee in joint aeaaiou un
til it is prepared to act definifeelv. Cor
reoptaidence ha* lawcl Ix't ween its cliair
ituui. Mr. IVrne. ami the cliairmau <if the
Heuate committee, Mr. Edmunds, on the
unhjict of a joint conference, but the
House committee wishes to reach a plan
of action and decide upon a piliey inde
jwodently of the Senate committee and
consistent with the dntv it itwt* the
House of Representative*bdora it shall
take iiait in a joint session of the two
committees.
A ('OWM-ienUou* Plumber.
A gentleman living iu Boston has dis
covers! a remarkable plumber, who
ricldv diwrwi sneh a fame as lie may
obtain in a newspaper paragraph. Due
Sunday morning this gentleman afore
said found hi* water pip'frozen. After
two hours' unsuccessful work he went
forth ninl Mcitml a plumber, who was
able to obviate the difficulty. Tlie citi
zen wished to settle at once, but the
tilnmler refusal any pay, stating that
lie could not refuse such a call ou Sun
day, as delay often caused vhuuage. but
he ixnild not conscientiously accept
money for w ork done on Sunday.
t War Story.
I'lio Savannah (lia.) Xrtr* says :
Kveryliody ha* heard of the (ieorgian
named Godwin, who received thirteen
bullet* in hi* clothing during the war,
yet vat unhurt. Mr. John M. F. Er
win, of Greenwood. Fla, savs tin* is a
fact, compare ! with which tlie Georgi
an's adventure wa a trifle : A Florida
lieutenant at Petersburg, in 1864, got
seventeen bullet hole* through hii coat
in one day, yet waa unhurt. He wae go
ing t the rear, quick time, coat folded
tinder hi* arm, when a sharp-shooter went
for him.
Taking Babies to Church.
The late Jcdediah Buahuell, pastor of
the Congregational church at Cornwall,
Vt.,oneof the wisest and lest of men,
on an oooasion of aomc diaturliance
made by the crying of an infant, paused
in his sermon to say: "Mothers, don't
stay away from the house of God be
cause you hnve no one to leave your ba
bies with. Bring them with yon, and
if they cry now and then it will not dis
tress or DIHOONQIOSE me half as much as
to see your places vacant."
WHY NOT. —" Why should not boys I><
taught to cook as well as girls? A hus
band who understands how to hake,
broil, stew and boil is u real treasure in a
household, however accomplished hia
better half may be in the same direc
tion. " Why not make him baby tender
als>? Let his development in house
hold education l>e complete and svm
metrical.
AN ARMY or THEM. —The total num
ber of a nests made by the police of New
York during the year 1876, as computed
from their returns from January 1 until
the inoniing of December 30, was 91,401.
Item* of Interest.
Never ponlpone happiness.
aa his who la-
To" cr* fl|ffV*v inueh ia to put your
I Maori* lb aim her man a sqneeser,
'lucre are T4,fK#,fVJ2 aehool going rhil
-1 (lit* in Itm-ffnitsd States and Tanri
i'lrtf*. f ff-ji J r
" Man prupoaea"— hut tliere are still
111,000 more woman than mien in Massa
chusetts.
A man at a church fair the other night
cried out: " I'v# get the ovater. (limine
tlie prite."
The art of Irving easil v aa k> money ia
to pitch your scale of living one degrea
Isilow your mmus. ,
" Tite liuote," wy* Jah Hillings, " ia
a luxury, in that they make a man forget
all hia other miseries."
Apple* dou't keep Worth a cent this
winter—especially where there are four
buys in the house.
Hpicer auys he meant to have had hia
sidewalk as)ted during the cold spell, hut
he '■ slipped up on it."*
It is proposed to put a roof, composed
of glasa and iron, over tlie whole of tlie
ruiiusl town of Pympeii.
Hie total production of l*et root
sugar iu Euroj** is now estimated to cou
aiderahly exceed 1,(100,(100 tons.
The season for going to candy pulls,
and getting into a fight over a freckled
faced girl with a blue now on, ha* come.
Punch, in hia dictionary, gives the
definition of the word " eonacienre
" My ntle for another man s conduct."
The young geutlemen who aoonmpauied
hia offer of marriage vritfi a hundmi dol
lar fur jacket has had hia hand and seal
accepted.
Florida has a young lady named Neu
ralgia Dimple. Her mother found it on
a medicine 1 Kittle and was charmed with
it
It was scurvy that prevented the Eng
liab expedition from reaching the north
pole. A scurry excuse is I letter tluui
none.
Among the resolves feu* the new year,
resolve that if yon ante anything for tlie
newspapers you will close when yon have
said what you have to say.
Scoop the core out of a baked apple,
fill the hole with milk and sugar, and set
out doors to free*#, 'lJim go out after
owl, step on the apple, and take a slide
down the step aoJ over three old knots
and two aalipans.
After the sham 1 mule at Princeton. N".
J., the troop* partook of an alegaot col
lation and liad a g<sl time. If the shade *
of any old Continental viewed the JJTO
needing* after the battle he must have
lunged to come back and ro-eulisb
" A woman,"' remarked a Norwich offi
cial, " first lures a fast man, then a good
man, aud finally auv man." Then hia
wife appeared'in tin- doorway, and be
went lawk into the cellar and began to
split np kindlinga iu an abject manner.
Russian war vessels in the Caspian are
hereafter to use petroleum instead of
cual. Experiments with the new fuel
have proved au satisfactory that within a
few weeks the furuaca of cereti vessels
will hava been altered to suit the ma
terial.
Stranger* visiting New York city de
fine it thaß.l v : •' To steal is to rob the
traveling public." Home hotel* charge
live dollar* per day, other* don't. Two
dollars and a half is all that the best
hotel* should charge ; all over that price
is downright robberv.
If any good resolutions rejecting tlie
ixmdiu t >J life during the new year have
lieen filiating through any young man'a
head, this is the tune to enter upon the
determination to keep them and to begin
to carry them out Put them down on
l>a|K-r. if tliat will strengthen the mind's
purpose in regard to them.
The oansu* taker* of the Young Men s
Christian Association of Jersey City re
port that there are " thirty-five saloon*
to each church :u that city." Whereupon
the Norristowu H< raid say* : " Why a
chnrrh idiould liave no'many saloon* we
can't understand. We should think ten
would suffice for tlie largest church in
tlie city."
It is uow ascertained beyond a doubt
tliat two young ladies of Rondout, N.
Y., ÜBtm. usimxl Charkftte and Martha
Smith, who left intending to visit their
uncle at Kloomiugtou. 11L. were among
the victims of tlie Ashtabula railroad
disaster. They were the daughters of a
willow recently reduced fnuu affluence to
poverty, aud the blows falls ujxm her
with crushing weight.
A asd example of the fatal nature of
diphtheria has just occurred in Pari*. A
whole family, consisting of father and
mother sad two children, were attacked
with it, snd oarrieil off in short time.
1 )r. lb-gnu ult, who attended them,
caught tlx- malady, and in apite of the
(an* of one of hi* colleague*. Dr. Bi*et,
died also in twvitv-fonr houf*. I>r.
Riset was theu attacked in hi* turn, sod
be expired.
A man and his wife were found in
Uieir dwelling in San Francisco, both
with bullet wounds, from which they
have probably aince died. The husband
said, as hi* dying testimony, that his
wife shot him, "ami then accidentally slug
herself. Tlie wife said, as her dving
testimony, that her husband shot tier,
aud then accidrutaliy shot himself. Each
gave jealousy aa the inciting cause of
the other's crime. Nobody el*e saw the
*lm H>ting, and tlie notice find no means
of reaching tlie truth.
It IVn Strong Enough.
An Indianisu went into a Chicago
saloon and asked fur a "gin cocktail with
souie strength into it" The barkeeper
made a mixture of alcohol, pepper aance,
alisinthe, lime* and painkiller. " The
Indianinu drank it," says tlie Chicago
Tribmm , " and aUxit a quart of tear*
catfie to his eve*, his mouth contracted
to 'about the *lse of a safe key hole, and
when lie had sufficiently mastered hia
emotion t> speak he said : * How much's
tliat ?' ' Fim-cn cents,'' responded the
t>arktx'j>er. Tin- customer put down a
quarter and said : ' Keep the change—
have something yourself ;* then, wring
ing tliq liarkeeper's hand, he added :
' Tliat's the first good gin I've tasted
siu<-e 1 left home—something like liquor;
it's sort of quick in taking hold and alow
in letting go. Oome and see me, and
I'll give you some corn whisky that's
1 letter still—whisky that's like swallow
ing a circular saw whole and pulling it
up again.' Tlie barkeeper an hour later
asked the patmlmu if he liad heard of
an old man Vicing found dead on the
sidewalk, and when the officer said no,
he danced a few jig steps, and cried :
4 Hurrah, he's gone somewhere else to
die!' ** .
Sunday Law.
A law in Massachusetts provides that
any jierwon who keeps open a place of
business on Sunday, or does any business
or labor on that >lay, shall pay a fine of
not more tluui $lO for each offense. A
Hebrew who was convicted of *ttch an
offense put in the plea that as he con
scientiously lieliev\l that the seventh
day of the week was the Sabbath, and
that as he nliaerved the Reventh day and
did no business thereon, he could not
constitutionally lie held ameualile to tlie
State laws regulating the Lord's day.
The court overruled his plea, and the
supreme court of the State lias just
affirmed tlie ruling.
INDIANS SLACOHTRUKD. —The Galves
ton Xrire lias a letter from Fort Worth
which says: M. M. Braniuui, of this
place, has just arrived from a frontier
trip, and brought with him an Indian's
outfit. He savs that he and three buffa
lo hunters surprised a thieving band of
live Comanolies ou the Colorado, about
seventy miles from Concho, and killed
them all. Tliev slipped up on them
while cooking, and killed all but one the
first round, and finished him with a sec
ond volley.
POPE PICS IX.—The Roman Catholic
church throughout the world will, on the
twenty-first of next May, celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of
Pope Pius IX. to the dignity of the Epis
copate. Mrs. Gen. Sherman has charge
of the subscriptions for the event in the
United States.