The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, December 06, 1877, Image 1
True Fan A. It may b glottal* to writ* Thought* that shall glad tha two or thro* High souls, lika thoaa far star* that com* in sight Onoeln a century. But bettor far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men. To writ# some earnest Terse or Une Which seeking not the praise of art. Shall make s clearer faith and manhood smile Inths untutored heart. He that doth this, in verse or proee May be forgotten in his day But surely shall lie crowned at last with Ihoee Who live and speak for aye. The Hiifst. SY XJLRV ,'l.SaiH. From ont the great world'* ru*h snd din. There cams * guest; The inner court he entered in, And sat st rest. * (Uow on the wild tide of affair* The gates were cloned , Afar the hungry hot of care* At last refused. Then through the dun doors of the past. All pare of Msme Came boyish memories floating peel ~ Hi* mother'* name. "Ah I ail this load world call* the best I d give," he said, " To feel her hand, on her dear bread To lean my head. "I ere within the ctowued day. TV: would he joy, Could she but bear use for away. 0000 mors her boy." Man's strength is weakness, a fin ail He stood confessed ; None quite can still th. heart's wild coll. None quite are blwseed. Arrows the fire that know* no fear A shade swept fast, A* if a following angel near That moment passed. ue sacred silence of the room Did softly stir , A splendor grew within the gloom Of her, of her ! Out to the rrvst world's ruth and din. Has gone my guest . Tb* battle biases, the praise men win Are his— not rest. Far oat amid the earth's turmoils A strong man stands. Upheld in triumph end in toils By nnseeu hands. But who may Ufl with subtle wand The meek* we wear ? I only know hi* mother's hand I* on his hair. I only know through all life's harms. Through aiu's alloy. Somehow, somewhere that mother's amis Will reach her boy. THE FLOODED GULCH. I warn't never meant for no sailor, I warn't; but I come of a great nation, and when a chap out our way snys he'll dn a thing, he doee it, I said I'd go to sco, and I went—and thar yon are; I said I'd drop hunting, and take to min ing, and thar I wras; and that's how it come about You see, we was rather rough out our way, where Hez Lane and me went with oar bit of tent and pickers, shooting irons, and sech like, meaning to make a pile of gold. We went to Washoe, and didn't get on ; then we went to Fort I*ramie, and didn't get on there. Last, we went right up into the mountain, picking our way amongst the stones, for He* see : " Look here, old hoas f let's get whar no one's been afore. If we get whar the hoys are at work already, they've took the cream, and we gets the skim milk. Lei's you and me get the cream, and let aome o' the others take the skim milk." "Good for you," I says; and we tramped ou day arter day, till we got tight np in the )iesrt o' the mountains, where no one hadn't beau afore, nnd it was so still and quiet, as it made you quite deaf. It wras a strange, wild sort of place, like aa if one o* them coons called giauts bad driven a wedge into a mountain and split it, making a place for a bit of a stream to ran at the bottom, and lay bare the gold we wanted to find. "Tbis'U do, Dab," says Hez, as we put np our bit of a teak an a pleasant green shelf in the steep valley place. " This'll do. Dab ; thar's yaller gold spaugling them sands, and running in veins through them rocks, and yaller gold in pockets of the rocks. "Then let's call it Yaller Gulch," I says. " Done, old hoes !" said Hez ; and Yaller Gulch it is. We set to work next day washing in the bit of a stream, and shook hands on our good luck. " This'll do," says Hez. "We shall make a pile here. No one won't dream of hunting this ont." " Say, stranger !" says a voice as made as both jump. "Do it wash well ?" Ami if there warn't a long, lean, ngly, yaller-looking chap looking down at ns, as he stood holding a mule by the bridle. Why, afore a week was over, so far from us keeping it sung, I reckon there was fifty people in Yaller Oulch. washing away, "and making their piles. Afore another week was over some one had set up a store, and next day there was a gambling saloon. Keep it to ourselves! Why, stranger, I reckon if there was a speck of gold anywheres within five hundred miles our chaps'd sniff it out like vultures, and be dowu upon it. It warn't no use to grumble, and we kept what we thought to ourselves, working away and making our ounces the beat way we could. One day I pro posed we should go up bighsr in the mountains; but Hez said he'd be blamed if he'd move ; aud next day, if he'd wanted me to go, I should have told him I'd be blamed if I'd move; aud all at once, from being re 1-hot chums, as would have done anything for one another, Hez and me got to be mortal enemies. Now, look here, stranger. Did you ever keep chickens? P'r'aps not; but if you ever do, jtfet you notice this. You've got, say, a dozen yonng cocks pecking abont, and as happy as can be— smart and lively, an* innercent as chickens should be. Now, just you go and drop a pretty yboug pnllet iu among 'em, aud see if there won't he a row. Why, afore night there'll be combs bleeding, eyes knocked out, feathers torn and ragged—a reg'lar pepper-box and bowie set-to, and ail 'acause of that little smooth, brown pullet, that looks on so quiet and gentle, as if wondering who made the row.' Now, that's what was the matter with us: for who should come into the Gulch one day but an old store keeping ort of fellow, with as pretty a daughter as ever stepped, and from that moment it was all over between Hez and me. He'd got away with him, yon see, as I hadn't; and they always made him welkim at that thar store, when it was only "H>w do you do?" and "Good morning," to me. I don't know what lore is, strangers; but if Jael Burn had told me to go and cut one of my hands off to please her, I'd ha' done it. I'd ha' gone through fire and water for her, God bless her ! and if she'd tied one of her long, yaller hairs round my neck, she might have led me about like a bear, rengh as I am. But it wouldn't do. I soon see which way the wind blew. She was the only woman in camp, and could have the pick, and she picked Hex. I was 'bout starin' mad first time I met them two together—she a hanging on his arm, looking up in his face wor shiping him like some of them women on worship a great, big, strong he; and as soon as they war g<t bv I swore a big oath as Hex should never have ker, and I plugged np my six shooter, give my bowie a whetting, and lay in wait for him coming back. It was a nice time that, as I set there, FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. seeing in fancy him kiaaiu' her sweet j little (ace, and she hanging on him. If 1 waa 'moat iua,l afore, 1 WMN ten tunes worae uow; and wheu I hcerd Ilea cum in', I stood there on a shelf of rock, where the track came along, meaning to out half a dor.cn plugs in him, ami then pitch him iuto the tlulch. lint 1 was tiiat mad that when he came up, cheery attd singing, 1 forgot all about my shooting-iron ami howie, and went at' him like a bar, huggiug ami wraat linig him till we fell together close to tile edge of the Gulch, and I had only to give him a shove, ami down he'd ha' gone kelch on the hard rooks ninety feat below. "Now, Hes," I says, "h<>w about your darling now ? You 11 out in afore a better man again, will yer?" " Yea, if 1 live," he says stout-like, so as I coiildu't help liking the grit he showed. "That's right," he said, " pitch me over, and then go and tell little Jael what you've done. She'll be flue and proud of yer then, Abiuadab Scales!" He said that as I'd got liuu hanging over the rocks, and be looked me full in the face, full of grit, thengh he was as helpless as a babbv; but 1 didn't see his face then, for what 1 ace was the face of Jael, wild and passionate like, asking me what I'd done with her love, and my heart swelled so that I gave a sob like a woman, as I swung Her round into safety, and taking his place like, "Shore nie over," 1 says, " and put me out of my misery." Poor old Hes! I hated him like pvson ; but he waau't that sort. "Stead of sending me over, uow he had the chance, he claps his hand on my shoul der, and he says, says he : " Dab, aid man," he says, " we can't all find the big nuggets, and if I'm in luck, don't be ban! oa yer mate." Then he held out his fist,but I couldn't take it, but turning off, 1 ran hard down among the rocks til! I dropped, bruised and bleeding, and didn't go back to my tent that night. I got a bit wilJer after that. Ilea and Jael were spliced up, aud I alius kep away. Hes used to come to me, but 1 warned him off. Last time be come across me, and tned to make friends, " Hes," says I, " keep sway. I'IU Jsa prit like, aiid 1 won't say I shan't plug jer I" Then J.iel came, ami she began to talk to me about forgiving him ; but it only made me more mad nor ever, and as I went and pitched st the lower eud of the tlulch, and they lived at t'other. Tunes and times I've felt as if I'd go and plug Hex on the quiet, but I never did, though I got to hate liiut more and more, and never half so much as I did uigh two veam artcr, when 1 canie upon him one Jay sudden, with his wife Jael, looking pootier than ever, with a little white-haired squealer on her arm. An' it riled me above a bit to see him ao smiling and happy, and me turned into a bloodshot, dunking, raving aavaga,that half the Gnlcth was feared on, and t'other K alf daren't face. Early one morning, as I lay in my ragged bit of a tent, I woke np sudden like, to a roaring noise like thunder; and then there Mine a wh rl sad a rush, and I was swimmiu' for life, half choked with the water that had carried me off. Now it was hitting my head, playful like, agen the hardest corners of the rock it could find in the Gulch ; then it was hit ting me in the back, or pounding me in the front, with trunks of trees swept down from the mountains, for something had bnst—a lake, or something high np —and in abont a wink the hull settle ment in Yslier Gulch was swep away. "Wall," I says, getting hold of a branch aud drawing myself out, s.nie on >m wanted a good wash, and this 'll give it 'emfor you see water had been skeerce lately, and what there was had ail i>een used for cleaning the gold. I sot on a bit o" rock, wringing that water out of my hair—leastwise, no ; it was some one else like who sot there, chaps I knoweJ, yon sec; and there was the water ruahinf down thirty or forty foot deep, with everything swept before it—mules, and tenta, and shan ties, and stores, and dead bodies by the dozen. "Unlucky for them," I says; and just then I heard a wild sorter shriek, and looking down. I see A chap half swimming, half-swept along by the tor rent, trying hard to get at a tree that stood t'other aide. " Why, it's you, is it, Hee f I says to myself, as I looked at his wild eyes and strained face, on which the sun shown fall " You're a gone coon, Hex, lad ; so yon may just as well fold yer arms, say amen, and go duwu like a man. How I could pot you now, lad, if I'd got a shooting-iron ; put you onto* yer mis ery like. You'll drowrn. lad." He made a dash, and tried for a branch hanging down, but missed it, and got swept against the rocks, where he shoved his arm between two big bits; but the water gave him a wrench, the bone went crack, and as I s it still there I see him swept down lower and lower, till he clutched at a bush with his left hand, and hung on like grim death. "Sarve yon right," I says, coolly. "Why shouldn't you die like the rest? If I'd had any go in me I should have plugged yer long ago." "Holloa!" I cried then, giving a start. •• It ain't-^-'tia—tarnation 1 it can't be !" But it was. There, on t'other side, fifty yards low er down, was a bit of shelf of earth that kept crumbling away as the water washed it, was Jael, kneeling down with her young 'nn ; and as I looked, some thing seemed to give my heart a jigg, just as if some coon had pulled a string. "Well, he's 'bout gone," I says; " and they can't hokl 'bout thred min utes ; then they'll all drown together, and she can take old Hex his last babby to nnss, 'cuss 'em! I'm safe enough. What's it got to do with me ? I sha'n't move." I toon out my wet cake of 'bacea, and whittled off a bit, shoves! it in my cheek, shut my knife with a click, and sot thar watchin' of 'em—father, and mother and bairn. " You've been too happy, yon have," I says out loud ; not as they could hear it, for the noise of the waters. "Now vou'll be sorry for other people. Drown, blame ver ! stock, and lock, and barrel; I'm safe." Jnst then, as I sot and chawed, telling ■ myself as a chap would be mud to try and save his friends ont of such a flood, let alone his enemies, blame me 1 if Jael didn't put that there little squealer's hands together, and hold them up as if she was making it say its prayers —a born fool!—when that thar striug seemed to be pnlled, inside me like, agin my heart; and—l couldn't help it—l jumped I np. " Say, Dab," I says to myself, " don't you be a fool. You hate that lot like pison, von do. Don't yon go and drown ; yoursel ." I was 'bout mad, you know, and oouldn't do as I liked, for, if I didn't begin to rip off my things, wet and hang to me. How they did stick! but I cleared half on 'em off, and then, like a i mad fool, I made a run and a jump, and was fighting hard with the water to get acroes to Hex's wife and child. It was a bit of a fight. Down I went, and np I went," and the water twisted me like a leaf ; but I got out of the roar and thunder, on to the bit of a shelf where Jael knelt; when if the silly thing ilidfft begin to hold up to me her child, and her lips, poor darling, said, dumbly: " Save it 1 oh, save it!" THE CENTRE REPORTER In the midst of that rush aud roar, as T saw that poor gal, white, horrified, and with her vallor hair cluiguif round her, all my ohl love fur her (Hiatal back, and I fa ore a big oath as I'd save her for myeelf or .lie. I tore her dreaa into rihUius, for there warn't a inonieut to lose, and I noutid that bairn somehow ou to my alioulders, site watching me the while ; and then, with tuy heart Iwatmg madly, I caught her in toy arms, she clinging tightly to . me in her fear, aud 1 stood up, thinking how I could get hack, and making ready to leap Hie fLod didn't wait for that, though, j la a moment there wa* a quiver of the bank, and it went from beneath my feet, leaving me wrestling with the waters onee more. 1 don't know how I did it, only that, after a fight tuid being half smothered, ' I found myself crawling up the aide of the Oulch, ever so low down, and drug friug Jael iuto a safe place with her aiini. She fell down afore me, hugged aiy lege and kissed ray feet; and then she started up and began staring np ami down, eudiug by m-eiug, just alnive us, old Hex clinging then' still, with his sound arm rammed into the bu*h and his body swept Out by the fierce stream. The next moment she had seized me by the arm, and was piutiug at him, and | its save a wild kind of sliriek. "Have him .'—savehim !" she shrieked in my ear. What, Hez ? Save lies to come be tween us euce more ? Save her hu*l and —the man I hated, and would gladly see die ? Oh, I couldn't do it, aud my look* {showed it, she reading me like a book the while. No, he might drown—he was drowned—must be. No ; just then he moved. Hut, uonacute ! I waau't going to risk my life for bia, and cut my own thrust as to the fntnr'. She went down on her knees to me, though, piuting again at where Hex still floated; ana the old feeling of love far her was stronger on me than ever. " You're asking me to die for yon, Jael?" I shouted in her car. "Save him—save Hex !" she shrieked. "Yes, save him 1" 1 groaned to my self. " Bring him back to the bappuiens that might lie muie. But she loves him —she loves hiui; and I must." I gave one hiok at her—as I thought my last—aud I oonld't help it. If six had asked me dumbly, a* slid did, to do something ten times aa wild, I slsu!d have done it; aud, with a run. I got well up alxue Hez afore I jumped in once more, to have tne sam* fight with the waters till I was swept dowu to the buah where he was. IM got my knife in my teeth to cut • the bush away and let him free ; but as ( ' I was swept against it my weight tore | it away, and Hex and 1 went down the 1 stream together, him so done ttp-dhat he* lav helpless cm the water. seemi-vi to tell me ta finish , him off. A miuute under water would have done it; bnt Joel's face was before me, and at luat I got to the other side, with herebmbing along beside iw, and if it hadn't been for the hand she •.trotcbed, ddwn to me, J should never' have /rWled out with old He*—l was that done. As I dropped down panting on the rock, Jael came to my side, leaned over me ami kissed me. and I turned away, for the next moment site was trying imrd and bringing her husband to, and 1 was begiuniug to fe#l ouce more that I hal been a fool. I ain't tunch more to toll, only that the flood went down 'rooqt as quick as it had come up, and Ilez got all right again, and did well. They wonted muchly to be friends, bnt I kep' away. I felt as I'd leen a hail to save him, aud , I was kinder 'shamed like of il, so I took off to 'Frisco, where, after chumming about, I took to goiug voyage* to I'au ama and back, and the sea seemed to suit {pe like, and there I stuck to it. Slaughtering Cattle wtth Dynamite. The London Times says that experi- i menta were made recently at the Isling ton cattle market to illustrate the use of dy araito as a means of slaughtering cat tle humanely. Mr. Thomas Johnson, of Dudley, V .* ed three bullocks in this way. * . show the safety with which the expioaive (Noble's dynamite) can be employed, small quantities were first burnt without anv explosion. The charge with which the cattle were afterward killed consisted of about an ounce, of a pinkish paatv substance, iuto which bail been plunged a detonator on a fuse. The bullocks, bought that tuorn ing, in the market, were led iuto Mr. Thomas Cross's slaughter house, and ( tied up to ]>oste there in the ordinary way. Although many animals bad re eetitly been despatched with the i>ole axe near by, the bullocks selected be traying no consciousness of their m>- proacking fate.; There was no tremor or , sweat upoh them. The operator, fondling them, passed across the forehead a fillet of string secured round the horns, and so arranges that midway between the horns and eyes, and thus in the centre of the forehead, the charge of dynamite was planed, which formed the oentral and only orna ment of the fillet. Then the fuse was fired, and in two cases the bullock was killed at once by the exulosioa of the ouncevif dynamite. A hole was made in the skull by the force of the explosion, but the concussion waa entirely local, and people standing close by felt noth ing. They heard u loud report. The , animals were immediately pithcil by . passing a cane down their spinal mar rows to remove all sensibility, and in a quarter of an hour their carcasses, stripped of the hide, and divided into two, were hanging np as sides of lieef, j ready to be transported to the M4n>poU- ' ton Dead Meat Market. The brain was found to be entirely broken np. With the first bullock tried the experiment was less successful. The charge had been placed too low. The animal was felled, bnt struggled on the ground. A man Was, however, ready with the pole-axe. He smote once, and no more, and the poor beast was out of its agony. Afterward a bullock was killed with que blow of the pole-axe, and another bv the Freueh method, the vertebrae being severed with a loiif* at the baclaof the neck. In each case the cane was used immediately afterward. All three modes of slaughter, properly carried into effect, seemed as little cruel aa is consistent with the necessity of in flicting death, buttl* pole-axe and knife, both nsed with consnmniate skill yester day, require considerable practice to lie employed with dexterity. In country slaughter houses, where the men have less experience, a thick-browed bull is sometimes struck again aud again before he dies. The dynamite may lie applied at leisure to the proper place, ana the operator ought to be able to count on . keeping it there. An objection to its use ' is in the report which it makes. The i i second nnllock was obviously frightened i by the noise of the explosion of the first j charge. The three animals were killed j in nine minutes at the expense of about I 3d. In the Black CVmntry, where dyna- ' mite is -immon as a blasting material for mines, it is said to be already in practical use in the slaughter house. There is no funeral ao sad to follow as the funeral of our own youth which we have been pampering with fond desires, ambitions hopes, and all the bright berries that hang in poisonous clusters ver the path of life. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER (5, 1877. • ~ i That tlajr of Haundcr's. " IW you aettle thi* little liill this \ morning, air f" the collector naked, iu Ilia mort inaiuiuUlltf ton*> an J with hi* < Bloat raoiumring inulo. ••8w-t littlflßill f" quickly rejoined the doctor; " Little Itill 'Saunders ? Maybe 1 can't, juat I'd settle with him quick eiiuogb. Worst l<ov iu the world, air. Tied my gate abut the other night with a leather thong, and then wet the knot. Hwelled ao tight, by (ieorge, eir, 1 couldn't have untied it in an eter- • uity and a half, Strap ww #•> strong a team id oxen ivillitn't and I had no knde. Ootildul climb a picket fence, and there it wae—eleven o'lWek at uight and 1 howling and yelliug tit to wake the dead, trying to n>ii*e aonie one up to ' tmnw me out a kuate , and a policeman came along before I eoiUd wake any body nmlerataiul who I WS* ; and juat a* I wan trying to explain wife opened her window and aoreamtvl * Police f Biater opened another wiudow ami *Uri*ked ' Murder !' Children roared • Fire 1' and a policeman took me off aud looked me U|. Did, air, for a fan. f That Bill Sauuderw— hae he been annoying your ueighUirhooii, by the way?" " That ian't the bill 1 refer to, air," explained the collector, nmiliug, but in a rather aad tone of countenance, " 1 meant thia little aeoount "Ob," shouted the doctor, reassur ingly, and iu a tone of ft# brigheat in telligence and comprehension, "yea! it's the name one; that'a him— tiiil SaiuiJertt. Little account enough, 1 should say. No accouut at aIL Why, bloea yon, air. that boy ia fourteen year* old, nearly three year* older than my Jun, and I don't boneatly believe he ever did a day'a work a boat hla father'a houae in hia 'life. My boy it atray ahead of him in acliool to-day, and doe* more oliorea aliont the houae in a day than Bill doc* ia a mouth. He'a no account for anything but miaohMif. Dropped a live cat—a great, big, rouging Thomas Henry cat down Mauwot's aitting . room chimney tlie other night. No Are > in th? atove, and cat yelled till the noise blew out the flue. Fact. Juat roared aud yelled aud waiUxl till yon could hang a hat on the noise a* t came out ' the flue, and it eoat MadElsoy eight dol lars to have the chimney cut out next ilav to let the cat out , md when the . hula was made, air, cat wa* half wild with fright and ahot out like a rocket, aud Malped the workman, clawed out the dog's oye aud jumped oa Mac Kirov'* tmck aud anal .bed a uouud of lleah off - his shrmlder blade*. It WW pint awful. Why, that boy—* Rut the collector interrupted liim to • say, in a voice that was solemn with (gravity of apprehension, that he wasn't speaking of any bov ; he had X little matter hero— ' •• Oh, pooh, pooh ! Oh, pshaw," ex cision-d the Jebtor, waving hia hand with the same air of sublime reassurance and trauqmlixing patronage thnt hail be- - fore mar kid the tones of his voice, " not a bit of it, not a bit of it, my good air ; nothing the matter with htm at all—uo more than there ia with me. It's just natural, mhom m*iuie* air- I dm l 1 know that the hpy dofeat fog'pure mean ness, either, ewon't aar that; but it is wickedness, air; it's original sip. Why, there ain't nothing the matter with the boy. , He's healthy and he's stuart; gol a bright mind; thinks qui<<4r than any boy iu Hits town; goea in *w4uiniuig in March, and I have seen that Ufv skating on the pond in December in! hia lare feet, \t by, here one day Jam trimmer a l>oor wretch of a blind th|il|-r that was singing and playing np>uti<f kef.- lost his dog. lean, smart, faithful, hdi-starvcl ctir that led him amuml, fell into an old • well ik>* u by the bijek yard one day. and tht old musician came near following him. Old mau nearly heartbroken, you . know, for the dog sup|Nirt<Hl >pm more than hia singing ami Addle did. Mightv smart dog, yon know; aplendully Uaint ti, danced, went dcuul, collected tlie money, ) stood on his hernl and thrbwetl all kinds of tricks. Well, I reckon the two was about twoibivs trying to get tli* dog out. 1 Hides of well were dangerous ; noWlv would go down. Well ao deep and dark eonhln't nee the dog, bat could hear hiiu moaning and howling. Well, tins BUI Saunders said he'd get him otff. (lot a I clothes line aud tied a lug stool trap to it, tied on a good bait and lef the trap j down into the dark. Pretty s<kiii hears ' a sharp, muffled, half-strangled snort and vefp from the dog, and Hill hauled him up, wriggling and kickitig, nose in the trap and trap holding <n |<i him like . boy to gei(ot]s ticket. Why, thia Hill , Hanndera—" But the collector broke iu rather tut -1 patiently to say that he hail in time to listen to stories, and he wanted to know what he was going to th> with this ac count of 817.85 which Tare A Tret had against him, and which had bee* ninuing | over tim# nearly three moatha kiow. ' Hie debtor took the hill and looked at it a few momenta. •' Oh, Te," he said, very deHlierately. 1 after a while, during which the impatient collector fidgeted sud danced about the ; room. "Oh, yea, T. W. Marmot Yen, I know lifrn. Was in tl e building Ik*- i fore I cafte here, and lit out only three weeks after I came to Burlington. You ; see, ray Uhtre's J. H. "Sinclair, f don't owe 'rare & Tret a dollar ; never done any business with >m in my life, and never will, ao long as there's any place else in the market to buy. Tina man . Marmot is in Texas. He's no good ; . ad. b. Yon'll never get a cent on that 1 bill id the world. You sir, this Tom ' Marmot^—" But the indignant collector uunbilled the bill, and ejaculating—" Why didn't yon toll me this before ?" started out | I the door, leaving the en'ertaining trades -1 man to what in the name of sense i ailed the man, aad if anybody was fool ish enough to suppose that he was going to pay all of Tom Marmot's old bills just j becanse lie tnoved into bis old stand.— j Burlinyhm Ifdu'keyr. How Some Women Make a Living. A New York letter has thia: The fsru mania is spreading so that one woman in i reach of New York has a fern farm, and makes a good income, sending Imtli fresh and pressed ferns by mails. The little baskets of leaves and grsason with a dead butterfly poisod on tlie picture, that ladies like to hang iu their private rooms, require !x>th taste and some knowledge of natural history to combine the materials, anil their sale is one of tha ways by which some in reduced eir- j cnmstauccs try to earn a few shillings. It is hard work making a profit, for tlie j fashionable florist expect* to buy them for fifty cents apiece or less,even though [ he sella them for 83 in holidays. Son-Combustible Wood. At a recent meeting of the California Academy of Science in Han Francisco, j Dr. Behr called attention to a eucalyptus tree standing in the groundn of the old Herman hospital, on Brannan street | The tree hod passed through the fire of i August, 1876, and exhibited the pecn liarity of resisting the action of the flame—a property well understood in Australia. Dr. Kellogg stated that eucalyptus shingles were in oommon use in Australia, on aooonnt of their being Are-proof. It was impossible to fire a roof of thia material. There were some 132 species of eucalypti, bat all seemed to possess thia non-combustible property to some extent. TMK COUMII'N POPULATION. |r|ar*. Ik. l.m.M In ikt f.- llllu •( hr I allnl WkIM lwf lIWW Hraatl, fwlv-KM"> t>a UlUlos frapl* Im I HMO. The Jlcw Turk Sun says : The specu lative Aworicau mind ■ alruady •*• ciaed ouUiMtniiUK the present population of our blovd country, aud ia guessing what that iiopulattuu will be ID the vest 1880—if thin fary old world lives long enough to hail that year of minrueruliou. • Under ordiuary ami regular condition* the uiereat tyro iu mathematics oould {Urecant our lucre***. Hut lite oou ditioua are uot ordinary, and greet allow ances must Iw made for variation*. For itmUaie, if we had a certain ratio of mi'rwae from 1840 to 1850, and from 1850 to 1860, it wonld oattirally follow, supposing conditions tsjual, that some thing like a similar ratio would prevail for the ucxt ten years, llut the cou ditiou* are radically changed ; the cir cumstances are not only different but exceptional, and u formula of the past can t>e made to apply. The war made fearful inroads into the populaliou of the country. There was uot ouly the luaa by battle aud attending evila, but the absence of half s milliou of young and middle-aged aeu neeessarily re duced the natural increase iu times of peace. There was a rapid decline in im migration ; a decline that has continued to the pruteut time, aud bids fair to go still further. Between the arrival of half aud less tJiaii a hundred thousand in s ▼ear, there is a very material difference. I It should lis noted, too. that the great majority of immigrants are men aud women the beginning of life, founders of immediate families. These hints are thrown out to prepare the reader lor the estimate*, to lie made further on, of the population of the Union now. and the probable population iu 1880. Keep in view the tremendous drain by actual loss iu the war, the nat ural retardation of increase u onus*- ouetice of the abscuee of heads ot fam . urns, ami the sudden reduction of im migration. Going back to the first census taken in 1700, are summarise the enumerations 'np to 1870. Bear in mind, however, that a considerable fraction of popula tion has been added by aunexatiou, as in the purchase of Louisiana aud Florida, the cumpieat of Texas, the partition of Mexico, and the forlorn outpost of Alas ka Here is the summary : /Ate '•*! V n*• IIV*" )•<•• hnssl.Slw Is inw *,//.; ( IMB .. J.JM.MJ 1.374.454 *lO imv.. .... t.jso.wu rioi.se* *. into .aa.sn 'i.>oa,tn sa.oa io*i lta.ii*' im.ii" *.t imo It.usa iw sx to isie s,im.;s u.iu.i/3 mu IMO J1.145.M1 8,t.44i as.sa i*w.: ..as,M,r?i T,us,aso . ! The uniformity of the increase up to the war is very remarkable. Taken alto gether, it shown * little more than three and a half per cent, a Year. At that rate we should have had in 1870 stout 42,500,000. We fell short ataiut four million*. We are getting well along into the last half of the deuade, aud several State euiiucrstiouH were made in 1875. From , these; aud from the figure* of the past, there may be found reasonable ground* for eat minting the present populstion, and the probable population in 1880. In the following table, compil*) from Uio Sun, are given the populatxw of each State for 1870, the estimate,) per cent, of increuse between 1870 and 1880 in accordance with tle ratio of increase between ISflO and 1870, and the estimated papulation iu 1880. Surely each of theoe States uinst have increased since 1870 considerably faster than during the war • period; yet are will take in round numbers very nearly the rate of increase from 18G0 to 1870, and sjiply it as fol lows : ■<.., /vy im rww. ■*. r>e lew lltlsmi. SW.9W 4.00 I.U9S.SS* Arkatuw* 4*4.471 IX'S *. t <'sliron.lt MB.MS ' H * tu.ro 0008-rt4. nl UI.UI *0 C>o 444.744 la-uvs/s u*.o< ta oo ir.'S riorid*. isi.ta ai.i* M4.WI OWM.:.! 1,1*4,104 1100 flUnot*. J.S<a.tl Ml S.*lt.4 1D1:un....„ I.SS'.SM 3M* lt00.l lowa . .t.iasMiu *. I..om lUkw SSS.SW .ie n.ot Lo'OlsSkoa T*flS Jl.so leT.IM w*to" .i e*.u I Mr>Um> TW.S I 11*0 * : J, SI MMWwSUSrtIS 1.441*1 IS.TO I.S4S.4TS Micawsß i.no.us: JS.II i.isvni *fnieol-.. . 4J8.766 71.7U 7 J4.i 4" MtelHMlil I U .m 4 00 NFS, is Ml*nd. . I.TtI.WB 14 51 3.40.7(0 larea..,. IJX.MI tit.ti xw.vu Nevada 4J.4V1 47.Ju 4*4*7 Nf UamtsMitro.. . Sli*< Jls*o ' **w Jrt-) **,<ioe JO.OJ I.IM.TJO ftfW York i.Oi.tra 10.71 **;. 47 K-.rtk ('arolliiß.. .1.071.551 S.SO 1,t57,0a (Hlto. 3.604.1 0 14.W1 X.OO 04# 1 Omeuo .a *>.7S 1i5.417 Wuus|iisal*i. . ..JtUl.Oi 34 cm i.ura.us Uiiwl-tMa4. • fttxO 37.5 i 30.1 V South rWuJIQB 70S,SOS (14.1 411, M Triiurnoat l. .4M IMS 1.40.440 :T1i41...„„.-;.,.. 515.474 10.011 1.145.010 VirakM.dXi *31,V1 X 61.451 ' VlryU.lo sxl W. V I.SJJ.r? S. O 1.7.5S JSjJO 1.414.53S Tol*ls 35.U4.64l 3U.UI 0J.711.V6S i Tlx' Tcrritcriea have not Ween taken intri oouaitlemttcn in any of the alve calenlatinne. One of th'em (Colorado) ha been admitted as a State since 1870. The native born population of all the Territorial in 1870 was 348.580. At the rate they arc growing this would mean neatly a million iu 1880. Ho we may i"gneaa" the entire populatian at the next oontennial census at somewhere near 47,000,000. A Determined Self-Murderer. Frank Hsier, a German, of Fnlton, Mo., was lionnd to make an end of him self, and this is how he proceeded to do it: Going into a portion of the kiln . where he worked aud where lie would not be interrupted, he took off his apron, folded it up mart ly, and then removing i his kat, laid both aside. With a stone hammer he commenced striking himself on the head, fracturing the bone and inflicting a ghostly wound. But this process was too tedioys and painful, so, ; laying aside the hammer, lie drew a i kuife and endeavored to cut into the wound and foroe the blade into the brain. Failing in this, he stabbed himself rev eral timea. But fate seemed against him, for at every stroke the blade was stopped by a rib. Death seemed to avoid him.* His patience was exhausted, ' and he gave up the attempt aud came out of the kiln. Then a fellow-workman saw him all mutilated and bloody. Others were called and the would-be i dead man was oonveved to his room. The patient a|>|>eartxl to lie perfectly rational, and aaid that everybody waa down on him and that he was tired of living. He survived a few days and then .(lied. _____ An Incident of Colorado Life. In a drear and wrintry prairie opening called Bnmmit Park,;" Oregon Bill " line established his hermit home. His cabin ia visible a mile down the meadow and a tin corkscrew of smoke waa curling alnive its dirty roof when we passed. 1 The other day whilst O. Bill was away thirty or forty miles at his next neigh bor's, rebuilding a dilapidated leg or something, another fellow who wanted 1 to be a hermit came along and jumped into Bill's possessions. By and by Bill came limping lawk home on crutches and the jumper met him at the door with hia gun. Bill let go one crutch, held ■p his game leg, whipped out his re volver and blasea sway. Then he walked off down to Saguache, aixty or seventy miles, told the story and gave himself np. An examination waa had and he was discharged ; a fatigue party waa Bent np to plant the other fellow and now of Bill's ' right there is none to dispute.- Denver New*. Japanese Wrestling. lu the iwtrr of 111* amphitheatre a mound has lieeu rained on which ft nog linn been formed by banking up the earth to Ibe blight of 'a few inches Two grave-looking elderly men, apparently tbe judges, now aeat them ft# Ives upon nut* ou tbe tnouud, aud unfurling their paper umbrella*, light their pi)>ea, and ooiumeuoe *moking in dignified oom- Snaure, while tbe two wreatlera doff lair kimowf i robe*l and enter tbe riug. They are very far removed from our idea ul what an athlate ought to lie, i for though muscular they have an un gainly heaviueaa of figure. Weight is indeed thought of such ituperbunw in theae content* that men are fattened for thew like price rattle, tinder tbe ims takeu belief liiat aiieb Mice in an advantage to tbe fortunate. A tedioua preliminary performance baa to be goue through be fore the actual buaiueaa at wrestling commeuota. Each men cornea to Uie center of tbe ring, aud squuttiug down 1 iu front of hi* antagonist, raiaea rgeb leg iu turn, and then bring* it down heavily on the gruund, at the am# time ctriking In* body a mart ly with hia open band. I fttiiipuae tbia ia meant a a aort of challenge; but it baa an extremely ludicrous effect, at least to foreigners, to aee two very fat men ao employing them •elvee. Ito tb men now quit tiie ring and 1 take a draught of water and a pinch of salt, while they rub then arm* and bauda with mud, iu order that they may get a better bold of each other # body. At length they re-enter tbe ring, and the real struggle now begin*. They squat in front of each other like two huge froga and strike their heeda to gether, at the name time uttering a curi ous hiaaing noiae, which get* louder and kmder, till they auddenly fly at each other like angry oaU. Heavy blowe and alap* are exchanged freely in the effort to i'l'M, but umpires are behind each shouting out caution* at any attempted infringement of the rule* on either tide. When they have fairly got hold of each other many a cunning feint and twist is shown, and the struggling bodies and ltmba entwine ao rapidlv that tbe pair look like one gigantic octopus. At length the bout ia concluded by one man being burled bodily out of the hug into the crowd outaide, anil the cheering from the excited spectators is absolutely deaf ening. Tbe victor stalks about the hug for some time In great dignity, receiving the congratnlationa* of his friends, ana then repeats hia former challenge, strik ing his I**l v heavily and cwowing like a bantam cock. Another wrestler, noth ing daunted, at once cornea forward to try hia fortune ; while the vanquished combatant, who has picked hitaaelf up amid a running fire of chaff from the j nusynipathixiDg crowd, resume* hia kimono with an aaaumed air of indiffer ence and vauiahea liehind the spectators. A Very queer Wedding Three voung men of Newark, N. J., Char tea Lata. Frederick Grieuer and George Diertv.ll, wore brought before Special Police Justice Otto, recently, on a charge of oousptracy and auboraa ' tion of perjury. The arrests were made upon thp affi<{avita of George Hart and Ins dangbb r Elizabeth. Lata, Mi** Hart's counsel chums, clandestinely married her, hoping thereby to extort money from her family. Miaa Luta i* a minor, being only fifteen years old. Her beauty ia not spoken of in enthuaiaaUc . terms. She ia an only child, and her father ia a respectable and prosperous citir.cn living at No. 165 Hamburg place, and works as an engineer iu Joaeph Hensler's brewery. Luta, the groom, who is now under fI,OOO bail because of his beiog a groom, ia a dyer by trade, aul his acquaintance with bliss Hart was slight, and poaaibly will remain so. On a recent Sunday Mia* Lira* left her In itac to get a tooth extracted, aa she was stifferiug intensely. On the . corner of Rroad an J Market street* she ' met Lutx and his friends, Griener and Diertvttl. They asked her to get into a oar with them ;*lie refused at first, say ing she did not kuow where they would take Iter. They entered, however, aud rode over a mile, leaving the car near Helleville avenue. While walking along tlie street* one of Lutx's friends proposed they should call upon a min ister and Lnt* and Liiude get married Again she objected, but they persuaded her that it waa to be just for a jeke. Be , fore entonng, however, they told iier ! slic would be aaked ber age. and she must aav she was eighteen. .After fur ther objections, *be agreed to this. The 1 four called upon the Rev. George M. Boyntnn, pastor of the Belleville Avenue (Vuigregational Church, and requested that lie should marry Luta and the girl. The minister aaked her age, and one of , the young men answered for her, eigh . teen. Mr. Boynton was not satisfied, and resolved to put them under oath, Lutx swore he was twenty-four and she to eighteen. Upon this they were mar ried, and the girl at once went to her dentist's, then home, where she lias re mained. Monday a friend of her family named Kummerk came to Mr. Hart aud told him that a party to which his daughter was going that evening was a pretext to Et ner where she oonld be married. x>n this information her father ques -1 tinned her aud teamed the facta aa above stated. He was incredulous and called upon Mr. Boynton, who aasnml him of the fact and presented him with a cer tificate of marriage to which was ap pended the sworn statement of the two young people as to their age. Acting ' upon this, he made Affidavits before Jns- I tice Otto, and the three were arrested forthwith. Their bail was fixed at 91,000 each, and an examination set down for the following Tuesday. The motives of Lntx and his friends have not been ascertained.—A>ie York World. ■ I Clerical Statesmen. There have been two or three members of the United States Senate who were preachers. Of these we recall Everett, of Massachusetts; Colquitt, of Georgia; aud Tipton, of NehraakA. Iu the House there have been a few ministers, notably Hilliard, of Alabama, and Seelye, of Massachusetts. There has bsea but one inomber of a cabinet, besides Mr. Everett, who has added preaching to politics, and he is Secretary Thompson, of the navy. The Rev. f. 0. Fletcher, ! writing in reference to him in the In dianapolis Journal, says : When on a visit to Terre Haute a few days ago, I ascertained a fact about our secretary of the navy, whioh I have never seen in priut. As I was on my way to church, in company with one of the oldest citi zens of Terre Haute, I noticed a carriage driving in the direction of the country, and my companion remarked : " That carriage contains Hon. Mr. Hoott and wife. Mr. Soott ia the ex-member of Congress from this district. They are going to a little oonntry Methodist church in the vicinity of Secretary Thompson's farm. It ia there that 001. Thompson I is in the habit, when at home, of each Sabbath expounding the Scriptures to his farmer neighbors. He is now spend ing his vacation with us, and every Sab liath he really preaches the Gospel. In this he is ably enoouraged by hia wife, who is one of tbe ' salt of the earth.'" A gentle heart ia like ripe fruit whioh bends ao low that it is at the nioroy of every one who ohooeee to pluck it, while the harder fruit Weeps out of i reach, TERMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance. Faaktoa Note*. i Huaa are round and two yards ia > length. i Shetland seal ia the fluent and oust -1 lleat. Alaska ami ia the strongest and moat ' durable. Bridal veila arc won under tha bridal helmet. r Bronx* colon an preferred in feather i tri turning*. i Mandarin feather trimming ia an eo i centric novelty. hhelakin ia still the favorite ftu for > bate and bouueta. | Heal dolmans are shown at some of the leading houses. , Squirrel look lining retains its popu > larity for silk rluaka. Fur Imrders will probably be very ; fashionable this winter. ' Heal akin aamitnw an made iu smell 1 sixes for little children. ' Chinchilla is the favorite dressy fat ' tor the coming sensou Tlie Princess w the favorite style fur j t making up morning drnsseii. r Muffs are of medium aixe, made up i softly, without stiff intcriming*. The old rule of crape collars and cuff# 1 for flrat mourning ia discarded. Lung cloaks of fur seel in handsome 1 garments for driving and sleighing. Plain jet is preferred to rlairde tune or variegated jet by fashion purchasers. Arm tire and Hioilienne silks are the i Uvorite material* for fnr lined gar . < meat*. Mast of the artificial wreaths made 1 thia season have the leaves of velvet or 1 satin. Artificial cut flow era are preferred to ' natural ones for table or parlor orua | uit-nt. The long circular cloak with a Bos nian collar is the must popular fur lined damage wrap. The hmndaomaat seal saoquee are bor dered with tome other fur, audi aa chin chilla, otter or beaver. The handsomest fur lined garment* nave chinchilla, sable, silver fox, ermine, and blue fox linings. The novelty in bridal garniture is gar lands composed of orange flower*, buds, j leaven, and small oranges. Collars sad cuff* oi fine linen cambric, finished with s broad hem, are the cor rect thing for first mourning. He* otter bands of dork browu abodes, with silver hair* inserted at intervals, are seen among the handsomest high priced fur trimming*. A verv bandaome artificial wreath ia made of cardinal red satin Marguerites and satin leavm of the aamr color, with a few black aatin leaves interspersed. Bridal helmets are now rolsbtatel for bridal wreath*. They consist of tiers of orange hluaaom* ana bud*, with two very long, but narrow, streamers com jmmmnl of the same flower with its bud*. New seal aaoqtiea are partly shaped to the figure, are from thirty-two to thirty five inches in depth, "have shoulder seems, high collar*, with rrxera in fitmL 'are double-breasted, aud are fastened with frog buttons of seal, panning through loop* of brown passementerie. (ennterfetU. A Waohmgtmi eorreepuodcut tele i graph* to the New York Tribune as fol low* : The energies of the counterfeiters daring the last three yeara have been di eeted to the National Bank notes, no lees than seventeen counterfeits, twelve on 85a, three on 810. and two oo 850 having been isaneiL The Secret Service 1 force have captured all the plates of 1 counterfeit bank notes, with the exoep ' tiou of those which have appeared within ' the last two months. The following ' plate* have not been captured : 85* on ' the Firat National Bank, of Tamaqua; ' and 850a oo the Third National Bank, of 1 Buffalo, N. Y., aad the Central National 1 Bank of New York citt. The following r i description of these notes is given by B. fi O. Underwood, recetying teller of the j national tmnk redemption agency : All counterfeit fives on the First National Bank, of Tamaqua, Pouu., thai have lieen seen at the mlemptioa agency, have bed the letter " B " iu the ! upper left and lower right-hand corner* of the note. None of theee have lied I tlie correct charter number, whioh ia 1,219, ami is printol in large red figures acmes the face of the note, and all note* on this bsuk with another charter number are counterfeit. On the book of counterfeit, to the right of the words, " National curruicy," the word ••owing'* ia printec' "owuig. ' All fiftr-dc!W. notes on the ITiird National bank, of Buffalo, N. Y., bear ing the signature of L. E. Chittenden aa register are counterfeit. All genuine notes bear the name of either Colby or Allison aa register. The correct charter number ia 850. All fifty-dollar notes on the Central 1 National Bank, of New York city, hnv '; ing both the aignatureof L. R. Ohittan ' den as register and the words, *' Printed at the Bureau of Engraving, United States Treasure Department ' in the * j upper left-hand corner of the note, are 1 counterfeit, as Mr. Chittenden oeaaed to ' 1 be register long tiefore the notes were ' printed in the Treasury. " Hanged la the Shade." : The Ounatentiuople correspondent of the Political (brreepondence relate* . that many of the Bulgarians taken red handed iu acts of violence and con demned to death, when they aee that ! there ia no longer any hope or chance of escape, produce from hidden pockets large sums of money, whioh they pre sent to one or other of the xaptieha who may perhaps have treated them with i kindueea. Lately, five Bulgarians were i sentenced to death iu Mnstepha. When , it came to the turn of one of them to be ; led forth, he requested tlie non-commi*- ' aioued officer commanding the party in ' charge of him to wait a moment. With I some trouble he then extricated from i the folds of hi* garments a handful of gold lira*, ami these he presented to the > sergeant. This latter, moved by the Emeroaity of hia prisoner, tapper the ttor on the shoulder, exclaiming: ■! •• As you are such a good fellow, TOU i shall be hanged in the shade and, keeping his promise, he selected a shady r and pleasant spot, and there the Bui i ! garian was executed. , Carious Place for a Neat. Some time ago, aays an exchange, we gave a few interesting notes regarding i the curious places in whioh biros have ' been known to build their nests. The , London Timet snrpaaaea all stories of t the kind in the following aooonnt written , from East Ooaham, Haute: "It may be interesting to aome of your readers " so runs the paragraph—" to be informed , i that, in a small piece of framework un derneath a third-class smoking-carriage on the London and Southwestern rail way, s water wag-tail has built her nest, sua reared a young and thriving family of four. The train runs regularly from Ooeham to Havant five times a day,in all about forty miles; and the station master informs me that, during the absenoe of i the train, the male bird keeps close to the spot, waiting with manifest interest ' and anxiety the return of his family from heir periodical tour." NUMBER 45. A JUNE HORROR. Drial* afikt CUUterv s*l*sts* la Umtlaut* . Over Tw ItaaSrv* XmwKuiXwl ■ TerrfMe IhNOtettwdr Kfwu le Be* ere Ik* livlw Hie London papers funuaii ua with fall detail* of the recent testable ex plosioo ia> Scotch colliery new Ofcagnw. j A correspondent telegraphed to the iVetr* ae follow* - What to perhaps the meat terrible dis aster is the of ntntag in Scotland occurred thto morning at the village of High Blautvre, about aewn mile*'from Glasgow. Merer* W. H. Dixaoo k Go., | the well-known Hootch iron and coal ] masters, have on lease a number of pita . adjoining High B tan tyre, and at six o'clock thi* morning the miner* engaged in there deacended re usual to their work. One hundred and twenty-ax men and boy* were let down into whet to known as No. 2 nit, and an* hundred and revert wen and boy* into the odtjeihiu# pit Ho. 3. Between them two pita there to n subterranean communication. Shortly after eight o'clock, m a number of men were engaged taking out stoop* in tire splint of the borer ream of Ha 2, and, it to supposed, blasting tat this purpose, • terrific explosion occurred, the gre which WW liberated having fired *od instantaneously swept the workings, and the fire parsing through tire com munication ami spreading itself np the shaft of Na 8 pit. The violeuce of the explosion wrought terrible havoc. The abaft of No. 8 pit, the cages and other apparatus, and the mid wall were en tirely wrodred, and all arena* of *nt tar the poor miner* below n therefore cut off The eound of the explosion wa* beard above ground lor a long dtotaucni, and from the dull rumbling noise as well w the dense uiwra of thick black smoke that poured tram the month f the pit, it at once become evident to thare at the pithead that a terrible d toaster had oc curred bekrw, sad the greatest consterna tion prevailed. The news having rapidly Stead througout the village and rmong e men employed at the neighboring pita, in a very abort time the bank and its approaches woe thronged by excited crowds of people. The feeling exhibited among the wive* and children of the im prisoned miners wre of the most heart rending character, and eager and des pairing inquiries were made on all hands w to the fate of those below. Efforts were immediately made to restore com munication with the men in the work ing*, and at length there were so far sue careful that one man was brought alive to the surface. Thto man, who had escaped from No. 2 pit, slated that he wre working at the face when he heard an exploaioo. Not, however suspecting anything unusual, he made his way leisuray to the bottom, when the sight of dead bodies all around opened hi* eye* to the appalling extent of toe catastrophe. On learning from him the state of matters below, a party was at ooee organised to tleseeod and endeavor to extricate any survivor*, and bring np the dead bodies of the unlt*- tnnate offerer*. It was found, however, utterly impossible to proceed down the •haft of No. 8 in the face of the volumes of choke-damp whieb came rolling np. Every effort was tnade to restore the ven tilation which the explosion had stag nated, but more than an hoar eiapaed iwlocv a current of air would Bow as H should do from No. 3 pit along to Na i. Before this time s party of explore ra had succeeded, after great diißcmtv, in get ting some distance down into No. 1 pit, but the choke-damp waa too overpower ing to admit of their remaining down long, and they were forced to fetnrn without ascertaining anything. They called aa loodly as they could, but no answer WM returned to their cries, and they ware unable to proceed any dietanoc into the workings. In No. 2 pit more definite information waa obtained, and the reacnece when they retreated had one daad bodv with them. Six several tones they returned, at greet risk to them selves, and ou eneh occasion they man aged to bring up e deed bodv.allaf thorn being dreadfully burned and mutilated. The choke-damp became so bad that they were forced to dmiat Home of the party, indead, very narrowly es caped suffocation, and so overcome were tbev all that they had to be covered with earth to free them from the choke-damp ere tbev recovered full coneoooaneaa. To promote a current of air streams of water were ponied down the shafts, but a long time eiapaed before there waa much improvement in the atmosphere below. The bodies that were recovered were terribly scorched and blackened, and the men who were down stated that there waa every appearance of the ex ploaion baring been a terrible one. Deed bodies ware strewn about, and everything was a mass of confusion, Joseph Oiimour, the hoursmac of pit No. 1 waa found dead dear the engine at the bottom of the abaft The wwk of exploration waa vigorously prosecuted, aim op to 3*30 o'clock in the afternoon three mere bodies were reooveml. They were brought np by No. 3 abaft, near the bottom of which they had been aecu lying bv one of the first gang of mpionir* Ae bodies were those of young lads, aged from twelve to fourteen, and they presented a shocking sight whan brought to the surface. They were literally en cased in mud, and the faces were all blackened and charred. The poor fel lows bad evidently had a fearful, but at the same time, a speedy death. Two of them, named Bolton and Henry, were E drivers, and they www discovered beside their dead charges. The lad waa identified aa a son of a man named Oilmour, whose desd body was removed from the same pit at an earlier hour, between three ana four o'clock. Q rest difficulty was experienead in prose cuting the exploration late in the after noon, bat as the men who were endeav oring to clear the abaft of No. 3 pit •toted that thev heard the sound of knocking from the imprisoned collier*, (wtr* exertions, if such were possible, were made to reach them. Aa many men M could be got in the shaft worked aa if their own lives had depended on the re sult ; and band* of others, equally will ing, were standing rahdy to take the Bjtom of those who became exhausted. p to six o'clock twenty bodies bad been recovered. Prom No. 3 pit twenty erf the 116 miners emplovea in it have bean saved, but all the rest have perished, so that altogether upward of 300 men and boys have met with their death. As already mentioned, thirteen dead bodiwt huve been token to the surf see, and fuxthr •> explorations have revealed a fearful spec tacle at the bottom of the shaft No fewer than forty burned and mutilated bodies still lie there, strewn in all diree tions. It was deemed advisable not to take these bodies to the pit head, although that might have been done, but rather to continue the exertiona being made to reach No. 3 pit The feeling produced over the ooontry by the terrible catas trophe can hardly be imagined. Soon after the accident occurred the news had spread over the whole pf Sootiand, but from the very destructivenees of its character in the lorn of life it waa not credited even in Glasgow for a eonsfder <.V\l„ tima r,f n^irtlArrOSltal to the scene of the explosion during the day, and those who were observers of the frantic grief displayed by the widows and families of the miners will not soon few get it. There is scarcely a household in Blantyro in which there is not bit ter mourning for lost friends, and the deepest sympathy ia felt all orer the country for tne bereaved. THS (HUNGER LAWN, Tlm linww Cmh •( Mm MM mare* IteMWvti** Mm (ifur Uw*Hv *• ral IW—yrttr- ere **<* flwM). Tb Onager torn of Ilttnoi*, Minna* •ota, Icma and oikr State*, wys th Chicago tribune, have mvtrwi the judicial mop port of the supreme court of ill* United State*, mm! w* have more partiputorty the fw*m decisions of tho aamAuourt in U Wiacooaiu mam. It to time tirnt tto railroad eompaaie* of the United State* should take warning. There to no more legal objection to the enactment of lawn teg ulatiag the rates ' of freigbt in ooe State than In another, and Ike legislation of the half doaeu State* may become general. Now that the principle ha* been established and the power of Stele IcgtohUarre to enact rack tow* clearly recognised by all the oottrte, railroad manager* may 'well ooo nidrr now far and how long the people will submit to lie lobhad by any manner • of ootnbtnatica*. The New York Journal I y Vummen *, one of the rnont conserva tive paper* in the country, and which for jeara opposed the Granger law*, he* 1 discovered fit the j luiicud aermioo* af -1 firming these law* * poretble remedy for ' ' monopolies and a popular mean* of i breaking op railroad extortion. It says: 1 " The United State* supreme court 1 baa at length recognised a* valid the ax ! tremeat power claimed by State over a ' railroad. The question involved the au thority of the Wiseensin legialatnre to eatebßieh a tnaxiinisiti of eftanNNi to bo ! made on uaeeeagem or freight taken np ontaide of the mate and brought within it, or vie* reran. Una fl* State a eon* i trol over the iater-Htals which i weetattaown people, or doe* thi* matter ; wholly iielong to" the. Federal govern mont ? The supreme court decide* that a State, when- it ha* not parted with it* power by contract can regulate the fare* and freight*, under the efceuinMtaaent mentioned, oa a road ontaideaf it* lim it* whtah to ttmwulidated with one on it* own territory. Tlie power of the State ranches bsyoud it* confine* m to thing* which directly concern It* own people, however it* action may Indirectly afloat the people of adjoining State*. Thi* to good tow, any Ik* anprem* court, nntii Uongrea* take* to itaeU. by special n --sotwut, the ragntotion of tnter-Stab commerce bv rail. Tte grasping nil toad monopolies. which are planning to rata* their freight* thto fafl, and to keep up their eiwa pool nrrengcincni. should take wnming in **** on from the onnnou* drift of the supreme court de ciaioua in the Granger and other caae*. When the people <5 the different State* reeliae "bow much power they have—if they would but aae it -over the railroad corporation*, they will not much longer abate m from exeroiang it through the pti* *** The recent oombinatioo of the various Uttuk linre. by which they haw reaoived to take from the producer* a larger por tion than usual of the product, may evoke a popular atorm which will no* manly be putaL Five year* ago the vl-nnwrir 1 —*i "-"**■ com for aarrying one buahrl to market. The outraged and plundered producer* re •ortad to the ballot-box. and in due time what are known an the Granger law* were enacted. The railroad manager* have now resumed their policy of com bination -tor extortion. The people of all the State* we now advised of their power to deal with there corporation* ; the* know they have toga! power to limit tits *raeiinn* of railroad com paniw; uxt with that knowing* they will not long submit to such combina tions without nxeretoing their power. Let **" railroad companies take warning that, when thto pewer of oooirel shall be exercised, it may act nark the limit of toll* at much lee* than would be will ingly submitted to if no extortion wre attempted, ______ What Broke ap the Wedding. The guests at a recent expected mar riage in a certain church .of the went aide, Chicago, weee treated to a singular and atarding sensation at the W9TJP BO* meat when the connubial tenet waa to be tied. Ilie bride and floor were a young couple, and had made all the nee eaary preparations for the anticipated happy event Brit was to unite them aa one, and ft wai thought by the respec tive friends of the pair that the course of true love had run unite smoothly, and a genuine mutual affection existed between them. The invited company had entered Vie boose of worship, and the attendants on the couple had taken their plate* around the altar, while the minister remained in writing to peri * ■rm the ceremony. The bride, attired in all the gorgeous finery customary on such occasions alighted from the carriage, and the groom stepped blithely and lightlr after her, and upon her long trail' A* he did ao, the young lady ut tered a lew erri and exclaimed sharply, "Ob, daarigbaw awkward you ate?** The vouag man's face colored aa he stumbled off the rich garment, and be gave his aria to the lady while laboring under a confuted mind. The pair walked into the church and down the aisle to the altar. All eyee rested upon their movements, and a murmur of vetoes arose to thej came in and took their pudtfoua before Hie minister. The cwMtaoev proceeded, the nuaister asked the bride if mhe would accept the groom for toe- wedded husband, and received the usual rißrjuative answer, and waa aboql to interrogate the young man. when the Utter impulsively and nnex pertedlv mud to the bride, " Oh, deaf: bow awkward yon are r and quickly turning <m hi imri walked out of the edifice without another wood of explana tion. leaving the astonished bride stand ing at the altar in mute bewilderment, and the minister and guest* in blank amassment The young man went his way in a carriage, and the disappointed bnde and the mauds who sought to com fort her Ml the church for their homes. The occurrence waa an actual one, and has mated no small amount of gossip in the ririuitv where the church is sits !*&• ■ ... ' ' ; Heme Life a Hundred fears Age. One hundred years ego not a pound of coal or a cubic foot of illuminating gae had been burned in the country. No iron staves were used, end no oontrivan CM for econcteiamg heat were employed until Dr. Franklin invented the iron fireplace, which skill bears his name. All the cooking and warming in town and country were done by the aid of fin kindled -upon the brick hearth or in the oven. Pine knots or tallow candles furnished the light for the long winter evenings, and aanded floors supplied the place of rugs and carpet*. The water used for honseboid purposes was drawn from deep wells by the creaking "sweep." No form of pump was used in this country, so far as we can learn, until after the commencement of the present century. There were no friction matches in those early days by the aid of which a fire con Id be speedily kindled; and if the Are *' went out" upon the hearth over night, and the timber wae damp, so that the spark would not " catch,' the alternative remained of wading through the enow a mile or so, to borrow a brand of a neighbor. ; 1 Only one room in any house was warm (unless some of the family were ill); in all the rest the temperature was at zero daring many nights in the winter. The men and women of a hundred years ago nmlTnteod sad went to their beds in a temperature colder than that of our modern barns and woodsheds. 1 Teacher, hilt >0 Setalars. W take this from the Uticn (N. Y.) Herald: Doriag the Pt immmer n school in a district in tlie town of Ira, Cayuga oounty, TU attended bv the teeeher without a single scholar being present. The teacher, a young lady who livM near the. school-honse, was hired by the tmstees against the wishes of the people generally in the district, and they refused to send their children. The father of the teacher compelled his daughter to go to the school-house five days in a week, and stay there the required number of hours each day. The young lady complied with her father a demand, and daring the entire thirteen weeks was the sole occupant of the desolate school edifice. At the end of the term her wages were collected. There are some persons an whan their faults sit well, and others who are made ungraceful by their good qualities.