Opportunity.
In harveeMima, whan field* and wood*
Ont-dasale nnaet * glow,
And aeytha* clang mnaie through the land,
It ia too late to Ml*.
Too late ! too late 1
It ia too late to eow.
In wintry day*, when weary earth
liea cold in pulaeleaa sleep.
With not a bloaeom on her ahrond.
It i too late to reap.
Too late ! too late 1
It ia too late to reap.
When hlee-eyed violet* are atir.
And new-horn grasses creep.
And young turd* chirp, then aiv. batisaea,
And then. betimea, *hait reajv
Then aow 1 then tow !
And thou betoue* ahalt reap.
The Foreclosure of the Mortgage.
Walk right in the Mtttn'-TOOtt, IVravm ; it' all
in a muddle, roil ra\
But I hadn't no heart to right it, so I've jeet
let everything be.
Beside*. I'm going to-morrer ~1 ealk'tale to
Urt with the dawn-
And the honse won't aoero <> home-like if it'a
all ujwot and forlorn.
I sent off the children (hi* raormu': they both
on 'em begged to stay.
But .1 thought 'twould be eaanr. mebb*, if 1
was alone to-day.
For thi* was the very day, Doaoon, Jet twenty
year ago.
That Caleb and ate moved in ; so I couldn't
forgit it, yon know.
We was so buty and happy }— we d been mar
ried a month before—
And Caleb would clear the table and brush up
the kitchen floor.
He said I was tired, and he'd help me ; but
law! that was always bis way -
Alway* handy and helpful, and kind, to the
very last day.
Don't you remem'oer. Deacon, that winter 1
broke my a .xa?
Why, Caleb sin .-ely left me, not eTea to 'tend
to the ft win.
There night and mornm I saw turn, a-aettin'
o doee to my bed.
And I knr.w him in apite of the fever that made
w.e so wild iu uiv bead.
He n rer did not bin' to grieve me, until he
Vft me behind—
Tea, I know, there's no use in talkxn', but
somehow it eases my mind.
An d he oi such store by yon, leaoon. I needn't
tell you now.
But unless ho had your jedgiMOt, he never
would buy a cow.
Well, our eowa is gone, and the horse too —
poor Caleb was fond of Jack.
And 1 cried like a fool this monnn' when 1
looked at the empty rack
I hope he'K be kindly treated : 'twould worry
poor Caleb so
If them Joneses should whip the cretur— but I
a pose he ain't like to know.
I've thrnkin' it over lately, that when Mary
sickened and died.
Her father's spent was broken, for #ii< was
alius bis pride.
He wasn't n- .verso cheery ; he'd smile, but the
smile wa'u't bright,
And be d> Ant care for the cattle, though once
tb ey'd been bis delight.
The c aighbors all said he was ailin', and they
tried to hint it to me :
They'd talked of a church-yard cough : but,
oh ! the blind are those who won t see.
I never believed he was goin' till I saw him
a-layin' here dead.
There, there 1 don't to anxious, Deaoon; I
haven't no tears to shed.
T~re tried to keep things together—l've been
slavin' early and late —
But I couldn't pay the int'rest, nor git the
farm-work straight.
So of course I've gone behindhand, and if the
farm should sell
For enough to pay the mortgage. I s'poee 'twill
be doing welL
I've prayed ag'inst all hard feelia's. and to walk
as a Christian ought,
But it's hard to sew Caleb's children turned
out of the place he bought;
Au-i readin' that text in the Bible bout widowa
and orphans, you know,
I can t think the folks will prosper who are
willing to see us go.
Bet there I'm keepm' you. Deacon, and it's
nigh your time for tea.
••Won't 1 come over?" So, thank you; I feel
totter alone, you see.
Besides, I couldn't eat nothin"; whenever I've
tried it to-day
There s eomethin' here that cbokee me. I'm
narvous, I s'pose you'll say.
" I't{ worked too hard?" So, I haven't.
Why, it t work that keeps me strong ;
If I sot here thinkw' I'm aartin my heart
would break before long.
Sot that I care about livin'. I'd ruther to laid
away
In the place I've marked beside Caleb, to rest
till the Jedgmit-day.
But there's the children to think of—that
makes my dootv clear,
Aad 111 try to follow it Deacon, though I'm
tired of this earthly speer,
Giwd-br, then I shan't forgit yon, nor all the
kindness you've showed ;
Twill help to cheer me to-morrow, as I go on
my kmelv road.
Fur—What are you savin". Deacon. I needn't—
-1 needn't go ?
Ica've bought the mortgage, and I can stay ?
Stop ! y it over slow.—
Jeet wait now—jest wait a mrnnte—l'll take it
in bime-by
That I can stay. Why, Deacon, I don't see
what makes me cry !
I haven't no wards to thank you. If Caleb was
only here.
He'd aech a head for speakin', he'd maki my
fselin's clear.
There's a picter in our old Bible of an angel
from the skies,
And though he hasn't no-great ooat. and no
• spectacles on his eyes,
He looks jest like you, Descon, with your smile
to good and trew,
And whenever I see that picter, 'twill make me
think of you.
The children will be so happy! Why, Debby
will 'most go wild:
She fretted so much at let mi her garding to
hind, poor child !
And, law! I'm as glad as Debby, ef only foi
jeet one thing—
Now I can tend the posies I planted there last
spring
On Caleb's grave : he loved the flowers, snd it
eeems as ef he'll know
They're a-bloomin" all around him while he's
sleepin' there below.
—Mrt. E. T. GorheU, in Bnrper'i Majntine.
AFTER MANY YEARS.
"It's always the same thing,—cutting j
wood, fetching water, and running er
rands for mother's boarders. It's 'Here j
Tom!" 'There Tom!' 'Look shorn, boy!"'
from morning until night, till I'm fairly
discouraged. Most of them are civil
enongh, but that detestable Col. Monk
ton speaks to me as if I was a dog. I'm
as much a gentleman born as he, though
mother does take lodgers now. It's hard
for her, brought np as she was in wealth
and lu'iury; and if it wasn't that she
needs so much, I'd leave here to
morrow." ...
The lad's bright, handsome face grew ,
dark and sullen. He was half reclining
under a tree, gazing out over a vast ex
panse of rippling waves; for Fairview.
where his mother lived, was a seaboard
village. It was not a fashionable resort,
by auy means, but a kind of fishing
hamlet, where persons of small means
and qniet tastes came for their summer
holiday. , . .
"I'm full seventeen, and am just rust
ing aw ay here," he continued. '*l oould
do better for mother and myself any
where else. But I'm nothing here but a
waiting-boy for that tippling, red-faoed
Monkton. What a drunken beast he is,
with his bottle of whiskey every day!
And I'm to fetch it to him, and be sworn
at if he's ont of temper ! Mother's al
wavs talking to me about my furious
temper, und it is violent, I know; but
somehow old Monkton makes me bad all
over whenever I go near him."
••What are you doing there, you lazy
rascal ?" shouted a horse, cracked voice
from at upper window which overlooked
the tree under which Tom Courtney was
lying "I set" yon after my whiskey an
FRED. ICUHTJj, TOditor and J^ropriotor.
VOLUME XI.
hour ago, an.! there you are yet. Better
be off, or I'll make the place warm for
yon!"
The boy sprang up, "hi* face crimson
with rage and mortification. The furi
oue temper his mother deplored lira!
mastered him.
"Go after your liquor yourself!" he
cried. "I'm ashamed to be packing
your drinks through tiie street. It's a
disgrace to mother's house to have a
tippler like you ui it, and 1 won't be
your lackey any longer."
OoL Monk ton for a few minute#
#-onu\l dumb with astonishment. But
his first impulses when he recovered bis
senses, was to huri a large water-pitcher
at the boy's head.
It missed him. but, striking against
the trunk of the tree, was shivertvl.
At the noise, two gentlemen who were
boarding at the house out their heads
j out of their windows, and Mrs, Courtney,
hasteniug through the front yard, en
deavored to iead her sou into the house.
" For my sake, my hoy!" she cried,
in an agony.
He unclasped her hands, and shook
j his fist at his antagonist, his eye* blaz
i lug with rage.
" Tea, I repeat, you're a disgrace to
' anv deceut house—with your oaths and
j vulgar words, and drunken ways. If
you were not an old man, I'd horsewhip
I yon out of it!
" Uli go in now,mother. I've said what
' I had to say.
" Yes, mother," he repeated, when
1 they were in her room, " he is a disgrace,
j and you know it, if he is the only oue
who pays litieraliy for his board."
"Couldn't we have got rid of him
! without all this trouble?" said the
i mother, still trembling and unnerved
|by the scene. " O Tom, Tom ! after all
! the pains I have taken to teach you aelf
, control, is that ungovernable temper of
yours always to master you ?"
Tom hung his head.
"But, mother," he said. "I couldn't
stand the names he culled me. I sup
pose the Courtney blood is not unite
I out of my veins, if we do keep boarders.
You see now it's best for me to leave
I here. I'm nothing but a servant, and
an ill-nsed one at that. Any stout,
strong boy can do all I have to do. It
i will be best for you, too, mother, in
every way, if you'd only think so. I'll
make money for. you ; and then you
won't lie always dreading that I aball
get you into trouble by my temper."
I Mrs. Courtney shook'her head sadly.
I" You won't leave your temper behind,
my boy, I'm afraid. But perhaps you
are right. I may have kept you here
too long. But oh, Tom, it's so hard to
give up all 1 have in the world."
She was a widow, and he was her only
child. In his delight at his mother's
• consent, Tom was utterly unconscious
of the pain it cost her to give it. He
was riotous in his expression of delight.
He clasped his arms around her neck
and kissed her careworn face.
"Mammy mine," he cried, "you've
male a man of me ! Look upon our
fortune as mala You shall play the
lady once more, and wear velvet and
lace as in the old times—that is, when
my ships come in.
i " Oh, von needn't smile! They're
bound to come in some day, for I've
made up my mind to succeed, and you
say yourself I never fail when I ry.
Yes, you've saved me, for there was
murder in my heart when tuat old rutfi vu
abused me. I don't think anything he
could say now could move me."
" You*don't eh, yon young vagabond?"
cried the well-known hoarse voice ; and
turning, Mrs. Courtney and her son
saw Col. Monkton standing on the
threshold, with a large horse-whip in
his hand, and his red face purple and
swollen with passion.
" Can't be moved by anything I say,
eh ?" And the colonel advanced into
the room. " Perhaps, young air. some
thing I can do will move you. I'll
teach you to insult gentlemen!"
And before Tom Courtney fairly t<x>k
in his meaning, a onttmg lash descended
upon his shoulder.
With aery like that of a fnrious ani
mal, Tom threw himself upon his an
tagonist. Co!. Monkton was an old j
man, but tall, and being still powerful,
the struggle was a violent one.
The screams of the widow brought the
: other gentlemen from their rooms; but
when they entered, Tom had freed him
self from OoL Monkton's grasp, and
pushed him violently against the wall,
npon .striking which, he had fallen
heavily on the floor, where he was now
lying in an unconscious condition,
breathing with a strange sound.
" You've killed him, I believe," said
one of the gentlemen who had been ex
amining the fallen man. "At least, I
think he's dying. Here, Miles, rnn for
the doctor. " He's at the next cottage."
"O my boy ! my boy !" moaned Mrs.
Courtney, wild with terror.
Bewildered, and hardly knowing
what he was doing, Tom fled from the
room.
" You've killed him!" rang in his ears
as he ran towards the beach. Was he
indeed a murderer, he kept asking him
self as he hurried on.
Some distance from the shore a
schooner was preparing to sail
" It's the Minnie," he muttered,
" bound for Galveston. I heard yes
terday she was short of hands. I'll ship
on her."
As in a dream, he hastened down to
his own little skiff, looking around with
terror to see if he was pursued. He
loosened the rope, jumped in, and in a
few minutes was on board the Minnie,
and soon out of night of Fairview.
Then for the first time he realized his
situation and his mother's desolation, j
At thought of his mother's tears, he
would have returned at any hazard; but
it was too late.
In the meantime, the physician who
had been summoned hastily entered the
room where Colonel MonktoD still lay, |
everyone being afraid to move him.
"Just what I expecteti," said Dr. "J
Lyle, bending over the uurple swollen
face. " These choleric/Wont, drinking
old men generally end in this way.
Apoplexy, madam, and not the first
attack. This oue, I fear, is going to bo
fatal.
"Then it's not—oh! it's not " And
Mrs. Courtney, unable to finish her sen
tence, gasped for breath.
" Whet does she jnean?" asked Dr. |
Lyle of ore of the gentlemen present.
" Her son Tom had a souffle with the
colonel when he fell, and she was afraid
he had hurt him. "
Dr. Lyle turned again to the prostrate
body and examined it carefully.
"Not a bit of it, madam," he said. "I
dare say bis fit of passion and the exer
tion hastened the old man's end. But
it was bound to come. I told him yes - !
terday, when he complained of bis head, j
that unless he threw his liquor out of
the window, and held his tetnpar in I
check, be wouldn't live six months.
True prophet, you see!"
Mrs. Courtney tottered to her room, '
and there on her knees offered up u
fervent prayer of thanksgiving that from
blood-guilt, at least, her son was free.
But now, alarm d at his absence, she
searched for him, —in the house, the
garden,—and then, with swift steps, she
went through the village, asking every
one she met if they had seen Tom.
No, he had not been seen that morn
ing-
Old Nathan, a weather-beaten sailor,
who had jnst brought in a load of fiah,
heard her question, and answered it.
"Lookin' for Tom, mistress? I seed
him, about an hour ago, goin' aboard
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
r the Mimiiu, jest a* she was gettlo" under
r way. She'* p#t nt*rt<*i ,n s cruise,
lhit I wouldn't tali eu, mlstee##.
l a bright boy, and n handy one. He'll
• tuiwt like come back Ivrioi the utsu he
1 was when he started."
So he had gone, ami wiUi a Janeiut
# load of guilt on lira o-ior voting shoulder* 1
Mrs. Courtney felt as if her burden was
more than she could I >ear.
t She had a faint hope he would write to
:< ' her, and for days, Weeks and moutUaelie
haunted tlia pot-oftiee. At last alio
* i went as if mechanically, and without
t asking a question would look at the
* postmaster. He undewkxKl the look,
r and would answer,—
"Nothing to day, rua'am."
t Bijt about six mouths after Tom's
departure, she had no sooner entered
• the office tliau a letter was placed m her
• baud.
"Come at last,ma'am," said the cheery
- postmaster, "and it's Tom's hand writ
iug. Sit right down here aud read it.
, You're all IU a tremble, ami you can't
walk home yet."
i Yes, it was from Tom. He was in
Galveston, and had made several trips
on the Minnie to different porta.
> "Do you know, mother," he wrote,
t "I've been afraid to write to you, fear
f iug it might give the clew to my where
> about*. But I've a friend here, a young
lawyer, and he tells me 1 was a simple
t j tou to run away as I did. Col. Monk
ton made the first attack on me, aud no
i law could bring me ia go Hy of murder,
"I ve often wondered how the one
> blow whieh knocked him up against the
wall could have killed him. It was the
i first I gave him after I got awav from
' his grasp. I know I'm reidly guiity. 1
i wanted to kill him, aud his blood is
on my hands.
"I'm going for a long cruise on the
coast of Africa, in the Albatross, aud
when I return IU come back to Fair
view. For I feel that I must see you,
whatever the consequences may be.
"I will write when I can; but as I do
not know the course we are to take, or
the ports we are to touch at, I cannot
tell you where to address your letters.
In two years I will lie at home."
Thankful for the letter, Mrs. Courtney
took up the broken thread# of her life,
and tried to fill it with the old interests
and the old duties.
But the two veara spread to fur, and
no further tidings came from Tom.
The mother's hair turned gray, and her
eyes lot their light It was such a
weary work waiting and watching for
what never came!
She knew by heart all the shipwrecks
on the African coast, and the plagues
which desolated it Where so many lust
their liTea, how could,ahc expect her
boy would escape ? Had he been alive,
he would surely have written.
" I shall never seen my boy in this
world," she wonlJ think iu her hours of
despondency.
The seventh Christmas after Tom's ,
departure found Mrs. Courtney not only
; ioek, but without mean* to dVraj the
necessary expenses of her illness. It
was raining and blowing without, and
the iuvalid shivered over her wretched
( fire of drift-wood, just brought in by a
kind neighbor.
"It'six>rue at last," she murmured,
with her sad. patient smile—" the pover
ty I've fought against so hard and so
long. I hail hoped to die aud be with
my bov before this hour came npon me.
But why should I murmur ? He docth
all things well ? I will trust Him eveu
if He"-.
As she spoke, the door was thrown
open, aud a figure sprang forward. It
was muffled tip, and the face was
; bronzed aud changed, bat the mother
knew her sou, and lay sobbing iu his j
arms.
No questions were asked or answered.
It was enough for them both that they ♦
were together once more But after a
long time he told of the 1 of his ves
sel, and of a long tedious sickness on
the coast. He had written and sent
money when he could, though the letters
never reached her.
"But I've risen, mother, till I am
uow first mate of the Vampire, and your
i bad days arc over. Yea, I hear! in the \
' village that old Monkton die ' of nppo
plexy, and I thank God that I did not;
kill luiu. I thank Him, too, that lam ■
cum! of my terrible temper; or, at least,
that it never quite masters me now." I
'• It has been a cruel lesson to bo'h of
us." And Mrs. Courtney shuddered.
" But why to yon, mother?" he cried, 1
vehemently. " Yon, innocent and goou, i
should not have suffered for my wron
i doing. That does not seem to me right
or just."
" Hush, hush, my boy !" she auswer
i ed, solemnly.
" 0 my son ! my pride in yon and my
weak over-indulgence deserved chastise
ment. But all my sorrow is forgotten
now; and God is indeed good to us
both."
Health and Science.
There lived in England, in the last
century, a man of science, nsraed Henry
Cavendish, who was born in 1731, and
died in 1810. He was a gentleman of
fine cultivation, an excellent mathema
tician, a profound electrician, and a
most acute and ingenious chemist. He
published many papers, containing re
sults of recondite investigations and the
most important dißoovaries. Bo was not
only a great original Brisker, bnta most
imlefutigable and accurate experimenter,
and one of his main lines ot Research was
the'ehemieal constitntion of the atmos
phere. He made no loss than 500
: analyses of the air, and it is to him
that we owe onr chief knowledge of the
composition of the breathing medium.
Now, there ia not an American that will
not commend all this an most proper and
admirable. But there is another side to
the case. Henry Cavendish was a man
of enormous wealth, for which be cam!
1 absolutely nothing. He waa one of the
j greatest proprietors of stock in the
Bank of England, and when on one oc
casion his balance had accumulated to
8350,000 aud the director# tiiiuking it
too much capital to He unproductive,
asked him if they should not invent it,
he simply replied : " Lay it ont, if yon
please." That small portion of his
wealth which he could make use of in
his investigations was so used, bnt lie
. did not allow the remainder of it to
divert his thoughts in the slightest de
gree from the nnremittine prosecution
of his scientific labors. He died worth
87,000,000, which was an immense sum
lof money at the beginning of this
i century, bnt he had not the sHghest in
terest in those objects for which wealth
'is generally prized. Now, the whole
! case being given, to the eye of the
; typical American, Henrv Cavendish will
tie regarded as a fool. " With all
' that money," the representative Ame.ri
j can would say, "I could keep a yacht,and
a stud of fast horses, and build a church,
and endow a college, and send a dozen
j missionaries to the heathen, and run a
whole political campaign at my own ex
pense ; and you say this o<ld creature
actually spent his life in the smndge
am! stenches of a chemical laboratory,
puttering with gases, and worried about
the composition of the air '."—Popular
Science Monthly.
A Dr. George Dutton, of Hpringfleld,
Mass., has arranged with fifty patients
to keep them well at 83 a year each, pro
viding they call for ail vice at his office.
If he visits them he charges half the
usual fees. This arrangement has existed
two years.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1878.
A It SKI IS Ml KDI K CASE.
Xr<-llr. iln, of Ihr I tlnr of Or. M ibtlrr -
Thf Hoot Hruiitfbublr llordrr I war I*
K*w Kxla**.
A correspondent of the Brooklyu
revives the story of a murder in
Boston twcnty-uioe year# ago that wa#
one of the uu>#t famou# ease# of the day.
The correspondent savs; Except the
murder of the uhild, Mabel Young, iu
the Warren avenue Baptist church by
the HCxt.ui, J'iper, few years since,
nothing of u criminal and bloody nature
ha.* so Htirrod the citizen# of B >tou *#
. did the tmirder of Dr. George Darkniau
5 bv Dr. John W. Webster, ou November
'it), lHAit, at the ManHOohunetta Medical
College, m North Grove street. Dr.
I'arkman was a wealthy man, who de
vote*! most of hi# time to looking after
t lua property. Dr. Webster was the
' Professor of Chemistry in the institu
tion, and owed I'arkman 8170. whieh
sum of money the latter called at the
college to collect on the day above in
dicated. The last seen of l'arkuian alive
by any one who knew him, except hi#
murderer, wa wiieu about two o'clock
in the day lie entered a provision store
in the neighborhood of the college aud
purchased a few articles. Having that he
had au eugagemeut, but would soon
return and himself carry the artielea
home. Dr. Welmter had finished hi#
lecture for the day, and all the medical
students had left the building when Dr.
Uarkiuan entered it. The latter pmo>ed
rapidly to the chemical romi iu the ri-ar
of the lecture hall, where he found Dr.
Webster arranging the apparatus that
had lieeu used iu his lecture. I'arkman
wa* a hard and grasping man, and Web
st-r was a man of science, poor, hut
proud, with a high temper. Webster'•
inability to pay a note that i'arkman
he'd led to a quarrel, am! the former
struck the latter over the heod with a
heavy piece of grape vine and killed
I htm. Weh#rer tiieu locked liie doors,
dragged his victim down stairs, removed
the clothing, and hsviug placed tlie
body in ft sink, deliberately proceeded
to out it up. The room in which he
worked was a laboratory ou the ground
lloor, having a furoa.ws, into which lie
put I'arkrumti*a head and all hia clothing
and attempted to burn them up. The
thorax lie placed in a tea chest. Home
parts of the body he attached to fish
huea au.l lowered into a privy vault that
was washed by tt e I bailee river. Home
parts of the limbs weje never found.
Webster worked se\. ra! days, and moot
of the time for one or two nights in try
ing to cover np all traces of his victim.
The disappearance of Dr. I'arkman
nm t'u- talk of the town, and hi# family
imuial landers noutaiuiag a fall descrip
tion of ai* person, together with a large
reward— 83,000, if my memory iwarVes
me—for his return if alive, or for his
laxly if deral. A* awn a* Webster
learned that I'arkman lira! an appoint
I uietit with sonic one on the .lav at his
disapjH*raioo, he called on Air*. I'ark
maii, offered his condolence, snd satd be
was the one with whom the doctor hral
an engagement on the unfortunate day.
He said he had paki the doctor $l7O,
who, on receiving th* money, hral run
out of the ool!*ge, arewniug to be in great
l osto. Search was made in the vicinity
of the college, in rnauy of the tenement
bouses narne.l by Dr. Parkmaa, who,
it w# feared, liad tn-eu murdered for
the money he might havt had while col
lecting rente, The reward was a large
one, or so considered in tie *** day*, and
great efforts were made to gain it. Ttie
earth in the cellars of all Dr. Park man'a
houses was dragged, but the man e .aid
not be found. Beports came that I'ark
man hail been seen in far away places
und hral licea iqxikeu to by those who
knew him; but there was no truth in
theoe statements.
The crime was traced to Webster m
this way; Dr. I'arkman bad been seen
I the lost tune alive in the medieal college.
This fact, oonplod with the strange ac
tions of Dr. Webster, led the janitor of
the college, Littlefleld by name, to sus
pect that Dr. Parkrnin had lwxn killed
and his lxsly secreted within the col
lege building. The janitor hral always
hail the run of the building, but since
I the disappearance Dr. Webster liral kept
the laboratory locked. Littlefleld made
tip his mind to examine the vault above
mentioned, and in order to do eo be w-ns
obliged to enter the collar and dig
through a heavy stone wall. Whenever
Dr. Webster left the building, which
j was seldom, Littlefield stationed hi
wife at the front window, hi order to in
form hira of the doctor's return, and
1 made the best of his opportunities to
penetrate the Je.ne masonry. At lost
he made a bole in Ihe wall, and placing
a light in the vault he saw stupeude 1,
by means of tt#b hoi4a and line#, parte
of n human body. His suspicions being
confirmed, Littlefleld communicate!
with the police, and the matter was very
rapidly thereafter worked up. After
the murder Dr. Webster was much of
the time at the college, an uunsual thing
with him, and Littlefleld notioed that a
hot fire ws kept in the laboratory fur
naee for several days and night* that he
could feel the heat in an adjoining pas
sage-way, by placing hi# hand on a wall
that was near tho furnace.
One evening, after Dr. Webster went
to bis home in Cambridge, tho labora-'
tory was opened and during a long
search mors of the remains of I>r. Park
man's body were found.
Dr. Webster was nTreated in a very
neat way. Two officers in a hack went
to his house nt about ten o'clock in the
evening and informed him that friends
of the Parkman family wanted to search
the oollego, but did not want to act with
out his presence. The doctor pnt ou his
1 boots and said he would go with them
' and help in the search. He then in
formed his family that he was going ont
, for a short time, and that lie should soon
return; but he never saw his home again.
In the confession that he made in the
last hour* of that bloody tragedy Web
ster described the agony of that dread
ful night. A# he rode in the carriage
with the two officers he tried to appear
free and easy in conversation, but he
wH unalile to decide whether be wan
under arrest or really rquired for the
purpose indicated. Wheu the carriage
stopped at the Levorett street jail, he
knew it was an arrest. He bad made
up hia mind that ho would die rather
tliau submit to au arrest So he had
prepared and placed in bis vest poeket a
pill of stxichnine continuing enongh of
the poison to kill five men. As he step
ped ont of the earrings lie slipped the
pill into hi month Bnd expected soon to
be a dead man. But his agony of mind
was so gnat and bis system so wrought
upon by the catastrophe that the poison,
though it caused horrible suffering, did
not destroy life. Dr. Webeter was
brought to trial and the excitement in
the commnnity was intense. Ho was a
professor in the medical school of Har
vard University anil moved in the very
best society. There waa a powerful in
fluence brought to clear liim, not only
for his own sake, but for that of his
family, and, most of all, for tho honor of
the University. An attempt was made
to fasten suspicion on Littlefleld, but
tho doctor hral entangled himself in
many ways, anil oue link after another
was made at the trial that formed a chain
of evidence which was so strong that the
victim conld not escape. With a stick,
in a disguised hand Dr. Webster wrote
to the police about Dr. Parkman. One
letter stated that Dr. Parkman hral been
murdered and thrown off Cambridge
bridge. Dr. Webster had one peculiar
ity about his writing he never closed the
top of his a'a, but made them like the
let to* u, and iu hi# letters, trying to
. throw the oflteert off the scent, he tor-
got to change the peculiarity of his writ
j iug. The defense tried to #bow that the
u body might have been taken from the
n dissecting room, but it was fairly delmt-
ed at every point, Iti the asliee of the
p. | furimoe the false teeth of Dr. I'arkman
e were found, and ramie of lua natural
u to. th. winch were Identified by a dentist
y who hral filled them. Lastly the fld
, hook hues were identified by the shop
v keejier in Dock rapture, froui whom they
s were purchased. Dr. tVebater wan eon
n vietel ami suffered the extreme penalty
r of the law, that of being hanged by the
d f neck till he was dead. He hral a fine
family, consisting of a wife and several
>- daughters. At the time of her father's
r urreM, oue of the voting Ira lies was about
e to tie married. The family during the
i- wtnde pern*! of the trouble visited the
h prison lut refrained from reading the
0 uewspajvers, and dul not know the date
i- of the execution. The day preceding
e the one which Wei rater knew was to be
s his last ou earth, he trade his family
k good by as usual without indicating to
e the member* of it that he should never
1 see them again. In this case the bar
e harou# law punished the innocent more
a thsu the guilty, for shoitly after the exe
• cotton Mrs. Webster and her daught< r#
• left the country, and some year# after
I died broken hearted. l>r. Wetrater hral
. j stroug men working for his pardon, but
1 ' failing to obtain executive clemency, he
r made a full confession of the crtme,
. which course of action establiHhed hi*
t gnilt beyond question, and decided the
a governor to allow the Jaw to do it# full
• mischief. Hmh is the record of the
t most remarkably mercenary murder ever
• recorded in New England annals.
i
r ~
• Superstition About Precious Stone#.
The m<>>u#U>nc, was, as its name im
j plica, venerated from its auppooed Imnur
h attraction. It ia one of the prottuwt,
. though most common of precious atone*
. in Ceylon. Pliny describes it as con
-5 tainiug an image of the moon, "which,
, if the story tie true," he observes, "daily
, vraX-ra or wanes, according to the State
1 of that luminary." Chalcedony hang
:l about tho neck dispersed sadness, and
j if a person carried one perforated, with
, the hair* of au a# run through it, he
, wonld overcome all disaster*. Ory*ta!
dispelled witchcraft Tim chrywopnums
I gladdened the heart • the ehrysolyte ex
pelled phantom*, ami, what was more
serviceable, rid pragde of their follies.
, The onyx in the Middle Age# vnw Ira
. li- ved to prevent ugly dreams by night,
and law-suit* by day. The jasper wa*
, a charmer of ravrpi ns and spiders, was
, worn a* a talisman by the Roman
( othelete; Barton, in the Anatomy of
, Melancholy, tells us that, "if hung
about the" neck, or token in drink, it ,
, much reaiateth sorrow and recreate* the
heart." The same qualities were attribn
, ted to the hyacuith aud tojraz. Tho cxvh-
I to! has been the most popular of all
oracular atom-#; a favorite stone wo* the
beryl, "which." sav* Aubrey, in hi*
j Miscellanies, "is a kind of crystal that
t ha# a weak tincture of mi; in this ma
, giciaus see viw-Ui-." The mat im wiut
k to ounoecrate, or "ci arge" them, aa the
, m<*lrn term is. for which purporai set
forms were used, which are d< scribed in
HeginsldSe-.tt'# Discovery of AA ltelicrnlt
. The famous ery*t.*d of tliat pripoe <f
I quackerv. Dr. Dee, i# preserved iu the
Ashmoteau Museum of Oxford. Th*
, properties of tin* rtibie# were endless;
I brinsed iu water it was u pouoce i for all
complaints; it had the peculiarity,
t whenever worn, of discovering it*
presence by lis luster, which would shine
through the t!iicke#f clothe*. Powered i
1 agate was an infallible reraeslv for "all
the ill# that lite i* litnr to." Pliny
1 quote* the MagU, a# teaching in l*er#tr
' that storm* coul l awrUsi by burning
Th# amethyt would pww •
! boon to motleni tippler#, if, a* the on
' ci toils asserted, it prevented intoxication.
Tho sapphire and the emerald strength
ened tlie sight, a property said to have
txx-n also lKrasesraal by the turquoise ;
' but it could confer a still more wonder
' lul gift on it# wearer: "AYbovever,"
: say* Yon Helmont, " wear* a tnrquoie,
so that it, or it# gold settiug, touches
' the skin, may fall from any height, ami
' the atone attracts to Itself the whole
: fore* of the blow, so that it crocks, and
" , the person i# safe. The Romans regard
-1 ied the diamond with superstitious rev
-1 oranoe, aud I'huy tell# u# that it baffl-*#
, piison, keeps oil insanity, and ilisjx ls
vain fears. Ben Mausnr, alluding to |
' the el>cfric poqx'ritea of the diamond,
sars- "It has affinity for gol I,small par
! ! ticle# of whieli fly toward* if. It i# also
wonderfully sought nft-r by ants, who •
crowil over it as though they would j
j swallow it up." A marvelous curative
| power was Hupposed to exist in a dia
mond belonging to the Rajah of Matftra.
, in the Island of Borneo, the Malay# In
hering that a drought of water in which I
it hral been placed would cure evory die- j
1 ease.
A firaphic Death Vntesre.
Iu the district oourt at Han Bnena
wntiua, F. A. Horsgue was calle.l up
for sentence. After the court hod ovrr
;' ruleil a motion for a new trial, Judge
Fawcett said, after directing the prisoner
to stand up; "F. A. Hprague, you j
• have leen convicttvl of the highest crime i
known to the law. Yon were skillfully
. defended at the trial. Every device
i was exhausted to save yon, bat a jury
i jof yotir fellow-citizens lis# ptonoiuiced
• , you guilty of the crime with which yon
i are charged. In the dead hours of
i j night you, the leader of a band of
• i masked assassins, applied the torch to
1 | the premises of your vietim, and a# be
i rushed, startled and half naked, into the
I light of the flnmea, you closed up on (
> him and shot him near to death. n<>
attempted flight; yon pnrsned ; he fell
before yon with a pleading voice that
should have wrung pity from a heart of
• iron, but you remorselessly riddled him
* with bullets as you Would a carcass of a
i dog. There is no language strong j
> enough to depict the atrocity of such a (
i j deed. Your guilt is as clear as evidence
i can make it. You probably though. !
■ you would be upheld by the oommnnity )
•, in which yon lived. Thauk God, you j
1 1 were mistaken. There are but few ,
i monsters to applaud your act. The re- j
! suit of your trial prove# that we are vet
■ I governed by law ; that wo are a <vm
--> : inanity of enlightened hnman beings, j
i and not a society of savages. The law
I has seized you. "and the voices of twelve |
t ! good men held you in it# iuexorrble J
| gra#p to pay tho dreadful penalty of your i
1 i crime. Let your fate be a warning that
i justice is sure to follow crime, ravine
i | times traveling slowly with leaden heel. ;
i j but striking with an iron hand. I will !
j not affect for yon a sympathy I do not
■ fed. There is no point in yonr case I
■ for sympathy to grasp at no far as von are
concerned. I deeply feel for yonr faithful i
i wife and children. They are tho ones
! who need and deserve pity and sympathy
• of kind heart*. It only remains to
formally conelnda this painfnl dnty,
i Tho judgment of the court is that on
• Friday, the 27th day of September next,
i between the lionrs of 10 a. M. and 1
> p. M., yon nre to be hanged by the neck
until yon are dead, and may Gsl Al
i mighty have mercy upon y™*r soul."
i Sproguopresented a stolid indifference
i and perfect calmness while sentence was
> being passed. His wife and daughters
were present, and were oalm and nn-
moved.— San Francittco Poet.
TIMEI.V TOI'IUH.
A Western hail insurance company re
cently paid tIy.WW for damages to crops
in one Minnesota oouiity.
France aud Hwttxerlaud exhibit mora
dock# aud watches at the Paris Exposi
tiou than all the other countries put
' together.
The eutrail* of cattle are now manu
fra-iitred into cord, rope, round and flit
I railing, aud other material where extrs
, ordinary strength is required.
■
lteus Willi#, a colore 1 girl, died a few j
minute# after beiug huplizod in Wilkes
ooiiuty, Georgia, Hhe was overheated
when she went into the water.
An Illinois lawyer, who charged a
widow $25 for making out a bill of hale,
reduced Lua bill to $3 after Die widow's
brother had taken off his oust.
On one day recently there were sixty
four steamer#, fifty #tup*. seventy #ix
brig#, 223 lrark#, aud 142 schooner#,
lying at the port of New York waiting
for cargoes.
A woman of Hteele County, Minn, j
hral her hu#baud and sou killed by light
ning five year# ago. Hhe married again,
and her second lord wo# killed by light
mug lost week.
A man recently died in Ins bed at
I'eckham, England, from suffocation
produced by eat iug a hearty supper.
The undigested food had rtra-n and
choked htm to death in his sleep.
The longest daily mall anJ stage line
in the United States, 1,500 mile* from 1
Fort Worth, in Texas, to Fort Yuma,
on the Colorado nver, has beeu formally ;
inaugurated with a procession of Con
cord stage* drawn bv 200 horsea.
* , i
Figure# founded ou the nomination#
made indicate that Uiere will be 800
regular candidate* in the field for the
283 seat* m the Forty-sixth United States 1
(Vrtjgreo#, although in many Southern 1
Ji#tnct> there i# no opjioaition to the
Democratic ca'.ululate*.
It i# a very remarkable orcuniktAnc
in the native country of wheat that oat#,
barley and rre should be entirely un
known. Thi# ha# led to the opinion by
some naturalist# that all our cereal plant#
are artificial productions, obtained acci
dentally, but retaining their habits,
which fiave become fixed iu the course
of age*.
According to the bo#t authorities, the
entire pop'Dituui of the earth is now
1,43t),145.3U0, brorallv divided a# fol
low#: Europe, 81J.35W.480; Asia, 831,-
000,000; Africa, 206.219,500; Australia
and Poiyncsi*. 4 411,300; North and
South America, 86,116,000. The human
race a# a whole is increasing slowly in#
numbers.
The publisher of an esteemed contem
porary on M >uut Washington priute the
name# of the young men at the hotels
who work off on s hand press the great
est number of oopie* of his pajrar :n a
givt-u time; muscular nummer loarder#
covetous of fame fl-.ck to the office, and
tbu# he saves the co#t of a steam engine i
or a mule.— Amp York World. i
A diacnssi.m of the queatiou, " What i
i# Inspiration f" appear# in the Septem
ber-Octolier number of the .A 'orth Atnrri- -
cu-i Review. The writer* will 'tie the
Rev. Dr. F. H. Hedge (Unitarian), the
Rev. Dr. E.A. Washburn
the Rev. Chauncxv Gilea tSwedeubor-
Rian), the Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman j
i Methodist), Moat Rev. Dr. James Gib
bona. Archbishop of Baltimore, (Roman
Catholic), and John Fi#k© (Independ- i
•wit > |
Forty-five million# of pair* of aewed
show and 55.000.000 of pair* of pegged
•hoc* were tnade and *old by the manu
faeturer* of the United States in 1877,
and eighty-five per cent, of the work
done o tlicse *hoe* was done by machine
ry. The npjrars ore cut out by hand,
simply because of the variableness of
the quality of the leather in the same
skin. The ra le# are cut out by machine
ry, aud the binding, pasting, closing,
crimping, stitching, holing and polish
iug are all doue by machinery, without
the aid of hnmsu hands. <
M
" Well, the deuce!" remarked Mr. R. |
Townsend, of Nrwjiort, Ky., when, hav
ing askol for supper at a Cincinnati
hotel he received no change back oat of j
a one dollar bill. Then, as if in a
dream, be went to the dining-room and
consumed two cups of coffee, three plates
plain bread, two plate* fried mush, one
plate corn beef, one plate chicken, one
plate colli liara,two plates loin of veal,two
plates broiled beef, three plates broiled i
nam, four plates freah tl#h. three plate#
fried eggs, two plate# fried potatoes and j
one plate of baked potatoes. The clerk
figured it ont that, at restaurant prices, ,
Mr. R. Towuseud wa# $3.05 ahead.
Foreign Bodies In the Noe and Kara.
Dr. Mason, in a lecture on the Sur
genr of the Face, published in the Ixm
ret. says that foreign bodies, such s*
cherry stones, locu#t beans, brass rings,
slate pencils, screws, buttons, pieces of
wikxl, peas, etc., are not nnfrequently
met with in the aural and nasal cavities
of children, ami oven of adults. Much
subsUuce* have been known to remain
iu one or other of these cavities for near
ly a lifetime, causing little or no iucon
vetiience. Thus a case is related of a
lady from whose nostril a foreign body
was dislodged during the act of snees
iug. It wa# found to be a button which
had belonged to her little brother when
they were both infants. Another ca#e
is ri-corded in which a niece of slate
jteucil wa# removed from the lady'# ear,
and which had been pnt there when she
was at Rcliool forty years In-fore. And
a third instance, iu which a cherry stone
hral Iraeu in an ear for sixty years. A
case is recorded of a gentleman, aged
forty-one, from whose ear a piece of
cedar wood was removed by syringing.
The patient remomlx'red distinctly the
fact of an introduction when he was a
boy at school, at least thirty year*
previous. No attempt hral been made
to extract it, ami it hral not troubled
him until now. It occasionally hspjiens,
however, that a good deal of infl imrua
tory action is set up by the foreign Ixxly,
as in the case of a girl who was nnd< r
the author's csre iu the hospital, to
which she had been admitted on account
of a small stone in her ear. She subse
quently lira! paralysis of the facial nerve.
A case is reported of a child who not
only had facial palsy, but died of menin
gitis, caused by the presence of a locust
bean in the ear. Living larvse have
been found in the meatus of the ear.
Dr. Routh publishes such a case. The
patient was a gentleman who three
years before was tormented by a fly nesr
hiH ear. Convulsions followed the pres
ence of the larvw, but the patient re
covered, although he remained deaf.
Dr. Blnke of Boston, lias seen four snoli
cases. A case is reported which shows the
curious oourse taken by a pin that had
bean introduced i-to the external meatus.
It passed through the middle ear, proba
bly along the Eustachian tube, and was
extracted by the patient from her throat
by hooking it with her finger.
TERMS: a Year, in Advance.
FA KM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Farm*#** Mil***'.
Lot other* mwk the care* of state,
And reek then brain* vrtlh trick* of trade,
Thank tiod, it i* my happier fate
To paa* ray day* in rural *htka
White wranKliitg eenate* fa toe and flower,
Aud • 'Uip*a* with *tratefic (huh,
Ti* luiue to pee* the quiet hoar,
Aud cultivate the teetuiug plain.
CaeliUf ray eye* aiwed, I ace
My ruoauatiuf flock* aud herd*.
And liat, from each unibr**euu* tree
Tuo mellow Biuak of the lard*.
With teeraioK torn* and fertile fleld*.
Aud healthful waft* wf *uramer air.
Kind ilea veil a pure contentment yield*
To oue wbwae lot * eo paaatuf fair,
Then be it mine to heed the I'll**
That Uod ha* mated out bo man
Aud while we feet our work 1* llta,
Strive to eventuate Hi* ptau.
—Ohaohme#" Gom*ir.
Fail Flewta*.
Now that the small grain croj* are
out of the way, it is a question what
should be doue with the ground intrud
ed for aprtng planting. This cannot It*
decided in a general way. No other
question in agricnltare depends more
npon circumstances than thia, and each
case must be decided upon its merits
aud the contingencies affecting it. No
absolute rule can be giveu: but if it were
possible, it would most frequently be
that bare stubbles should be fall plowed,
and sods left uutil the rpring. Yet there
would be so many exceptions that the
rule would be about as much honored in
the breach as in the observance. For
instance, the character of the soil is of
the greatest importune* to be cjrundar
ed ; thru, if it is a piece of sod ground,
the condition of the sod should be taken
into account; lastly, the spring crop
itself complicates the question.
Clay soils that break np in clods
should bv all moans, be plowed in the
fail, and Wt as rough as possible, that
the frosts of winter may break down aud
mellow it. If such soil is fall of weeds,
early plowiug aud frequent working
with a cultivator would be very benefi
cial. Soils that are wet in the spring
should be thorongbly plowed as soon as
possible, while they are dry; and should
be left in condition to be sown with oats
or barley as early as poaaible in the
spring. Tin# may be dona by throwing
the ground into ridges; plowing narrow:
or wider lands; by making deep back
furrows and plowing to tlieae in such a
manner as to form rounded beds with
open furrows between them. These
open furrows should be finished clean,
so a# to give an easy passage to the sur
face water, and, of course, should be
plowed in such A direction as to prevent
this from remaiumg upon the ground.
If woods spring up, the ridgea may be
1 cultivated or harrowed; and, if it is
needed, a final shallow plowing may be
given as late as possible, again plowing
to the middle of the ridge. The ground,
thus treated will be dry early in the
spring, and may be sown to oats or
spring wheat, while she sub-soil is still
frozen hard. This has been done suc
cessfully bv farmers who are forehanded
and therefore prepared to take advan
tage of favorable accidents of weather
and season.
bod ground, as a rule, should be fall
plowed if Die growth it heavy and the
laud at all clayey. Iu cold clay soils tbe
vegetable matter doet not decompose so
rapidly a# in warmer looms and ton iy
toils, and for early potatoes especially
heavy toil ground should be fay plowed.
For corn it is not to needful, but it is
well that it should lie done, for the rea
son mentioned, as well as that the work
may not be delayed by wet weather in
the spring. Thousands of acres of corn
would have been advanced the preterit
season two or three weeks hod the ground
been fall plowed and ridged as above
mentioned. So with corn stubblea in
tended for oat*. Theae may be plowed
in the fall wit h benefit, unless the soil is
very light and dry. For early potatoes
upon otubble* the land should not only
be plowed in the fall, but should also be
manured on the surface after the plow
ing. No other treatment will give to
good a crop or will bring such large and
smooth potatoes.
Hpring plowing should be practiced
upon all light ranis, except thoee which
are infested with wools and need fall
fallowing. Iu that case the land should
be again plowed in the spriDg, unices it
has l>een finally plowed in rough ridges,
which can be worked down with the har
row. Sod upon light soil should in any
case lie spring plowed. Fresh green
matter, in an open, warm soil, will de
cay in a very short time, and a light sod
plowed now will leave no trace of it in
the spring. Soil ground for potatoes or
corn should, if possible, be top-dressed
now, and left in the spring as long as
possible for a good growth of clover to
sppear. This should be plowed under,
the ground harrowed, and planting done
at onee npon the mellow soil. To hasten
the work and insure quick planting, it is
well to procure and use a swivel plow,
with which all the furrows can be laid
the same way, beginning at one side of
the field and proceeding to the other
side. The first day's plowing may then
be harrowed, marked oat, and planted,
the harrowing and planting keeping up
close to the plowing. Growth begins at
onee and continues rapidly when this is
done.
A# a means for destroying weeds, fall
plowiug or fall fallowing may be profit
ably used. The fields are now green
witli the ever-present rag-weed, the per
sistent golden rod, with its almost inde
structible root; the wild carrot, and
scores of other* which disfigure the farm
and if permitted to seed will furnish
work for years to come. These plants
should be plowed down, and the stnb
bles cleaned before the seed is formed.
There will not then be time for them to
mature seed again this yer, and the
present crop, with all its power for norm,
will be vanquished. Yssr bv year farm#
grow more weedy, and as the old-fash
loned summer fallow has become abso
lute, these parasites of the soil are doing
infinite damage. Fsll fallowing may be
made very effective in destroying them,
but to be useful the first plowing must
be done without loss of time.— Weekly
Ttmc*.
A Dairy lllnl ft-**> #wlli*rl**4.
The following paragraph is on its
American travel#:
" A plan for improving the aroma of
butter, in use in many parts of Switzer
land noted for good milk und flue butter,
i# a* follows: The milk, aa roon as it
is drawn aud while yet warm, is filtered
through a sprig of washed fir tips, the
stem of which is inserted loosely anil up
right in the hole of the funnel The
milk deposits hair, skins, clots or gela
tinous sliminess on the leaves. It has
imparted to it a most agreeable odor,
and does not readily turn sour. A fresh
sprig should be used every time,"
That the presence of branches of the
fir tree in the tube of a funnel through
which milk passes will impart something
of its aroma to the miltt there is no
question, but in this country butter is
acoounted never so good aa when it has
its own proper taste. Butter-fanciers
season very lightly with salt, lest it hide
the true flavor, and they would, we sus
pect, make serious objections to suoh
use of the balsam or fir. The idea of
cleansing tbe milk to the fullest extent
NUMBER 37-
possible is s good one, and soy means
which will not injure Ux reuniting but
tor should be gladly availed of. That
Hid ruugkMM in tiic Idwt of ttxe fir
would oateh some of the impurities
which would slip through the smooth
fitters of ft cotton fttmuer is HO doubt
true, and if the filth could be aeparmted
in no wilier way, the pnga of fir might
bo excusable, ctmi though they impart
■ little foreign flavor. Bat them laft
much bettor way. The vuugbnaas on
the fibers of wool is eery much more
officiant than the fir leavi*. A double
alraftier of thick woiWt cloth will Oftteh
s.hundred per cent more than the sprigs
ui fir, and impart no flavor to the ixuik
or butter. Woollen is not only bettor
than the branches of evergreens few a
strainer, but it ts bettor Umu cotton, ftod
ia the only rat-aua for bokton back the
bits of eolid curd and " aliroiueea " which
or ur in the milk in the fall and winter,
wL<m cows uTe drying <M.
TWr HNal> Mj— ln llllri ta iaerV*.
During late year* little ha* beau heard
of the Hewrian fly, forme'y *t deatrac
tive. However, report* from a few
western drntnct* ludimto it* retain, and
this autumn may develop a renewed
attack npon the crops. Thia m#ct
was unknown in Amrn tell the Burn
ing of the Heaaiaa troop*, in 1776.
ilt-uee ita name. It was introduced in
some btraw landed bv them on tit*ten
and Load lalan-la. Then it wa* only in
the form otpup<x, or the chryaalta, and
the farmeni discovered these oealkal in
the lower joint* of the #heei-etaih.
They called them "flaxseeds." By the
next year they had been developed ao
aa to lay their eggs and attract attention
in harvest time. In 1778 the brood had
beoome numerous, and the report* of
Colonel Morgan and Mr. Chut, who
went to Lung island for the purpura,
•how that in 1779 they destroyed the
wheat crope there.
1 In the Colonial Document* of New
Fork VoL VliL, we find that a Tory,
named John Fell, from the town of
Sheffield, in Massachusetts, made hi*
way to New Tort in December, 1779.
lie* gave information to the liritiah about
the crops in hia region. He stated that
a famine waa dreaded there by reason of
a strange fly which in the autumn had
destroyed the wheat Thia insect,there
fore, in three years, or its sixth genera
tion, had ao multiplied that it rained the
crops in all the country between New
York and Berkshire county, Maasachu- j
setts; and it soon spread over the whol*
laud.
Tfc farkbla - Pr*ea#*tlae k Mite*.
For natural elegance and beauty, I
know of no flower which equal* the
fuchsia. In propagation, take your
aiips off with a heel, that ta, pull them
out where they branch oat from the
main stem, slipping, not cutting, them
off. Have ready a box of very fine, nice
soil, oompoeei of sand, garden soil, and
manure well rotted; or leaf mould,
which ia better; water them with lake
warm water; never let the soil get dry,
and nearly every alip will grow. From
April to October is the best time
to alip. Many people complain that
fuchsia* are hard to start from slips;
thia is owing to cutting off slips with
out a heel; they should never be cat,
but slipped off with a heel attached.
Having started them, they will need at
tention a* to training, which can be done
in any manner to suit the fancy. A
neat little trellis may be male or bought,
over which it may be trained, or they
maT be made into neat little bushes by
nipping out the centre shoot when about
a bad high, which causes side shoots to
start, which should have their tops
nipi>ed out again whau of proper height.
If a window or gmmhotme ia not con
venient for saving the plants over win
ter, in October they may be taken up,
the soil shaken off, and placed in a box
of dry saw-dust over whiter.— If. C. L.
Drew.
Kashira >etes.
Late iAported dresses show a dyeidrd
revival of the ;okl-faahioned shirred
trimmings.
Garnet beads are to lie used this fall
and winter for garniture on bonnets and
for dress trimmings.
Mantles and capes of coarse meshed
lace, ornamented with black silk ap
-5 pliqne work, are fashionable.
The " Alumnus" is the hat of hats foe
the autumn. It is shape*! precisely like
the morion, seen in suits of ancient
armor, ia bound with velvet and trimmed
with three folds of satin, a star-shaped
rosette of satin ribbon on the left side,
and a short ostrich plume.
None of the new goods for winter
bonnets are plain Some have very flße
stripes of alternate dark and light colors;
others have wider bauds of velvet and
•atin; others are uniform in color but
are of satin and plush. A few are
plaided and a very few broken checks
' Large square buckles for belts from
two to three inches broad are imported
in engraved silver, in pearl, and In jet
mixed with steel. Everj tiling indicates
that belted dress waists will continue in
fsvor. New belt ribbons are elaborately
embroidered by band, or else brocaded
in the loom. Brigbtlv flowered belts
are worn in Pans with black silk and
grenadine dresses.
The fancy for wearing black around
the neck without "any relief of white ia
popular with ladies* of very fair com
plexion; brunettes find it unbecoming
and warm-looking. The favorite black
ruche is of thread lace closely Dleated in
knife pleat*, and sometimes there is a
slight pleating of crimped black crepe
lisse inside the lace ruche. This black
garniture is in best taste with black
dresses, but ia also worn with ecru,
Iwige. and pale blue dresses with very
stylish eSect.
Furious Bible Facta*
The learned Prince of Granada, heir
to the Spanish throne, imprisoned by
order of the crown for fear be should
aspire to the throne, waa kept in aolitary
confinement in the old prison at the
Place of Skulls, Madrid. After thirty
three years in this living tomb death
came to his release, and tbelbllowiag
remarkable researches taken from the
Bible, and marked with an old nail on
the rough walls of his cell, told how the
brain sought employment through the
weary years:
In the Bible the word Lord is found
1,853 times; the word Jehovah 6,855
times, aud the word Reverend but once,
aud that in the ninth verse of the 111 th
Psalm. The eighth verse of the 117 th
l Psalm is tle middle verse of the Bible.
The ninth verse of tho eighth chapter
of Esther is the longest verse; thirty
fifth verse, eleventh chapter of 8b John
is the shortest. In the 107 th Psalm
four verses are alike—the eighth, fif
teenth, twenty-first and thirty-first.
Each verse of the 136 th Psalm ends
alike. No names or words with more
j than six syllables are fonnd in the Bible.
The thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah
and nineteenth chapter of Second Sings
are alike. The word Girl occurs but
ouoe in the Bible, aud that in the third
chapter of Joel There are found in
both books of the Bible 3,586,483 let
ters, 773,693 words, 31,373 verses, 1,179
chapters, and 66 books.
President McMabon is seventy-one
years old. He waa born July 13, 1807.
Items *t Interest.
Bute oi speech—'The lips.
A hard thing to aharpen—toe water''a
eflffe.
Evary bam ballist abould have a strik
ing face.
A man la not a man—when he's a
shaving.
Chinamen and biUlardiste stick to
their cues,
A German prinoam ia expected to live
on 100,000 a year.
The mac who waa oared by electricity
- vu var j mar j, gbocked.
When cornstalk to each other do they
•peek in each other's ears ?
What a dreaameker may boeetof—l
: am engaged to saw and sew.
The •inning crab at the seashore al
ways wane# after the noder-toe.
bird* are sold for fifteen
... oente apiece in the streets of Heliabnry,
* I N. C.
i Dignity ia expensive, mid without
- ' other good qualities, it to not particular
t !y profitob'e.
f ♦•Ohio storied nrn or animated boat"
1 exceed in eloquence the words, "No
k Trtwt. Ejeehanf*.
\ There to a good deal of cordiality in
toe make-op of the ordinary lobster. He
: always offers to shake hands.
A man may >kmbt his ability to climb
i a picket fence, bat a growl from a dog
, j will inrjure him with confidence and
, | alacrity.
I cWhen Barnum receives word from one
I of hto agita that a aea-lhm haa been
captured, be eimply toiegraphs back,
• j "renin, gentlemen, tanks.**
i An lowa farmer, worth $19,000, start
s ad out four year* ago to secure legal
i revenge on a neighbor. The lawyers
have bis all now, while be has revenge.
The minute parasite which ooeaaiooa
; toe whitish scurf known as "acaly leg"
in poultry may be killed with carbolic
| soap nude, or sulphur and lard applied
1 as a salve.
"Will, I fear yon are forgetting me,*
I said a bright-eyed coquette to her favor
i :to beau. "lea. Sue. I have been for
I getting yon them two yean,** was the
1 suggestive reply.
"Wbo to toe bead men of thto town V
| asked a stranger. And when a bo?
promptly answered "the barber! toe
stranger looked puttied and said be
wanted to know who wae the mayor.
It to enrprtoing what a Mass, of the
namitff f tue tttetoa are abbreviated.—
Pmtum Tint**. La. aakea! Coon, yoo
not Peon, a better one than that? It
makes Me. UL—Hack. BspuMuxm.
itxoioo.
Noma mso sra •tstwaUj? Jekttg,
and thekr wit otumimm overflow! ;
Bat Door ever show a* awash haasor.
As UK Sou un ttw Uutgs of year bom.
Jf. / Bqpmtuuam
"I should just like to see aomebody
try to abduct me," said Me. Smith at
the breakfast table the other morning.
" Hem 1 abould I, my deer, ao abould
[/• said Mr. Mmito with exceeding ear
nest neaa.
A lecturer, eddreesieg e mecbanice*
inftimu con tended that "Art could not
improve Nature," whim one of the audi
ence net toe whole assembly in a roar by
I -1 aiming: " How would you look with
out your wig r
j There to a married woman named
Ryeraon in West Hoboken, N. J., wbo
! has given birth to twenty ix children at
eleven socoocbements, namely, eight
times twins, twice triplets, and ones
' four at a birth.
"Is gold a debased coin T asks the
1 ifropMr, Tea, it to awfully, terribly
debased. It is en degraded that it is
ashamed to associate with tomcat and
j truly good pera-oia like ourselves.—
j Harrittovm Herald.
"The sun riaea in theeaat," explained
1 the teacher. "Y, an* there's suthin*
i rises in the west, too," chimed in ane of
the smeller boy*. " Well, what to it T"
1 asked the sehord ma'am. " Injnna!"
1 shouted the urebtti.
A man bet another ten dollars that be
i could tell" him how much water to a
J .i art went over the falls of Niagara in
a rear. The bet waa taken. " How
much r was the question. " Two pints
] to a quart," replied the first, as he pock
eted the wager.
Hto mother was mending hto primer,
1 which showed sad evideuoe of wear and
tear. He looked on for a while in a
brown study, and then he said: " Ma,
why are you like one of them prum
opera aingwaV "I am sure I don't
know, dt child. Why?" "Because
you're a primer-demer."
" A little four veer old, bright eyed
! girl, who baa , tented a little garden all
' for herself, was asked by an older stater
| if she didn't expect a good many profile
from it. IWa quiekly replied with great
; dignify, ' What are you talking about
1 prophet* for oa week days ? Don't you
know they all died long ago, and went to
. heaven in chariots of fire ?'"
rrnua
Wide mm van fur oar stop*.
In the grey dswti w*M sad away,
Thto wealth of mm! sad Hps
i leave wuh hopes tost die to-day.
(Sina, sweet, doe* to my heart.
Jot will die oat with morning light.
When MM bear us apart
Welt weep tor momenta to* to-night.
Look up-with Tonr sad eyes
And chide am. toe*. tor every tear.
And av. " though nubt-tinw flies
Let seerow oStip tilTmora is bars. -
Jeese Waits, of Williamsburgh, N. T..
went to sleep in a sleeping-car on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, about
fortv miles east at Wheeling. W. Vs.,
and" while the train, the fast express,
waa moving at the rate of about forty
miles an honr, he arose, and, while
asleep, walked off toe rear end of the
•ear. The train stopped about half a
mile farther on. and toe conductor went
back to find the man, whom he met
walking along the railroad track, follow
ing after the train. A few scratches
were all the injuries be had sustained.
JfirhaH Reese.
Michael Reese, the deceased miser of
torn Pranciseo, was a slave trader at one
period of his career, and made much
money oat. of toe traffic. The wealth
amassed by him amounted to seven or
eight millions, a large part being the
mi>d valuable real estate in the Califor
nian metropolis. He made a doaen for
tunes in his lifetime, and was a doaen
times, bv the bankruptcy of others, by
fire, and by shipwreck, reduced to beg
gary. A bachelor, he lived for many
vears a solitarr life in a small and meanly
ifurnifthed apartment in one of his own
1 buildings, but of late had quarters with
an acquaintance in a suburban village,
so as to evade city taxation on bis per
sonal property. Hw business office, in
which negotiations involving millions
ware conducted, was a small room hard
ly large enongh for a Chinese cigar
shop. In habits, dress and manner he
was a miser, but he was aware of it, and
dispassionately protested that he
couldn't help it, because it waa a dis
ease with. Ob the other hand, he said
that he would some day do good with
the money ho wag amassing. He often
tlke*l of the bequests he would make to
charitable usee, and made numerous
wills, to none of which he called the aid
of a lawver. Less than three hundred
thousand goes to public uaea, while the
millions go to relatives.
Queer Parlor Pets.
In the middle of my parlor I have,
I you remember, a curious republic of
> industrious hornets; their negt hangs to
the ceiling by the same twig qn which it
was so ao Durably built and contrived in
! the woods. Its removal did not dis
please them, far they find* in my house
plenty of rood; and I have left a hole
open in one of the panes of the window,
which answers all purposes. By thia
kind usage, they are become quite harm
less ; thev live on the flies, which are
' very troublesome to us through toe
i summer. They are constantly busy in
catching tb cm. even on the eyelids of
my children. By their assistance lam
but little troubled with flies. All my
family age so accustomed to their strong
buzzing that no one takes any notice of
them; and though they are fierce
and vindictive, yet kindness and hospi
tality has made them useful and harm
less. —Farmer"* Letter.