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But through the murk some ray of hope may steal
Some blessed touch from Heaven that we might feel
If we but chose to mark.
Who shut the portals fast,
And turn the key and let no sunshine in,
Yet to the worst despair that comes through sin
God's light shall reach at last.
We slight our daily joy,
Make much of our vexations, thickly set
Our paths with thorns of discontent, and fret
At our fine gold's alloy,
Till bounteous Heaven might frown
At such ingratitude, and turning, lay
On our impatience burdens that would weigh
Our aching shoulders down.
We shed toe many tears,
And sigh too sere, and yield up to wo,
As if God had planned the way we go
And counted out our year..
Can we not be content,
And lift our foreheads from the ignoble dust
Of these complaining lives, and wait with trust,
Fulfilling Heaven's intent ?
Must we have wealth and power,
Fame. beauty, al! things ordered to our mind ?
Nay, all these things lay happiness behind!
Accept the sun and shower.
The humble joys that bless
Appealing to indifferent hearts and cold
With delicate touch. striving to reach and hold
Our hidden consciousness.
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Love comforts, strengthens, helps, and saves us all;
What opportunities of good befall
THE TELL-TALE DIAMOND.
ON the night of January 10, 18—, the
Clifton Bank was entered by burglars who
made good their escape with thirty thous
and dollars in their possession. As soon
as the robbery became known I repaired
Ito the bank and sought the president, to
whom I presented my credentials and made
known my intention of beginning work at
at once. The old gentleman read
ily acquiesced, and together we passed
into the main office whre several spruce
looking young men were scratching away
as unconcernedly as if they had not been
engaged in an animated discussion of the
robbery only a minute before. I glanced
at them sharply, but saw nothing suspi
cions in their looks, and concluded it would
be a waste of time to question them.
I examined the lock of the door opening
upon the street, and found it had not been
tampered with, although the first arrival
had found the door ajar. I next turned
my attention to a door opening upon the
rear, and found it securely locked, in which
condition it had been, so the presi
dent assured me, since the night before.
"Who has charge of the key of this
door ?" I inquired.
"Mr. N—, the cashier, has one, and
our janitor the other.
"Can either of these gentlemen be sum
moned ?"
"Yes, both if needs be. Here, Warren,
run round to Mr. N—'s and tell him
that I wish to see him immediately."
The clerk addressed was about to obey,
when a sudden thought struck me, and I
called him back.
"You need not trouble Mr. N—; but
if the janitor can be found ask him to step
down. fcr a minute or two."
In less than two minutes the clerk re
turned accompanied by the janitor—a broad
shouldered Irishman, whose answers to my
questions were given in such a straight
forward manner, that I at once exonerated
him from all blame.
"You lock up after the clerks have gone
home, do you not ?" I inquired, looking
the man in the eyes.
"Yis, sometimes I does, an' sometimes I
dosent," was the laconic answer.
"When do you not ?" . . _
"Whin Mr:N- works late o'nights,
as has been the case pretty much of late."
"Did you lock up last n i g h t, ?"
. _
'Yis,sir, an' what's more, tried every
door afterwards."
"At what time did you lock that door ?"
and I pointed towards the front entrance.
"Well, as near as I can recollect, half
past seven."
"Are you sure you shot the bolt into its
socket ?"
"Aye! I could swear that I locked that
dare an' left it locked."
"How about the windows ? Did you
fasten them as well ?"
ivery wan ov thim."
"Very good, air. You may go new, if
you like," and I turned to the president.
"Now, then, with your per
mission I Will investigate matters below
stairs."
"Certainly, sir • but first let me get my
coat and hat. fam troubled with rheu
matism, you observe, and have to exercise
more than usual care when descending to
the vaults. I will be with you in a min
ute or two," and the old gentleman disap
peared within his private office.
BUSINESS CARDS,
"The old hook a s !" I heard some one
exclaim, "devilish careful of himself, ain't
he?" And then it snicker ran around the
room.
"I judged from this that the "old hunks"
in question was something of a bugbear to
the gentleman who had just delivered him
self; but I had no time for reflection, for
the old gentleman made his appearance at
this instant and conducted me to the vault
below. The heavy iron door of the large
vault in which the bank's funds were sto
red stood wide open, affording a view of
the interior, which presented a scene of
confusion not unfamiliar to my eyes.—
Books and papers lay upon the floor in ev
ery direction, where they had been thrown
after having gratified the curiosity of the
burglars.
I stooped to pick up a crumpled docu
ment that lay at my feet, and as I did so,
the sparkle of a gem, heretofore concealed
by the paper caught my eye. With a quick
motion of the hand I picked the stone from
the floor and held it concealed in the palm
of my hand while I perused the document,
more for the purpose of concealing the ex
ultation I felt at having gained so import
ant a clue, than for any other reason.
Having glanced at several other papers
similar to the one I had first picked up, I
began a thorough search of the vault,
which preyed fruitless ; but the diamond
in my possession was sufficient foundation
on which to weave a network of circum
stantial evidenee.
LEGAL BLANKS,
PAMPHLETS
"Well, sir," queried the president, as I
signified my intention of returning above,
"have yon discovered anything that would
be likely to aid you in bringing the villains
to grief ?"
I nodded. •
"At ! Then you will have no difficulty
ghe 1 ; 1 uoto' gowtr.
Discontent.
BY CELIA TBAXTEB.
There is no day so dark
To make life sweet and fair.
?kr ffitorg-Zeiltr.
BY B. D. MASON.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1873.
in bringing the authors of this deed to
justice ?"
"None whatever."
"Good! I am glad to hear you say
that. Only catch the perpetrators and
they shall be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law !" And he brought his cane
down as if to give force to his utterance.
"You may possibly have occasion to re
tract that assertion," I mentally added, as
I made a few notes in my diary.
Having no further business at the bank
I took my departure and went diroet to a
celebrated jeweler's establishment in Som
ers street. The proprietor of the store
knew me. and intuitively guessing my bu
siness, conducted me to his private office.
"Well, Tracy, what's up ?" he inquired,
when we had become seated.
"Nothing unusual," I replied. "You
have heard of the Clifton Bank robbery, I
presume ?"
"The Clifton Bank ? Ah ! yes, I did
hear some one remarking about it. There
was no account of it in the morning pa
pers."
"No, I believe not. The affair was not
discovered in time for the reporter to get
hold of it. Well, sir, the bank has been The Railroad Question in the Constitution
robbed to the tune of fifteen thousand del- a l Convention—The Rights, Privileges
lars, and I am engaged on the case." and Restrictions of' Railroad Corpora
" Hum ! indeed! Hope you will catch
the rascals, old boy. Dreadful state of
On Friday last the Constitutional Con
things toexist in a small city like this,"
vention concluded the considerxtion in
and the little man twisted uneasily in his
Committee of the Whole, of the article
chair.
propssed to be incorporated in the amend
" Not so bad as you may imagine. Be ed Constitution, defining the rights,
calm, my friend ; the parties that robbed rivilegesand responsibilities of the R
the Clifton Bank will not be likely to pay
p
road corporations of the State. The arti
you a visit."
"Ah ! I hope your surmises are correct; cle vas reported by the Committee on
but pray tell me your reasons for thinking Railroads prior to the recess of the Con
as you do."
vention in the latter part of March. It
wm taken up in Convention, in Committee
"Certainly. In the first place, the hank
robbery is the work of one man, and he is of the Whole, on the 17th of April, and
not a
vas earnestly and sometimes excitedly dis
professional burglar ; in the second cussed, until all of' the nineteen sections
place, that man cares wore for greenbacks had been passed upon, and the article
than he does for gold ornaments, and would ordered to a second reading. Seven days,
not plunder your place for all there is it with two sessions each day, were devoted
it; in fact, this very same party owned .1
diamond, but threw it away rather dun to this important subject. The article, as
carry it around with him. It is way
adopted, differs in many important res
peas from that reported by the Commit
pretty, is it not ?"
And I held the stone up to him.
tee; some of the sections reported were
The jeweler took it examined it cbsel stricken out, others materially modified,
, y,
and a new section added. It seems prob
and returned it to me with the rema:k :
able that the article will be adopted by
the Convention on the final vote, and go
"It is as you remark, a very pretty
stone, and, I might add, very valuable for
to the people of the State for their decis
a gem of its size. That is your flue, I
presume ?" ion, substantially as it came from the
"Yes; the only clue I happen to pos-
Committee of the Whole.
sess. Now, then, lam anxious tc find
This railroad question is just now the
absorbing subject of discussion in a num
the ring to which this stone belongs, and
her of States, and the people of our own
will you please allow me to see the sings
commonwealth must feel a strong curiosity
that have been left here for resetting gnce
to know how their constitution-makers
the robbery."
have met it. The disconnected rep
talent." orts of
With pleasure. Excuse me one no-
Convention proceedings do not afford the
needed information, and we have therefore
And my friend disappeared, returnitg
carefully collated from the past two weeks'
a minute later, with a number of rings on
proceedings of the Conventioc a statement
a tray, which be placed on a table, and
began to examine the labels attached.
showing the action taken. It will abun
"Some of these rings have been in our dautly repay a careful perusal
A FREE RAILROAD LAW-NO HSCRIMINA.
. . .
possession a number o days. Ah ! here
is one received this morning. 'Jan 11—
diamond setting—E. Baker.'"
And he read the inscription.
I took the diamond from hia hand, and
examined it. It was a finely chased ring
of virgin geld, with the stone missing. I
fitted the diamond in the setting, and
passed it to my friend.
"By Jove, Tracy, that is the very ling
you are in search of! Now, let me see."
And he went nearer the ight.
"Yes, there can be no doubt shoot it.
The stone fits in the setting nicely, and
now that I think of it. is of the same size
and quality ordered.
"What name did you s , y the party
gave ?"
"Baker—Emily Baker."
Emily Baker! Then it was a lady ?"
"I presume so; at all events she looked
and acted like one."
"When is she to call for the ring ?" t
"To-morrow afternoon."
"I must see her when she calls, and in
order that I may play my cards to better
advantage, I shall enter your service as
clerk. What do you say."
"I am perfectly willing, but take care
what you do, old bay; there may possibly
be some mistake."
"That is very true, and if such should
be the case, you may rest assured that I
shall discover it in time. Did I un
derstand you to say that you had prom
ised to have the ring ready to-morrow af
ternoon ?"
"No, sir; I said nothing of the kind.
She said she should call for it to-morrow
afternoon, and I simply nodded assent."
"Then lay the ring aside, and leave the
rest to me. I shall call to see you again
to-morrow ; until then, adieu!"
And I passed into the street.
I had thus far met with better success
than I had anticipated, but I was nowise
elated nor thrown off guard, for I knew I
had a genuine sharper to deal with, whom
it would be a difficult matter to outwit.
Daring the day I visited several places
where "ye little game of faro" was in full
blast, and picked up several items of in
terest, all of which tended to convince me
that I was on the right scent.
Early the next morning I repaired to my
friend's establishment, and was assigned a
position behind the counter, where, it is
needless to say, I felt ill at ease; but years
of training and patient study had enabled
me to act almost any role to perfection, and
it was not long before the feeling of unea
siness wore off.
The day dragged slowly along, for trade
was not very brisk, and the salesmen had
but little to do besides reading the papers
and yawning at each other over the glass
cases.
Four o'clock ! Would the owner of the
ring . ever come ? I asked myself the ques
tion a hundred times, and was on:the point
of doing so again, when the door opened,
and a heavily veiled figure glided in, ap
proached the counter, and inquired, in a
somewhat hesitating voice :
"Is Mr.-in ?"
"No, madam, he is not," I replied. "Can
I do anything for yon ?"
"I left a ring ?ft charge of Mr.-,for
a diamond setting, which was to be ready
this afternoon. You will please let me
have it, together with the bill."
"What name ?" I inquired, bringing out
the tray containing the articles left for re
pairs.
"Emily Baker." •
"Emily Baker." I mused, picking up
several rings and examining them. "It
does not appear to be among these. Ah 1
I recollect what has become of it," and I
replaced the tray and took from the glass
ease a small box, removed the lid, and ex-
posed the ring to view.
"Is that your ring, madam ?"
"It is. Why has it not been attended
to ?"
"Simply because the original stone has
been recovered, and presuminr , that you
would prefer that to any other, we have
waited until we could hear from you."
"The original bas been recovered ? I do
not understand yon," and her voice sound
ed strangely masculine. "Pray tell me
where it was found."
"Certainly. It was found just where
you lost it, in the vault of the Clifton
Bank !" and I reached across the counter,
and with the quickness of thought tore the
veil from the thee of no less a personage
than the cashier of the Clifton Bank !
He saw that it was all up with him, and
quietly submitted to the handcuffing pro
cess, but when I took hini before Chief
he broke down and begged piteously to be
let off for the sake of his wife and child.
When on trial, he confessed that he had
stolen the bank's funds to liquidate gam
bing debts, and having missed the stone of
his ring a short time after the robbery, and
fearing that it might lead to his detection,
had attempted to have it replaced, as we
have shown.
for tht
The People and the Railroads ,
TION.
The first section of the article reported
to the Convention by the ommittee on
Railroads and Canals was adopted with
only a verbal amendment. it secures a
free railroad law, and aims t, prevent dis
criminations by a company akinst •freight
transferred to its road from a other line;
it would not• compel the carriag of freight
by one road according to the tar iff o f
another, but provides that the -ate for
such transferred freight shall be tk 3 same
as for other freight on the road. T,
see
tion is as follows :
SECTION I.—Any indiVidual, comp. iy,
or corporation organized for the purpk,,
shall have the right to construct a railrom
or canal between any two points in this
State. Any railroad may intersect and
connect with any other railroad, and no
discrimination shall be made in passenger
and freight tariffs or tolls on persons or
property passing from one railroad to
;nailer, and no unnecessary delay inter
posed in the forwarding of such passengers
and property to their destination. The
Legislature shall, by general law prescrib
ing reasonable regulations, give full effect
to these powers and rights.
INSPECTION OF THE BOOKS OF RAILROAD
COMPANIES.
The second section was materially mod
ified. The public inspection of the books
of the company provided for, it was claim
ed, would prevent the "watering" of stock
and consequent loss to stockholders. It
was adopted in the following form :
SECTION 2.—Every railroad or canal
corporation organized or doing business in
this State shall mainatin an office therein
for the transaction of its business, where
transfers of its stock shall be made and
books kept for inspection by any stock or
bondholder, or any other person having a
pecuniary interest in such corporation; in
which shall be recorded the amount of
capital stock subscribed or paid in, and by
whom ; the names of the owners of its
stork, and the amounts owned by them
respectively, the transfers of said stock,
and the name and place of residence of its
officers.
TAXATION OF RAILROADS,
This subject elicited earnest debate.
One party in the Convention desired the
roads to be subject to a local valuation by
the commissioners of the counties through
which they passed, while others held that
the bulk of the taxation should be collected
by the State and app'kied to the general
purposes of government. Very properly.
the Convention did not go into these de
tails, and the section as adopted reads as
follows :
SECTION 3.—A1l the prsperty of rail
road and canal corporations 1r other cor
porations of a similar cha-acter doing
business in thip State, and other joint
stock companies now existing sr hereafter
created, shall be subject to taxttion, and
the power to tax the same shah not be
surrendered or suspended by any xmtract
or grant to which the State shal be a
party.
The last clause was designed to pneent
any commutation of the tax, such as the
Legislature conceded to the Erie road i n
one or two of the Northern counties.
NO CONSOLIDATION OF COMPETING LINES.
The annexed section was adopted with
out debate, indicating pretty emphatically
the view of the convention as to the con-1
solidation of competing lines.
SECTION 4.—No railroad, canal, or
other corporation, nor the lessees, pur
chasers or managers of any railroad or
canal corporation, shall consolidate the
stock, property or franchises of such cor
paration with, nor lease, purchase or in
any way control any other railroad or
canal corporation owning or having under
its control a parallel or competing line;
nor shall any of the officers of snch rail
road or canal corporation act as an officer
of any other railroad or canal cerporation
owning or having the control of a parallel
or competing line, and whether railroads
or canals are parallel and competing lines
shall always be decided by a jury in a trial
according to the course of the common
law.
CONSOLIDATION OF NON-COMPETING LINES
The fifth section reported by the Com
mittee prohibited any railroad or canal
company from consolidating its stock
property or franchises with any other
similar corporation, and from purchasing
the property or franchises of such corpo
ration, and from leasing or contracting for
'a lease thereof exceeding twenty-five
years without the consent of a majority of
two-thirds of its stockholders, ratified by
Act of the Legislature.
There was a very warm debate on this
section, its friends claiming the people
demanded a restriction on the power of
great corporations to monopolize business
by buying up small lines. The opponents
of the section claimed rates of transports
tion was reduced by consolidation, and
that requiring the consent of the Legisla
ture would introduce one of the most cor
rupt forms of special legislation. After
voting on various amendments the whole
section was rejected. This , leaves the ar
ticle with no provision regulating the
leasing, buying, &c., of railroads other
than of competing or parallel lines. Un
der present laws, however, the consent of
a majority of the stockholders of both cor
porations is required.
RAILROAD COMPANIES CONFINED TO BUS
INESS OF COMMON CARRIERS.
The sixth and seventh sections, limiting
.railroad companies to their legitimate bus
iness of common carriers, were adopted as
follows :
SECTION 6 —No railroad, canal, or other
corporation doing business as a common
carrier, shall, either directly or indirectly,
hold, guarantee, or endorse shares in the
capital stock, bonds, or other indebtedness
of any other corporation, individual or
partnership, except those doing the busi
ness of common carriers.
SECTION 7.—No incorporated company
doing the business of a common carrier, or
the officers or managers thereof, shall di
rectly or indirectly, prosecute or engage in
mining or manufacturing articles for other
persons or corporations for transportation
on the works of said company; nor shall
such company, directly or indirectly, en
gage in any other business than that of
common carriers, or hold or acquire lands,
freehold or leasehold, directly or indirect
ly, except such as shall be necessary for
carrying on its business; but any mining
or manufacturing company may carry the
products of its mines and manufactories
on its railroad or canal, not exceeding fifty
miles in length.
NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE PEO-
PLE OF THE STATE,
On this object many of the delegates,
particularly from the western part of the
State were very earnest in their demands,
that unjust discrimination against our own
citizens should be prohibited. After pro
tracted debate the section was adopted
in this form :
SECTION 8. No corporation engaged in
the transportation of freight
in or through this State shall make any
discrimination in charges in the carrying
of any freight or passengers against the
people thereof; and such corporations
shall carry the persons and goods of the
people of this State on as favorable terms
as those of other States brought into or
through this State on the works owned or
controlled by such corporation ; and the
charges for freight and fares for passen
gers shall for equal distances in the same
direction be the same ; and a higher
shall never he made for a shorter distance
than is made for a longer distance; and
no special rates on drawback shall either
Zirectly or indirectly be allowed, but corn
notation tickets to passengers may be is
end for passengers as heretofore, and rea
so able extra charges within the charter
mai be made in charges for any distance
umexceeding fifty miles.
AM RAILROADS DECLARED PUBLIC HIGH•
WAYS.
T e ninth section brought up the ques
tion ,f how far the convention would seek
to cotrol railroad companies in the man
agemnt of their business in order to se
cure Ovate shippers from unjust discrim
inatio,. The section as adopted is as fol
lows :
SEexoN 9. All railroads and canals are
declarer public highways, and all individ
uals, patnerships and corporations shall
have ecrel right to have persons and prop
erty trauported thereon, eseept officers
and partnerships or corporations composed
in whole r in part of officers of each res
pective ralroad or canal, who arc hereby
prohibitedfrom engaging in the business
of forwardag or transporting on the lines
thereof; and all regulations adopted by
the companies owning, controlling, or
managing sath railroads or canals having
the effect of hindering or discriminating
against indilicluals, partnerships or cor
porations, exiapt at above accepted, in the
transportationof property on such rail
roads and eands shall he void ; and no
railroad corpoation, nor any lessee or
manager of' thc works thereof, shall make
any preferencein their own favor or be
tween individual, partnerships, and com
panies shippingand transporting thereon
in furnishing ems or motive power.
This is regarced as a veto on the fast
freight lines whch have become so obnox
ious to merchant and shippers.
COMBINATIONS IETIVERN RAILROAD COM-
PANIES.
The tenth section, designed to prevent
combination between railroad companies
tending to enhance the price of commodi
ties, after considerable debate and the
adoption of several amendments, was re
jected on the ground that it would pro
hibit unity and consultation in railroad
management.
INCREASE OF CAPITAL STOCK AND BONDED
INDEBTEDNESS.
The eleventh section was adopted after
a strong opposition by its enemies, who de
clared it to be revolutionary and likely to
lead to very serious consequences. It pro
vides that no railroad company shall issue
r!ock except for money, labor, or property
etually received, declares all stock divi-
Ands void, prescribes a method of increas-
Intthe stock of corporations by general
law..and contains a retroactive clause de
clan?, void all laws by which railroad and
canal qmpanies have been authorized to
increas their capital stock, "except so far
as may L necessary to maintain the obli
-1 gat'm of ontracts."
C°l\ EQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
Passing b.the twelfth and thirteenth
sections, prehbiting the free transports
tionof passeog-s sal providing a legal
remedy for violuons of the article (both
of which were Sted down), there was a
warm debate on L. subject of consequen
tial damages malt., from the construe-
tion or enlargement of public works. The
section was adopted in this, shape
SECTION —. All municipal, railroad,
canal, and other corporations and individ
uals shall be liable for the payment of
damages to property resulting from the
construction and enlargement of their
works. as well to owners of property not
actually occupied as to those whose prop
erty is taken; and said damages shall be
paid or secured to be paid before the inju
ry is 'lone.
FENCING-IN OF RAILROADS.
A section requiring all railroads to be
substantially fenced by the owners or con
trollers thereof, was rejected on the ground
that it might be properly incorporated in
a general railroad law, but was out of
place in the Constitution. A section was
also rejected giving boroughs and cities
the power to regulate the grade and rate
of speed of railroads within their limits.
STREET RAILROADS.
The seventeenth section, requiring the
consent of the local authorities to the pass
age of every law granting the right to
construct or operate a street railroad with
in any city, borough, or township, was
amended, and agreed to, in the following
form :
SECTION.—No street passenger railway
shall be constructed within the limits of
any city, borough, or township without the
consent of its local authorities.
HOW THE DOCTRINE OF VESTED RIGHTS
IS TO BE MET.
Of course there are provisions in the
above sections that seriously impair the
rights and franchises of railroad companies
hold under charters heretofore granted.
Precisely how the Convention proposes to
bring these companies within the juris
diction of the proposed amendmends is in
dicatedin the following section :
SECTION -. No railroad, canal, or oth
er transportation company in existence at
the time of the adoption of this article
shall have any beneficial legislation by
general or special laws, except on condi
tion of complete acceptance of all the
provisions of this article.
This section provoked the indignant op
position of the leading railroad men in the
Convention, who compared it to the threat
of the highwaymen of "your money or
your life." It was adopted, however, by
a large majority.
REMEDIES AGAINST RAILROAD COMPANIES
The nineteenth section of the article
reported by the committee transfers the
supervision of railroad companies from the
officei of Auditor General to that of the
Secretary of Internal Affairs. It also pro
vides that it shall he the duty of the lat
ter officer.
" On complaint made against said cor
porations by any citizen, person or com
pany interested, of a violation by law or
any infraction of the rules of said corpor
ation injurious to the rights or interests
of said complainant to investigate said
complaint; and, if it shall appear that any
violation has taken place, he shall proceed
either against said corporations or the of
-o,treof or both • pug ifm"
made, or of Lis own " - st w eage, It
appear that a...;• railroad, or part thereof,
is so insufficiently or carek,wly constructed,
supported, guarded, protected, or so out of
repair as to imperil life or property, he
shall at once notify such delinquent cor
poration of the same, and specify and di
rect the remedy to be applied, and it shall
be the duty of such corporation to repair,
support, make safe from or remove said
cause of peril, under such regulation, not
inconsistent herewith, as shall be proscri
bed by the Legislature, to carry this sec
tion into full effect. This section was
adopted.
RIGHT OP COMPANIES TO USE EACH
OTHER'S TRACKS.
Tho annexed is the last section of the
article. It was not reported by the com
mittee, and was added to the article by the
convention on the suggestion of a Western
delegate :
SECTION.- Railroad companies shall
have the right to connect their railroads
by proper connections with the railroads
of each other, and shall have the right to
pass their cars, either empty or loaded,
over each other's railroad free from dis
criminations in freights or charges, and
without delay or hindrance in their move
ments.
This completes the Railroad article as it
has passed through the first stage of the
Convention. It will not be taken up for
final action until the remaining reports
from the committee of the Whole.—Pitts-
Intrgh Evening Telegraph.
A Story of a Rose
A rose with so pretty a little story as
this, and so full of romance as this, ought
to be beautiful, and so is the Cherokee
Rose, Here is the story of it : "An In
dian chief of the Seminole tribe was taken
prisoner by his enemies, the Cherokees,
and doomed to torture, but fell so seriously
ill that it became necessary to wait for his
restoration to health before committing
him to the fire. And as he lay prostrated
by disease in the cabin of the Cherokee
warrior, the daughter of the latter, a
young dark-faced maid, was his nurse.
She fell in love with the young chieftain,
and, wishing to save his life, urged him
to escape. But he would not do so unless
she would flee with him. She consented.
Yet, before they bad gone far, impelled
by soft regret at leaving home, she asked
permission of her lover to return for the
purpose of bearing away some memento of
it. So, retracing her footsteps, she broke
a sprig of white rose which climbed and
twined up the poles of her father's tent,
and preserving it during her flight through
the wilderness, planted it by the door of
her new home in the land of the Semi
noles. And from that day this beautiful
flower has been known between the keys
of Florida, and throughout the Southern
States, by the name of the Cherokee
Rose."
A Mother's Love.
Lamartine gives this illustration : "In
some spring freshet, a river widely washed
its shores and rent away a bough whereon
a bird had built a cottage for her summer
home. Down the white and whirling stream
drifted the green branch, with its wicker
cup of unfledged song, and fluttering be
side it went the mother bird. Unheeding
the roaring river, on she went, her cries
of agony and fear piercing the pauses in
the storm. How like the love of an old
fashioned mother, who followed the ohild
she had plucked from her heart, all over
the world. Swept away by passion that
child might be, it mattered not; though
he was bearing away with him the fragrance
of the shattered roof-tree, yet that mother
was with him, a Ruth through all his life,
and a Rachael at his death."
NO. 20
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly.
A republican club has been formed in
London.
The loss by the fire at Fort Scott will
reach $75,000.
Gov. Dix has signed the new charter for
New York city.
A 16-inch oyster has been pried out of
the Savannah river.
By neat Christmas Des Moines will own
a $50.000 opera house.
The cotton.crop of Louisiana is ten days
in advance of last year.
An Indian squaw has just died at Lan
caster, Mich., aged 115.
Paris had thirteen "justifiable suicides"
in a single day, recently.
A Benton county, Ind., farmer owns a
flourishing "sugar orchard."
The town of Mariana, Ark., was nearly
destroyed by fire last week.
Raleigh, N. C., sells full-blooded point
ers at twenty-five cents apiece.
It is proposed in Kentucky to let juries
fix the penalty in murder eases.
Portland, Oregon, expects to put up
3,000,000 sans of salmon this season.
Pennsylvania erected seventy-nine new
iron works last year; New York seven.
A Georgia judge fined four lawyers; $5
each for laughing in court, the other day.
A Minnesota hen has got into the news
papers by laying thirty-six eggs in sixteen
days.
Excellent sugar is being made from the
sap of box•elder, in the big woods, Minne
sota.
A new theatre in London is to try the
experiment of giving only afternoon per
formances.
The India widows don't burn themselves
any more. They find it more agreeable to
marry again.
The Sioux and Minneconjon Indiana
are killing and wounding white men on
the mail route.
Kansas reports its fruit trees in full
bloom, notwithstanding a three-days' snow
storm last week-.
The value of exports from Boston to
England alone the past month exceeded
two million dollars.
The Maryland oyster beds have been
scraped so clean that a tight market is
looked for next year.
Insanity bas been successfully pleaded
by Mr. William Hibben, of Des Moines,
lowa, in a forgery case.
The shoe manufactory of Mr. Lawrence
Boardman, at Exeter, N. H., was burned
last week. Loss $lO,OOO.
A young husband handed his wife a
dozen buttons the other day, and asked
her to put a shirt to them.
And a more useful one, too.
Another flying ship is being built in
San Francisco, and, like the rest, "on en
tirely new and original plans."
An illicit distillery on Barren Island.
near New York, has been destroyed by
United States revenue officers.
A wide-awake young darkey in Troy is
running a news room and barber shop, and
fitting himself for the ministry.
The old United States Arsenal, erected
in 1812 on Jersey City Heights, is to be
torn down after the first of May.
A ship canal for New Jersey, running
under the Palisades at the rear of Wee
hawken and Hoboken is proposed.
An ironmaster of Liverpool has been
sentenced to the jail for six months for
stealing twenty-five tons of pig iron.
Leprosy has lately made frightful havoc
among the natives of the Sandwich Islands
and other groups in the South Pacific.
A few pots of canned meats and one
shirt pattern make up the list of Maine's
contributions to the Vienna exposition.
In Boston 23,500 persons cannot write,
and 17,400 cannot read. About 22,000
of those who cannot do both are foreign
born.
Three experts from Washington are
now engaged in examining the accounts
of H. W. Whiing, in the New York post
office.
The colored men driven from the Court
House at Colfax, Louisiana, have written
to the President a full statement of the
affair.
Rev. William H. Grass was consecrated
as Roman Catholic Bishop of Savannah,
in the Cathedral at Baltimore on the 27th
ultimo.
The general topic of conversation at Lit
tle Rock, Ark., at present, is the discove
ry of a valuable silver mine just outside
of that city.
A precipitate Detroiter is miserable at
discovering that his wife inherited half a
million just after he had procured a di
vorce from her.
The doctors have come to the conclu
sion that chloroform killed Napoleon, and
that if they had left him alone he would
have lived on.
A Newark man paid a claim of $3OO all
in old-fashioned coppers. They weighed
four hundreds pounds, and took three men
to remove them.
A portion of the baggage of the passen
gers and some of the cargo of the ill-fated
steamship Atlantic arrived in New York
one day last week.
Smoking tobacco and pistol cartridges
should be kept in separate bags. A Chicago
man neglected this little precaution, and
he is a blind man now.
Doctors' prescriptions for whisky are
printed for one dollar per thousand at the
office of the Coatsville "Union." They
have local option there.
Fon du Lac, Wis., reports the discovery
of another miraculous well, the water from
which instantly converts a piece of soft
iron into a permanent magnet.
The sugar crop in Louisiana has failed
so disastrously during the last two seasons
that this year the area devoted to the case
will be much diminished.
Two young Mississippians who roomed
together three years have recently WM
mitted suicide within four weeks of each,
other, in precisely the same way.
Work on the slackwater navigation of
the Monongahela river passing through
West Virginia will be commenced as soon
as the title to the land can be obtained.
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