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John was the head and the heart of his State, Was trusted and honored, was noble and great; Peter was made 'neath life's burdens to groan, And never once dreamed that his soul was his own: Robert great glory and honor received, For zealously preaching what no one believed; While Paul, of the pleasures of sin took his fill, And gave up his life to the service of ill. It chanced that these men, in their passing away From earth and its conflicts, all died the same day John was mourned through the length and the breadth of the land; Peter fell 'neath the lash in a merciless hand , Robert died with the praise of the Lord on his tongue, While Paul was convicted of murder, and hung. John, and Peter, and Robert, and Paul— The purpose in life was filled in them all. Men said of the Statesman—" How noble and brave!" But of Peter, alas!—"He was only a slave." Of Robert—" 'Tis well with his soul—it is well;" While Paul they consigned to the torments of hell. Born by one law, through all Nature the same, What made them different 1 and who was to blame? John, and Peter, and Robert, and Paul— God in His wisdom created them all. Out in that region of infinite light, Where the soul of the black man is pure as the white— Out where the spirit, through sorrow made wise, No longer resorts to deception and lies— Out where the flesh can no longer control The freedom and faith of the God-given soul— Who shall determine what change may befall John, and Peter, and Robert, and Paul? John may in wisdom and goodness increase— Peter rejoice in an infinite peace— Robert may learn that the truths of the Lord Are more in the spirit, and less in the word— And Paul may be blessed with a holier birth Than the passions of man had allowed him on earth, John, and Peter, and Robert, and Paul, God in his wisdom created them all. (4e *toll-Erik. After Twenty Years. "Do I look nice, Auntie ?" The speaker was standing before a full length mirror, her pretty head twisted to one side to survey multitudinous flounces over pale blue silk, constituting the elabo rate evening dress covering her slender, graceful figure. Clusters of blue flowers with snowy leaves caught the dress at the puffed overskirt, formed a boquet de cor sage, and were twisted in the profusion of golden curls. "You look very nice, my dear." Miss Delia Merriman had taken a long survey of the exquisite face before she spoke, and was satisfied with the appear ance of ber young and lovely protege. "Very nice 1" she repeated. "Hortense has fitted you perfectly, and the dress is most becoming. Now, if you will get my jewel case, you shall wear my pearls." "Thanks !" cried Elsie, carefully lifting the heavy casket, and putting it out on a table beside Miss Merriman. "I am so sorry you have such a cold ! This will be a splendid party, I know. Ah ! Auntie," she continued, opening a small box in the jewel case, "I never saw this !" She held up, as she spoke, a slender chain, from which depended a gold locket, upon whose surface gleamed one pearl of great beauty, pure and large. "Oh, how lovely 1" Elsie cried, clasping the chain around her slender throat. "May I wear it?" Miss Merriman was moved, as the locket was held up before her. Some stronc , memory stirred her placid features, for the soft, brown eyes grew troubled, and her lips quivered. "Would you rather I took it off ?" Elsie asked gently. "No, dear, you may wear it. Put in the soltaire pearl ear-ringz. I hear the carriage. Do not keep Mr. Jameson wait ing." "I wish you were going," Elsie said, as Miss Merriman wrapped a warm opera cloak over the delicate dress. "I never feel half so happy if you are at home." "Thank you, dear. Now run along." So Elsie, already forgetting the locket and the troubled face, kissed her so-called aunt warmly, and flitted away. For Miss Delia Merriman, who had in herited thirty thousand pounds from a second cousin, greatly to her own amaze ment, was not Elsie Garman's aunt. Nine teen years before, she had closed the eyes of the girl's dead mother, lifted a week old baby to her own bosom, and taken her home. Not to such luxuries as now sur rounded her—not to ball dresses, pearls and gaiety—but to a small room in a lodg ing-house. Here for twelve long years she had denied herself every luxury of life, many comforts, to provide food for the child, to clothe her comfortably, to send her to school. She was but a girl herself —scarcely twenty in those days—earning her bread by making artificial flowers, and working early and late to keep the room tidy, cook the simple food and do necessary sewing, when she was not working at her trade. e- But when wealth came, suddenly and unexpectedly, flooding Elsie's life with sunshine, Miss Delia altered a little from her former self. True, she had leisure time, could open her kind hands in charity where before she had only given her warm tender sympathy, but as she had been in poverty quiet, gentle, and ever sad, so in prosperity the same calm gravity rested on lip and brow, the same deep sadness lurked in the soft brown orbs. OD CD - CD 0 Though but forty, her hair was some what streaked with gray, and premature age was the fruit of a toilful life and sor rowful heart. Yet she was lovely still, and goodness ever beamed from her sad, pitying glance. After Elsie had left her she put aside jewelcase and sat musing before the fire She had made it one of her duties to her adopted child to accompany her, after in troduction to society, to all scenes of gaiety. But a severe cold had rendered exposure to the night air an imprudence on this, the evening of Mrs. Walton's large party, and Elsie bad joined the family of a friend. Memory was very busy in Delia Merri man's heart as she sat.over the fire during Elsie's absence—so busy that she started as if from a dream when the carriage rolled to the door as the mantel clock chimed two. There were words of parting, then light steps on the stairs, and Elsie came in, not as usual, full of bright animation, but with an earnestness of put pose quite unusual to her. HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1878. 'Did you have a pleasant evening, dear ?" Miss Delia asked. "Yes—no--I don't know. Are you very tired ?" The words were all of the disconnected answer the girl seemed able to give, on ac count of her emotion. "No, dear ! Why, Elsie, love, what is it ?" For she was looking troubled. "I have a message for you, auntie." "For me ?" "From a stranger who was at Mrs. Wal ton's, Mr. Carrington—Ralph Carrington. elia Merriman rose to her feet. She tried to speak, but the words would not come. "Aunty," the girl cried, terrified.— "Don't look so—don't !" "The message ?" she whispered. "He told me to tell you the man who killed Henry Garman was Charles Ralston, the cashier of the Hope Bank, who has confessed his guilt. He said, 'Tell Miss Merriman that to-morrow I will see her.' Auntie," Elsie continued urgently, "what does it mean ? Was not Henry Garman my father ?" "Yes, child. It means," Miss Merriman said solemnly, "that the cross that for twenty years has lain upon my life is lifted to night. You shall know all, Elsie, at once. I will not send you to a sleepless bed, child, with your heart so troubled.— But give me a few moments to think of your tidings, and tell me how this message came to be intrusted to you." Mrs. Walton came to me late in the evening, and asked permission to introduce Mr. Carrington. I had noticed a stranger, who looked at me very earnestly." "A tall, handsome man, with curling brown hair and pleasant features, wearing a full beard of waving golden brown ?" "No. A tall, grave man, with stern features, smoothly shaven, and hair . almost white—quite an old man." "True ! true ! I had forgotten. He must be forty five." "When he was introduced to me, he touched the locket upon my neck. 'Par don me,' he said, 'lf I am too curious; but your name and that trinket are con nected with so much of my life that I venture to ask you something concerning them. The locket first. Did not some body give it to you—a lady ?" His looks were so eager that I told him the locket was yours. Then he led me on, little by little, till I told him my whole life. He said he had been here two months seeking you. He did not look for a wealthy wo man, but one poor and solitary. Then I informed him how poor we had been ; and about your cousin,and how you had lavished every good thing on me. And then, Aunty, he whispered, half to himself, that I had no claim on you. What did he mean ? Are you my Aunt ?" "No, dear, there is no tie of blood be tween us. Your claim is the claim of love, for you have been the one comfort, the one sunshine of my lonely life. Twenty years ago, Elsie, Ralph Carrington gave me the locket you have upon your neck, a gift of betrothal, for we loved each other and were engaged to be married. I was a poor girl, making artificial cowers for bread, an orphan, too. He was assistant cashier of the Hope Bank, where your father was night watchman, and Charles Ralston was bead cashier. Ralston was in love with me, and pursued me with un welcome attentions. "One day to rid myself of his importu nities I told hik I had promised to marry Ralph. He left me in a rage. Only one week later the bank was opened at night, your father shot through the heart, and Ralph Carrington discovered in the vault trying to revive h.m. He told a story no one credited, that Charles Ralston had sent him from his house to the bank for papers, after keeping him busy there over the books all the evening. But Ralston swore that he had not been at home that evening; and proved it; that the keys of the vault safe, found hanging in the key hole, were stolen from his desk, and he had not sent his clerk to the bank. So Ralph was convicted and sentenced. He escaped Elsie I bad saved fifty pounds for my wedding garments. I went to see him in prison, and, knowing he was inno cent, I gave him the money to bribe the keeper of his cell. The man took it, and Ralph was free. I have never known if he lived or died until to-night. After he was gone your mother was taken ill. Before marriage she had worked for the same establishment where I was employed, and I knew her well. The shock of her husband's death was too se vere for her, and she never again rose from her bed, though she lived three months. When she died I promised you should be my charge, and never know the shadow upon your life until you were a woman." Elsie was sobbing quietly, often lifting to her lips the gentle hand that bad given her all she had ever experienced of life's blessings. There was a long silence after Miss Mer riman ceased speaking, and the gray dawn was creeping in at the windows, when, softly kissing her, Aunt Delia told Elsie to go to rest. But for herself there was no rest. Fever ishly with an agitation altogether unlike her usual quiet, she waited the coming of her lover who had fled from his unjust sentence twenty years before, but who was free now, and his innocence known. The day was young and Elsie was sleeping still when he came. Delia was waiting for him in the draw ing room. There was no affectation of youth in her silver gray silk, and the square of black lace upon her soft hair ; but instead of a brooch there fell upon the knot of ribbon at her throat the pearl locket Ralph had given his betrothed She stood up to greet the stern-faced, elderly man who advanced to meet her, trying to find traces of her lover. Not till he smiled tenderly did she recognize him. Then, her own eyes dim with tears, she said softly, "You are more than welcome. I am rejoiced, the cloud is lifted from your life, Ralph !" And he, holding the trembling hand fast in his strong ones, answered : "I have found you at last. I began to fear you were dead, Delia. My love, my dar ling !" "Ralph," she said, the bright blush rising to her faded cheeks "you forget we are gray-haired elderly people." forget everything but you are here, that the hope that has seemed a dream of madness for twenty years is realized. I have been in California, Delia, all these years, amassing wealth, under another name, working for gold to drown thought. I have led a busy life, but there has not been one hour when I have not' pictured such happiness as this. You are mine, Delia; you will not send me from you ? You will be my wife ?" "If you wish it," she said, her own faithful heart thrilling under the sincerity of his tone, "I have never ceased to love you or to pray for you, Ralph." Society speculated upon the brief court ship, for there was a quiet wedding within a month, for nobody knew of the painful past 'save Elsie, the cherished child still of Ralph Carrington and Delia, his wife. tittt fftistrilanp.. Don't. Don't judge a man by the clothes he wears, for God made one and the tailor the other. Don't judge him by his family connec tions, for Cain belonged to a very good family. Don't judge a man by his failure in life, for many a man fails because he is too honest to succeed. Don't judge him by his speech for the parrot talks, and the tongue is but an in strument of sound. Don't judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizard and the rat often inhabit the grandest structures. Don't judge him by his activity in church affairs, for that is not unfrequently inspired by hypocritical and selfish motives. Don't judge him by his lack of display, for the long eared beast is the humblest of animals, but when aroused is terrible to hold. Don't take it for granted that because he carries the contribution box he is liberal. He often pays the Lord in that way, and keeps the currency. Don't carry your hymn book in your hand when you go to the house of worship and your ledger in your head. The Lord can see through your skull. Don't, when in church, chew tobacco, and spit all over the floor. You would not do so in your own house, and you ought not to do so in the house you respect more. Don't judge a man by his success in life, for that is much oftener the result of a combination of circumstances with which he had nothing to do, than of his own merit. Don't think when you have gone to church on Sunday that entitles you to do as you please the rest of the week. The upright man lives through the six days as he does the seventh. Don't walk into the house oC, worship with your hat on. You bare your head when you enter a young lady's parlor. Is your young friend entitled to more respect than your Creator. Don't think your creator is under any obligation to you for the quarter you gave for converting the heathen ; that is only a small fraction you owe for turning your own ancestors away from their wooden gods. Adaptability. As a general thing, lads have their own ideas concerning the occupation they de sire to follow in life, and are grievously disappointed if circumstances prevent them from following the bent of their inclina tions. It is true that the natural bent is of service in helping to decide on a calling for life Awl yet, come to think of it, it is very hard to pick out the tastes that were born with us, and those that come by early education. Daniel "Webster would have followed the sea if his father had not turned his mind in an opposite direction. He set his two boys to argue cases with one another. His first case was in behalf of a captive woodchuck, which they had in a trap. Zeke was for drowning it, and made out a very good case. But when it came Daniel's turn he put quite another face on the question. His appeal was so effective that the old man roared out "Zeke, do you let that woodchuck go !" A great seedsman and florist said he never took any interest in plants until he bought a geranium to help sell his painted flower pots. That one went off so quickly that he bought t.vo more and placed in his window, which were likewise quickly sold. From these small beginnings grew up a large and prosperous business. He was settled in life before he began the study of plants and flowers, but he carried his practical knowledge to a rare extent. And yet he began without any particular "fancy for it." The fact is, there is a wonderful adaptability in the human mind to almost anything resolutely required of it. Like the old Indian who was laboriously munch inn.ri a very hard crust, and was asked if he liked it, he replied. "It is my victual and I will like him !" So, boys, say, "It is my work and I will like him." If it is right and honorable work you will be sure to succeed. Misplaced Words. "What, a sweet faced creature !" says enthusiastic Miss Gush, alluding to a pet pony or dog. Now, sweet things are only to be tasted by the taste ; therefore the word is misused in this sense. "What a lovely color !" The word lovely is used to express admiration. What is lovely, inspires love; say beautiful. "I had a splendid ride." That is splendid which shines, and as ride does not shine, the ap plication is wrong ; say delightful. "What an awful hot day." Awful means full of awe ; and a warm day is not that by any means. • So, also by the words tearful, frightful and terrible ; we refer to things that inspire fear, fright and terror ; say remarkable, oppressively. "A magnificent dress," what does not oppose by its grandeur cannot be magnificent; say fine, superb, etc. It requires nice study to speak the English language correctly, and some odd mistakes are made by placing the words in their wrong order. "He saw a lady sew ing with a Roman nose." saw two men digging a well with straw hats." "Garret Clauson shoots squirrels without spec tacles." "A respectacle young woman wants washing." A proprietor of a bone mill advertised that "parties sending their own bones to be ground, will be attended to with fidelity and dispatch." These in stances of "ambiguity" are very common. VIII ! where did you get them trow sers ?" asked an Irishman of a man who happened to be passing, with a remarka bly short pair of trowsers on. "I got them where they grew," was the indignant re• ply. "Then, be me conscience," said Pad • dy, you've pulled them a year to soon !" BURLINGTON Hawkeye : What a pity Reran Pittman wasted his wife in an oven ! He might have saved her until the next campaign, and used her up in a torchlight procession. HE that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. THE JENNINGS ESTATE. A Remarkable History. As some of the readers of the JOURNAL claim to be entitled to a share of the mil lions belonging to this estate we publish the following for their benefit : Some eighty years ago—on the 19th of June, 1798, to be precise—there died in London, England, in his ninety-ninth year, a gentleman named William Jennings. There were at that time plenty of people bearing that name in the United Kingdom, but this particular one was known to all, and respected by but a few. "Wealthy Jennings" some called him, and "Stingy Jennings" he Was denominated by others. His was a remarkable history. Left an heir to an enormous fortune, which by ju- dicious management he contrived to treble during his life time, he, nevertheless, sub sisted in a penurious style. Yet he was favorably regarded at court, probably on account of the fact that King 'William 111 had stood as his sponsor at the infant bap tism, and had manifested his regard for the family by presenting the un conscious babe with a silver ewer of mag nificent design. He was appointed page to George I, and his miserly habits were well illustrated by the fact that, although so wealthy, he did not scruple to accept a paltry honorarium of $5OO per annum for performing this service. His presence at court brought him into continual contact with the galaxy of female wit and beauty which crowded the royal halls, and many were the mothers, some even of noble birth, who saw in him a valuable prize for their unmarried daughters. But Jennings right ly calculated that to take unto himself a wife would entail the expenditure of some of his precious gold, and this was so re• pugnant to his feelings that he eschewed the married state and died a crusty and morose old bachelor. After his death the executors made an autopsy of his chest and strong box, and also opened his will and codicil. They found that his wealth exceeded the wild est estimates which had been made during his lifetime. There was landed estate in nearly every part of the country, and stocks of almost every English fund which was then in existence. There were mort gages innumerable. Hid in a mortgage deed in the iron chest, the key of which could not be found until after a long search, were found a roll of bank notes of one year's issue amounting to upward of $lOO,OOO, together with $50,000 in gold coin. Another $lOO,OOO in notes and coin were found in his country and town residences. At one banking house was a massive chest, containing his mother's plate, jewelry and valuabls, which had never been opened since her decease, while at another was a deposit of $250,000, which be had kept in view of any sudden emergency. A check on this amount had not ben drawn for nearly twenty years. When the sum total had been counted up it was found that the deceased miser, for such he really was, had been worth no less a sum than one hundred and twenty mil lions of dollars. _ _ "Who are the heirs ?" puzzled the ex ecutors as soon as the inventory bad been completed. The contents of the will did anything but answer the question. It merely contained the superfluous intima tion that the property should zo to the heirs at-law. The executors spent years in investigating and tracing and finally ar rived at the conclusion that no direct heirs were in existence and that the search must go back to the descendants of his brothers and sisters, if he had any such kindred, and, if not, to the relatives of his father and mother. So proclamation was ac cordingly issued inviting the Jenningses of the United Kingdom generally to come in, prove property, pay charges and carry off the booty. This announcement brought a small army of claimants upon the scene, every one of whom was sure that his or her genealogy could be traced to the dyad millionaire. Among these were at least a score of women who were ready to swear that they had been married in secret to the said Wm. Jennings, by whom they had each individually borne a numerous progeny. Twenty years were occupied in investigating the merits of the claims of the would-be-heirs, ending in their entire rejection, except in one solitary instance. A connecting link was traced from one of Mr. Jennengs' aunts to the family of Lord Howe, one of the richest of England's aris tocratic families. The executors, only too glad to have the burden transferred from their shoulders, proposed to turn the pos- sessions over to the Howe family, but to this arrangement the English Government, which held the property in trust, interpos ed an objection. Finally, however, the Court of Chancery determined to allot the Howe family a portion of the real estate, which, in the opinion of the Government, was about as much as so distant a relation ship was worth. The noble peer grasped at the offer, and to day what the family term "the Jennings windfall" is counted as the most valuable of the large posses sions which belong to the noble house of Howe. _ _ Meanwhile the unclaimed legacy, like a snowball, grew larger and larger as each succeeding year added dividends on bonds and interest on mortgags, while the real estate also steadily increased in value. At last, more by accident than design a new discovery was made. Some one found that some time during the year 1754 the grand son of one of William Jennings' brothers, accompanied by his wife Ann and three small children, had come to America and had landed at Fredericksburg, Va. The executors thought the right vein had been struck at last and in 1849 they caused an advertisement to be inserted in a number of American papers setting forth the de tails of the property which awaited an owner. In America the Jennings is an extensive house. In the summer of the year in which the advertisement was issued the Virginia Jen ningses held a meeting, and by resolution invited all persons resident in that State, claiming to be the heirs of William Jen nings aforesaid, to face the music. Three months later a convention of would-be heirs was held in Nashville, at which sev enty delegates, representing branches of the Jennings family in eight States of the Union, were in attendance. This was fol lowed by a convention of another set of claimants held at Charlottsville. Both of these bodies appointed committed' to ob tain the necessary legal evidence to sub stantiate their claim and employed com missioners to proceed to England to prose cute their suits. One of these individuals discovered from the English records that one Joshua Jennings had emigrated to Fairchild county, Conn., in 1656. This roused the Eastern Jenningses, and they, too, sent a delegate abroad to make a strike for the cash. He had scarcely reached his destination, when the families of the Lippincotts, Prices, Flanagans and Bur roughs of Camden and Gloucester, were induced, through some circumstances, to believe that they, and they only were the legal heirs. An organization was formed, and one more delegate, T. B. Price, of Philadelphia, was added to the group of American lawyers in London. Their com bined efforts, however, were of no avail. Links were wanting, and records had dis• appeared. The English Jenningses fought the American ones, and the lawyers found themselves baffled at every step. An Irish association sprang up, and $15,000 were subscribed to meet the expenses of an- in vestigation on behalf of the Jennningses of the Emerald Isle. The cash with which the American lawyers were provided gave out, and the claimants, becoming disheart ened, refused to continue their subscrip tions. Finally, after the matter had been allowed to remain in abeyance for several years, a general convention of the Ameri can claimants was called to meet at Wal pole, N. 11., in May, 1863. An organi zation called the Jennings Association was effected and several thousand dollars fur investigating purposes were raised on scrip of the value of $5, the scrip entitling the purchaser to $5O out of the first money recovered by the association. It is scarce ly necessary to say that the scrip has not been redeemed to this day. For the last fifteen years scarcely a ses sion of the Common Pleas Court of Eng land has been held but what the Jennings case has come up in some form or other, until it is now a standing joke among the members of the legal profession. Many ludicrous phases in the great case are continually cropping out. At one time the inquiries at the Bank of England were so numerous that seven clerks were kept busily employed in the 'Jennings Inquiry Department." One of the many Jenningses (sons) who brought suit for the property was forced to admit in court that it' his allegations were correct his mother must have been sixty-three years old at the time of his birth. Of the American lawyers sent to prosecute the claim one spent a por tion of the funds intrusted to him for this purpose in a jolly tour across the conti nent, and finally lost the remainder in bet ting on the Derby races. About thirty years ago, one of the Connecticut claim ants, while traveling in England, accident ally learned that Lord Howe was sojourn ing on the continent. Thereupon he went to the steward of the London estate and demanded possession. The servant, who was alone in the house, thought it polite to offer no resistance, especially as the new comer was armed with a document which had been obtained on an ex parte applica tion from one of the lesser courts. Elated at his success, the stranger made himself at home, and indulged to a plentiful de gree in the choice wines which were stored in the cellar. The steward wrote to his lordship, and the news soon brought him back post haste to Acton Hall. There he found the intruder quietly seated in an arm chair in the library making merry over the wine. An order to leave was met with a refusal. Lord Howe then directed the servants to put bim out at the door, but he was of muscular proportions, and a couple of well directed blows sent the servants scattering in all directions. Another attempt was made, and this time, with his lordship's help the intruder was thrown headforemost from the window to the grassy lawn beneath. He was never again seen in the neighborhood. But the fight is once more to begin in right earnest. The New Jersey and Penn sylvania claimants, who have kept the lawyers quietly at work during the last five years, now declare that a document has been discovered which adds the mis sing link to the claim and incontestably proves their right to the property. Several conventions have been held in Camden during the last few weeks, and the heirs in meeting assembled, resolved to appoint a committee to proceed to London, and in conjunction with Mr. Judah P. Benjamin to re-open the case at the Autumn term in Court. The claimants are sanguine of the success of their latest effort, and are already individually beginning to approxi mate their share of the $300,000,000, which are the latest official figures of the value of the fund. We clip the following from the Phila delphia limes, of the 2d instant. Morgan Hall, Camden, yesterday after noon was thronged with men and women. A meeting of the Jennings heirs had been called for two o'ciock, and the heirs turned out strong. Everybody who has read newspapers has heard of the Jennings es tate in England. Old Mark Jennings, afterward called the "Duke of Denmark," came with his countrymen to England at the time of the invasion, and settled in London in 1500. He grasped right and left, and confiscated so much property that when he died his estate was one of the largest in England. He had one son, John, to whom the property descended.— John had three sons, Humphrey. Joseph and William. Humphrey was the eldest and inherited his father's property. He had twelve children. The eldest was Robert, who in turn inherited the estate. Robert had one son, William, who died a bachelor in 1718. All the descendants of the eleven other children had died before him, and with the death of William Humphrey's line became extinct. The question then arose, who was the next in the line of descent to William ? Of Humphrey's two brothers, Joseph and William, the former was the second son, and his descendants by law should have the estate. But these descendants had come to America and, never dreaming of' any fortune in store for them, got scattered. The estate went into chancery and after a time the Howe family, high among the nobility of London, established their con nection with a remote branch of the Jen nings family and secured a portion of the estate. But the bulk remained unclaimed. The Howe family tried to get it all, but Chancery decided that their connection wag too remote to warrant possession of more than had already been given them. The lands belonging to the estates were leased and the money put into the Bank of England. There it has lain for two hundred years or more, growing with com pound interest till the amount now in money alone seems almost fabulous. Every year the Bank of England sends official certificates to representatives of the Jen nings family in this country, showing how much the money amounts to. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILLIONS Last month the certificates showed the total amount to be thirty-three million three hundred and thirty one pounds sterling, or about one hundred and sixty million dollars. Besides this are the valu able estates in various parts of England. To establish their heirship the Jenning ses of this country have been holding meetings and subscribing money for years. Everybody they have sent to England to represent them, however, has proved re creant to the trust, it is averred,• and en riched no one but themselves. Counter interests are on the alert in England, al ways ready to buy up any agent of the heirs. About seventy of them sat in the hall yesterday. The bulk of them come from Southern New Jersey, in and about Camden and Philadelphia. The majority live on farms, some are business men and some laborers. A Solomon would have failed to trace connection and relationship by the various faces and feature. Women predominated. Some were well dressed, and others apparently belonged to the more humble walks of life. There were women with Grecian noses, women with short noses, black-eyed women, blue-eyed women and brown-eyed women. Among the men appearances were likewise diversified.— Some were sleek•headed, professional-look ing men, others farmers, mechanics or laborers. Heed to head they grouped to gether, compared notes, interchanged scraps of family history, tried to link up the chain of their connection and speculated as to their chances. Anthony A. Cook, a stout man, with a smooth, red face, was introduced by the chairman, William Ingram. Mr. Cook had proposed to the finance committee, since the last meetings of the heirs, to go to England and establish the claims of all that were good for $1,610 expenses and ten per cent. of the estate. The committee yesterday reported in favor of his preposi tion. Five hundred dollars of the expense money was to be held by the committee and sent to him in England should the other be insufficient. His first task, be told the committee, would be to search the records of Cape May county to find certain papers to establish the claim of certain branches of the family. He had no doubt that he could establish the claims of some. RIVAL ARMIES OF "HEIRS." An association of so-called Jenuings heirs existed in New England. They had a capital stock of $50,000, and had been trying to establish a claim. He was satis fied that they were not the rightful heirs and would not succeed. He felt almost assured that he would succeed because the claims of certain heirs, whose papers he had possession of, were just. He hoped to establish the claims without litigation, which he would not undertake unless con vinced he should be successful. One of the first thingi that he would do upon reaching London would be to conciliate Lord Howe, the remote claimant. The Howe family was very influential in Lon don, and if their good will and co-operation could be gained the work would be half done. Mr. Beresford, a Philadelphia lawyer. who introduced Mr. Cook, took the same view of the matter. The meeting decided to send Mr. Cook to Europe as soon as the money coull be raised. A constitution was adopted fixing the capital stock at $1,610 and the price of each share at fire dollars. The Messrs. Campbell, from Conshocken, descendants of a daughter of a John Jen nings, who was killed in the Revolution while fighting on the American side, near Burlington, New Jersey, obtained addi tional information in the meeting that is believed sufficient, with what papers they already had, to establish their claim. This was in the form of an affidavit from a Miss Lydia Burroughs, of Bristol. She is nearly ninety years old and makes affidavit that her great-grandmother's name was Jennings, and gives such information in regard to the family and connection of her ancestors as agrees with that of the Messrs. Campbell. The next meeting will be held at Trenton, at the call of the finance com mittee. An Awful Warning to Young Husbands. A young wife in Michigan had just got settled in her new home. All seemed fair and promising, fur she did not know that her husband was a drunkard. But one night he came home at a very late hour and much the worse for liquor. When he staggered in the house the wife, who was greatly shocked, told hi,a he was sick and to lie down at once, and in a moment or two he was comfortably settled on a sofa in a drunken sleep. His face was reddish purple, his breathing was heavy, and altogether he was a pitable-looking object. The doctor was sent for post haste and mustard applied to his feet and bands. When the doctor came and felt his pulse and examined him and found that he was only drunk, he said : "He will be all right in the morning." But the wife insisted that he was very sick, and that severe remedies must be used. "You must shave his head and apply blisters," she urzed, "or I will send for some one who will." The husband's bead was accordingly shaved closely and blisters applied. The patient lay all night in a drunken sleep, and notwithstanding the blisters were eating into his flesh, it was not- till near morning that he began to beat about disturbed by pain. At daylight he woke up to a most un comfortable consciousness of blistered agonies. What does this mean ?" he said, put ting his hand to his bandaged bead. "Lie still—you musn't stir," said his wife ; "you have been very sick." "I'm not sick." "Oh ! yes you are ; you have the brain fever. We have worked with you all night." "I should think you had," groaned the poor victim. "What's the matter with my feet ?" "They arc blistered." "Well, I'm better now ; take off the blisters—do," he pleaded piteously. He was in a most uncomfortable state— his head covered with sores, and his feet and hands were still worse. "Dear," be said, groaning,' "if I should ever get sick in this way again, don't be alarmed and send for a doctor, and, above all, don't blister me again " Oh ! indeed I will ; all that saved you were the blisters, and if you have another such a spell I should be more frightened than ever; for the tendency, I am sure, is to apoplexy ; and from the next attack you will be likely to die unless there are the severest measures used." lie made no further defence. Suffice it to say, he never had another attack. As You HAPPEN TO LOOK AT IT.-A saloon keeper of this town, while bewailing to a friend the bad state of his business, looked towards a new spire creeping heav enward, and with a wave of his hand said, "Thera's the d—d things that's rninin' the country."—lndian: _nolis News. THE cold world little rtal.ses the sense of desolation that shuts down on a man who thinks he has been handed too much change by his grocer, when he dodges around the corner and finds it right. NO. 27.
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