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November 29,1857.
H. Id. NORTH,
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Columbia,May 4
1850
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Columbia,
Cotambm, September 6, 1ti584(
S. Atlee Bockius, D. D. S.
PRACTICES the Operative, Surgical and Meehan
ieul Departments of Dentistry.;
Orrice - I.ocust street, between he Franklin [louse
and Post Office, Columbia, ra
May 7.1859.
• GUSTAVUS REGIT.AIV,
Professor of indent and Modern Languages.
MADAME IiEGMA.N,
Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music-
Walautstreet alcove Front, south side.
Coltnb.u, May 12, 1660.
TOMATO PILLS.---Extractof Tomatoes; a
cathartic and Tonic. For sale at
Di.:LIAiTT dr, CO'S
Golden Mortar Drug Store.
Dec 3:59
BROOMS. ---1110 Doz. Brooms, at Wholesale
or Retail. at H. PFAlll.litt'S,
Dec. 12, 1857. Loeu4t street.
SINE'S Compound of Syrup of Tar, Wild
Chefry and Hod 'hound, for the Cure of Coughs,
Coble, Whooping Cough. Orono. he. For Ptah. nt
Met:Olt &
Family 51rdictne Store, Odd Fedora' Hull
October 2.3.
Patent Steam Wash Bolters.
mu ESE well known Boiler' , ure kept eon.inntly on
hand at II EN RV 1.1 , A HUM'S,
1.0cu.1 Pt met. oppottte the Franklin !louse.
Columbia, July 18,1837.
lots for sale by the bushel or larger quart
my D. F. A1.1.01.D.
Columb ta Dec.2s, 1959. Client Bu-in.
JUST in store. n fre.li lot of Efreinig h rronfield's
celebrated Vegeta')le Cultic Powder. nod for tale by
IL- W11.1.1.A315,
Front street. Colon ion
Rept. 17, 1959
Harrison's Co umbian
UTHICII is a superior article, permunentlr
VT and not corroding the pen, con be had in any
quantity. - at the Family Medicine Store, and blacker
yet is tout English Boot Poluth.
Columbia. Jou.: 9.1859
On Hand.
- H II RS. WINSLOW'S Snoilung Syrup, which will
Ji greatly facilitate the process. of teething by re
ducing inflarnation. allaying punt, rpa-modes action,
gr.e., is very short. time. For sale by
R. WILLIAM :4,
Front street. Columbia.
t.17,1e59
pEDDING & CO'S Itissia Salver. This cx
jA) iremely popular remedy for the cure orevernal
ailments is now lor sale by
R. WILLIANIS. Front at.. Columbia.
sew. 24, 1350
CISTERN PCltle.s.
111111 F. subscriber has a large mock of Cistern Pumps
and Rams, to which he cabs the attention of the
public. lie is prepared to put them up (or u..e is a
substantial and enduring manner.
H. PFA lir. ER,
Locust street.
December 12,1857
es Just Received and For sale,
2fin Bbls. Ground Plaster; 50 lib's.. Extra Family
uu Flour; 23 Ws. No. I. Lard Oil or best quality;
300 bun. Ground Alum Salt, by
B. F. APPOLD,
Not and 2 Canal Lta+in.
nrurch 26, 40
aRIIIIO, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
Dyspeptics, and Arrow Root Crackers, for in
valids and ebildsen—new articles in Columbia, at
the Family Medicine Store,
April 16. IRMA
NEW CROP SEEDLESS RAISINS.
.111 NE best for Net, Padding, tcc.—a !resit erupts , . at
If SIT It DAM'S
Grocery. Store, Corner Frontond Union eta.
N0v.19.1859.
Seedless Raisins!
ALOT of very choice tiecdtc,4 Rtikine...irtat receirei..
at F. EDER LEE WS
N0r.19, '59. Grocery Store, No. it, LOCUM St.
SHAKER CORN.
JUST received, a first rate lot of Shaker Corn
11. SUYDAM'S
Grocery Store, corner Front and Union pt.
Nov. 26,1efin.
ec k PALDIMPS PREPARED CLUE.—The want of
1,7 such an article is felt in every family, and now
,it can be supplied; for mending furniture, china
ware, ornamental work, toys. &c., there is nothing
superior. We have found it useful in repairing many
ankles which have been useless for months. You
Jan dSin it at the
FAULT MEDICINE STORE.
EICEIZTI
AFIRST-RATH article of Dried Beef, and
of Ham, can be bought at
BEIERLELN'S Grocers , Store,
N 0.71. Locugt ctreet
,plarch 10, 1600,
Ing TEAS, Black and Green, of differ•
ein varieties. A argil lot Jost received at
ELIERLEJN'B Grocery Store,
March 10, 1560. No. 7t I..vcart street.
THE FATE OF RIIIJOEN FRANKLIN, the au
thorized edition. IlleCliotoek. Price, 81,50.
frootfalls on die Boundary of Atmler World.—
Priee,lll,2s.
Memoirs of Carvosso. Prier, 40.oent•.
ELIAS B a.rut & co,
Opposite Court Mouse.
Feb. 11.
LY"'S PUB C1T1171.1 BRANDY.-1 very
superior and genuine article for medicinal par.
poses. J. S. DELI,FITT h CO,
Feb.ll;6o. Agents for Columbia.
COAL OIL lIEADQUIRTERS.—Bewart of spn
rioas Coal Oil. Owing in the large inereawl in
•Ibe consumption of Coal Oil, the market Is fall of Lo
gas oil. The premium article can always be hod a 1
. S. DM aLM'T& GO'S
Golden blortar Drag Stone.
Feb.ll:6o
Pa MIRO SOU. A superior article of
Soda Ash ea hand sad for sale. by
IL WILLIAMS,
Front Erse 1..
Match 44,1880
alastvg.
-The Spinning Wheel Song.
Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning;
Close by the window young Eileen is spinning;
Bent over the fire her blind grandmother, sitting,
Is moaning. and moaning,. and drowsily kniring;
achnra, I hear some one tapping."
"'Tie the ivy, dear mother, against the glues flapping."
"Eileen, I sure hear somebody sighing."
"'Tie the sound, 'mother dear, of the summer wind
dying."
Merrily, cheerily. noisily whirring,
Swings the wheel, pins the reel, while the foot's
81 30
alining;
Sprightly, and lightly, and airily ringing,
Thrills Mc sweet voice of the young maiden singing
"{Vhat's that noise that I bear at the window, I
wonder" ,
'• 'Tie the little birds chirping the holly-Intsh under."
"What makes you be shoving and moving your stool
on,
And singing all wrong that old song of 'The Coolun? ,
There's a form at the casement—the form of her true
love—
And he whispers, with face bent, 'l'm waning for
you, love;
Get up on the stool, through the lattice step lightly.
Welt rove in the grove while the moon's shining
brightly..
Merrily, cheerily, noisily whirring,
Swings the wheel, spins the reel, while the foot's
stirring,
sprightly, and lightly, and airily ringing,
Thrills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
The maid shakes her head, on her lip lays her fingers,
Steals up from the •eat—longs to go, and yet lingers;
A frightened glance turns to her drowsy grandmother,
Putt. one foot on the stool, spins the wheel with the
other.
Lazily, easily, swings now the wheel round;
Slowly and lowly is heard now the reel's sound;
Noiseless and light to the lattice above her
The maid steps—then leaps to the arm! or her lover.
Slower—and slower—and slower the wheel swings;
Lower—and lower—and lower the reel rings—
Ere the reel and theiwheel stopped their ringing and
moving,
Thro' the grove the young lovers by moonlight ore
roving.
grtutimu.
Old-Time English Justice
In the good old times, when
Wretches swung that jurymen might dine
the judges not unfrequently resorted to what
the law aptly enough termed the peine forte
et dare—namely, "pressing to death" for re
fusing to plead. This system continued in
vogue till 1772, when an act was passed by
which any one refusing to plead should be
deemed guilty, the same as though by ver
dict of a. jury. The "press-yard" at New
gate, and perhaps at other prisons, yet, we
believe, retains its name, albeit it is no long
er used for its original purpose. We have
before us a curious print representing a
criminal in the act of being pressed to death.
Ile is extended flat on his back, his arms
and feet drawn apart at full stretch, and
secured to staples in the floor ; a piece of
plank is on his body, and on that a number
of heavy weights. •
There seem to have been two hinds of
criminals who formerly refused to plead to
their indictments ; the one, men of property,
who, by suffering death by pressure instead
of by banging, preserved their landed es
tates to their children or heirs, which would
not have been tho case had they pleaded
and been found guilty by the jury. The
other class were ignorant, determined men,
who foolishly imagined that by obstinately
refusing to plead, they should eventually
escape the punishment due to their offenses.
When no argument could induce a man
to plead, the judgment of the law was read
over to him as he stood at the bar. It was
thus worded : "That the prisoner shall be
sent to the prison whence he came, and put
into a mean room, stopped from the light,
and shall there be laid on the bare ground,
without any litter, straw or other covering.
* * * lle shell li9 upon his back, his
head shall be covered, and his feet eball be
bare. One of his arms shall be drawn with
a cord to one side of the room, and the oth
er arm to the other side ; and his legs shall
be served in the like manner. Then there
shall be laid upon his body as much iron
or stone as he can bear, and snore! And
the first day after, ho shall have three mor
sels of barley-bread, without any drink; and
the second day he shall be allowed to drink
as much as he can at three times of the wa
ter that is next the prison -door, except run
ning water, without any bread ; and this
shall be his diet till he dies; and he against
whom this judgment shall be given forfeits i
his goods to the king."
The last time that this punishment was
inflicted was, we believe, upon a shipmaster,
charged with piracy, who, to save his landed
property to his family, remained mute when
called upon to plead.
Io January, 1720, two highwaymen, named
Spiggot and Phillips, refused to plead,
unless the affects taken from their persons
when they were apprehended were restored
to them. This was refused, and they, on
their part, adhered to their resolution.—
Thereupon they were sentenced to be press
ed to death: but when taken into the press
room at Newgate, Phillips was terrified,
and begged to be taken back to plead, which,
as a mercy, he was permitted to do, al
though in strict law he could have been
denied the request. Ills companion, how
ever, was pressed, and bore. the amazing
weight of three hundred and fifty pounds
fur the space of half an hour; but when an
additional fifty pounds was added, his forti
tude gave way, and he also begged to be al
;owed to plead. The evidence on the trial
was perfectly conclusive, and the two men
—both of whom were very hardened robbers
—were duly hanged at Tyburn. •
The following year another highwayman,
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1860.
named Hames, likewise refused to plead to
his indictment, alleging as a reason that
"the people who apprehended me seized a
suit of fine clothes, which I intended to have
gone to the gallows in ; unless they are re
turned, I will not plead, for no one shall
say that I was hanged in a dirty shirt and
ragged coat." In vain was the dreadful
alternative explained to him; ho continued
stubbornly mute, and was taken to the
press-room, and bore a weight of two hun
dred and fifty pounds for seven minutes,
when he cried out to be taken back to the
court. He there pleaded "Not guilty," but
was convicted and hanged.
Afar more remarkable and more cruel
case than the preceding occurred at Notting
ham assizes in the year 1735. A poor
creature, commonly reputed to have been
deaf and dumb from infancy, was arraigned
on an accusation of murder, Two witnesses
—who were subsequsntly known to have
born him ill-will—swore positively that they
had heard him speak ; he was therefore
called upon to plead guilty or not guilty.—
"A lawyer represented his case most feel
ingly to the judge, but the law on the sub
ject being supposed to be imperative, he
was taken into an adjoining room and ac
tually pressed to death ; continuing, says a
register of the times, obstinately dumb to
the last." The latter fact, we think, most
incontestably proves that the wretched be
ing was naturally dumb.
In another instance—and it is the last we
shall cite on the subject—a man was pressed
to death, who assuredly was an impostor,
so far as his pretended dumbness was con•
cerned. Ilia name was Matto, Ryan, and
he was tried, or should have been tried fur
highway robbery, at the Kilkenny assizes,
in 1740. When in prison, he affected to be
a lunatic ; and, in court, counterfeited dumb
ness. The judges impannelled a jury to
to try "whether he was mute and lunatic by
the hand of God, or wilfully so." The jury
returned in a short time, and brought In a
verdict of "Wilfull and affected dumbness
and lunacy." The judges on this desired
the prisoner to plead ; but he still pretended
to be insensible to all that was said to him.
The law now called for the peine forte et
dare; but the judges compassionately de
ferred awarding it until a future day, in the
hope that ho might in the meantime acquire
jester sense of his situation. But this de
lay had not the intended effect. Ile re
fused to plead when nest brought up, and
was pressed to death two days subsequent
ly in Kilkenny market-place. "As the
weights were heaping on the wretched man,
ho earnestly supplicated to be hanged; but
it being beyond the power of the sheriff to
deviate from the mode of punishment pre
scribed in the sentence, even this was an in
dulgence which could no longer be granted
to him !"
During the whole of the eighteenth cen
tury, the gallows bore profuse crops of aw
ful fruit, and the hangman had incessant
occupation. Now-a-days one can hardly
realize the fact that within the memory of
many yet living, six, ten, fifteen, and even
more men, were hanged at one time and at
one place! In a hook printed only about
fifty years ago, we have an engraving, "an
exact representation." it is called, of the
"new scaffold" at Newgate, with.ten men
hanging at once! Oa the 23rd of April,
1785, nineteen men were executed together
and not one for murder! Most were hanged
fur robberies and burglaries, and no less
than three fur returning from transportation
before their time had expired. On the 10th
of November, the same year, eighteen were
hanged in frutit of Newgate, and not one
fur murder; and on December Ist, nine
more were hanged, all for robberies and
burglaries. The bodies of murderers, we
may remark, were almost invariably given
to the surgeons for dissection—unless or
dered to hang in chains—and they were
publicly exposed to the gaze of young and
old on the dissecting-table of the Surgeons'
Hall, Old Bailey.
It was a very ancient custom for the bell
man of tie parish of St. Sepulchre to go be
neath the walls of Newgatn on the night
prior to the ezdcution of condemand con
victs, and, ringing his bell, to recite these
admonitory lines:
All you that in the condemned hold do lie,
Prepare you, for 10-morrow you shall die,
Wutch ail, sad prey; the hour 14 drawing near
That you before th' Almighty must appear,
I.:Asinine well yourselves; In time repeat,
That you may not t• eternal Mantes ha seat,
And when St. Sepulchre's belt to-morrow tolls,
The Lord above have mercy on your souls:
Past twelve o'clock:
St. Sepulchre's boll tolled on the morning
of the execution, and the cart used to stop
before the church, whilst the bellman again
did his office by ringing his bell and repeat
ing certain lines. It would appear, bower.
er, that& clergyman ought to have been, and
originally was, the reciter of the verses, fur
in an edition of Stowe's Survey of London,
printed in 1618, we rearthat "Robert Done,
Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London,
gave to the pariah church of St. Sepulchres
the summa of £5O, tht after the several
sessions of London, when the prisoners ro
maine in the goale, as condemned men to
death, expecting execution on the morrow
following; the clarke [the clergyman] of the
church should come in the nigttime, and
likewise early in the morning, to tho win
dow of the prison where they lye, and
there ringing certain toles with a hand-bol',
appointed for the purpose, he doth after
wards (in most Christian manner) put them
in mind of their present condition, and en
suing execution, desiring them to be pre-
pared therefore as they ought to be. When
they are in the cart, sad brought before the
wall of the church, there he etandeth ready
with the same bell, and after certain toles,
rehearseth an appointed prair, desiring all
the people there present to pay for them.—
The beadle, also, of merchant Taylors Hall
bath an honest stipend allowed to see that
this is duely done."
It was also customary for the cart to stop
on its way to Tyburn, that the malefactors
might be presented with a bowl of ale—
their last draught on earth. This custom
prevailed in the county of York later than
anywhere else; and a curious anecdote is
told of a saddler of Bawtry, who "lost his
life in consequence of declining the refresh
ment; as had be stoppea as usual, his re
prieve, which was actually on the road,
would have arrived time enough to save him.
Hence, arose the saying that the saddler of
Bawtry was hanged for leaving his ale.
It is startling to read of mere boys being
hanged for offences which, now-a• days, would
probably be punished by a few months im
prisonment, or by seclusion in a reformatory.
Peter Bl'Oloud, aged sixfeea, was hanged at
Tyburn, May 27, 1772, for housebreaking.
Another boy, not sixteen, was hanged for
murder at Wisbeach, July 13, 1807, and we
notice his case on account of the very extra
ordinary expedient used to render him peni
tent prior to his execution. This boy had
committed a most atrocious murder at
Whittlesea, by killing a child, aged twelve,
in revenge fur the child's mother having ac
cidentally thrown some water over him!—
The hardened young wretch threatened to
murder the clergyman who attended the jail
and any one else who dared to approach him;
and so ferocious was his conduct that it was
necessary to chain him down, hand and foot,
in his dungeon, and even then ho behaved
in a frightful manner, We will quote what
followed in the words of the narrative be
fore us: "At length, to prevent the termina
tion of his existence in this depraved state,
the expedient was devised of procuring a
child about the size of the one murdered,
and similar in feature and dress, whom two
clergyman unexpectedly led between them
by the hands into his cell, where ho lay
sulkily chained to the ground; but, on their
approach, ho started, and seemed so com
pletely terrified, that he trembled in every
limb, cold drops of sweat profusely falling
from him, and was almost momentarily in
such a state of agitation, that he entreated
the clergyman to continue with him, and
from that instant became as contrite a peni
tent as he had been before callous and in
sensible." What would be the comments of
the press on such an affair as this, had it
occurred at the present day?
The manner in which prisoners, both be
fore and after conviction, were allowed to
conduct themselves in prison was disgrace
ful in the extreme. Those who had money
seem to have lived much the same as though
they were in a tavern, treating their fellow
prisoners and the friends who came to visit
them with dinners and suppers—drink be.
lag supplied to an extent often sufficient to
intoxicate the whole party. We could give
many curious anecdotes of the actions which
various doomed malefactors wero permitted
to perform. One Avershaw, after being
sentenced to death—which he richly mer
ited—no sooner got back to prison than he
procured some black cherries, and diverted
himself by using their juice to paint on the
white walls of the room in which he was
confined a number of sketches of the high
way robberies he had committed; "ono rep.
resenting him running up to the horses'
head of a post-chaise, presenting a pistol at
the driver; another, where be was firing at
the chaise; a third, whore the parties had
quitted the carriage; and another, in which
he was described in tho act of taking the
money from the passenger, and being fired
at, while his companion was shot dead."—
We are not surprised to learn that this man
died impenitent, "laughing and nodding"
to his acquaintances in the crowd on his
way to Tyburn. A highwayman, somewhat
resembling him in character, actually shot
dead Mr. Sperling, the head turnkey of the
court at the Old Bailey, in the presence of
the court I He did this because Spurting
would not let him speak with a woman, an
acquaintance of his, then on her trial for
coining. The woman encouraged him to
the deed, and the: i horror-stricken courtlin
steady arraigned them both for the murder,
of which they were of course convicted on
the spot, everybody present being witnesses
of the deed. They died desperately wick
ed.
A robber named Hartley, who was con
victed, with a comrade, of robbing, in the
open fields, a poor tailor of twopence and
his clothes—which they stripped off, and
bound him to a tree—adopted a moat extra
ordinary expedient with a view to save his
neck. ''He prowared six young women,
dressed in white, to go to St. James's, nod
present a petition in his behalf. The sin
gularity of their appearance gained them
admission, when they told the king that if
he extended the royal mercy to the offender,
they would cast lots which should be his icye:
but his majesty said he was more deserving
of the gallows than a wife, and accordingly
refused their request." lie was hanged at
Tyburn, May 4, 1772.
One would naturally suppose that a man
who had suffered all the horrors of hanging,
tbejust short of actual death, would never
risk gallows again; but much in one case at
least, was not the result. A house-breaker
named Smith was banged at Tyburn, De-
cembor 24, 1705, and when he had hung
nearly fifteen minutes, the people shouted,
"A reprieve!" He was cut down, bled, and
recovered! When asked what his feelings
had been, he replied, in substance, that
"when he was turned off, he for some time
was sensible of very great pain, occasioned
by the weight of his body, and felt bis spir
its in a strange commotion, violently press
ing upwards: that having forced their way
to his head, lie, as it were, saw a great
blaze of glaring light, which seemed to go
out of the eyes with a flash, and then be lost
all sense of pain. That after he was cut
down, and began to come to himself, the
blood and spirits forcing themselves into
their former channels, put him, by a sort of
pricking or shooting, to such intolerable pain
that he could have wished those hanged who
bad cut him down." Ever afterwards, he
went by the name of "half hanged Smith."
This fellow soon returned to his former evil
habits, and was again tried at the Old Bai
ley fur house-breaking; but the jury brought
in a special verdict, leaving the affair to the
decision of the twelve judges, who decided
in favor of the prisoner. Even the second
wonderful escape did not deter him from re
suming his malpractices, and a third time
be was to have been brought to trial, but
the prosecutor died before the day appoint
ed, and thus he once more got free. Noth
ing is known of his subsequent history.
It would appear that when the body of a
convict was not specially ordered for dissec
tion, or to hang in chains, he could dispose
of it whilst living, for among the papers of
a Mr. Goldwyr, surgeon, of Salisbury, was
found a letter, addressed to him by an un
happy and friendless criminal, lying in Fish'
erton-Anger jail, and bearing date October
3, 1730. It is as follows:
"Ste: Being informed that you are the
only surgeon in this city (pr county) that
anatomises men, and I being under the un
happy circumstances, and in a very mean
condition, would gladly live as long as I can;
but, by all appearance, I am to be executed
next March, having no friends no earth that
will speak a word to save my life, nor send
me a morsel of bread to keep life, and soul
together until that fatal day; so, if you will
vouchsafe to come hither, I will gladly sell
you my body, (being whole and sound) to be
ordered at your discretion ; knowing that it
will rise again at the general resurrection as
well from your house as from the grave.—
Your answer, sir, will highly oblige yours,
JAMES BROOKE."
We are not aware what crime Brooke had
committed, nor whether the surgeon com
plied with his piteous request. '
So late as the year 1751, a man named
Colley was executed and hung in chains for
being a ringleader of a mob who ducked a'
poor old woman to death for being a "witch,"
at Tring, in Hertfordahire.. Her husband
was ducked at the same time, but he sur
vived. The curious part of the affair is that
the leaders of the mob on this occasion ac
ted so openly and deliberately that they
previously employed the crier of Hemel-
Ilerestead to give notice, -paying him-four
pence for the job, and giving him a paper
to cry from, of which this is a copy: "This
is to give notice that, on Monday next, a
man and woman are to be publicly ducked
at Tring, in this county, for their wicked
crimes." The notice was also given at two
neighboring towns, on their market-days,
and the overseer of Tring removed the two
helpless old people to the work house, in
the first instance, and subsequently to the
vestry of the church, to protect them from
their threatened fate. On the day appointed
five thousand people assembled, and almost
tore down the work-house ore they were con
vinced their intended victims were elsewhere.
They searched every part of the house, "ex
amining the closets, boxes, trunks, and even
the sull-boz," and "swore they would pull
clown the house, and set fire to the whole
town of Tying, except Osborne and his wifo
were produced." They at length learned
where the old people were, and the result
has been told:
Bachelor's Love Making
You would have known it for a bachelor's
den, the moment you put your head in the
door I Blue, spicy wreaths of cigar smoke
circling up to the ceiling—newspapers un
der the table—Castile soap in the tiny
bronze card-receiver—slippers on the man
tel piece, and general confusion everywhere.
And yet Mr. Thornbrooke—poor deluded—
mortal—solemnly believed that hie room
was in the most perfect order ! For hadn't
he poked the empty champagne bottles un
der the bed, and sent the wood box to bear
them company, and hung his morning gown
over the - damp, towels, and dusted the ached,
sprinkled hearth with his hest silk handker
chief? He'd like to see a room in better
trim than that—guessed ho would. And
now he was mending himself up, preparato
ry to going calling, to call on the very pret
tiest girl in New York. Not that be was
particularly fond orthe needle, but when a
fellow's whole foot goes through a hole in
the northeast toe of his stocking, and there
isn't a button to his shirt, it's time to repair
damages.
Noir, as Mr. Thornbrooke's whole stock
Of industrial implements consisted of a lump
of wits, an enormous pair of scissors, and
one needle, tho meuding didn't progress
rapidly. llis way of managing the button
question, too, necesaarly involved some de
lay; be bad to cut all these useful little ap
pendages 1101:12 another shirt and sew them
$1,50' PER MR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF- NOT IN ADVANCE
on, and neat when the second shirt was
wanted, why it was easy enough to make a
transfer again 1 See what it is to be a bache
lor of genius I It never occurred to him to
buy a few buttons extra!
"Buttons are not much trouble," said Mr.
, Tbornbrooko to himself, as he wiped the hot
perspiration from his brow, "but when 'it
comes to coat sleeves, what the mischief is a
fellow to do? I haven't any black thread
either ;" and he looked dolorously at a small
tear just in his elbow, where some vicious
nail had caught in the broadcloth. "A
black pin may do for to-night, and to-mor
row I'll send it to the tailor. The fact is I
ought to bo married : and so I would, if I
only dared to ask Lillian. 0, dear! I know
she would'nt have me —and yet I'm not so
certain either—if I only could muster the
courage boldly to put the question! But
just as sure as I approach the dangerous
ground, my heart fails me! And then that
puppy Jones, with hiscurled moustache and
hair parted in the middle—always hanging
round Lillian, and quoting poetry to her—
if I could have the privilege of kicking h:m
across the street, I'd die happy. He isn't
bashful, not ho If somebody would only
invent a new way of popping the question
—something that wasn't quite so embarrass
ing I"
Our hero gave his black glossy curls an
extra brush, surveying himself critically in
the glass, and then, with a deep sigh, set
fourth to call on the identical Lillian Ray
mond, revolving as he bad done a thousand
times before, that if—perhaps—may be—
Oh the bashfulness of bachelors.
When Mr. Thornbrooke arrived within
the charmed precincts of Mr. Raymond's
handsome parlors, velvet carpeted, chande
liered with gold and ormolu, crowded to the
very doors, with those charming knick
knacks that only a woman's taste provides,
Miss Lilly was "at home" in a bewildering
pink merino dress, edged with white lace
around the pearly shoulders, and a crimson
moss rose twisted in among the rippling
waves of her soft brown hair. She never
looked half so pretty; and, thank Provi
dence, Jones wasn't on hand, for once in
his life=but what was almost as bad, Lilly's
cousin was there—a tall, blender, black
eyed girl, with arch lips and cheeks as red
as a Spitzenberg apple. 0 bow Thorn
brooke wished that Miss Esther Allen was
at the bottom of the Red Sea, or anywhere
else except in that particular parlOr. And
then her eyes were so sharp—he had't been
doing the "agreeable" more than four min
utes and a half before she exclaimed :
"Dear me, Mr. Thorabrooke—pray - ex:
ouso me—but what on earth is the matter
with your elbow?" -
Mark turned scarlet—the traitorous black
pin had deserted its post.
"Only a compound fracture in my coat,
Miss Allen," said he feeling as though hie
face might do the duty of Mr. Raymond's
chandeliers put together, "you know we
bachelors are not expected to be exempt
from such thinge."
"Hold your arm, sir, and I'l set it all
right in one moment," said Esther, instantly
produeing,from some secret recess in the
folds of her dress, a thimble and needle,
threaded with black silk, and setting ex
pertly to work.
"There now, consider yourself whole."
"flow skilful you are," said Mark, admir
ingly, after he bad thanked her most
sincerely. 'Tut then you have so many
nice little concerns to work with. I have
only a needle and some wax, besides my
scissors l"
"You ought to have a house-wife, Mr.
Thornbrooke," said Lilly, timidly lifting up
. er long lashes in his direction. Lilly never
could speak to Thornbrooke witout a soft
little rosy shadow cn her cheek.
"A what 7" demanded Mark, turning red.
"A house-wife."
"Yes," said Mark, after a moment's awk
ward hesitation, "my—my friends have
told me so very of very often—and I really
think so myself, you know. But what sort
of a ono would you recommend, Miss Ray
mond ?"
"Oh, any pretty little concern. I'll send
you one in the morning, if you'll accept
it," she added with a rosy light on ber
cheeks again.
"If—l'll—accept it!" said Mark, feeling
as if ho were in an atmosphere of pearl and
gold with two wings sprouting out of his
broadolotb, on either side. And just as he
was opening his lips to assure Miss Lilly
that he was ready to take the precious gift
to his arms then and there, without any un
necessary delay, the door opened and in
walked Jones.
Mark was not nt all cannibalistic in his
propensities, but just then he could have
eaten Jones up with uncommon pleasure.
And there the fellow eat, pulling his Jong
moustaches and talking the moat insipid
twaddle—sat and sat, until Mark rose in
despair to go. Even then he bad no op
portunity to exchange a private word with
Lilly. •
"You—you'll not forget—"
"Oh, I'll be sure to remember," said she
smilingly, and half wondering at that un
usual pressure be gave her band. "Ladies
often do provide their bachelor friends sot"
Mark went borne, the happiest individual
that ever trod a New 'York pavement. In
deed, so great was his felicity that he in
dulged in various gymnastic capers indica
tive of bliss, only pausing in them at the
gruff caution of a policeman, who probably
bad forgottan his own courting days—
[WHOLE NUMBERI,SS4.
"Come, young man, what are you about 2"
"Was there ever a more delicate way of
assuring me of her favorable consideration?
W,as there ever a more feminine admission
alter sentiment? Of course she will come
herself—an angel, breathing airs from Para
dise—and I shall tell her of my love. A
house-wife—eht the delicious words I Won
der what neighborhoodohe would like me
to engage a residence—how soon it would
be best to name the day ? Oh if I should
awake, and find it all a blissful dream 1 .
Early the next morning Mr. Thornbrooke
set briskly to work, "righting up things."
How he swept and dilated and scoured—the
room was nired to get rid of the tobacco
smoke, and sprinkled with cologne, and
beautified generally. Andlat length, when
the dust was all swept into one corner, sad
covered by a carefully ( ! ) disposed news
paper, he found the window glass murky,
and polished it with such vengeance that
his fist handkerchief and;all,went through,
sorely damaging the hand and necessitating
the ungraceful_accessory of an old hat to
keep out the wintry blast for the time be
lug. However, even this mishap didn't
long damp his spirits, for was not Lilly com
ing.
Long and wearily he waited, yet no tinkle
of the bell gave warning of her approach.
"It's all her sweet fomine modesty," though t
he, and was content.
At length there Was an appeal below, and
Mark's heart jumped up into his mouth
beating like a reveille drum. lie rushed
to the door, but there was no one but a lit
tle grinning black boy, with a box.
"Miss Raymond's compliments, and
here's de housewife, sir."-
"The housewife, you little imp of Ere
bus."
, :Yea, air,•in tho:box all right."
Mark slunk back into his room and open
ed the box, half expecting to see a full
dressed young lady issue from it, a la Ara
bian Nights, but no—it was only a little
blue velvet book, and full of odd compart
ments in azure silk, containing tape, need
les, scissors, silk, thimble, and all the little
work-tables accessories 1
"And she calls this a housewife l" groan
ed Mark, in ineffable bitterness of spirit at
the downfall of his bright visions. "But I
won't be put off so."
Desperation gave him courage, and off be
hied to the Raymond mansion, determined
to settle the matter if there were forty
Joneses and Esthera there.
But Lillian was alone, sin ging at her em
broidery in the sunshiny e ndow casersent.
"Dear me, Mr. Thor rooks, is anything
the matter 7"
Perhaps it was the shadow from splendid
crimson cactus plumes in tholvrindow that
gave her cheek such a delicate: glow—per
haps—but we have no right to - speculate.
"Yea." And Mark set down by her side,
and took the trembling, fluttering, hand.
"You sent me a housewife this morning V'
"Wasn't it right)" faltered
"It wasn't the kind I wanted at all 1"
"Not the kind you wanted?"
"No; I prefer a living one, and I came to
seo if I could change it. I want one with
brown hair and eyes—something, in short,
Miss Lillian just your pattern. Can't I have
it?"
Lilly turned white, and then red ; smiled,
then buret into tears, and tried to draw away
her hand, but Mark held it fast.
"Nu, no, dear Lilly ; first tell ma I can
have the treasure I ask fur."
"Yee," she said with the prettiest °eau
sion in the world, and then, instead of re
leasing the captive hand, the unreasonable
fellow took possession of the other, too. But
as Lilly did not object, we suppose it was
all right.
And that was the odd path by which
Mark Thornbrooke diverged - from the walk
of old bachelorhood, and stepped into the
respectable ranks of matrimony.
A Journey Under Paris.
A correspondent of a Swedish Journal
furnishes an interesting account of- a sub.
terranean voyage made through one of the
admirably constructed sewers of Paris.—
The boat which conveyed the party was
reached by descending a flight of steps to
the depth of about 45 feet. The boat, a flat
bottomed affair, was lighted by four lamps.
The sewer is an archway, fifteen feet hlih„
and of en equal breadth, with a ditch, or
canal about ten feet wide, wherein all the
dirt and filth of Paris is carried away. On
the sides are'sidewalks, which, together, are
about four feet wide. The whole is built
of beautiful white sandstone, and is kept re
markably neat and clean. No stench or bad
smell was perceptible. The denser portion
of the filth is carried away through large
drains beneath the sidewalks. The side
walks are excellent, and exhibited no signs
of dampness, while the walls of tie archway
are kept whitewashed, and are at all times
as white as the driven snow. The structure
possesses the property of an immense speak
ing tube, the workmen being able to eon
verse at the distance of two miles from each
other. The echo is very strong and lasting.
The fabric is said to be built after the model
of the satacombs of Rome, aided by all
latest improvements. On both sides, at
about two hundred yards distance from one
another, are openings through which the
workmen can ascend by means of a perma
nent iron ladder, in ease a sudden rainstorm
should cause the water to rise cver the
sidewalks, which is, hoWtreer, oft itoteur
renew.