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Following a Phantom.
From Melton's Onao a %Veen
I'm not a romantic man, and, If I had
any learning in that direction, a few
Monday morning visits and reprimands
from the board of directors would soon
have cured me of the failing ; but some
how another I have found out that rail
way men are made of the same stuff as
other men; rind have hearts under their
uniform coats.
It was no business of mine, if, while I
Was at the London terminus of Great
I)lvidend and Longshare Railway, I
examined - the tickets and unlocked the
carriages on the departure platform—lt
was no business of mine if a tall fair
girl, in deep mourning came twice a
week regularly, and showed me her
ticket for Westgate, return, second class.
But somehow it seemed to be my busi
ness, when I had unlocked an empty
carriage and handed her in as well as I
could, that I should lock that door again
without banging it, and then take care
that no one else went in but lady-like
females. Of course I could not.help it,
but from thevery first day-cold winterly
day—when, thinly dressed, she came
shivering along the platform, I seemed
'to have some strahge interest in her ;
and, as the weeks slipped by, I found
myself looking out for her regularly. It
was easy to see, from the music-roll she
carried and the return ticket, that she
went down the line to give lessons.
called myself a fool, and thought of
my salary as a guard, and my position
hi life as compared with the graceful,
ladylike girl who used to come float
ing along towards me every Monday
and Wednesday morning, looking so
pale and sad and careworn that 1 first
began by pitying her, and then—well,
never mind now.
One cold December day I was shifted
for a week to the arrival platform, and
so missed seeing her leave; but I care
fully watched every train that came in
till I saw her get out. Without seeing
me, she hurried away. Well, there was
nothing to sigh for there, you'll say;
but I did sigh all the same, and was
turning away, when I saw the search
ing porter with a, musle-rol I in his hand,
which some one had lost In a carriage.
"Here! I know who that belongs
to," I said, snatching it from him ; and
then, seeing that he was going to make
a bother, I slipped a sixpence into his
hand, and ran out of the station.
.litst in time; I could see her at the
bottom of the street, and catching hold
of one . of the boys hanging about for a
job, I pointed the tall figure out, and
told him to follow her to where she
lived, and come back and tell me.
And not send the music roll? No; I
mean to take that. 1 did not know
why, but there seemed something pleas
ant in the idea of being servant to her,
and waiting on her ; and I kept telling
myself so as I walked back to attend to
my duty.
Next morning I was in a quiet, shah
by, lodgin.f-letting place leading out of
(lower Street North, with the music
roll in my hand, looking out for No. 21.
IL was easy enough to lied, but some
thing seemed to make me walk past two
or three times before I could summon
courage to go up and ring. But at last
I did, thinking how foolish it was, when
I only had to deliver Ihe lost parcel, and
come away.
So I rang gently, and wailed; rang
again, and waited ; and then a red
laced woman came to the door.
" You have n young Indy who teaches
munic—"
"Second floor front," she said, snap
pishly. " Why don't you knock twice?
h ell's for the ground floor. There, go
up I"
I took my cap, wiped my shoes,
and, feeling ashamed of my uniform for
the first time in my life, went slowly up
to the second floor, and then stopped ;
for I could hear a piano, and tile sweet
est voice 1 ever hearth was singing to it
41 o low tone. I stopped,llstening and
drinking In the sweet sounds with my
heart beating heavily, for it was a long
way up; and I should have stopped
longer, had 1 not heard some one com
ing up the stairs. Then I knocked, and
a voice cried, " Come in !"
I turned the handle two or three times,
for it was old and worn, and then, en
tering, stood blushing like a great girl,
and trembling before a tall pale lady and
some one lying upon a sofa In front of a
miserable lire.
Such a bare, chilly room, and so pule
and cold both the inmates looked, as I
stood observing all I could in the first
glance,
"Oh, mamma, the music!" cried the
pale girl, rising from her seat by the
piano, and running towards me, and
then, as I clumsily held It out, I saw
that I was recognized, us she thanked
1110 for bringing It, and also for what
she called my kindness at the station.
"Ask him to take n glass of wine,
Louise," said the lady on the sofa, when
I saw the color flush in her daughter's
cheek, usshe said, hastily :
"I think, inamma, wo have none in
the house."
I clumsily protested that I would
rather not take any wine, and was back
ing towards the door, when a sudden
pain shot through me for I detected a
mutton on the part of elle pale girl, and
caught sight of a shilling in her hand.
I suppose I showed what I felt, for she
paused, antbcolored deeply, and, as I
stood outside, she once more thanked
me, passed the shilling hastily into her
left hand, and held out the right to me.
I have some recollection of having
taken it, and pressed it to my quivering
lips, and then I was blundering along
the streets in a sort of wild dream, see
ing nothing, hearing nothing, but ap
parently lost.
The days went on till Christmas Eve.
I had watched for her next coming to
the station, aud, as usual, seen to the
carriage in which she went. I knew
that I had nothing, to hope for, being
only a railway servant, and she a lady;
but, for all that, it scented my duty to
watch over her, though since the day
when I returned the folio her bows haul
been a little more distant, and she had
hurried into the carriage.
But it was Chrstmas Eve, and all
through that week I had not seen her.
"Holidays," I sold to myself, and then
tried to be as busy as possible, to keep
myself from thinking that it would be
perhaps a month or six weeks before I
saw her again. But there was no fear
of my not being busy, fur most people
know what kind of a Christmas railway
servants keep—all hurry, drive, bustle,
worry and rush. Dull, heavy weather
it was, yellow fog and driving snow.
The trains came in covered with white,
which slowly thawed and dripped oil;
so that the terminus was wet, and cold,
and miserably dirty. People didint seem
to mind It though ; for the station was
thronged with corners and goers-friends
coming to inoet those from the country ?
and as many coining to see others oil,
"By yer leave," It was all day long, as
the barrels full of parcels and baggage
were run here and there along the plat
form. The place seemed alive with llsh
baskets, oyster barrels, and poultry ;
while somehow or other, from the poor
est and shabbiest third class people up
•to thegrandees of the first class, every
ono looked happy and comfortable.
So there was I at it, helping to gel
train after train late, of course;
for do what you would there was no
finding room enough for the people,
and so it got to be past four, with the
gas all alight and the fog and snow
thicker than ever. A train was just
starting, when there was a bit of con
fusion at the door. Some one shouts
"Hold hard I" and then from where I
was—some distance up the platform—l
saw a gentleman hurry up to a first-class
carriage, almost dragging a lady with
him—a lady In black. Before any one
could stop him, he had opened the door,
pushed her in, and then followedjust
as the trait( began gliding off.
This happened to be a carriage just
put on,'and the compartment the gen
tleman entered was locked but he had
one of the pocket railway keys, for be
fore the carriage
.railway
where I stood,
with my heart somehow beating very
strangely, I saw his hand out of the
window, locking the dooragain. In the
momentary glance I caught, as the
lamps flashed into the carriage, I could
- see that there was no light inside, while
two little gloved hands pressed down the
window the man tried to draw up ; and
there, pale and horror etrlckou, eyes
starting, add lips open, as if she ;was
crying "Help!" I saw the face, of the
young governess. • • '
The, time did not appear long enough
to 'seellnuoh, but lia*till , that, and my
mind'iteeined to keep up with my eyes
and canalsW And I knew that
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VOLUME 69
there was some infernalphice of villainy
on the way. ' •
" What to do?" seemed rubbing
through my mind, as in the agony I
felt I turned all of a tremble. Telegraph
to the station in front to stop the train,
which was the express, with fifty miles
to run befdre pulling up ?—send a spe
cial engine and tender after them? How
could I do either. on my own responsi
bility, and only•on suspicion? Should
Igo and report it? I should have half
an hour wasted In questioning, and then
perhaps he told that it was time enough
to act when there was proved ground
to work upon. And what had I to ad
vance? Nothing but that appalling
look for aid from her I loved.
"Her I loved !" Yes, I knew it now;
and I knew, too, that to be of service, I
must act—act at the risk of life or limb.
I thought all this, running after the
train, fast gliding along past the plat
form.
I had lost too much time already as I
darted along, for a few more seconds it
would have been impossible to overtake
the fast receding carriages. There was
a shouting behind me, as I ran ; one
porter stood right in my way looking
afrer the red lights, and in passing, I
knocked him over. The platform past,
and bounding along the incline at the
end I was out in the snowy night, when
I tripped over one of the point handles,
and fell heavily, uttering a cry of des
pair; but I was up again directly, and
running along the rough line amidst
crossing metals and rods that threaten
ed to throw me at every Instant.
It seemed the act of a madman to run
now for the red lights were some dis
tance ahead, and gradually growing
dim and blurry amid the fog; but
through the thick snow I ran panting
on, with my breath coming shorter and
heavier,. and a hot burning sensation at
at my chest, while it seemed that I
could taste blood, though: my mouth
was dry and hot.
All at once my heart leaped and every
nerve tingled. From the fast vanishing
train came a long shrill whistle, which
I knew well enough meant red signals
in front, while to my unutterable joy,
the end lamps of the guard's van show
ed plainer and plainer as I panted on.
Another stumble and fall over the
point rods—and I was up again, heed
less, that my hands and forehead were
bleeding, and that I had lost my cap.
There were the lamps plainer and plain
er, for the train had almost stopped
but now, a hundred yards ahead, could
1 ever overtake itbefore itstarted again?
The suspense was terrible, I felt my
head swim as I panted on.
Fifty yards passed and the red lamps
still receding, but bigger and less dim.
On still gasping andchoking, and draw
ing my breath with difficulty. Not
twenty yar s off—and, if I could have
run another few seconds would have
seen me holding on by a carriage handle;
but I could only go at a heavy trot.
" Bang ! bung!" went a couple of fog
signals, and hope rose again as the en
gine slackened pace once more, and,
almost at a walk, I panted on—nearer,
nearer, nearer—the red lights growing
brighter and plainer; and at last, just
as the engine gave a final shriek. and
dashed on all clear, I laid my hand on
the red bull's eye, and the next moment
was clinging to the foot hoard of the
guards van.
The fog had been my friend. In an-
other feW seconds I must have dropped;
while, in an ordinary way, the train
would have been miles down the line by
this time.
" Bang ! bang !" went the fog signals
again, and I sat helplessly there, with
my legs all drawn up, and again we
slackened for a fetweconds, initial clear
once more and we Were dashing on, and
fast getting into full swing as I rose up,
and opening the door, stood with the
guard of the train.
"Pooh! nonsense!'! he said. "You're
mad, I shan't stop the train." '
" Then I shall,' I shouted, making
towards the wheel connected with the
gong upon the engine.
"Not if I know it, you won't," he
said, stopping me.
I was too weak and donelup to scuffle
with him.
" Will you come.with me to the next
carriage, then ?" I said.
He only shook his head.
" Win you lend the your key ?" Isald ;
for I had dropped my own when I fell.
He shook his head again, and then it
struck me that perhaps ho might stop
me, seeing how rough and wild and ex
cited I looked. I backed slowly to
wards the door, facing him all the time.
Ho told me afterwards, if I had not felt
afraid, ho would have pinned me while
I turned my back.
But I didn't turn my back, and the
next moment I was outside on the long
step clinging to the door handle, and
with the guard leaning out and watch
ing me.
"‘ Come back !" he shouted, as we
dashed along at full speed, now rush
ing through the darkness ahead, and
giving a wild shriek as we passed a sta
tion, the lights looking like one streak.
There were the carriages shaking and
the wind tearing at me as if to beat me
off; but I was recovering myself fast,,
and....ip a few moments I was at the end
of the guard's van, leaning towards the
carriage I wanted to reach.
So far my task had been easy, though,
of course, very dangerous,
with the
train dashing along at fifty miles an
hour ; but now there was a gap to pass
between the van" and the carriage, for
the buffers keep the carriages at some
distance apart. For a few moments I
stopped in dread, but, as I got my breath
more and more, courage and the recol
lection of her wild appealing face came
to me, and, clinging to the buffers, I
contrived to get one foot on the step of
the carriage, and, still holding on by
the iron, tried to get the other there.
Just then the train gave a jerk, and
I thought it was all over; but the next
moment I was on the step, and had
hold of the door-handle.
"At last," I muttered, as I drew my
self up on the next and tried the door,
which was, as I expected fast. Then I
looked back. There was theguard with,
half his body out, and his hand screen
ing his eyes, trying to follow my mo
tions ; but with the darkness all round,
the snow cutting by like knives and
points, and the dense fog clouds we kept
entering, I felt sure he could not see
me, though I could make him out from
the light in his compartment. Then I
listened, and my heart seemed to stand
still; for I fancied I could hear the
sound of a struggle going on inside,
though I was not sure, from the rat
tling made by the train. I was not
waisting time, for I had tried to look
In la the window ; and, after opening
my knife with my teeth„ was trying to
open the door. • But the interior of the
carriage was dark as pitch, and my knife
was useless, while now I was sure there
was a struggle going on Inside. Direct
ly after, ono of the little side pains of
glass was broken, and I heard a faint
cry.
I dashed lu the door window in au In-
stant, cutting my hands with the thick
glass, and thou, beating out the loose
pieces made a place for entrance, and
had half body In before I felt myself
seizing by some one who tried to force
me buck.
Two hands held me by the throat,
while I grasped the door with one hand,
half lu and half out of the carriage. My
blood was up. I hail hold of my unseen
enemy by the collar, and I dug my
knuckles into Lie neck as I held on for
life like a dog.
I had the advantage of him there, for
while I had on a stiff collar and button.
ed up uniform coat, he had only a thin
dress shirt collar and one of those blank
wisps of ties. It was a struggle for life
and death with me, but I got further in.
At last, I suppose, feeling half choked,
he started back and drew me with hilt',
HO that I fell heavily on the floor.
Here, though, I lost my hold, and he
had me again at a disadvantage. For
what seemed a good five minutes, it
was an up and down struggle, while
more than once I felt myself dashed
against,somebody who was'orouching
in a corner of the carriage.
Sometimes I got-the better and some
times the worst off. After the struggle
had been going on some time, It seem
ed that the far door was open, and that
there was no one else in the carriage
but us too, hanging to one another like
a pair of wild beasts, Then came such
a horrible reaction that my strength
seemed to leave me, for I felt that in
'her fear and dread the poor girl had
leaped out.
33ut she had not, for she was outside,
clinging for life to the handles, as in one
brief glance I saw by the end light of
the train flashing upon her. In a last
fierce struggle my foot tripped, and I
and the man I was struggling with fell
headlong out of the door. There was a
flash of light, the sound of rushing
wind, and then I seemed to be dashed
with fearful violence upon the ground.
The next thing Free°llect is the sound
of voices, and.the hissing of an engine
close by me, while two of three people
were moving about with lanterns. I
found some one supporting my head,
and then I gave a shudder, for there
were horrible red patches andmarks on
the white ground: As the men spoke
in whispers, I could see they were col
lecting together something horrible,
that steamed in the cold air. A mist
came over me, and I fainted dead away.
When .1' could think again, I found
that I had been in a London hospital,
and was lying there in a ward, looking
at a pair of soft white hands that did'nt
seem to belong to me, while my head
felt cool through my hair being cut off.
But I got stronger every day, and soon
I had visitors to see me • and qne face
that came, and used to 'lean over my
poor bare pallet, was, alit were, the face
of an angel—so sweet, so loving, and so
tender in its compassionate look; and
once, while the old lady stood back, two
tiny soft hands smoothed my pillow,
and a tear fell on my cheek, as a voice
whispered.
"God bless you, my brave preserver."
I shut my eyes then, and trembled,
for there was a bitter feeling of sorrow
came over me ; and in spite of those
tender words,
I seemed to be standing
on the brink of a great gulf, far away
from her.
As I grew stronger, I learned from
her mother how they had been deceiv
ed. It was through answering an ad
vertisement for a governess that the
poor girl had met with insult. She had
been deluded in accompanying thegen
tleman, underpretence of taking her
to his home, a few miles down the line.
He had paid the penalty of the crime
he had meditated with his life. An up
train tore him to pieces—an up train
which must have passed within a few
inches of my head.
The train from which we fell had
been stopped by the guard a few miles
further down, when the poor girl was
found clinging outside the carriage. An
engine and tender were sent back in
search of us, to find us as I have already
told.
I only saw her once again, when she
gave me this—this little purse, just as
you see. She spoke to me kindly and
tenderly, and they were words of praise,
I think ; but I saw her only through a
mist, and the thought that it was for
the last time seemed to fill my mind so
that I could only speak huskily. I kiss
ed one of her hands as she said " Good
bye;" and then I was-standing alone—
alone in the world, without aim or hope.
You will please to remember that she
was a lady, and that I am—only a rail
way servant.
Waited for at the Downley Station
As I stood at my door, looking for a
passing cab, I could not help wishing
that I had taken my wife's advice, and
gone to Downley by an earlier train.
The weather had grown much worse
instead of better, and not only did the
wind blow as boisterously as it had done
all day, but Its gusts now drove before
them a heavy rain which would have
wetted one through in a very few min
utes. As a rule, disengaged cabs crawl
ing slowly past my house were a nui
sance, and now I had waited full a quar
ter of an hour without seeing one, and
I knew that the margin beyond the
number of minutes absolutely neces
sary for getting to the station was grow
ing dangerously narrow. There was a
howl; there was a deluge! I could
never walk to the station in this. Ah !
there .was one. In answer to the man's
hail, I dashed through my little gar
den, and in a few seconds was inside a
four-wheeler.
"Great Southern, sir? yessir," said
the man, as he stood at the door, the
rain pouring from his oilskin in streams.
"An uncommon nasty night, sir."
So it was, and so I should fancy the
foor fellow found it, for when he opened
the door for me to alight at the station,
a complete ring of water formed where
he stood. We were in pretty good time
after all, and I got my ticket and was
seated comfortably in the carriage for
some minutes before the moment of
starting. There were very few passen
gers in any of the carriages, and in the
one by which I traveled, and which
was marked for the Downley branch,
there were but two or three, and I was
the only occupant of my comparment.
Tho last bell had rung, the whistle had
sounded, the premonitory scream from
the engine had been given, and then, of
course, had followed the first tug, when
I heard a voice shout— It
" This way, sir, this way."
A guard tore along the platform, fol
lowed by a belated passenger; my door
was unlocked, the stranger Jumped
panting in, the door was slammed to, a
shilling changed hands rapidly, and we
swept from the station.
" By Jove," exclaimed the new corner,
wiping his forehead as he spoke, " by
Jove, that was a close thing."
" Very," I assented, " and the last
train, too."
" The last train, certainly," said my
companion. " I believe there is no way
whatever of getting to Downley if you
miss this train."
"There is none," I replied, "which
very inconvenient."
"Oh, excessively so," returned he
'Have you any objection?"
Of course, as he said this he exhibit
ed his cigar case, and finding I bad no
objection be pressed a cigar upon me,
which I may remark was one of the
very best I ever smoked, and then,
without further speech, he reclined
with his eyes closed, as though in deep
thought.
He was a tall, good looking man with
fine beard and moustache, very black
and full. But I could not help think
ing that his head was a little too much
like a head from a hair-dresser's win
dow ; and his attire was too much like
a picture from a fashion book. Some
how everything about him was too new
and glossy to please me• entirely, and
hisjewelry was also too profuse, but it
could not be denied that his cigar was a
capital one.
I sank into a reverie as his own; in
deed, I rather suspect I had begun to
doze, when I was roused by the stopping
of the train. My companion roused
himself too. I was on the side nearer
to the platform and looked out.
"A rough night still, isn't it?" he
said.
"It is, indeed," I replied. "Just put
your head out and try how the wind is
blowing."
"No, thank you," he returned with a
smile, "I will take your word for it."
I laughed In reply, and was about to
close the window, when the guard looked
in. The official passed on, but returned
in a few seconds, and stared somewhat
curiously, I fancied, into the carriage.
The scream and the tug came again, and
on we went.
" That fellow had agood stare at you,"
said my companion.
" Well I fancied he looked chiefly at
you," I said ; " but the fact was, I have
no doubt, ho smelt a somewhat power
ful odor of tobacco, and he wishes us to
see that he did."
"I shouldn't wonder," said the
stranger, showing himself back with the
languid air of one who takes no interest
in a conversation. "Do we stop again
before we arrive at the Dowuley
branch?"
"No," rreplied.
"Verygood then," he continued; "let
us make ourselves comfortable."
And, by way of doing this unlocked a
black valise he had with him, and drew
out a couple of bottles of champagne,
which proved as good in quality , as his
cigars. He next produced contrivances
for glasses which shut up into a mere
ring. With these appliances, we very
merrily journeyed over the twelve miles
'which remained of the main line, when
"Downley Junction" was now shouted,
and, as soon as we came to a stand, our
carriage was detached from the train.
"All tickets ready, if you please,"
said the conductor, appearing at the
door. As we handed our pieces of paste
board to the man, the same guard who
had twice before looked in, peered over
his shoulder, to the annoyance of my
companion, who muttered something
strongly condemnatory of his impu
dence.
In another. moment the main line
train was thundering over the viaduct,
and dashing with its roaring and its
sparks, into the utter darkness of the
night, while our modest little engine
came fussing out of some siding, and
' was hooked on to its smaller charge.
,'Now we're off to Downley," ex
claimed my new friend.
But he was wrong. A delay of some
minutes yet took place, which really
seemed quite unnecessary ; for there
was not a soul, on the platform—along
which the gusts of rain and wind swept
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MOENENG MAY 13 1868
fiercely—save and eicept • the station"
master, who well wrapt up, twice walk
ed slowly past our carriage, and looked
sideways at us, with a very keen ex
pression, or so I fancied. My fellow
traveler did not see this, as he was fix
edly staring into vacancy from the other
side of the carriage. At last we puffed
on to the branch. we had gotinto pretty
good speed as we passed the second
platform, which, on theDownley branch
exists for the convenience of up passen
gers, when, to my amazement, the door
was pulled open, and a young man
Jumped in.
"Come my lad," I remonstrated," this
is a very dangerous game, and surely
we have been long enough at the station
for you to get in leisurly."
"Yes," he said, with a grin.
On looking at him, I thought he was
one of the most dissipated, impudent
looking young fellows I had ever seen.
"Yes ; you've been at the station long
enough,' , he added.
Then he stopped, without any per
ceptible reason, to grin again, and to
wink at me. I tried to freeze him by a
scornful look, but it had not the least
effect upon him.
"Now," he continued, " do either of
you gents know me?"
" I do not," was my reply.
My companion turned his face from
the window for an Instant, and bestow
ing a lofty glance of contempt upon the
speaker, resumed his gaze. The new
comer was in no way abashed at the cool
manner in which his advances were re
ceived, but resumed—
" I want to have a little talk with one
of you, but I don't know which. Have
either of you ever heard of Tawell, the
Quaker, who was waited for when he
got out of the train s all through the elec
tric telegraph, which was a new thing
in his time?"
I stared at the speaker, while my fel
low traveler bestowed a momentary
glance upon him as before.
" Oh, come," continued the young
fellow, assuming a still more knowing
expression, " this won't do. The branch
is only seven miles long, and one of you
is wasting time awfully. Which of you
is likely to be waited forat Downley ?"
I could only continue my blank stare
at the boy (he was little better); my fel
low traveler Just moved, but I took no
notice of him.
" Come, I say," urged the youth,
"don't be a fool, one of you. I'm the
telegraph clerk at the junction, and I
have wired - to Downley to have a.couple
of blues ready for this carriage—two
hundred and four B; that's the number
you see. Oh, that's enough," he went
on, turning to my new friend " I can
see which is the party. "You're in for
it, mister."
"But—but why should—how could
anybody know ?" began the gentleman,
and his voice was now husky and wa
vering.
" That doesn't matter, that I see," re
torted.the youth ; " the onlyquestion is,
are you afraid of policemen just no or
are you not?"
" Well, there are circumstances at
present—"
"That will do," interrupted the clerk ;
" I don't want to know particulars. It
was the guard of the down train, Bill
Bixon (he's been a policeman himself)
put the station Master at the junction
on the scent. They were very close
over it. Didrvt say to me, ' Here, Sam,
you share in whatever reward we get,'
and orcourse, they expect to get some
thing." •
" But what is the use of you telling
me this now?" demanded the gentle
man.
"Just this," - returned Mr. Samuel,
" Can you find a pound or two for ad
vance that will get you safe out?"
" Yes ; here are five sovereigns. Will
that do?" said my friend.
"Good!" ejaculated the clerk, drop•
ping the money into his pocket; " how
listen. About a mile thisslde of Down•
ley, the road is under repair and the or
ders are not to run over it at more than
five miles an hour—in fact, just before
they get there, the train very nearly
stops. I'll tell you the right place to
jump out, and I've got a key if this
other party can manage it, he had bet
ter make himself scarce, too, I think.
There will be a row when they open
the doors at Dowuley."
"But what will you do ?" asked my
fellow-traveler.
" Why, you don't suppose I should be
such a fool as to stay in after you had
got out," retorted the clerk, with a
laugh. "Nobody knows I'm in the
train, and it's worth my walking four
miles to my lodgings if I can earn five
pounds by doing it."
" Now, sir" said the stranger, turn
ing to me, " It is not fair for me to in
volve you in this trouble."
"Don't mention it," I said. It was a
stupid thing to say, but perhaps the
champagne had something to do with
it.
"But I must mention it," returned
my fellow-passenger. " The fact is that
it is dangerous for you to remain here.
If the carriage arrives with no one but
you in it, the officers will certainly mis
take you for me. Two days, at least,
will be required to establish your iden
tity, during which you will be kept
closely confined."
This was an alarming prospect, in
deed. Two days confinement, not to
speak of the annoyance and disgrace,
would have been ruin to me. I had
business on the following day of vital
importance, which could not possibly
be postponed and my companion's an
ticipations seemed only too probable.
" I hope," I said hesitatingly, " I hope
you have not been engaged in any trans
action of a questionable nature. '
"Oh as to that," returned my com•
panion, "I will tell you frankly the
whole truth About this painful case.—
You are a gentleman, and a man of
honor, and will not betray me. I am an
officer in the army ; I cannot now enter
into particulars, but my lieutenant
colonel was a scoundrel, a villain of the
deepest dye. I challenged him—l horse
whipped him ; the coward bore his die
glace. But his time came. He brought
most unfounded charges against me,
which were certain officers in England
I could easily rebut. In their absence
I may be ruined. I sent on two ex
presses to Canada and Bengal yesterday,
but until they return I must conceal
I myself. But I weary you."
"Far from it," I exclaimed. "Pray
go on."
"I have 'little more to say, he re
sumed. "You know why I fly, I will
tell you who I am. My name is Lionel
Gerald de Mortimer—have you an army
list about you ?"
I mechanically clapped my hands
upon my waistcoat pockets, as if to be
quite certain on the matter, regretfully
said, "No I have not."
"It's of little consequence," resumed
the officer. "I should merely have
shown you that the Honorable Lionel
Gerald de Mortimpr's name is no ple
beian corps. My father the baron's name
is of course familiar to you."
I murmured that it was, and Samuel,
the telegraph clerk, also murmured that
it was familiar to him.
"May I confide in you ?" said the
fugitive.
"You can," I exclaimed. "You can,"
echoed Samuel, the telegraph alerk,and
then we all shook hands. The officer
stooped to his valise again, and the
clerk hurriedly whispered—
"l say we're all right."
He winked and struck the side of his
nose with his finger, and I mechanical
ly imitated his gesture. The train was
slackening speed now but the captain—
for such I had decided was his rank—
produced another bottle, this time of
brandy, and we all three quaffed to his
escape—Samuel, the telegraph clerk,.
drinking, It seemed to me, rather more
than his share 'Adieu I my preserver'
exclaimed the officer as the clerk rose
and carefully unlocked the door.
Fling out your bag," said the youth;
this was accordingly done. "Now Jump
the way the train Is going."
We did so, and although a good deal
shaken, no harm was done, and we saw
the angly lights at the rear of the car
riages disappear with quickening speed
round a curve.
"Well, Pm off," exclaimed the clerk,
" good luck to you captain," and he
vanished in the darkntas.
" Now, where on earth are we to go ?"
said my friend. "I only thought of
coming to Downley, because it was, I
supposed a quiet, retired place; but I
don't know the neighborhood."
"I do," I said, "follow me." He fol.
lowed me accordingly, and I told him
that I would take him to the little inn
at which I usually lodged, and where I
could obtain a bed for him. This latter
offer he declined. He said he would
just wash, and have some bread and
cheese, and then walk across the coun
try to a town he named some few miles
off. lof course allowed him to decide
on his own movements without • corn.-
ment,.andin a few minutes we arrived
at my lan, which was, luckily, a good
way out of Downley in our direction.—
, Tired - and splashed es he, was, for the
night was still wet and tempestuous, the
officer decided upon having "his crust,".
as he called it, which turned out to be a
very hearty meal of cold roast beef, be
fore refreshing himself with a wash. I
then took him up• stairs to my room,
and as we crossed the landing he said ,
pointing to a staircase.
" Where does that flight lead to ?"
"Oh, only to the back yard of the
house," I replied, and we entered.
I had obtained two candles, and he
went, taking his valise, with him into
.the dresaing-robm, while I spread some
papers which I had brought down with
me. I heard him washing, and in a
minute or two, hearing a footstep con
ing froth the drawing room I looked up
I recoiled with an exclamation of alarm,
for there stood a man in a moleskin
jacket and trousers, cloth cap, shaven
face, and close cut hair.
" Who are you? .T. exclaimed, grasp
ing my chair as a possible weapon of
defense.
" Oh, it's all right, I:should say if you
don't know me," Bald the man, and I
recognized the voice of Captain de Mor
timer.
" What !" cried, more astounded
then before. "In the name of all that
Is wonderful, what does this mean ?"
" You are not a bad fellow, but you
are very green returned the voice; a
greater spooney I never saw, nor a bet
ter hearted one. Why old fellow you
stare as if you never read of a sham
moustache or beard. Good bye, old
chap, you have had a mistake to-night,
that's all, and our sharp young friend of
the telegraph department has made a
much greater. I won't ask you to shake
hands with me again, because you are
a gentleman and a man of honor,though
soft, and I am a rogue; but take this."
As he spoke he offered me a ring.
" I don t want " I began.
"Nonsense," said he; "take it. It
is one of the few things which are really
and honestly my own ; believe me for
once when I tell you I have had that
ring over twenty years. That's right.
I wish you good luck. Good-bye."
He was gone ; valise, moleskin clothes,
felt-cap, and all. I heard him run
stealthily down the back-stairs, and I
never saw him again. I had disturbed
sleep that night, dreaming of officers,
both ohe army and of the police, arid
woke very little refreshed in the morn
ing. Luckily, the weather was very
flue, and my business demanded that I
should be in Downley early.
As I entered the market-place, I saw
several small groups staring at placards,
evidently newly-fixed; indeed a man
was posting one up as I got there. I
r aurally stopped to see what it was
about, and saw that it was headed, in
bold type, "Robbery. Five Hundred
Pounds Reward." It went on to de
scribe the appearance of Mr. John Mace
ly in such language as left very little
doubt as to who was my companion on
the preceding evening.
Blot on Binning
In the "Galaxy Miscellany" Prof.
Blot tells us plainly that we do not
know good wine when we taste it,
which, in truth, is but seldom. For
"bogus wines are sold to Americans al
most entirely." This is because our
taste has been so perverted that some of
us absolutely prefer the bogus flavor to
the natural, just as many Western peo
ple prefer chicory coffee to Mocha. And
the American habit of gulping instead
of sipping causes us to swallow liquor
before tasting it. As a rule, no drink
can be properly enjoyed which is not
swallowed slowly. The Professor gives
the following formula to tell real from
bogus wine :
I will try to enable my readers to tell
real from bogus wine, by tasting : Take
a little of it in your mouth, move it about
for two or three seconds, and spit it out
or even swallow it. If it is real wine,
it may taste rather sour, or acerb, on
the tongue and palate, but the flavor is
agreeable and lasting,. and no pungent
taste can be detected. If swallowed,
the same signs are experienced in the
throat; and if a glass has been drank,
instead of burning the stomach, it will
be felt warming it, but only after a
while. (It is understood that no wine
should be taken on:an empty stomach.)
If it really is bogus wine, instead of
tasting sour or acerb, it actually tastes
rather sweet and biting; as for the
flavor, it is hardly tasted while the wine
is in the mouth, and it is all gone as
soon as the wine is spit out or swallowed.
When swallowed and immediately after
the throat and stomach have the sensa
tion of burning; and it is that very
burning sensation, created by the chem
icals used for its manufacture, that is
mistaken by many for the real body or
strengthaf genuine wine. It does not
warm thFstomach like the real liquor,
but excites it, and the nervous system
also.
"None despise puns," says Swift,
" but those who cannot make them."
They are pardonable perhaps in print,
but, so far as society is concerned, would
they were held in universal:contempt!
If puns were despised, even then they
would, we are sure, be discharged upon
us in the midst of every interesting
and serious conversation. Puns in
conversation are abominable. We
consider punster very much as we
should mischievous boys who would in
sist upon exploding Chinese crackers
and firing pop-guns in the dining or
drawing room. Punsters are vexatious
to the last degree, and, if they will in
dulge their vice, should. be given a
'quarter or half an hour for it, and then
be commanded to restrain themselves
upon pain of expulsion from the com
pany they have annoyed. The poli
ter the society, the more odious are
punsters. If they would' be content to
burn their verbal powder without de
manding recognition of the impure at
mosphere they have created, they might
be pardoned. But it is the unalterable
determination of a punster that he won't
be put down by inattention. Seem not
to notice his effort, and in revenge he
makes six other puns, each worse than
its predecessor. So we are obliged in
self-defence to notice each labored utter
ance, which wholly breaks the magnetic
current of conversation, and destroys
sympathy as nausea does sentiment. If
we don't notice him, the punster thinks
us stapid, and the fact that We know rth
is Is not sufficient compensatiod. Then
the example, like all vice, is contagiousi,
and what was a pleasant, genial com
pany degenerates into a mob of verbal
skirmishers and stragglers, who should
be tried and executed for deserting the
army of good breeding.
Brazilian Coffee.
Brazil has also had her peaceful tri
umphs. In the great exposition held
at Paris, in 1807, Brazil attracted much
attention by the display of her material
resources. She succeeded in obtaining
a number of prizes. To the uninitiated
it may seem strange that from all the
countries—Arabia, Java, Ceylon, Yen
ezuela, the West Indies and Central
America—contesting for the production
of the best coffee, Brazil bore away the
palm. But it has long been known
to dealers that coffee does not de
pend upon where it grows, but
upon the length of time it remains
upon the tree upon the manner of its
curing. The southern and the south-
western states became acquainted with
coffee imported from Rio de Janeiro,
fifty year ago, at a time when Brazilians
did not know how to cure coffee •, but
the taste of the south and West has
alone kept up the demand for the green,
poorly cured coffee known in commerce
as "Rio." The Brazilians themselves
never use " Rio," and although three
fourths of all the coffee imported into
the United States come from Brazil yet
much of it is sold as Mocha and Java,
or under any other name than "Rio."
The English, Americans and Germans
make the poorest drink from coffee In
the world, while the Latin nations, who
never boll their coffee, make the best
beverage.
The proposed railroad from Reading to
Treverton, via Bernvllle, Rehrersuurg and
Tremont is to be built. So also is the road
from Douglasville, through Amityville and
Friedensburg to Lyons 'WID, the East Penn
sylvania railroad,
The Sherman House, one of the finest ho
tels in the West, Is to be the Radical head
quarters for those attending the Grant Con
vention in Chicago. If negroes present
themselves for accommodation, the propri
etors of this elegant hotel will be in a quan
dary, as by the rules of their house 'colored
persons arq.not eligible for guestships. In
Louisiana, two of the Presidential electors
and a number of delegates to Chicago are
itegroes.
iftistibtutono.
Mexican Life and Manners.
"The Court of Mexico" is the title
of a new work which has recently been
published in Vienna, the authoress be
ing the Countess Paula Kollonitz, "lady
in waiting to the Empress Carlotta."
The'Countesi Kollonitz wasin the suite
of the doomed family when Maximilian
and his consort embarked at Miramar
on board the Novarra, Aprll 14, 1864, to
take possession of the new empire. In
this book we are told that the Empress
carelessly read and wrotein preparation
for her future life—working out the ar
rangements of the court and household,
and in other employments; and the
Emperor also was uninterruptedly busy,
assembling his suite every day for sev
eral hours of consultation and work.
Since the days of their first establish
ment in the new world, the Spanish.
Americans have steadily declined.
They have forgotten much of what they
once knew and learned but little of
what America had to teach them. The
women especially are " very weak, and
there la nothing in their way of life to
strengthen and invigorate them." They
marry early—usually at fourteen or
fifteentind a family of eighteen chil
dren is not an uncommon occurrence.
Women who are often little more than
infants themselves are not likely to be
careful mothers, though Countess Kol
lonitz describes them as being foolishly
affectionate. Her instincts of careful
nursing were grievously outraged by
the want of proper attention to the chil
dren's health. They are dressed up
and petted like dolls, but they are car
ried out in smart clothes to morning
promenade when the sun has scarcely
risen, and taken to the evening drive
after the air has become cold, to "sit
half naked at the carriage windows"
in order to gratify the irrational vanity
of their parents. At eight or ten years
old they are seen struggling against
sleep, at the opera, till past midnight.
When they are not servingras play
things, they are left to the care ofyoung
Indian girls. Thus brought up they
die in great numbers.
The life of a Mexican lady is very
much what might be expected from the
bringing up of a Mexican child. They
rise early, go to mass, and thence to the
Alameda, where they "march slowly
up and down, and sit and chatter upon
the stone benches." The rest of the
morning is spent in bathing, walking
in the terraces of their houses to dry
their long hair, dressing and playing
with their children. The afternoon is
devoted to visiting their friends, and
about six they go in full evening dress
to drive in the Pasco. The theatre Is
the usual resource at night, or else they
have little informal parties called " ter
tullias," where they play cards or dance
with a few intimate friends. They never
take up a book or any kind of work, and
with the exception of three facts, that
their ancestors came from Spain, that
their clothes come from Paris, and that
the Pope rules at Rome—they are abso
lutely ignorant of Europe. Countess Kol
lonitz was especially hurt at their be.
having that French was the native
tongue of the Germans. On the other
hand, they are extremely affectionate,
and family relationship are maintained
with great care. By a curious inversion
of European habits a Mexican girl rare
ly leaves her father's house when she
marries. The common plan is for the
son-in-law to be adopted into his wife's
family, and this goes on till the house
is full of relations of all degrees of re
moteness. Partly, perhaps, by reason
of the barrier thus interposed between
them and the outer world, the Mexican
wives do not deserve, according to
Countess Kollonitz, the bad reputation
sometimes attributed to them.
One relationship between the sexes is
peculiar to Mexico. A man may pay a
girl certain attentions, may ride with
her, walk With her, sit by her side at
the theatrd, and escort her wherever an
escort is needed, without being consid
ered to beengaged to her. He is simply
her novio (betrothed.) If a young lady
chooses she may even have several novioB
at a time, nor has any one of these the
right to complain if his privileges are
suddenly transferred, In whole or in
part, to one of his rivals. The French
officers showed great promptitude in
adapting themselves to this novel rela
tionship, and even formed a French verb
from the Spanish substantive—"novlot
ter," form "novio," in order to express
the relationship It implies. "Le Capi
taine un tel novio to Mademoiselle
Lupita ou Caliche," is a very ordinary
way of speech. Either because the
French presumed on the intimacies thus
accorded, or because the superceded
Mexicans got the ear of Mademoiselle
Lupita ou Concha's family, these intru
sions seem to have been more agreeable
to the young ladies than to their friends.
"This," says the Countess, "led to many
disagreeable family scenes."
In many families there are no regular
meal times. You eat when you are
hungry, or when you can get food.
When food does not appear at fixed in
tervals,'there are always some additional
places "as some relation or friend
is sure to drop in." The cookery is un
inviting, partly, perhaps, from the
quantity of lard which is used in every
dish. The cooks " live out of the house,
and provide the meals of several
families." The servants are chiefly
Indian girls, men servants being very
rarely met with. In the houses
show is more important than comfort.
The principal reception rooms are fitted
with handsome furniture, gilding of
all kinds being in great repute; but the
rooms ordinarily occupied by the family,
and especially the bed-rooms, "are
often wanting in neatness and cleanli
ness, and overcrowding is common to
an extent which might have been
thought insupportable in a hot climate.
The mother and five daughters will
all sleep !done small apartment." The
Mexicans are inveterate thieves and
gamblers. Perhaps both these vices
may be the results of their incorrigible
indolence. Play and robbery are both
easier ways of making money than
bard work.
Between twelve and one o'clock, a
luncheon is eaten, which chiefly con
sists of national dishes. "Tortillas"
and "frijoles," take a prominent place
at the tables of rich and poor. The first
are pastry, made of ground maize in the
shape of a thin dish as large as a plate,
white and tasteless. Among the lower
order, this takes the place of bread ;
they use it, tuo, slightly rolled up, in
stead of spoons. Frijoles are little
black beans, which thrive particularly
well In the neighborhood of Vera
Cruz i when they have been cooked
for .a long time they take the
color of chocolate, and make a very
good and tasty food. A ragout of turkey,
(guajolote,) prepared with chills (red
peppers) and tomatoes,is a favorite dish.
Mixed with maize flour, wrapped up In
maize leaves, and steamed, it makes the
best national dish, the gamalcB. On the
whole, the cookery of Mexico is not
very enticing to European palates and
stomachs. Lard is used In groat quan•
titles In all the dishes, even in their
sweet ones. A good soup is almost an
unknown thing. Coffee, which grows
here of the best kind, Is so badly
prepared, that it Is almost !impossible to
drink It. Chocolate, highly spiced with
cinnamon, Is, on the contrary, very good
and much drank.
A 'lnge Grave.
They are digging out a 750 foot high
ancient Tumulus in Yorkshire Eng
land. The exhumations have been
those of men, women and children, all
superficially burled, and some few in
slight graves, but mostly burled barely
out of reach of the plow. With the men
have been found bronzeandiron swords
and knives, and with the women
buckles, brooches, dm, and various
beads. The strange feature has been
that the' bodies have many of them
been interred in the doubled up way
hitherto thought to pertain only to the
ancient Britons; but some were at full
length, and when so, were east and west.
Mutilated bodies have been found, some
being without skull or arms, while in
other. cases, the skull only and no other
part of the body was found. Infect, the
results of the opening so far are very
enigmatical, presenting the first sam
ples of contracted Anglo Saxon burials.
A young woman, giving the named' Ma
rla McKay, aged 24 years, and living in
South Boston, attempted to shoot a young
man on the steps of the Old South Ohttroh,
Boston, on Sunday evening. She fired:a
pistol at him as he was passing her, the,
ball taking alight effect, and - causing him
to make a hasty retreat. She has been an
rested, but her intended victim, whom she
accuses of seducing her, has not yet been
found.
Theßattle, the Battle-neld and the Can
didate.
The great issue Of the pending conflict Is,
shall the Government created by the Con
stitution be perpetuated, or shall it be sup-.
Planted by a centralized °manhunt Saber
dinate to this and connected therewith are
the questions of reconstruction, of negro
impremacy an th ese national finance. Radical
leaders see in the means to the attain- -
mant of their great end. States are coerced
into the support of this project; rwgrovotee
aro, valueless but for this object, and pa
tronage and place, banks, treasury and
financial agencies are made to lend their
powerful influence to the preservation of
Radical role, to the centralization of the
Government and the overthrow:of the Con
stitution. The battle to be waged involves
the vitality of our institutions.
The battle field in this great struggle, is
Pennsylvania. In Presidendaloontesta'for
seventy years, the Keystonehaa invariably
voted with the majority. Her vote in Octo
ber has alway s been the certain precursor
of her verd ict in November. Success in
October is invariably followed by success in
November; defeat iu October is the ;herald
of defeat In November. Her voice in Octo
ber Is potential with other Commonwealths,
for New York and New Jersey usually fol
low her lead, and always showsympathetio
action. Our victory in October, 1867, swell
ed the majority in New York in November.
To lose the October - electiod is to lose Penn
sylvania. The loea of Pennsylvania is the
loss of the battle. The loss of this battle is
the destruction. of the Government. Here
is our Thermopyla3 ; the " ides " of October
determine our destiny. To win this con
test every energy should be bent ; to insure
success every extraneous aid should be
yielded us; to compel this victory our broth-
ren everywhere should aid us.
The action of the New York Convention
in its selection of a candidate, will be po
tent in its bearings for good or evil upon
our cause, in October, and that great party
"tribunal of the last resort" should heed the
voices of our counselors, and attentively
ponder the views of the leading men of our
delegation. Pennsylvania is uncommitted
to a candidate. She will sacrifice to success
everything but principle. We believe that
her delegation will esteem success hero in
October vital to success throughout the
Union in November ; that they will insist
upon the choice of that candidate who will
most essentially aid us In carrying our
State, and that they will resist with all hon
orable means, the nomination of any one
whose antecedents or present position will
tend to make that result in any degree
problematical. We believe that they will
regard the prestige of a great name, or the
most faultless party record, as of no weight,
if it be rendered clear fhat success Is Jeopar
dized by the selection of their possessor.
The hour is inopportune for the requital of
party services or the elevation of party idols.
Our first duty is to save the Government ;
and we mistake the character of those great
men who are now prominent for.the nomi
nation at New York, if, in the spirit of
self-sacrifice, they, too, do not say " every
thing for the cause, nothing for men." The
choice of a candidate is not difficult when.
an invincible will for the preservation of the
Government, a spirit of cordial co-operation
for success and a determination to sacrifice
our personal preferences to the common
good; are brought to the task. The mass of
our Democracy are deeply imbued with
these sentiments, but they regard success
here as a vital pro-requisite to final victory,
and therefore they insist upon the nomina-
Lion of one who can assuredly carry Penn
sylvania. There are such men, both sol
diers and civilians, men of large minds,
thoroughly trained in the logic of our gov
ernmental system and in the traditions of
our party, of spotless reputation, of un
blemished party record, and surrounded
with the prestige of success. Give us one of
these, and our march to victory will be an
easy and a triumphant one.—Clearfield Be
publican.
The National Debt Statement and Ftnan•
dal Prospect Before Ds.
Mr. McCulloch makes slow progress in
the reduction of the national debt, notwith
standing the extraordinary amount of taxes
imposed and the vast income of the govern
ment for the last few years. From the
official statement published yesterday it
appears that on the let of this month the
debt was, in round numbers, after deduo•
ring the cash in the Treasury, two thousand
five hundred millions. On the let of May
last year it was two thousand five hundred
and twenty millions. That is, there has
been a reduction, apparently, of twenty
millions in the last year. This is a
very small amount, if oven it were
an actual reduction in the burden
of the debt, considering the immense
income and resources in the hands of the
Secretary of the Treasury. But the debt
has boon only nominally reduced twenty
millions, while the miserable financial poli
cy of Mr. McCulloch has vastly increased
its weight. Out of the twenty millions re
duced about eleven millions were of the
debt bearing no interest, and consequently
the people were relieved of no burden to
that amount. Thus about seven millions
only of the interest bearing debt have been
liquidated last year. Bat against this we
find that Mr. McCulloch's transformation of
the currency interest bearing debt to the
gold interest debt, to the amount of over a
hundred and thirty millions, makes the bur
den over six millions a year greater than It
wee before, which is equal to an addition'of
a hundred millions to the bulk of the debt.
That is, the country is relieved merely of
the Interest on seven millions paid, amount
ing to seven hundrod thousand dollars in
currency a year, while by the change of
four hundred and thirty millions of cur
rency interest to the gold interest debt the
annual payment is increased aboutsix mil
lions and a half. We are required, at the
present price of gold, to pay six millions and
a half more interest on the debt this. year
than we had to pay last year. This is the
way in which Mr. McCulloch's figures mis
represent facts, and such is the wretched
and ruinous mismanagement of our national
finances in the bands of this incomoetent
Secretary.
It is said the Committee of Ways and Means
has appointed and instructed a sub-com
mittee to take into consideration a revision
of the terlft, with a view to provide for an
ticipated deficiencies in the revenue. It may
well be alarmed as to the future. The re
duction of the revenue to the amount of a
hundred millions a year, by the law recently
passed exempting manufactures from tax
ation, and from other measures lately pass
ed, while the enormous expenditures and
extravagance are kept up, will certainly
leave a frightful deficiency. If Mr.
McCulloch with an income of five hun
dred to six hundred millions a year,
cannot - reduce • the debt more than
a few millions, while at the same time he
actually increases the yearly interest six to
seven millions, how is it possible to meet
the demands or government with a revenue
cut down a hundred millions or more?
Congress may try to btidge over the diffi
culty till after the Presidential election, and
probably by an inflation of the currency;
but this would only bo a temporary expe
dient. A bankrupt treasury must be the
consequence, which will be followed by
such a revulsion and crash as have never
been witnessed, perhaps, in this country
before. A reckless and corrupt Congress
and an incapable Secretary of the Treasury
are hurryinglis on to this inevitable result.
—N. Y. Herald.
litlllzation of Cowl Dust.
Many experiments have been made with
in the past few months, with a view of turn-•
ing to available account the refuse coal
about the mitres. It has been estimated
that the actual waste of coal is about one
third, at the mines. The screen separates
it from the coal fit for use and it can be pre
served, so as to be of avail in case a suc
cessful issue awaits the experiments. It is
now thought that a chemical poems has
been reached which will render the dust
fit for fuel. An assemblage met at the New
York Chamber of Commerce one day
last week, to witness the tests of a
firm, who claim to have reached
the desired result. It is said their ef
forts proved highly satisfactory. Their
preparation ignited as readily, burnt as
freely, gave more heat, and burned for a
longer time than the ordinary coal. The
fire lasted from ton to twelve hours without
replenishing. But, while in those respects
the success of the cxperknont was placed
beyond a doubt, It does not yet arise above
a chemical curiosity, for the Wrest essential
of cheapness seems not to have entered into
the tests; and whether or not the
fuel can bo brought into competition
with wood or coal rests entirely upon
the assertion of the:inventors. They allege
that It can, but the secret being looked op in
thole own bosoms, it perhaps will never
transpire how cheaply they can make the
article. It would seem that the agglomer
ate is free from sulphur, and can ho used
for all the purposes that coke is now re
quired for, We should be gratified if we
could announce the entire success of such a
discovery. In tho hands of liberal and en
terprising moo, such a thing would work a
fortune, and be the means of cheapening
fuel to a very satisfactory extent.—.Phila
dclphia Frees.
Legal Ingenuity.
A remarkable illustration of the difficulty
of so framing statutes that ingenious law
yers cannot pick them to pieces is contained
in the decision just rendered by Judge Ben
edict, of the Eastern District of New York,
in the case of John B. Adatte, charged with
counterfeiting fractional currency. Adatte
was' tried some time ago, and• convicted,
bat obtained a new trial because of the ex
clusion of a witness in his favor. On the
second trial he was again convicted, under
that section of the statute of 1864 which
makes it a crime to have, in one's posses
sion plates of Znited States notes without
the authority of the proper official& A mo
tion was made in arrest of Judgment on the
ground that the statute had reference only
to the poseesslort of the genuine plates, which
Adatb3's - confessedly were not, and the
Judge .austained the, motion and set the
priaoper at liberty!
NIIMER 19
Brews Items.
Denver supports four newspapers
Butler laving to answer Evarts It he can.
Paris has a newspaper entitled Heaven's
JournaL.
A Minnesota editor weighs Ca pounds. A
heavy writer, surely.
The population of Detroit Is, according to
a census recently taken, 66,358.
H. H. Lloyd, the well-known map pub
lisher, died in New Jersey last week.
The Spanish army has one general for
every two hundred troops.
The Germania recently took out $1,000,000
in specie for Europe.
A now Democratic pater is soon to be
started at Council Bluffs, lowa.
Young grasshoppers have made their ap
pearance in myriads, nearSionz City.
Seventy-five periodicals, ranging from
dailies to quarterlies, are published In
Chicago.
In the Paraguayan war it Is calculated
that 40,000 lives have been lost from wounds
and 40,000 from cholera.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner has become
ono of the editors of the Louisville (Ky.)
Churier.
Fanny Few, It Is reported, receives $5OOO
per annum for her contribution to the Now
York Ledger.
The seeds of the gigantic trees of Califor
nia hardly exceed fn size those of the mus.
Lard.
A large number of lady artinteln London
earn a comfortable living by wood engrav
ing.
Incomplete of returns of the Arkan
Has election show 1318 majority for the Con
stitntion.
The registration of Washington city, com
pleted, shows 16,991 votes, of whom 6,737
are colored.
The bolt factory in Pittsburg was entire
ly destroyed by Are on the 3d. Loss $lOO.-
000. Insured for $.10,000.
It is proposed to put up a commemorative
tablet on the precise spot whore D'Arcy
McGee fell.
Prayer Books, it is reported, aro now got
up with looking-glasses placed on the inside
of the covers.
The Wicomlco and Pocemoke railroad,
between Salisbury and Berlin, Maryland,
was formally opened last week.
L. Zumbush'sjewelry store, Indianapolis,
was robbed on Sunday night of goods val
ued at over $l,OOO, including seventy
watches.
Gen. Canby has postponed the meeting of
the South Carolina Legislature until Con
gress shall have approved the Constitution
of that State.
The French astronomers to be sent out
for taking observations on the eclipse of the
sun of August 18th, will be stationed on the
peninsula of Malacca.
The Boston Journal says there will be
some five hundred Independent delegates
to the National Republican Convention in
Chicago, from New England.
In Bt. Louis, while thesoup from the flesh
of a turtle was smoking hot on the table,
its heart was still at work with regular pul
sations in a basin of water.
A clergyman in Illinois, on alternate
Sundays, preaches in churches ono hundred
and sixty miles apart. Ho travels from one
village to the other on horseback.
Fifty-four millions of Bibles, In 174 differ
ent dialects,
have been distributed by the
British and Foreign Bible Society since its
foundation.
It seems to be the fashion in England for
the parents of a bride to give a party on the
evening preceding the wedding for the pur
pose of exhilliting the wedding presents.
Eighteen persons were poisoned with
arsenic at a boarding-house In New Or
leans on Sunday, but none of them have
died, they having talon an overdose.
- -
A trestle work at the Erio Railroad depot
in Jersey City broke down yesterday, pre
cipitating a locomotive into the river. The
engineer and fireman were drowned.
A Mississippi editor begs his subscribers
to pardon the shortcomings of the last, the
present, and the next number of the paper,
on account of "twccongestive chills"which
disturbed him.
A party of students of Dartmouth College
are reported to have broken into the college
chapel and destroyed the organ, in revenge
for the expulsion of some of their class
mates.
Accounts from the interior of Alabama
and Mississippi report serious damage to
plantations from the late rains. It is feared
a general replanting of the cotton will be
necessary.
Charles Dickens' expenses in America
were fifty thousand dollars, and his no
profits one hundred thousand dollars in
gold. He carried off three large packing
cases full of all sorts of presents.
The National Medical Convention began
its session In Washington yesterday. About
450 delegates were present. .Dr. S. D. Gross,
of Philadelphia, delivered the annual ad
dress.
The Indians captured and destroyed a
train near Tulerosa, New Mexico, on April
18th, killing seven men. They had pre
viously killed thirteen persons near the
same place.
=All the diamond cutting done in the
United States is performed in the city of
Boston. It is also well known among police
officers that all the diamonds splen by ex•
pert thieves aro sent to Boston for sale.
Grape growers in California are giving
great attention to the manufacture of brandy.
The quality of that already produced is said
to be excellent. Native brandy nine years
old is pronounced quite equal to the im
ported article of the same age.
The corn crop is by far the most valuable
one grown in the country. It is cultivated
over a larger extent of territory, thrives
well under various degrees of latitude and
returns more money to the agricultural
community than any other cereal.
Tho case of the Commonwealth vs. the
city of Philadelpala, for arrears of taxes and
interest due the State, was decided against
the city, in the Common Pleas Court at
Harrisburg, yesterday. Tho amount in
volved in the verdict is $87,512.
At the Erie disaster a school girl pulled
from the wreck a man weighing one hun
dred and eighty-six pounds who was
tightly wedged under the debris with both
legs broken. Tho heroine sprained her an
kle and wrist.
The papers of the Eastern Shore of Mary
land are giving gratifying accounts of the
prospects of the coming wheat crop. They
say the indications are that an abundant
harvest will be reaped. From the Western
States the accounts are equally cheering.
There Is a young man attending college
in Albion, Mich., whose heart is on his right
side. He has been examined by several of
the most noted physicians of Now York
and Washington, who all agree that such
la the case. his•ls the second case on re
cord of the kind.
The Delaware Connercial.estimates that
1,101,000 baskets of peaches will be realized
from the crop in that State this year along
the main line of railroads, exclusive of the
branch roads. It is, however, too early In
the season to form anything like a reliable
estimate.
Dr. Gabor Napbogyl, who was arrested
In New York the other day to answer a
charge of obtaining a large sum PC monoy
from a firm in that city by means of an al
leged forged latter from Senator Johnson,
of Maryland, has been discharged on his
own rocognizance.
Tho Cincinnati 02tholle Telegraph, Rays:
.' Had any other than a scion of the Royal
family brought shame and ruin upon half
the number of families that Prince Alfred
has, he would have long since occupied it
felon's cell, or be shot down as nay other
boast that proye upon society.
Thirty conductors havo boon disohargod
within a row days by tha Third Avonuo
Railroad Company, In Now York on an
count or a dimnropanay betwoon their count
of the number of peussongorr and the onu
moration made by detectives employed for
tho purpose.
A young Indian maid visiting a flooring
mill in Winona, Minnesota, surreptitiously
got.hold of the stencils and decorated her
white blanket with "Ellsworth'm °holm" in
bright red lettere, after which she strutted
down street, to the horror of the bachelor
Ellsworth, who owns the mill.
The Georgia State Constitution exempts
from the Malmo of creditors all too property
of the State. and $3,000 of the property of
each individual, 82,000 in real estate, and
81,000 in personal estate. This feature of the
Constitution is ono about which there has
been groat difference of opinion among the
Georgia Voters.
The vexed question, whether Patti was to
marry or not marry, may be considered
settled. At the boat concert given at the
Tuileries, the young cantatrice told the
Empress that she was engaged to marry
the Marqule de Canx. The Orchestra be
lieves that she is to be married in the !min
ing autumn, and not to quit the stage till
1870.
The Queen of Saxony has expressed dia.
pleasure at the untidy, dishevelled style of
wearing the hair which has lately come in
to fashion. Having frequently to receive
English and American ladles, who some
time appear *ith their hair hanging loosely
about their shoulders. Her Majesty has
established a regulation that persons with
such coiffures shall not be admitted a% Court.
The new Tabernacle at Salt Lake City
has proved too small to hold the audience.
of Saints that seek admission to it. But
10 000 at the utmost can now be assembled
within its walls. Brigham Young has an•
ncnnoed that it would be necessary to have
a gallery in the Tabernacle to accommodate
the congregation. With galleries, the build
ing might be made to hold 15,00 C peopi ,e
and the lm_provement suggested will be
probably effected at some future time.
Bunn=
ir
guars of tan How Se per year for each 614-
.dltlonal square.
RnA,n lilanntalsillnfebr
tam 1110*IdA Initeionsatingli.Vl In?
Union.
Orrorou ADTIRTIIIMI 7 cent& lino.•tor Lb*
Vt, and '4 cOnta for eimp subsequent lola,
Eirsarm. Ncynctice Inserted In Local Column!!
/5 owns Per llao. ' .
BrzarAx. Norms
Pintlinrrisen• Ind
demand° nen per Ms. tor. . list Insertion
said 6 wan for nano mibilsoritent 12 . 116140 n,
/mu'. AND masa
Eranninit':Anicee—....i..;....—...••
AufsueeM
tialmnistastors fpm
Auditors , rank:me w
Other "Not ic es,” ten Ann, or leS6, r
three
[:=:73
Martha Stanford fell'down stairs recently
in Philadelphia and broke her neck.
There aro ten anthracite and ten charcoal
furnaces in Berke oonnty,
Shad are now running np the Delaware
more plentiful than at any time before this
season. ;
Twenty acres of land within the limits of
Reading was recently sold for twenty-five
thousand dollars.
The Post-Office at Alvira, Union count?,
is re-established, and David A. Clark ap
pointed postmaster.
About six hundred permits were issued
for new dwellings to Philadelphia last
month.
Rev. Jas. Shrigley, formerly of Reading,
has been elected librarian of the Blatorical
Society of Penosylvanla.
W. M Straight, of Monongahela, thia
State, arrived in:Chicago about titre° weeks
ago with $lO,OOO in his possession, and has
not been seen or hoard of since.
In 1887 the anthracite farnnces in Penn
sylvania produced 5813,584 tons of pia iron,
which was id per cent. of the whole quantity
made In the United Slates In that year.
Judge Sharswood has withdrawn from
hN p ofessorshlp of law In the Pennsylvania
University, and has been prdsonted with a
service of plate by the faculty and students.
The Crawford County Medical Society
have instructed their delegates to the State
Society to vote In favor of a resolution rec
ognizing female practitioners of medicine.
One hundred and forty four-wheeled coal
care, carrying seven hundred tons of coal,
were recently hauled over eighty-five miles
of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
by a single engine.
The will of Isaac Barton, an old Quaker
resident of Philadelphia, gives to various
public charities, and the Philadelphia Fe
male Medical College, the sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars, the whole of his for
tune, as ho died without Issue.
The funded debt of the city of Philadel
plan on January Ist, 1809, was $343,(177,5N 77,
as compared with $35,021,092.59 on January
Ist, 1807. The total valuation of real estate
In the city is reported at $145,1363,317, and
the total number of buildings is dtated at
108,182.
The Mamnerchors, old and young, and
the Sa3ngerbund, with their respective lead
ers, will unite In duly celebrating Whit-
Monday at Engle ,t Wolf's farm near Phil
adelphia. The Ltedortafels and Liederkrans
societies will spend the same day at Wash
ington Retreat. The German people know
how to enjoy themselves, and will doubt
less make of Whit-Monday a happy day.
gOOfilllta'S SMIUM ittero.
H . OO VIAND'S GERMAN BITTERS,
1100FLAND'S GERMAN TONIC
The Great Remldles for all Diseases of the
LIVER, STOMACH, OR DIGESTIVE
ORGANS.
ITOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS
Is composed of (be pure Juices (or, GA they are
medicinally termed, Li .artraczr) of Roots,
Herbs, and Barks, .LL malting a prepara
tion, highly concentrated, and entirely free
from alcoholic admixture a/ any kind.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC,
lea combination of all the ingredients of
the Bitters, with the purest quality of &oda
Cruz Rum, Orange, dio., making one of the
most pleasant and agreeable remedies ever
offered to the public.
Those preferring a Medicine free from Akio.
hone admixture, will use
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS.
Those who have no obJection to the combi
nation of the Bitters, as stated, will use
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC.
They are both equally good, and contain the
same medicinal virtue', the choice. between
the two being a mere matter of taste, the Tonto
being the moat palatable.
The stomach, Irma a variety of causes, Ouch
as Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Nervous Debility,
etc., is very apt to have its functions damaged.
The Liver, sympaet th i z in g as closely as
t does with the kj Stomach, then be
comes affected, the result of which is that the
latient suffers from several or more of the fol
owing diseases :
Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Ful'
nese of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the
Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust
for Food, Fulness of Weight in the
Stomach, sour Eructation,
Sinking or Fluttering at
the Pit of the Stomach
Swimming of the
Head, Hurried or
D g Ullcult , Breath
in Fluttering at
the Heart, Choking or
Suffocating So nee tlons
when In a Lying Posture Dim
neee of yygon, Dots . or Web. be-
lord the Sight , Dull Pain In the Hoed,
Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of
the Skin and Eyes, rain In the Side, Back,
id
Cheat, Limbs, etc., udden Flushes of Heat,
Burning In the Flesh, Constant Imaginings
of Evil, and Great Doproxxion of Spirits.
The nufferer from these diseases should ex
erotic the greatest caution lo the selection of a
remedy for ills casedurchfuling only that
which he Is assured from his investliga-
Gone and inquiries possesses true merit,
is skilfully compounded, is free from Injurious
Ingredients, and has established for Itself a
reputation for the cure of these diseases. In
this connection we would submit those well
known remedies—
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERSt
1100FLAND'S GERMAN TONIC,
PREPARED BY Dr. C. M. JACKSON,'
PHILADELPHIA, Pd,
Twenty-two years since they were flint in.
trodued into this country from German i c :. dur
ing which time they have undotibUid per
formed more cures, and benefittesi an ering
humanity to a greater extent, than any other
remedies known to the public.
These remedies will etfeettudly cure Liver
Complaint,Jaundlce, El Dyspepsia, Chronic
or Nervous Diarrheas Disease of the Kid
neys and all Diseases arising from a Disor.
dered Liver, Eitomaeli or Intestines.
DEBiLI 2' Y,
Resilitingfroto any ettse_whiklairer
pROsTRATION OF THE SYSTEM,
induced by Severe Labor, Hard
ships, Exposure, Fevers, &c.
There le no medicine extant equal to these
remedies In such cases A tone and vigor Is
imparted to the whole system, the appetite
Is strengthened, food Is enjoyed, the stomach
promptly, the blood Is purified, the
complexion becomes sound and healthy, the
yellow tinge la eradicated (rota the eyes, •
bloom is given to the cheeks, and the weak
and nervous Invalid becomes a strong and
healthy being.
PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing hew'
ly upon them, with all its attendant. Ws, will
and In the use of thin BITTERS , or the TONIC,
an elixer that will Instil new life Into their
veins, restore In a measure the energy and
ardor of more youthful days, build up their
shrunken forms, and give health and happl.
ness to their remaining years.
NOTICE.
It is a well•established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion of our population
Li
are seldom in the on T Joyment of good
health; or, to use Clintrownexpresalon
" never feel well." They are languid, devoid
of all energy, extremely nervous, and have no
ap To pe th is class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, Is especially recommended.
WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN,
Are made strong by the use of either of the4e
remedies. They will cure every ease of MAlt-
AHMUiI Without fall.
Thousands of certificates have accumulated
In the hands of the proprietor, but araco will
allow of the publication of but few. Those, It
will be obser. ea, are men of note and of such
standing that they moat be believed.
TESTIMONIALS.
HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,
Chief Justice o/ the supreme (burl o/ Pa. writes:
Pltidelphia, Marfa' , 18d7.
" I find Hoolland'slierman Bitters' Is agog!
Male, useful In Ms- A snowier thodlgestlve
organs, and of groat 1 - 1. benefit ILI cases of
debility, and want of nervous action lu the
system. Yours, truly,
Ow. W. WOODWARD.°
Judge of the bupreme (burl of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, April AIMS.
.1 oonolder ' lioolluud's (Sidman hit s' a
valuable medicine 1U OW4O of [titmice of Indigos.
lion or liyopepslu. 1 CAM corUfy this from my
oxpurience of It. Yours, with respect,
JAIIXII THOMPSON."
Fling lOW. 8041GPII 11. KENNARD, r
rmio , of the Tenth liaplut Church, Phlkulalphla.
Jackson—boar Kir: I havo boon iroquent•
ly requosted to oonnoot my name with mom•
mondatlwas of dliferout kinds of medicines,
but regarding tho practico as out of myappro.
lariat° sphere, I have In all oases &tanned; brit
with a clear proof in IV va r I owl instances
and particularly In IA my own family, of
thu useluluosa of Dr. tioolland's (Jarman Mb ,
tars, I depart for once from my usual ammo,
to express my full oouviation that, for general
*Wily of the &yam, and ovccially for Liver
tea NA and vats/aide preparation,
In some cases it may fall; but usually, I doubt
not, it will be very benonclal to those who cur.
fer from the above =uses,
Yours, very respectfully,
Kzermrsalii,
Eighth, below Witco gt.
Fitox lixv. E. D. FENDALL.
A as Bailor Christkinairenicie, Philadelphia
I have derived decided benefit from the use
of Hoolliand's German Bitters, and feel It my'
privilege to recommend thorn u a most value-
WO tonic, to all who are suffering from general
debility or from dU1431111138 angina from derange
went of the liver. Yours truly,
. 1). FaNDALL.
•
CAUTION
Hoodand's German Remedies are counter
felted. Mee that the I) algnatnre of . C. K.
JACKSON la on the wrapper of each bet.
tie. All others aro couuterfait,,
Principal Oilloa and Manufactory at the Oat ,
man Medially Store, No. Sit ARCH Street,
e
Pldiadalhla, Pa.
mABLKS M. EVANS
J ilk Proprietor
Formerly C. M. ACKSON lAN
PSIOES
Hoofland's German Bitters, per bottle $l.OO
• liar &00
Hootland's German Touto,put up ln quart bot
tles, 11.60 per bottle, or a half dozen for 17.60.
sip-Do not forget tr. examine well the wilds
you buy, ln oo get the mulne.
For sale br lets and Dealers in Itedl•
clu an I/es averyw
J
rnowv malt. anrIDZAID..-Tlllll LAN.
eaater_rmr.p,... 'Wad i lion ir a
have deolareaa Wend of $2 per •
able on dentlasl alto Farmers' Zia
Bank of Laneeatere • ; • ,
Gsk),j3,
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NaW Havka, Apru wrr f Lap gimp
Ittaardhsow