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‘OVER THE THBESUOI.R.
■ I; 1 i bt T, : 'W'. MA'PtIIBWB,
over ttie tfto;
The lnfauUttttteii ltß trial slept 1
Tottering, feeblf.yetßhfe andeure,:
By theloving arm of a mother kept* ,
Inoocent darling, knowing pot;
Of Uie thongandfi oi atop* in, lud’a weary way;
Muy you nevfer want for a mothers band
To keep and guard you In cblumood'S'day. -
Over tho, threshold of childhood hours,
Into tho days of youth we go,
Little dreaming of snareshronnd.
Or dangers net by a cruel Toe.
Let us hope that ever, when danger uoar,
Wemny tlnd a friend wh<> will wuruing give;
For without nHinlle, or a friendly word.
Tills life wiiro'a'weorlkofno life to live.
Ovortho, threshold of youth acalu
Wo atu;» into manhood’s uoiiblouS years;
And llud though lri life them in much of Joy,
There Is plenty of roont for grlef and teurs.
When onr golden vinlona are melting away
Before tho cold, stem reality.
May we he prepared for a u&Uer life
.Of peaceful Immortality l
Over Uie threshold.of manhood novL .
Into .the years ofipgo we stray; .
And our brow* are furrowed with lines of caio,
Oaronredarii Jocks arq silvery gray,
llut brie more step ive havo io take j
And when the threshold of life Is passed,
May the uugeJa wait, with aoags of Joy, ,
To welcome us home to Heaven at lust.
g^Mtetwni*.
Tho Texan Duel.
f l Put down that knife, or the conse
quence be on your own head. Put it
down, I Hay," and the hand of the
speaker slowly and deliberately raised
a revolver.
It was a very anxious moment for the
lookera-on. One of the combatants was
a brawny ruffian, upon whose face yeas
stamped all the**eyil passions of the
human race. Black haired, black beard
ed, black eyed, and strong enough to
have felled an ox with a single blow of
his list. The other was a pale, slender,
intellectual looking young man, boy
almost, with light curls and complex
ion, and blue eyes.
The scene was in the little town of
Washington, on the Brazos River, in
Texas, and the time midnight.
“l)o yer know who yer taLklng to.
boy?” was the coarse aud uneducated
answer of Luke Benton than whom no
gambler in that vicinity was more de
tested and feared.
A man to whom (and not without
reason) was Imputed every crime—even
that of murder; who was an unfailing
shot with tho pistol aud rifle, and un
matched in skill With that strictly bor
der weapon—the bowie buife. A short
residence in that locality had given him
a reputation as a duelist, for the long
grass of the Tam pas covered the forms of
two whobad fallen by his hand. Where
lie came from no oue knew, and be was
particularly retloeut about bis former
life. Still, it was whispered behind his
back—for no one was foolhardy enough
to say it to his face—that he was one of
the very few who escaped from the ter
rible justice of “ Natchez under the
hill,” wheu the outraged citizens awoke
In their wrath, and took speedy ven
geance in their hands., Be that as it
might, he had already earned a name
sufficiently bad to need no additions
even where lhe great majority of crimes
were looked upon lightly—making Tex
as in its infancy the paradise of scoun
drels.
On tho other, liia buy antagonist even
less was known. It was but two days
since his arrival, and he had come on
horseback and alone. Of his business
he had nothing to say, but his suave
muuuer, aud quiet, gentlemanly de
portment hud already made him friends
among the better portion of the sparse
population,
Very much to their surprise, there
fore, was it that they had seeu him en
ter into a (Miilest ut curds with the
great professional gumster Benton, con
fident that he would either be cheated
or bullied out of his money, in case he
was successful, which was almost be
youg the range of possibility.
But for two hours the game had been
progressing, tho gambler getting more
angry at every deal, and the youth keep
ing perfectly cool, aud breathing taunt
ing words, as if ills object was still
further to provoke him. If it was his
purpose to do ho, ije was more than
successful, fqr Benton had suddenly
spruug to his feet and drawn Ills heavy
knife, with uu oath upon his lips and
murder flashing from his eyes.
“Put down that knife,” again re
peated the young man,. Mark White s
man, us he had given all to understand
was his name. “Put it down. No oue
but a coward and a cheat would attempt
to use such fatal arguments in a simple
game of chance.”
“Kr cheat—coward! ” thundered
Benton, with all his 'tvrath aroused.
“By huavon, I’ll make yer eat yer
words.”
. “For fear you do not fully under
stand, I will repeat them.”
“ Yer dare not! ” was hissed from the
more than tightly compressed Jips.
“Coward ! cheat! I dyresayauything
to one like you.”
“Coward, or gin?” and his knife
Hashed more wildly around.
In vain tho others interfered. They
cared little for the professional nud bru
tal gamester, but they did for youug
Whiteman, and could not but be sur
prised at tho almost sublimity of hie
coolness and bravery, even though he
was courting his own death.
.Something in the manner of the
youug man, too, appeared to deeply
impress'liis antagonist, who had never
before restrained liis hapd from swift
vengeance. Thodelicato frame trembled
nob; tho sweet, almost girlish expres
sion upon thosa mobile lips remained
unaltered; theciioekswereunblanched,
and the mild, blue eyes never swerved
from their steady gaze upon the fiery
black ones. It appeared as if the ser
pent nud ilia bird hand changed places,
and the fierce charmer become the
ohanued.
“Pshaw!” at length eoutiuued Luke
Jloutbu, “I am a fool tolukenuy notice
of 1 er boy who I could crush between
my thumb and lingers. Take yer
money, ef yer such a sueak; go back
ermong the women and uever dare ter
show yer face ermong men agalD.”
“I care nothiug for the money,” was
still the calm response. “It’s nothing
to me.”
“ What do ye want, then ?”
“To prpve that you are a coward at
heart.” '
“No man ever lived that could prove
such a think.”
“Simply because you murdered them,
Luke Benton.'”! -
“Murdered? "But no', I’ll not fight
or boy.”.,' ‘ ,
“Because you dare.not. But you shall
have no exouse,” and .Mark Whiteman
spat full In the face of the blood-stained
gambler:^
In an instant alt was confusion. Ben
ton sprang'forward with his knife up
raised, aqd woujd have cut down hiß
Insulter. with a blow. But others 1 did
the ; They realized that *blqqfl
must, 13$ shed, but they insisted upon
“fair play.” liven in the horrible oode
of Texas dueling they demanded that
rules of honor (?) should be strictly
adhered to.
. If If you mußttight,” said an old ranger,
“Qud.jl see no way to avoid it now. lt
shall be ail open and above board. It’s
your your weapon
and stand up aud fight it out like a
mail;” • •- < ■
“‘Pistols, then—ten ' panes—word I”
was the grufl’answei'.
“Are you satisfied?” was asked ’of
Whiteman. ."‘j
“Yes—perfectly. Lot him take
revolver—l have miue. .We will coaX?
menoe firing-at the word, andoontinuq
to advance to do so luhtll one or both
full.”
A few stepß from the houso brought
them to a spot where the green gross
and Brlght flower?! had, more than onoe
in aftofl 'encounters. The
inon.wbre
undlho fatal word about to
when . Whiteman called the Hanger
(who* .was* acting, as his secondhand
taking hls hnud within his own,» whis
pered i ,{ f ‘ a 1 .
“Yoqappeat' , tobeatruo-hoarted man,
and I wish fcoaslc a favor of you.”
' “Speak oh. ‘Anything I can do shall
be j done.' ; Jqst Say 'the word tttid I’ll
take your, plqce.” ■ ».'r.
“lso, nokthat. ißutlf
to fall promisc lhat fl.ee me
buried as I:am.,' Do.not let mydressbe
disturbed in the leasts* Roll me up in a
blanket and let no wtie pry around: me
after rdhi'deudi' 'Will you promise -mf
to it®; b ( afr rij
ger as he slowly retreated, In uttering
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to himself,/.' and if you do failJL’Ufead
a bullet-through the skull.of hlnx that
kiUi.yflUi-ana may the gbod X»6rf| ror
igfye'uielf It.ls murder.” ,
• mfr-- Lrike Benton,” 66tttlhued i
.yWOWife, l “I'-am reatW.! otto
,wo*<i;» and he stepped toihla eHe:aud.
“handed him a miniature;:, “Jf Ldie,
loOk at this.” l <i Luffi'i:;
i f‘<ru do -itwd,;fldth jtremfe,.
ling Ungers,he updid the clasp—then’
lei it drop frpm bls hftnd as If it had.
been a serpent, exclaiming, l’ll
not fight you. Take him away l , eomfe 1
one— take him away, for
“ Not fight I Then:youiwill die:like,
a dog!” andWhltemaniraieedhis/weap'
on aud motioned for the word, to; be
given.- , •
It was some time, however, before bis
request was compiled With. The sin
ewy frame of the gambler trembled like
a dry leaf In the autumn wind ; all the
color had left his face: his lips were
like ashes; his pistol was pointing
downwards, and shook in bis hand. At
length, he succeeded, by a mighty effort, ,
in calming himself. He braced his
nerves—glared widely aroond, and with'
all the.calmness of despair stood upon
his guard.
“Are you ready—both ready?” was
asked.
“Yes,” came simultaneously from
:wo pairs'Of lips.
“One—two—three—fire!”
The report of the pistols cut the last
word in twain. The seconds -rushed
forward and lifted the men up again;
for both had fallen. One, however,
would never breathe more. Luke Ben
ton had fought his last duel—had gone
to his final account with his heart bul
let-cleft. Whitman, too, was danger
ously wounded. With Ills breani bub
bling forth through blood, ho called the
Ranger to him and asked him for the
miniature. It was given him—the fair,
face of a young man. He covered it
with bloody fingers—whispered, “Bury
It with me,” and he, too, llad ceased to
live.
With tearful eyes that form was pre
pared for the grave, the Ranger insist
ing that his promise to the dead should
be fulfilled to the letter. But all saw
sufficient to satisfy them that he who
called himself Whiteman was a young
woman. And years later, they found
a clue to the mystery. It was a wife,
who had then revenged the murder of
her husband—murdered for saving her
from dishonor! From a bloody grave
in the chapparel, she had gone to join
him she had loved so well in the laud
that lies beyond the river.
Was her last act one of sin? It is not
lor us to judge of such a thing. We
know nothing of the maddened heart
and insane brain—know nothing of the
long days and longer nights of suffering
—nothing of how we would .act under
such circumstances. Better leave judg;
rnent to Him who can read both the
mind aud the heart, and whose will di
rected the avenging bullet. None others
is without sin, and who will dare to cast
the first stone ?
Two Dead tfonien Come To Life.
In the summer of 1861 newspaper
readers were told of the discovery in the
North River of the body of a female'
which had been tied to a barrel of pitch
and rolled Into the river from a Jersey
city pier. Months and years have pass
ed and the mystery is still unraveled.
A few days hefore the death of Inspect;
or Leonard, in conversation with
a prominent wrlter,he told the following
remarkable story which we find In the
March number of the Galaxy:
“One spring morning, during the
first year of the war, a barrel of pitch
was found to have disappeared from a
Jersey city pier, and the porter in charge
when reporting the fact to his employ
ers, took occasion to speak of the river
thieves In no very complimentary
terms.
On the same day Ada Richard, a wo
man of nomadic habits and dubiouß
status, but of marvelous beauty,
suddenly left her hotel in New York,
without taking the trouble to announce
her departure or state her destination.
The clerks of tho house only remarked
that some women had queer ways.* 1
A few days aftet these simultaneous
events, the same porter who had
mourned the lost pitch, happening to
look down from the eud of his pier
when the tide was out, saw a small and
shapely human foot protruding above
the waters of the North River. It was
a singular circumstance, for the bodies
of the drowned never float in such fash
ion ; but the porter, not stopping to
speculate upon it, procured the neces
sary assistance, and proceeded to land
the body. It came up unusually heavy,
aud when at last brought to the surface,
was found to be made fast by a Tppe
around the waist to the missiDg barrel
of pitch. There was a gag securely fast
ened in the mouth, and these two cir
cumstances were positive evidences that
murder had been done.
When the body was landed upon,the
pier, It was found to be In a tolerable
state of preservation, although there
were conclusive signs that it had been
in the water for some time. It waß the
body of a female, entirely nude, with
the exception of an embroidered
ohemise and one lisle thread stocking,
two sizes larger than the foot, but ex
actly fitting the full rounded limb. The
face and the contour of the form, were
therefore fully exposed to examination,
and proved to be those of a woihan who
must have been very handsome. There
was the oleatrioe of an old wound on a
lower limb, but otherwise there was no
spot or blemish upon the body.
In due tfine the body was buried; but
the head was removed, and preserved in
the offlceof the city physician, with the
hope that it might be the means of es
tablishing the identity of the dead, and
leading to the detection of the murderer.
The police on both sides of the river
were intensely interested in the case,
but they found themselves impotent
before that head of a wopaan, who seem
ed to have never been seen upon earth
in life. They could do nothing. there
fore, but wait patiently for whatever
developments time might bring.
Chanoe fl Dally led to the desired idea*
tlflcation. Agentlemanwhohadknown
her intimately for two years, happening
to see the head, at once-declared It to be
that of Ada Richard. ‘ The detectives
eagerly clutched at this thread, and
were soon In possession of the coinci
dence in time of her disappearance and
that of the barrel of pitch to which the
body was lashed. They further found
that, slnoe that time, Bhe had not been
seen in the oity, nor could any trace of
her be discovered in other sections of
, the country, through corre&pbndence
with the pollbe authorities of distant
cities. They had thus a woman lost and
a body found, and the case was con*
siderea to be in a most promising' con
dition.
The next step was to establish the
Identity by the testimony of those who
had known the missing woman most
Intimately. The deteotlves therefore,
instituted a search, which was finally
successful, for Charles Richard, her pu
tative husband. He had not lived with
her for some time, and had not even
seen or heard of her for months, but his
recollection was perfect, and he gave a
very mibute statement of her distin
guished riiarks. He remembered that
she had persisted In wearing a pair of
very heavy, ear rings, until their weight
had silt one of her .ears entirely, and the
other nearly so, and that qa; a Voonse
quenoe, both ears had been nhirCed a
second time, and unusually high UP-
He'regretted that her splendid array of
teeth had been marred by thelossofone
upon the left sldeof the mouth, and
told, how a wound had been received,
Whose olcatrlce dppeafed upon obe of
tier limbs, stating exactly lie locality.
He dwelt with Borne ptiije upon the faot
tnatishe had been forced by the unusual
development to wear stooklngs too large
for her feet, and gave a general 'desorp
tion of hairr cast of faoe, height and
weight thal? ' was "valuable, because
mlnuto.' * 1,11:
■\Vheh he'gave this, statement he was
not awate or tho death,of his wife, or of
the.finding of her body, and without
being Informed. ,of either, fact he
taken to Jersey olty, and suddenly con
fronted with thehead. " The Instant he
saw It he Sank Into :a 'ohalrin, horror.,'
His statement having beon compared
With thehead andthereoord oftheuOdy, 1
the ejtnllttirde was found to be axafetw
cept m: to.the teeth,- , The hCadhad'ohb
tooth musingonpaoh sldeof thdthChth,
and thlsfeCtihuYing been caUedto 1 , hIS
attentlonvßlohard fqßletedthatßhe'had
lnshbut one when he lost saw, ,her, : ;hut
itwasl highly, probafalelthe other.had
been fo'rcbd out In theatruggle whioh
Jgbedherbf herHfe, atidthephysiclan,
anflnute • ext
place.but.waaStllVadhCrlhgfbtoC'gnn?.
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position, andtllero'yas ttis
oUt-ti dfsbreplirtcy’Titfbwtfetfit a&tftße
de»fcHpHonor*<laßWn«dJ) J ’ ■■"■'> i.it ■
TfiedetentlvMYpunadtherwitnMaMf
'and ambq&thttt'tbe -&»talres»er, vr.hp:
hadact«d lniib»i napacUyfar Ada.Rlgfl.,
l^ c iWftU>»,.*ho iaffins.
roonwitli all tbe.othera, fully, ponflrmed
the etlaeh'ce of r 'Clmffek Elchard.' The’
identfty'of the‘mrirderfed ‘w'dmaii : was
'question.
’. Naftrrtlly thetaextsUp wasC tosoitfe
thOinryateryiof'-her.death. -The deteo*
tlvefl:weofc towork .with unusual.cau
tion* iq task Jhey had
[assigned, themeelv.es.and were.slowly
catherini 'thd ehreas, of, her life, to
.wra've'fflmtßem &fhreadthat would
Jead to the tffathor'of her tragical death
when-they%et i e / snddenly , ‘* Adored ,f to'
usetheifcowmeiiergetleconfession. Ada.
‘Richards hene]£, appeared, at. a down-
NewTork hotel, in perfect health
and uhscathed-In person.
. The. explanation. was simple.. The
whim had suddenly seized hertq jjo, to
New Orleans, and shehadgoneflfiitJaput
leave-taking or/warning. , it was noun
usual Incident’, ul Iter wandering life,
and hkr fcpeedyWtutai was'dde only to
the fact that she fdund the ‘Southern
city only a 1 military camp underthe
iron tul6 ofGen. Butler/and therefore
an unprofitable: field for her.
The ghastly i head became more of a
mystery than befqre. The baffled de
-1 tectlves could ajjain only look at it help*
lessly, Md eena .descriptions of It over
the country/ Xk*lflßt‘lV was sebu by H
woriiaii named Uallaban, living in Bos
ton; Who.was'ln search of a daughter
who-bad gone astray. She instantly
pronounced ,ic to be that of her. child,
and she was ..corroborated by aU .the
members of her family aqu several,,
of h6r neighbors. The identifica
tion " was no less specificthan
before, and the perplexed author!,
ties g!ad : at last to know something,
certainly;‘gave Mrs. Callahan an order
for the body. Before,however, she bad
com pleted her af&a gem ep tp for i ts trans.
fer to-Boston, a message, reached her
from the daughter, who was lying sick
in Bellevue Hospital, and so the deed
once more became a mastery, ‘And such
it has always remained/ 'Thebody told
that a female who had been delicately
reared, who had faredisumptuously, and
had been arrayed in costly fabrics, had
been foplly (tone .to, death, just as she
was stepping jtnto tlio dawn t of woman
hood—and chat is all'that'is knowh 1 .
Her ! ngm'e, her station, her history, her
virtues, dfr'it may-be her frailties,'all
went down with her life, and were ir
revocably-dost. There Is every proba
bility that her case will always be
classed as unfinished business.
A prilling Snake Story,
Mr. Barclay, an English gentleman
who had made a comfortable independ
ence la mining speculations, deter
mined, 1 after some years’ residence, to
settle permanently in theßrazils. With
this end in view he bought and farmed
a largo traot of almost uncleared land on
the .-extreme northwest frontier, and
POrsuedhis clearing and farming with
great success and tolerable profit, and
what is more, a certain prospect
of much greater profits to come in time.
He gave himself, after a time, a short
leave of abßer.ce, and came back to Scot
land, where he marriedhls cousin, with
whom he again returned to his pianta
tion.in Brazil. During his absence, and
according to his instructions, a neat,
light, wooden residence—each as are
built on all plkhtations—had been erec
ted in’the midst of the clearing; with a
lofty veranda round it to keep the rooms
cool, and French <ndows leading
straight from the apartments to the
ground. Still yauDg’ Mrs. Barclay,
though surrounded with every comfort,
was very far from being quite happy ;
forßhe was constitutionally in terror of
the repulsive and tremendous-looking
inseots and'reptlles with which all the
wilder parts of Brazil literally abound.
She could not go to a drawer without,
finding in it a.oentipede as large as a little
eel, or open acupboard without meeting
with a spider almost as large as a smdfl,
crab. Lizards,of beautiful colors, but'
of repulsive appearance, had to be swept'
out of the bed-room at night. These
were harmless enough, but there are
few people who would care to wake up
and find them crawling over their faces,
or hear their long nails clattering along
the wooden floor. The climate, too,
told on Mrß. Barclay’s health. The rep
tiles by day and mosquitoes by night
made her unusually susceptible of irri
tation and alarm. But of all her horrors
the greatest she entertained was that
against snakes and serpents of all kinds.
This was ineradicable from her nature,
and was In fact as much part of her na
ture as the overwhelming antipathies
some ladies feel to the sight of a rat/ r a
spider, or a bull. Unfortunately Mrs.
Barclay lived in a part of the coun
try which was infested with snakes;
some harmless, some deadly; but,
whether ; harmless or deadly, the
unconquerable terror she evinced
/was the same to all. Once a tuboha,
a quick and deadly snake, was killed In
her house. At another *time a coral
snake, the most beautiful and most
quickly deadly of all the venomous rep
tiles God has created, was found and
killed-witli ease upon the rough lawn,
if we may dignify by such a term the
short, brown, burnt-up herbage which
surrounded the house. At auother time
a small anaconda, about eleven feet long,
Was found in thefwoods near the house
and killed; and, what was much worse,
oonstant rumors were brought in that
two milch larger serpents of the same
class had been seen in the forest not far
off. Boor Mrs. Barclay’s terrors were
not diminished by the exaggerated tales
of her 'native Servants, till at length
they rose to such a pitch that it seemed
vfery likely, as she often said, that she
should die if a serpent came near her.
Her fears got to such a height that at
last she would not venture out at all;
and actually kept her room. In this
frame of mind it wil}. easily bs believed
that her life was a misery to herself,
and not of mutih comfort to her wild,
eafnaught hhßband.
Early one summer momiQg the latter
wentrto look after the progress of some
rathdr distant clearings he was making;
of course he went on horseback, and of
course he carried with him the heavy,
old fashioned, double barreled musket,
without which, In that timeknd in those
wild regions, no planter ever stirred far
abroad. Both barrels were loaded with
a heavy charge of slugs, sufficient to
bring down a deer, -if; one came near
enough, or, better still, enough to scare
away or.stop the charge of a jagular or
a„tree panther. Mr. Bar'dlay's survey
took him rather late, and it was high in
the noonday heat before he returned
through a short belt of forest which lay
between his new olearinga and his home.
At that time the tropical forests are as
silent and,as motionless as if they were
dead. There is,to be sure, a drowsy chirp
of the great grasshoppers, and now and
then a, humming bird, whose gaudy
colors' are 1 alT*hidden by the intensely’
rapid motion tints widgs as it parses
from flower tb' fiower with a drouiug
buzz, which in such a silence is almoat
noise. But the great treeß themselves,
and their equally thick mass of tropic
undergrowth, between, are alias mo*
tionless and still as they had been Carved
In stone.
It wks through such a scene as this
that Mr. Barolay rode on hie " return
home, and It was amidst suoh stillness
that his attention was at.once attraoted
to a large,creeper hanging from a tree
in front of him, aDd whioh, omldpt the
deadly ntillness around, was swinging
quickly, Suqh signs In the forest are
never to bC disregarded'! and Mr, Bar
olay was too old a woodsman not to be
atones on the alert. After waiting for
some minutes tiUikeoßolllatlon ceased,
and .being, reassured by the quietness
of his hprse, ,'whlol} would have bseju
the first to poant a Jaguar qr a puma,
he rdde Carefully toward the tree, and
at a little* "distance examined It, but for
'Some time In vain. At last" the cause of
the disturbance and of the danger! also
beoame apparent on olose Inspection,
On a limb of. th&itree overlooking the
path lay a huge, wack anaconda,..plied
In, great masses, fold over "fold,! as Is
Its, wont, with (the end of Its tali ' j ust
burled rojind phClimb 1 on Which' its
grCat bulk rested, tadltkhead'left free,
BadeleVated • about twofeet above "the
‘rest of ttsibodyjo inthlspoeitlon itiwas
quite prepared .for aotlon, and, holding
on ,hy,dta..taU, 1 -Pquld at.pnqe dtonite
great length down with resistless mrcq
on any unhappy animal, or even person;
that below. aud when ohee
eecuredTlnltagigantlo folds, thereat was
certalu, W(helher to, man,or goat, or. deer
qrsheep. ::) Mr,, Barclay,rhoweveri.'wM
Httlojdlfltcinpe
erf? ilti-.’ iov-» '/Uit'.n
■ : -V’JWi 4'■ <iU 10 r. . V»iUUilv.'. i p ... .- -c.3/*
toanoepyrlnfo fcejgpf^l^tfei&attfa
oreMure^B, he^ r CrJgHcjplue.
•sky. Thenhbfii£a3EuWUnphe chSS
of wags the 'fcn£??epttfe's :
) mffmenVit r t»i&s In
ground,ltrwras fftrfrbm^ead,noKrevfli,,
and piungetiwildly* .-fta.ttfetitor fcrlime
heduratDofeQgjn>oaQh UipMt lftyfcaoqk-j.
itjiar atUi tl yrhe^iie.
gofca cloße shot.with hits sedond barrel;
; atfd thlsTscr'cbmbleteffy shattered the 1
serpehraikad that'ifc never moved again. J
Like a* ciotlouß'wdodßman,
Mr. Barclay did not feel BecarO until he
haddivideawMhiilshnifefandnot withr;
out yejtfshrm in the j
‘cenfne of the
mearfyVwenty-Mfie feetin .length, ,and'
wakfeVldently,' froth ttßgreatihlckness,,
Immensely powerful. The only, que^
, tlod which 1 remained to the successful
. hunter wastabadone with
the carcase. i.Hel was. lothto leave it
whereat;, he wanted iU
skta--as.w.kaLyiqtbrious sportsman
i above 41) ’ he wished toshow
'Mrs.*', Barclay how* easily such 'jteem*
ing ;c Triotfßters‘ cotild I be killed: 1 ' Not
umfotttralJy, then*, though' ;i 4h v an
evil hour, he determined to drAgithome.
For this purpose he undid hlB:Stirrup
leather, and makidgitfestover the head
of the snake, led his horse along, which
as it towed the a deep mark
in the herbage, and sometimes a trail of
; blood on the grass dyer whrch the car*
| cass was dragged;’ As hedbvanCed, with'
’the huge reptile tfelUdg'ht his heels,
some evil ‘-genius put Itrfnto his head
that nowv was aifinn opportunity to giye
Mrs. a Jessou fliat would;core
,her of of serpeuts., He ‘never
seems tb_nave thought of tbs matter
unkindly,/or to entertdih for a moment
! ail idtia that her woman’s nature would
| not hi sootV’ahd os easily get over the
repugnance-to these reptiles as he.in
his jWild, rough, life bad easily been,
enabled to do. [.There is no doubt bub
that ’nothing in ore than a rough,
practical joke entered bis mind,'
and this was perhaps the only 1 kind of
joke the point of which he Was capable
of perceiving. His simple plan of mis
chief was soon laid. He determined to
takd::.tbe serpent intQ L th.o, ; bouse, and
coil it in the, fitting-jjopm. in such a
manner os that its wounqed partd could
easily be hidden. He araggedU, there-.
fore, with some trouble along the veran-,'
da,'and soon managed’to coil away its*
gteat folds in such a manner that its in
juries were bidden, and itlooked indeed
as if alive, When all had been quietly
arranged by himself, he went qut and
called for a servant to fetch dawn her
mistress, who, as, is the custom of the
cbuutry, was sleeping out the treat heat
of the dav in her own room. Little sus
pecting what was to follow, she
came down at once, and the instant
she entered the sitting-room Mr.
Barclay -slipped., out andij fastenf
ed the door behind her. What.passed
afterward can now only be guess
ed with horror. Her screams of “The
serpent! the serpent! ” were at flrstso
shrill and loud as to quite drown Mr.
Barclay’s calls to her that the reptile
was dead, and that she must look at it
quietly, and hp was only first afermed
by anoiseof struggling and the piercing
criepof some half a dozen female ser
vants, who, drawn by the shrieks of
their mistress, had entered the room by
another door. Whatley saw on enter
ing was Mrs. Barclay attacked by a
huge anaconda, which bad followedjup
the broad track left by the body of,Us.
slaughtered mate. ■ The instant their,
cries alarmed it, it rolled back its folds
through the window by which it had
entered. Mrs. Barclay was found In
sensible, add only slightly torn about
the face and partly on the bosom by the
faDgs of the boa. She was quite insen
sible, however, and never rallied. In
Bpite of all restoratives, she remained
in a comatose state till the succeeding
day, when convulsion succeeded con
vulsion, till her death left Mr! Barclay
a widower, and tbe parent bf a still
born child.
The Bight and the left 1 .
It isl somewhat attractive to attempt
to trace* through the convolutions of <
the traditional usages of i
men, the reasons for every day habits !
that seem so natural as not to deserve
notice, much less investigation; but as j
nothing is created without an object, so j
we may assume that there is a reason
for those of the habits of our kind j
which, being general, escape notice or
criticism, but which if isolated by the <
practice of individuals only, would 1
arouse attention and awaken inquiry.
Amopg these habits hone are more I
marked or provocative of investigation i
than the habit of preferlog the right
hand or side to the left. In meeting an 1
obstacle in walking it is easibr to turn <
to the right than the left; in ascending i
staircases we prefer to take the right
Bide, .although that side may not have !
argil for theiiand, toassist.the riser; we ;
test the weight of an object by taking it
in the rightnand, and if we attempt the
test with the left we find the result, as
felt by the muscles, to be vefy different <
from chat by theright hand trial. 80, <
in a hundred ways, we always show our :
preference of the right over the left.
It is enough to account for this prefer* i
ence to say that general custom and
personal habit; make it imperative. To i
be sure, olvilfzed add enlightened peo* :
pie, generally, are careful’ to instruct
chelr children to use the right hand i
r&ther than the left; butithis may be
because manual instruments for per
forming all desorptions of-work are. :
constructed with a l}e ,UBed. : fcy '
the right hand,
that what may be considered the' cause
is only a result of some organic law tftat ,
demands this sacrifice of the left in 'pre
ference to theright. This view-receives
color from the faot tbab-evea .among ,
savage and uncivilized people the right
is preferred. Among them, as among
ourselves, the-..proportion of fche Ipft
. handed men is small. The
were considered odd by! the .children or
Israel for their peculiarity of being'left
handed. Either in Ancient or modern
times the proportion of left-handed men
was always Bmail.. ’
Why does a man lost on a plain, where,
there are no guides fpijdiscourse, make
a circle inhls efforts to go forward, tprh
ing always to the lt may be said
because The left b'eing'the.leog used side,
and, therefore, lessdevelopedhnd weak
er, must give wav to'the superior ener
gy of the right; but this reason does
not hold good,, because we walk , with
our feet, aDd not with our
the feet are educated alike. We are
ambidexters as regard our feet* In mil
itary evolutions we are taught to put
the left foot flVst—to start off with the
left foot ; but in the dance we are in
structed to startoff with the right. Be
sides, we know of a person left handed
from his infancy, who, heing lost In
the snow Btorm in Scotland, wander
ed in concentric circles, or spirals,
for more than, ‘two hours; before be
,lng turning always to the
left 1 . 1 Ambidexters, or thoßewho can use
equallyweil either hand, generally pre
' fer to emplbytheright even when using
an instrument not (Specially designed
for the right hand. Those wh,o, like
gymnasts, or pugilists, have, to »ise the
left with equal facility with the right
hand, are compelled to' submit to a
sevefe course of discipline to attain
equal foroe and dexterity with the left
that'they possessed with- the rights-*
The word Just .used-ndexterityr-per*
haps, may be a clue to the; question
underlying these Lexter t
the right; sinister, the left.' May there
not be some meaning In these liattn
terms and derivations, physical, moral,
and generally, philosophical, bßyona
their application, to mandat operations*
In all meohanios and
laborers .are.ambidexters, The wood
ohopperfhbuld'wield'hlB ate witirthe
right hand near the 1 blade; tWVWeU’as
with it at the handle’end; do the dresser
of timber or the adze;
bo the .blaokemUnta striker with the
sledge; the farmer.with the hoe t rake,
or flail; and the housewife , with her
broom; bnt eaoh and ail prefer to give
ifie dexter hand the precedence. Oar
guArdfan angel is 1 the 11 ah gel ovei l the
tight l 'Shoulder -j* ” the sheep' go * to the
right; he ; goat',t&tbe k^i.w©give
the .right /hand.ofifeUowsnip; l and in
the latter case if circumstances demand
the ls always
phrase has aphysiological'signincance:
ttfasoalar" ■ aotdotf l or-Vlaieilt" exertion
shoold be 6ept4sifhr*om the dellcaU i
and aotivs scene at, life aa .posalbla; tot
featiefi too gr«t» strasa upon that organ*
cl lb therqnqt BQflaetolflgJto i
.4? B tto,9tr-ap Wtfrom.,.castom 1 -ffift
demaads Investigation or
bargAblalplillosophers find' ohrSuttM?
lkte? Itls hot accident, : "<Slrcqißstan<f6,
‘>SJ f'inr ■ uni odi «.u; L. in ) LIU'AZ) ‘~ n in „ *•■• i f - Tcnoa''"'-'
IfflWfitiS; ’£czst i :£'S
" ' * '* r,n .JIMH ur-n it. «., ... —..-
£BHSSPPBi
■' r :r. j{ru.: ; {1 ; i ..ti: ;i3il :r 6'?
• : i r ,
? : ~ni. PftWPoi
A*Tttie 'of tU& Itfest! ’' 7 .*w» ;
, /BY )V . SC O^.'T
.' The time—night I
r.-intbe year, <rf> our ■ Ix>rd,ohe; (thbiuahil ‘'
-eight frondrqd and fifty. The qoen'err, r
the.socialaaloqD of the beautifulateam-.;
er. llercury, aa efie' steamed swiftly .
dowh ttmiafreotirl'rlVer.- • •«< *<»
‘ ll'll jflaypoker with; buy chap pie
eenti foriflye, l t@njflfteen,or twenty dol-
W- PW:
• sky, stran
ger £’/" &sbed:agreen!specimetL-ofhu
manityv.ion the lp«g?'lauk, apd t*ony
order, From his s£at in the corner.. . His,,
clothing; was of rough material add fit '
! } hittf poorty phlshat was a'btMfct that
(looked 1 although i&ibadiseen much 1
rough tisagftaildinanyjitPWns j h&foren;
t Jjead, was, high, formed, hia,,
nope promlneof, qndnls. eyes dark aha
small. ' ; The remainder of n&’fdcdwatr
covered with'-thick,'coarse.hiaxc. :>:!J Jeff
.“.Five, teu, r fi(teeu,or |%wkat
I said f ”;tbe rough looking customer, re
plied, seating nlmself.at the table and
running the dards through 'tils'flnger, 1
“you knoW how to play, Isuppose?”
Wal, X difia: Brown knows/
someth* pV about keerds when hi& dad
drawed Kla last breathe a. playin’ all
fours! The last Word#he seat
’emu'xran’ sHdffle' 1 T £m OOfr, pirdn er-j l 1
high, low”,(jack an 7 the gainafbr lisjiorti
a . busted toiler! Yss, the
green-, customer concluded, ‘‘ljll play "
you poker for.ten dollars ant©. 1 lean™
begin any higher’an tbkt, ’cause F*ri'
ratherscarceo? tin.”• .s■ \
“ whispered the gam-i
bkp ,Xo afri6nd, as Jiin r ßrown seated l
himself on the opposite side of the' table, 1
“ana If I-don’t dead him out of every 1
cent-he’s gtit, in less than two hoursy 1
my name ain't Joe Sparks* that’s all.- 1 ';
The cards were row shuffled, cut and -
dealt, the ante posted in the middle of
the table, and thegkme commenced. ; 1
"Brown was allowed' *6 win until 1 he
had polled about fifty dollars table aide
of the table, and then. the _,/jick suJj.
denly. turned and his opponent began
t-o win it rapldly back. ‘ ' ’
“Jingo!" he exclaimed, “I never
had. filch luck in my life. CanH git.
nothin’ but deuces an’ .queens, ah’
queens is the durndes onluokiest keerds
in the whole, pack. If-my -father was
alive an’ say,to me, Jim
Brown o’ Arkansas, I can't own'd son
o’ mine when he holds sick hands as
them—jingo! I’ve lost agidl” >
“Let us raise the ante to twenty .dol
lars,” said Sparks* pulling..the money
froto the centre, of the table.
“Jingo! its too much! You’Jl bust
me !” exolalmed Brown, half jumping
from his chair, “but I’ll try it, maybe—
a raise in theaute ’ll changes the iQck.
Shuffle;’em : up.”
Sparks dealt the ckrds out,
time unti/'eschhad'five, and tnen’pUdOd
a twenty dollar bill In the centre,of the
table. .
“Jingo!” exolaimed Brown,. lopping ■
&this.cardB, “I’ll bet twenty-five on her,
if I do lose.”
“See your twenty-five, and go one
hundred better, said Joe Sparks with a
smile.
‘‘Seeyour hundred, andputfivekun
dred on top of it; there’s no use o' bet*
tm> without you asdad Used to
say”’ Brown ejaculated,..taking a roll
of bills.from on inside pocket, andlay*
ing the amount he had hot on the table;
and then, turning suddenly round, he
said to a man who bad been Bitting be*
hind him from the time the game had
comenqed: * • „
“Look a here, stranger, I’ve Seed you
lookin'into my hand twice, ah” then'
wink at this chap I am plkytn’ with,
an’ if I see you do it againil’ll smash
you in the face, that’s all!”. i
“I’ll see your five hundred, and go
one thousand better,” said Sparks, put*'
ting up thfe money. 1 "
“Jingo! you mean beltin’,” exclaim
ed Jim Brown of Arkansas, “ wal’ I'm
stiii in I gueßs; I’ll go ye five thousand
better!”
“ I call you,” said his opponent, lay
ing down the required amount of money
in Jarge bills.
“What ’ave you got?” asked the
green one, with a smile.
“ What you can’t beat,” returned the
other laying down four aoes on the
table, “ pretty hand, ain’t it?”
“ Yes, it is; an', Jingo!” I've gotjist,
the same hand exactly,” said Brown,
showing four ace also.
“Thunderation!” exclaimed Bpkrks, :
“ what does this mean,” eight aoes in
one pack of cords—who ever heard tell
of the like?” ■ •
"I tell you what it means,” said'
Brown, coolly; “it meaDs that you got
your aces out of your pooket.’ I bbw you
when you got ’em!”
“ What do you say ?” asked Sparks.
“I say that you got them four aces
out o'your coat pocket,” returned tbe
other; taking the money from the table
and putting It in his pockets.
V And I say that you are a liar I” ex
claimed the gambler, drawing a knife,
“and if you don’t hand that money
over in five seconds, I’ll ’try this Ar
kansas tooth-pick on you.”
“ Joe Sparks,” returned the other, his
small black eyes flashing as he drewhis
knife, " that’s a game two can play at,
but hold awhile. I have a few words to
say to you, Yes, I have a short story tot
tell you, and I want yourattention. ,/
“ Ten years ago,” Brown continued,
keeping his eyeß fixed upon the face of
Sparks, “there lived about thirty miles
west of St. Louis, one David Stanley, a
farmer, who had a daughter as good and
as beautiful as an angel—ypu know how
beautiful she was, sir,—but of her
beauty I will not furtber.^pe[ak,, Well,
this young girl had Buitdrs by the score.
All the young men for miles around,
dreamed] thought, and talked of her,
and as she was not a flirt she was more
annoyed than otherwise by the at ten-.
tloflfeK>f so many. But it is only with
two of these young men whom we have
to-deal, and I’ll speak of thematohce.”
While Brown was speaking,:his late
opponent ,stood motionless, his knife
grasped tightly in his right hand, and
bis gaze fixed oh the face of the sup
posed green one. * • i . .. d
1 “Otie of her suitors,” the narrator
continued, was Charles EUon t tbe.soo
of, a neighboring farmer, and she
him, ana him alone, as only such true
and noble women can love, and whetf
he asked her to become his wife, she
laid her head on his breast and told him
she would. <
. “The other young man alluded : to
Wks Henry BardwelJ, of Btr. Louis-.- 1 -
He had persecuted this young girt with
his attentions for many .months, not
withstanding she had rejected, his offer
of marriage, and told hinq ehe
could never care for him more than'a
friend. "Well, when he heard ! that She
was soon to be married to youngEitod;
I he grew madly Jealous, and swo/a that
she should never be the wife pr any
Other thah'ht&ißelf.” . •
' “What have T gottodowifcbkU this?”
asked Sparks, growing pale, as Brown
made a, short pause.
~.‘,‘l will tell you iu ,a moment; you
must hear me through,” was the reply.
“Hie Btorjr will sbori ba ended; Thk
night on Wlildh Dharles Elton • waaitti
make Lizzie 1 Stanley arrived#
and with alight aud happy peart,he
mounted jple.horse,and..rode,, to her
father’s 'hodsdito ndd his inUndeu wife
acorpsel Yes, *he h&d btanftttfdered
by the hand of Henry I 'Bardwell; .while
going, to a spring not Att&iyudp from
ue.fionee.. Her father saw the, deed
done, from the window!6i hlB r room,!
whfite hO Was oonfihed-by slokhess.■
u'.n (The murderer fled aa thehloody
work was acoompiißhed f and
hour I have never ceased to hunt for
him/ xdu start when youhear me use
theprononn I. and wOfl y6n ifiay', tot I
am Charles Elton* and not'greets Jim
Brown, of Arkansas, as you supposed
me to be, and you”—he bent his head
forward and blued fchenWPrdSjtough
his teeth—“you are 1 Henra r ßgfdw,elL
thb murderer orliitoifsfiifle??^
* -His late opjjdrient rehiainOT 1 motion*
iesainndkpeechlees r and iEltonr,caadhe
wilhbe called hereof ter,-oonttmndnc fi. ;
'ViPerhaptjyOii donbt myjWOrd, hutil
wiliioon 4 dispolyimr doubtmpiliOokrat
meinowfann/oseeulf yan doil’t'knQw;
me?” m ab he :saldj this iha-pniled ihe
rwhUkei^ r fibmi ble:©cefi-ind<dis
: nSdsed aihandsomkcountenahoe. , t;ihr
Instantly redoveriDghimselfpheolotahf
; ed hlk knifeotJgbter in. his; handiJknd
1 saldv bluov' ; .i> .uim y.r;
- 1» all: tnt*|jinp
bmeqnwnDObtolißS £Ue&v md umpoie ;
( S*M df
sPSPPIIPPI®
aW n -'I -
: dozen BtajUJsßdffollo nedr ten i
ttwougb xnyfligerßc
ItWliSlli:
\ hiv.-i'ifffcfcp'iireiai: near. allkqiiirtt Is
’: toifo'uityer
-deote Of llmatcamer. foliawed by a nom
iherof/passengera, and, stopped,/aolqg
eucu.oT.her justaftpf„tba,smoke stack.,
The'captalu'aßWar^aJ and tried to’dls-.
auade tnOniMi'froiii-'tfseirputpose. but
-bis words h*dab;efibctWhatever, ;
■ ;■ ‘Now. mnrdgnar,!’ Elton as he
Thelf ktfftreawere' both ;, iiU@d above
tbelrbesds, land Uietu they' desoended,
: flasbiag/brightiytothemoooligM,. andj
sound.* Both the men were.skfUeu in
r tjlie nse of the Bpwte'fcndit frAfe-ev i M4b ! tf i
to^the - spectators -that 4b e teet; } ob far
aajfitresogtb Aj&U akillWere'eohceraed r
:wm emytLr.j .. • -, t „ ♦ .
Fiercer and fiercer grew the figlit:
the kniyes naanfea %p ana down 1 , aria
clashed'loudly' ; toget«4r. ,] i Each man
kept hisiieyea flxed on! ffce face of hla
aod neither moved from the
positionhebad-flrßttafeeii;, , , ,
■jjft length, Elton, by*#
waTdCatjKncjckCdthokhlfe-frotoßard'*-
’the same blow broke
his own.. -.They tfiutcbadeae l* other in-
..eyes glowing, with
} passion, dnu their'resplratrou hard and'
aofck'.t; •• • ”' •'
i Back - and forth they struggled with
each, olher^oyer, .deck,
neither, getting the better pf the other.
At last, holding each Other by .the 1
throat^wttti'Uivice like gt‘lp;-theysbag'*'
gled to the ralling that ran around- thd
edgeiof the.deck. They struggled-,with
each tpd their eyes
started .from th.«lr. venr. sockets. They
threw'themselves Against thferdlling, as
they struggled‘to tnrow ea'ch other ta
the deck, and the fcaiT barrier with' k
sudden.cfash gave-way* and- the corn*;
batanta f/ stlU holding eaqh other tlgbtjy,
went overboard I
There 1 .was a quick CVy, a'. ijilcfen‘
Bplksh; and Charles-Elton and Henry
Bard well disappeared forever beneath'
the besom; of the Missouri.
The Mercury was stopped and backed,,
anda fruitless search made'for the two'
men. * Whenf'it was Over, she steamed
rapidly a#ay from the-scene of that
dark, double tragedy, and arrived atBt.
Lonia at auATiae.-- - -
o.i; vji l- !*'i!
if , .' ‘ v(
An Icelandic Sega*
Once upon a time a King and .his
QUeoh had an only child, a daughter of
Whom they were dotiDgly fond. ! t J BUt It
happened that she wus lost, and though
the,king ordered the whole country to
be .searched, no one could find her.—,
Thereupon he made a vow that ‘who
ever should -find her, and bring heT
home should get her hand In marriagev
Now close by the king’s palace therei
lived ap old man who had three.,sons.
He. was very fond of tbe two eldest
ones; bht the youDgestone was thlated
vdry unkln’dly by bis parents ahd by
his orotheiß. i ! • »r -
sai-d.the eldest son one day
“ Iwish to go out.into thp world to gain
wealth So his father let
him go. ' ' ! ’
NextTnorniDg be set off on his jour
ney, and after .he had walked a long
distance, sat down on a hillock to rest
himself. Presently he espied a little
dwarf corning towards him.
“Pray give me something to-ea*-‘
said the dwarf. But the youngman re
fused. When he had rested he
set again and toward evening, feel
ing very hungry, he sat down under a
tree to eat? his Bupper.
u oh: pray give me a piece of bread,”
said a little tiny woman, with a red
clqafci coming up *to him—"lam so
very hungry.” But the young man
grew very angry, and drove the little
old woman away. •
It soon got dark, so the young man
crept into a, hole in a rock which he.
saw, and laid hlnMeif down to sleep.—
Presently the enchantress who lived
there camein, and the young man earn
estly begged her to allow him to sleep
there.
“Oh! yes; on condition that you per
form whatever I tell you to-morrow.”
So the next morning she set him to
sweep out the cave, “and if it Is not
done by evening, I shall kill youand
so saying she went away.
The young man now took the broom'
which she had given him, and began ta
sweep; but no sooner did it touch the'
floor thau it stuck so fast to it that
could not move it. 8o when the en
chantress returned home in theevening
she found the cave unswept, and imme
diately killed the youDg man and hubg,
him up. ;, a
Meanwhile the old second
son Bet out from home, to try and make’
his way in the world. But as he acted
just os brother, and was killed
and hung up by the enchantress, it is
needless,to speak of him further.
-The pid people now had, ooly .their
youngest son left to them. .Butas'they
hated nim eten more than ever,' they
readily gdVe him leave to go and Beek
his fortune.
“ I dare say my brothers restedhere,”
he said, coming to the firpt hillock; aud‘
he seated himself down and began to
cat a little piece of bread.
“Oh, pray give me a little piece, I
am so hungry,” said the little dwarf.
And the young man spoke kindly to
lnvited him to come in'd sit
down beside him, and 1 eat as much aa
he wished.
When he had eaten ,as much a? he
required, the little, .dwarf said,; “my
name is Tritill; whenever you want
me, call me;” and he tripped away. . .
And the young man walked on and
on, till he came to another hlllocki
“My brothers sorely rested hete; I frill
sit dofrn and eat my Bupper.” But ho
soone’rhad he began to eat, tbkti a tiny,
little woihan in a red cloak came up. ana
asked for. some', food, and the young
man spoke kindly to her, and, gave her
all she wanted. When theyhad both
eaten as muoh as they wished, his
oompanion sald j “My name isLltif;
if ever you want help, call me!” and
tripped away. The yohng man
fralked until it/hegan to get d&rk.—
“ Yes! my brothers have rested here
and he Bat down Uhfier a large, tfee, and
began to eat hlßjast hit of.hread. But
a large flock of birds flew up tp where
he was sitting; and.they looked so very
hungry that he threw them a good
handful-of crumbs*,.-To his great,snr
■ prise when, they had eaten .them, one
of them said, “Mind and call for‘us If
yon want anything,” and 1 they*ffefr
away. ■■ r ; i.a-
Closely by lie espied a hdlbin a rook,
and, as he „yas very tired, h,e. crept Id
and lay down to]'sleep;,.but presently
he espied the' dead bogies or. his two
brothers hanging up, -He ! was very
muoh frightened; and he was going to
run awajspbuti lat 'that Instant! the en
qhantresa., came, : ln. and told,,him be
should, stop there,thet night,
Wit fhormng'sh'e bade him sweep
outthe cave former. 1 “And blind and
havelt,'donei'by night,dor I will kill
you.! 1 When she had igone, he took
the broom,,but no sooner- did it, touch
the floor, thanit stuck sofasltoltthat,
dtfWhathe #dhfd; he co’iild ndt'move
ltd ‘Sd'he began tobefrtfthtenedpbut
prSeeUtly,he, thought of i what bad hap,
edit red thecSVij and ashed him what
beuwanUdioiSo he. told- him,, .Then
Irltllibadutheibfoom toeweeptheflpor;
ahd m tesS'than flve.mlputea the wholu
floor,wasso cleat that,hot a speck brdlrt
ddaid be iieth'Bhj?#hbr& WhehitwaS
night the enohantreSscame’hottiefa'and
nosopnerdld she see that tbacMe wap.
■ v NSxtday sht'otdered : him to: Air the
bed.olothee,andLto,takeall of tho feathers
outof,theieather,bedsiand,lsy them In
theiuni'f'Butlfionefeather Is missing
when I come home liwill.'klll you;"
and she went away.
.Itwas Oeiutiful morning and not a,
b™tK oflwlhd l %irredr : diii-the ybdnir
M»! tfps%Aß,,(>ut' l aie<.fefltlttW;te;di , y Ih
IwWlfil 1 ” Bufhb'Spdhdr had 1 he done
ttllS thih ktlolent WhlriWlndcaffle, and!
•cariftd tbtafttU np Ihtodthealr, otUiOf
edghttdillsohi fcWhat shaM dotfMlKe
onedylHodinHiTritlU andwU mjoMttlef
birds; coiß«and helplme.tp'i Andiima
motaentvthby'all came, andths birds
flew after! the feathers and brought them!
to him; Dttllt put them all Into the bed
again; wlth-theexceptionor three, one
from each bedy' WHleh shiv gave, to the
Ulok them, tip bee
1 noßeil’ hhßßliiihL'«Whqu>ihe enohin trses
ItllrVbu.^fiegiSd’jnaVMoiof^h'fihdei l ,
'eoahhed.'" .WtereiipoatheyflOUaflaMVi
ohantress. cried, oat .ftom tne pain tne
.toittereilelßOiutHiplid 1 noee 'ciused
ftOTT* °* c ' flsnw ; .'li:,',:--;,; -Jill v>
' 'Next in&rnl»g;ato told,him aU» Iwd.
■ fifty oxen ,;on eot .wh tfih, be, wwAQ WII. ■
thejAwfi.i ‘.'And mind
you choose, the right one, and do ae’l
‘ bfd'Vtfti.'of you wtlI J dlfe! 11 'Bat if yod-do,
rlgut. l 'to ; morfmv.'yOT ehall not-out pa,
your Journey,iaad.l jyJH giya yuu
tilings, whatever you naey asK."
was gofie called JfA- Tri
till plcied
One'Ax ddt'bf thslhtair'and they flayed
it in n. trice, and net the mewtpn large
caldron,ao that it was all ready against
Ihecnchantreßß returned horpeethlght.
Sfi lhe ucit morning Hie enchantress
wild tfaevefy'-'tnubh hatontehed,. hut, at
lbecame(tmeAdt,;that ehe. could;npi
break tocitTOld.-aeked h|m what were
the three,lMpga he wpulu like to have.
'• ■FtiiCtwlfThaye 1 tbit 'whleh'ia Ini'
efde that pointing ftra clipboards
“next the large cbeßt, and thirdly your.
arm-chalr.- u
So Bhe opened. the door,'and there the
yougg; man. Baw the klog’s-lpcg-lost
dauflhtertlppklpgsobeautiful: theejnett
was du,U,oflewelß and costly diamonds.
Bo tiio young nian-placed the prihcees
ort* -the chair, underneath whieh he
nlaoedithd chdst, .while he himself stood
bebhid iik ...That. mpment, .Jhey l felt
tUemselyeB Uitcd up ; ■ for 1 tho cnnlr was 1
ahShDanted 6he;'ahd ; Wduld go wlier*
ever It Is bidi! 1 ' -•-!.
Oh, Idb a* Wish to,go hoine,” sighed
thO,prineeaa. . ;
4id.in an Incredibly short apace of
time; the y omig'mad and'the princess
alighted palaoei door ; hut the .
chair kad-i become, a beautiful ohariot,,
drawn byielght-mtlk white horses.
Won.cterißg.,whq. it could tie; tho king
and the quhen rustled to the door of the
palace, jnstfri ttnro to hand their daugh
ter dowridrom the Carriage, dressed in
thft.moet beautiful dre«B that dyer was
seen. Then, jhp ypu'ng rndh Hold hit.
history ,-'apd Ithekihg'itohle'great Joy
brokehedan immohsdCasicaf.ale which
hud : beeni: brewed,when.,rl(le. daughter
waabODMMditybiirhtt'nupßiy lntond
very happily tbr many, a long year-—:
Once a Wtete.’
A: Piratical Trap.
Jack. Kent])toil and I ‘ came home to
gether In theold Hoveilty-l'uur Delaware,:
early in the Spring of '-tl, and were paid,
off atNotfolk. Through our own folly
we were very soon,fleeced qf our money,
nud.in order to reach Baltimote w;e were
forced to work our way on onh of the
Chesapeake steamers. Arrived in the
latter city, we nt once set about Coding
a berth on shipboard, for to “hand,
reef and steer” wafc'our calling, and we
knew no other. .Out lit the.htream lay
a beautiful, brig,, neat, tidy and rakish,
bound for Fayal; so the bit of lettered
cabvaea upon her main rigging an-,
nounced. . , ’
“X declare,” said Jack, “I should like;
to make a trip aboard that craftt Ain’t
shd a bebnty?” Ifwas toward the mid
die of the forenoon, on Sunday, and we
Btodd npoh a pier, looking off upou tho
brig. -- ,i -.., v i,. ■, , , , ,
Hardly had Jack spoken, When a
hand'trailfold npon'ms shoulder, anda
voice'sfldf : •' C- ‘ e
“All right, . my( boy. AVe are three
hands Bhort, ; a.Ufi.,l must sail to-day..
Ship for the rpiind trip, and I’ll give
you pne-thlrdextratrtiges. Whatsay?”
“l)6ybU''wabt'ooth'6f'Uß?" - ir ,
’‘Of cqurae.” if , ,'i
“Then we are your men.”
We did not stapto reflect; wh knew
of.no occasion. Here'wiu' a fide new
brig, bound for U pleasant port, ,jVlth a
gedtlemtiniy commander, extra wages
offered, and a, sure shove of grub with
out BPflngliw' or begging, for it—why
Bboulan’twelump atlt ?
The captain of the brig Was a youngish
mUd; 1 not- over thirty; very Btout and
strong, and evidently a Caban, though
he spoke Engllsh witb perfect
and, fluepey. His name, aB 'inscribbd
upon hit manifest,’was Carl Lorraine;
and-1 must say I rather liked bis ap
pearance, though I could i see that he
would be a tiger if .groused to hot auger.
But then I never meant to arouse the
anger of my sbperiofs, so I cared noth
lug for that. eßnough to say, Jkok and
I Went with - the oaptain to the, private
residence of a shipping agent, where
wu signed the ueceseary papers, the date
being carried baba B day, in order to
takeftrar business out from the Sabbath.
A Visit to our boarding-house, and "the
securingof a very-small bundle of cloth
ing, finished tour-'shore duties, and by
■noon we were on board the brig.
The .beauty and' symmetry of the ves
sel, together with her'extreme neatness
and the ' perfect' OTder of everything
about the deok, struck,me very forolbly;
and I remarked to Jack:
. “ No map o’ war was ever kept more
trim.”,
“And why shouldn’t a merchantman
keep 88 clean a face as a war ship?”
suggested Captain Lorraine, who had
been standing near, US. , ,
'We didnotanswerhim, andhequlck
lyadfied': ' '' ;
“T hope ybu’li both do your part to
ward.! keeping my Lovely Nell In good
! condition; ,’i after which he handed ue
over to tbe steward, and then walked
aft.
The name of the brig, as painted
side, was simply ‘“Helen l ,” but the cap,
tain bailed: her: “aNell,” prefixing such
adjeotivee aa aulted hlm at the moment.
We did not get under. Way until bine
O’clock in the evening, after which Jack
ahd I turned In. There weri nCbunks
In the forecastle, the crew sleeping in
hammocks, which suited me bravely,
Id the morning,.whop £ turned, out, f
found between twenty and thirty men
oh deck. A big clew,’-1 thought, fob
such a vessel; but it was eobnexplalued
to me thathsilf of them Were paeeengers
—men whom Capt-Lgfrelue had con;
sented to laud at the Bermudas, for the
service of vessels that lay there helpleSA;
It whs far ‘but of fb'fs why; but he ap
peared to ' be' a kindhearted man, and
willing to acqompiodato,
.For two days, nothing occurred un-
Ueuai, save that,-we Were striking a
course to thewestward'of tbe Bermudas'.
On the morhlng tif the third day! hh»-
ever, the brig aesumed a new facet or,
she threw ofl hej; mask, and.showed her
tfue .face.' found the twhlve riieti
who had been represented as passengers
hard at work. And such strange work t
The topgallant forecastle was built in
sections, thelmidshiphalf so contrived
that it could be, lowered to the mala
fleck, and raised, again even with tbe
high Pali; by means of the windlass.—-
And upon this section of the forecastle
—now resting on the deok—part ,of the
crew were mounting along black gun;
but I caiild uee where the paint was
chipped'off at the mpzzle that theplece
was ofthe finbatlbronze. Andothefobf
the crett wdre mounting a seoond gun
on tbeo,quarter deck; I.What did It
mean V v I Uad Just.turned tospeak with
Jack,.when CaptalhLorfalne'approkch
dd'us. 11 ' •'>”
, J Well.my boys, do you begin, to see
what;.sort of trade :my. Pretty. NelLft
engaged lb?'! .yhe spepoh was made to
Jack, who replied :.
It lookß kind o’ roverlsh-like; str. w
' '“Aysiand troverlah' It la;, You:are]
old men-o'-wara-meDi.and ussd te.hlg
guns. -WltSftS foundypu on,the dw{
I knew you,were hard up, and fancied
you would'take'anythlfig- 'th’at‘W6uld
pay for'a Job; and here you, arey part of
a! free, ihearthdahnd -liberalicrew. Do
yqur duty, e&d ask : no questions, .Dth?
go to being Ingubprdfnate, Insubordin
ation Adds qutokhfedlclne at'my hands.
■'Tmldged Claek, 'ahU Whlspetedto faith
(hat W*-would put a pleasant, face jqpou
the, matter;, and bo'we dldv .W&jgave
the captain to understand tope,wb were,
all right. , We wouldn’t'have'eougnt,
«d(sh aberth fbutslnCeWe were In for
It, hemlgbt Count on ÜB. But we dldnlt
-tall him wbloh eidafae might,count.,qs
ion.. HftJifjpked epOrely; apt (sAgdyrhen
,s?ad' eate’A Breai'fkSt
Jack'a'nd'l got ti#Sy itnder ‘the 1 lee qf
the fore-rlgglng u and talked the matter
over, and this wag the conclusion we
very qulokly arrived ht, to -begin with:
: -w had--beandehfaappbd. on.board a
Bfratbyand'-wete’to bo farcedito, enter
■the l awfohfahsinekeiuiH we refused) to
-tale a part wben thd tltne earner* brace
iofo bulUtr- wonld i settle ottm.nooonnta;
witra WaMfcoand allv'JWhaiicdtllmwe
do*! 1 v-Wb'muat watohandwaltco! bntf ]
’ tTwodalys'Jaok andlepdritlnatudy"
ffi&iffiSiK ’
f-'.'Uj oil? f ir. l .! ,h?s?cil to. U-ft If
. ..JSStSStt
ing*ll<i crew llW idJn
np aatmlndß that V®,/WHi*’?]} d fi:7
nwnwho had not ■votstffanl?Bn't will*
ldgly aMpped fcr'thS Bu*l®mb.
We «wo'had been alohaeuUappedtieo
We muat Bludy and plot by .WKMIWto
th‘d;Vlrate 1 before
tbe thug ooold be ;,..
i iThe
iyaUon of our plan W«4ld was.to inveß,
tleate, and we were n6t long in making
Bn'liriportant'dlsfcoVeWv mi iheholU,-
be tween I 'the’eliot-bunk and the cable:
tler. waa an open apaoe of
yard, dose to .the keel eon. tWmV
bled when we skw It,'and werJ‘priori'
careful‘than ever In olir behaejoton
deck.' Of course we wanted .oneithhik
to go with thoinpen , apace below, aufij
that was ip th® ewrpejitut'tt ehest, where
we cdpld put diir hands.upon it at any
moment] and we dldhotineah that that;
moment should bo far distant. 1 '
. On the Ilf til night Jaok aud I had tlie
Unit watch. As weßtartpd to turn be
low, at midnight, Jaok' "nulled nie by
' ** , -iiv
44 Say*,* Totri^J'v© 1 gotu4he big 1 auger
from tne.chestj and dropped it iutotfie
hold | so keep 1 your eyeopen bright, for
I’m going to work.” , i,, ‘ ..
Anu he worked bravely" and stoutly I .*
I kept a sharp look-ou?, but nobody}
■went near tha lower hutch,.not could X
hear the sound of Jack’s sbger, so, care;,
fully,did heturn, it, Ajt W-past three
he came;'ohd, got into Ills "hammock/
Bleating'like a beaver. ! He had bored
three holes, each two Inches hi diameter,
entirelyi through the brig’s plunking,
and, frrok.en away the copper sbsathlng
upon the outside, and kehadjfitteapioe
plugs into the holes, which could’ be
Tfamoved in a very few seconds. • i.V.
] Towards sunset, outhe following day*
a sail was, reported tqleeward, which
was towards the Bermudas. In a short
time we made her out* bHg, staudiug to
the Northward, and W-eatward, and we
were at once heading for her, though
not under full press of canvas; for it
was Lorraine’s plan to lay low until
dusk, tbeh take a careful observation of
tbe stranger’s courser hnd, under cover
of the night, awpop down upon her apd
capture her. . , .
Aieverofexcltementreigned oti bojird
tlie Pirated Carl Lorraine pacirf uifand
dowhthe quarter deck; ever 1 and: anon
stepping 1 by ther&H and lifting his large
night-glasato bis eye. His ofticers
superintending the salling of the brig,
while.;the. crew made eute/that their
prgtbls were In order, and the grappling
g£ar and tackle in readiness; At eight
o’olbok we caught slghtiuf the stranger’s
toprhamperagainet the pale, dusky sky;
and, if we kept on an hour longer, we
Sould ( strlke her under the fore-foot.
Jack came to me and breathlessly whis
pered that I should go down and.pull
out the plugs, and ha,would keep watob.
; X :reached the holdrunobserved,. but
weak from excitement! T took a long
breath,‘then lbosehed the three plugs;
and then pulled them out* Mercy!
how the water lushed in I but 1 did not
stop to be washed by it. Within two
minutes from the time of removing the
plugs, Jack and I were upon the quarter
deck, our pistols in our belts, and ex
pressing theliope that, the >chase had
plenty of goldiand silver on. board.
. The minptes seemed hours until the
steward came' rushing tip frt>m below
with the dry‘of, “A leak ! a leakt A
wholfe> plank must be knocked oytof
the brig’s bottom!” ,The orderjWM
given for rigging the pumps—wei bifid
t^o—'while the captain went belo# to
Investigate. But the investigation was
a. veiy l brief ode, As he. reached the
edgeOf the lower lajsb» the sound of
.fiercely rushing wph3r, struck upon his
ears, and with all possible haste he
made his way back 1 to'the deck, where
he set as many ’tnen at work at the
brakes as could find'room.. I listened
anxio.usly as he spoke with his first
officer,, and felt greatly relieved when I ;
Heard hlm-say: ~ ; : ' ■ :lJ
"This Is the result .of hurrying a ves
sel from the stocks It must-be that one
of the planks was not properly secured
—very ilgely not 1 bolted at all—‘only i
fitted* ttf • its plktfe,’ and temporarily
doVolloiil 4^J j
And then he turned to his;.laboring
crew, and urged them, to save the brig
if possible. But our work half been
weu done. In less than half an hour
the water, was two feet above the berths
deck, and gaining fast;.and finally,!
with tears in bis eyes, Lorraine gave
tbe order for manning tbe boats'. Ho
had curied and nwormwbile there wafc
hope of saving his vessel; but when
that hapd died out, hisanguish of heart
took a deeper hold, and drew the tears.
And yet there was. Hot vengeance in
those fears, as I could tell by the grit
ting of his feOth, and the spasmodic
CleDotiidg of His powerful hands. . j
We had three boats, ah sufficient for
tbe orew, and having gathered up what
of value we could secure, wertvent over
the side ond put off, the captain easily
stepping from the gangway into the
cutter, A few strokes of the oars—not
many yordßaway from the doomed brig
—and she struggled mightUjr With - the
power that was dragging her down—
struggleda few brief moments; then her
bow? rose high up, and she went down
stern foremost —dowfi into the grave of,
wklerß, and the 8ea l witf rid of ; tfne Of the
m'dßt7 dangerous scourges 'that ever
threatened Christian life and com
merce I .. ,* • ,
The weather was fayprable, and as
were not over fifty miles from the Ber- !
rnudaa, we had ntf trouble in reaching
land In safety. Jack and I did not stop
to expose Carl Lorraine and his. aapocl- |
ates, andifwe had it could have amount-;
ed to nothing 1 ft? we had landed iipon
one of the smallest islands, where a
single masted smack* was purchased' of
a fisherman, in which Lorraine andthp
chief of bis crew set «ail for the States.!
As for Jack and me, we mads our way;
fco'St. Gedtge’s where wOYoutld good
berths On board s trader, bound to >New
York. ..i
All this happened, five and^twenty 1
years ago, ana during all thle time I
have kept the adventure to myself, for
fear of Carl Xiorjaiue, I knew the man!
well enough to know that, had hd
gained my seoret, he would have nought
toy life even to the ends ; otf the world j
but not Tong since I learned thal tbe
pirate chieftain was dead—kllled ln a
bar room }n flap Francisco—and I dare
hence to publish the facts connected
With the Of Jack Kempton and
myselfftom the (Piratical Trap.—.tfetfl
York Ledger. ...
jtXeavy Verdict Agaln«tf <?enaral John A,
Daniel D.Bell,a residentof the town of
Ulster county,, was arrested in
1864 by General John A. Dlx, then com
manding the Department of the Etlaf, and
was confined !fn Fort Lafayette for fonr
months,,, ,Xn,1809 be brought an action in
the Supreme Court against. (General Dlx
for damages; The suit hA& sMpt for some
time* The attorney for General Dlx en
defrVored to have the fjase removed from the
Sta te (o the United States courts but failed,
anasince then has giveh the-matter no
further attention. An order was recently
obtained, directing the, sheriff of UJstei
county to empanels Jury foiissess the dam
ages. This was done on Mohday tat, no
tice having, been Riven Uh-Mr* DjjCe attor
ney, and the Jury awarded Mr. Bell f 10,*
000 damh/es.-i#. 'TVHertrttT •
Ctimtulu v«i*cip«4n.
TheJNew York the ohlel editor of
which had the fcino orbefng ftnb'of the ear-
Meat bicyclists in the country, Bay*:
The veloolpedni races at (he Union Course
on Taafcday Bottled ttie.qaeirtlon of the gen*
eral utility of the .blpycje as,.a means of
trareltrogron' ttrdfrt’ary'H'rtitla. 'The trank
Was ln Aur condition fortrottlng horsesj for
aquarter of;» mile it was soft and
heavy, the wheels sinking In the sand some
•two Inches. And the-Wet time made
was a mile In live minutes,and iifty*wyon
seconds, anil the rider who accomplished
It, Mr, william '.Pfdkertng;' wnh pretty
tboMughljr eXLUihstod Vhfcn be came in. a
; quarter orta mile further would pave been
1 he trothlfthahb Velocipede wan ex-
Qollent meafla-ofAmßHementiandexeroUet
ppd wo always boused ft*
buoU lnhttUs or upon roadwayu that are
smooth anoroltablo. • "Bafit can
madeanhlntcof,practical oaeotherwl«e. It
ls,tqa hard (work to, drive it, the, spodd.at
tainedistdo email, and tbetfr*ugOs Upon
the atttngtb of the driver la too ses^iT
| >■'! ♦nil \‘h’ I : ■ .■ ■ 1 irn.n-i •■;>)
up:! I-.-;: stampa; ; .v< i» :. !
"6o'tnmg lnto nae- attract -aomp
jittehtloh. ■ WVgo atattips 'ftrii ferone
twenty tk>dt»4l*«k*
TbVon4 b<rai]6 atamp ; I# 'printed'ln
plain black, and lsgraoed wlthAtfftfftureof
■ dtiiii ttasi tmatyjaoftsdf )«ndBP» KW-ffli »'
t Slwtejbtoi ibodt■;th*.wa;of »pa« office
I »t»mpwmWo :W*l» tttffirfy-five
■ fimlniifatatartf aaitof •*>
, 'Atticne**' notlof —*«£• ••
j AadftoTt' Boilw,* ii , ; V*>
pound. To* *tam gars • refor/MQk•
Bge#o/fiftyjmd one-hundred. TheUxon
cigars is five dollkS pfrtboaeand. ' ’ ,x '• 1 • •
, ,TbocoUqp.oaternlUar(s reporteq to have,,
ittw (boiiln ftfeiV nnme,' ami'
rfnowTbbmka Gtven Btthano... i, /
,Tb« riptsrt. that-UeniralnMiQlaUan was
abortiy to m**i •» % Wwxm H n W
; Tli»,h?alta:p(,Mr. A* U. Etepliaiy.la oon-
Hi darauly liiptoiTetf.
K Wonian ‘ tfcctor hi tmteli’whnled nt *
Alhlilton, Kanins. je.
i -Ai Rfeat .baio ball loumitpent >w|l),bo.
he)d in Syracuse In Juno. .. ,
• MarsbulL Brown, celebrated as thoownor
of r&ihurknble lneorob. t
: The bill npproptlatfnft "'91b,000,000--for
esnal Improvements has jailed in the, Now ,
York Legislature, , • I /
Major C. H. Whlteiy, of Boston, his teen
appointed CblerDetWtlvS or vblrTteasnry
'llepartment.to aneaeeil Cob Hood, resigned.
A wotnun elghty-dva years of ige is tin
der nrrest in.Gardlnor, Missouri,-op suspl
clon of hnvlnghiurdered fonr husbands.
It used to be'eftld there was nothing like
leather, bnt-brans and a house to Grant are
nnimproTamenk ■tl d • ;J i.—. ,
| Ja Edmund Y*W loot play •.gross
'carlouturo of Swinburne Is introduced
the* characters. l 1 ' ‘
j ‘ TbV 1 water - itf Lakes Champlain and
; tfiampbreifiagOg was never Unown, to tw
(higher than at the present time.
I * An able bodied negro died of starvation
(at Columbus. Gu. t recently, tbeevldeneoat
tiio ipqnest showed that be starved rather
tbnu.wprk.. .
A Rlchipouil paper culls attention to tho
nrntuttUon'' of tho fin© marble aUtuo of
HeiWy Claylq the Capitol square of that
. Prof. Huxley says that the Ume la not
far distant wbeh Sunday schoolffYor teach-
will bo ‘established: in every
pariabof Euglufid* ,
■
Russia. while playing at a‘ concert In Ber
gen, Norway, suddenly Jell toward tbe pi*
afio, dead. 1
Sleighing In Bethel* Maine, ; last week,
was lively. Tne peoble there have bad five
months and sixteen 1 days sleighing, and tbe
winter la not over yet.
Algeria being menaced by. locusts, the
Government baa.offeredftlOOfur every 200
pound# of tbeir eggs. These eggs will be
erhshed abd buried with quicklime.
• Bernard Domoebki, editor of tbei Mil
waukee Dally ScnUd, who wm j* l.Mdlpg
Qqrqmprevolutionistin IB4B, ; dled
<Jayi • * ' * , *
Cap!. B. H. Harbness whs recently shot
dead in Texas while persuing deeertem
from tbe Thirty-eighth Infantry.JHls mur
derers were captured.
Tbe Franklin County Republican Com
mittee bas Instructed Its delegntvs to the
State Convention, to aupport Governor
Geary,
F. W. Conrad, Democrat, was elected
Chief Burgees hi Pottsvllle, on Monduy, by
51 majority. Three Democrats nnd jwo
Republican Councilmen were elected.
Win. C. Roskchlef nHSistant euglueor of
tbe Baltimore Fire Department, died re
oently from injuries received at a tire on
April 17tb'. .
In tbe Supreme Court at Boston Judge
Grav Tetodered a decision, affirming too
right of tbe State Legislature to summon a
witness and to punlsb him If be refused to
testify.
A Scranton despateh says that the miners
of Hyde‘Park voted last night to reconsider
tbete determination tor a .strike, and that
mining districts will follow
tbeir example.
The last tie of the-Central Pacific Rail
road will be laid on Saturday. In honor
of tbe completion of ,tbe roaa, it is of pol
ished California laurel, silver mounted, and
htts a gold spike.
A mass meeting of Caban sympathizers
was held In Now York lost night, llov,
Henry, Ward Beecher was among the
speakers. Resolutions asking recognition
orCubft'rf belligerent rights were adopted.
Twb young women, on an average, com
mit suicide in Paris every day, In conse
3uencc of disappointed lovu. One man
oet the same on acootifit of pecuniary em
barrassmebta. ' . >i
, NopoledO 111. bas determined to com
plete tbe Arq de Trlouipbe in Paris by
placing on the snmmlt the colossal bronze
groove which thb first Emperor Intended
lor the crowuing.ofthe edifice.
It baa been doubted whether Turner's
pictures would command tbe bigb prices
of former years; At a reoent sale of a col
lection offilawater-polor drawings tbe pri
ces realized Were unprecedentedly high,
Tbo cashier of one of tbe largest Insu
rance companies in. Purls has been detected
in an attempt to embezzle a sum amount
ing to nearly (900,000. He had been thirty
nlue years in employ, aud
was implicitly,tffiated.
Two men went Into Giles Brothers'Jewel
ry store in Chicago, on Tuesday afternoon
and asked to see some spoons. While the
clerk was getting the spoons, they .ran off
with |5/)00 worth of diamonds. 'There Is
no trace of the thieves.
Numerous Tttifglarles baveocourred with
in a few days tfi the townsalone the Hud
son river. On Monday nlgbt, roar bouses
were robbed at Red Hook, ana two at Hau
g4H!ea,tbe inmates having been chloroform*
od, and considerable amounts in money
and valuables were taken. A band of gip
sies la suspected*
. A despatch says there Is ranch
disaffection among tbe Indians in the In
dian Territory, owing chiefly to tbe failuro
of agents to famish Government supplies,
and ah early resumption of hostilities is
predicted; Vincent Oollyer.tnoNew York
philanthropist, is making a tour of the In*
dlan. arantry.
A despatch from Kansas City, Mol, re
ports opposition by tbe settled to the con
struction-of tbe Fort Scott Railroad; A
railroad; party were attacked by armed set
tlers a lew days since, and two of them cap
tured,And Hon. M.O. Vass, while address
ing the Settlers at Fort Scott was flred upon
and driven a way.
The Dominion House of Commons has
passed a resolution for the recall of the 11-
’oensea to American fishermen to fish In
'Cappdlan waters, issued during the past
year. The mover of the.resolution stated
that u a license lee should be imposed that
•would l be some equivalent for tbe privilege
of £sblag,”
Cbttago olalms to be tbe greatest live
stock, market in the world, and supports
her olaim by some'very large figures. The
number of head of live stock ,of all kinds
received in the marketdurlng the year 160*
was 2,804,009; of these, 824,624 were cattle,
,1,709,782 were hogs, 270,875 sheep, and the
rest horse* and mules. The shipments dur
ing the same time slightly exceeded 1,300,-
<OOO head. There were unloaded there 64,-
460 car-loads of live freight, and 88,407, loads
were shipped to other points In 1868, The
total value ofsales Is estimated at $65,000,-
000.
Void. Robbery at Mid-Day.
Hounslow Heath and its memorable re
cords of daring robberies and all the ex
ploits, real ana fictitious, of tbe Jack Shep
pard school of highwaymen, present, In au
dacity of execution, few parallels to a bold
robbery perpetrated at mid-day yesterday
in Broadway,the chief and great thorough
fare of our great city, and at this hour so
filled with passing pedestrians aud vehicles
of every kind. The details of the story are
soon told, and are as follows t
At a few mlpute* before noon, one of tbe
wagons of the'American Merchants* Union
Express Company was standing at the cor
ner of Pearl* treft and Broadway. It was
InobargdofWm. J. Cox, a slim and deli
cate lid of about eighteen* The deliverer
of packages bad Just gone into the Central
National Bank to deliver a money package,
leaving the in charge or this Ud,
wboMiVoqatioq was to accompany him iu
bis rounds of delivery and look after the
horsejand 1 #agon In nis temporary absence.
In the wagon was su Iron safe containing
from thirty to forty thousand dollars, and
beside* this there were a number of
separate'money packages of several thous
and'dollars more. Quick as 1 thought three
youUgmsQ leaped Into tbe wagon,yoUPgOox
is throym from his seat into the back or tbo
wagon and held tightly with Ills face down
by two of the men; the third man seises
the lines, puts the whip tp the horse aud
away they dash at break-nook usoe. Mr.
J, Dyor,' who drives a truck for Aronson A
Co., 248 Canal street, happened to see tho
whole affair quickly as lV was done, any at
onoe comprehended tbe efpto of tho
Leaping from his truck, and ottheemment
peril ofbta o*n lift, be nelMstbo boreoby
the bead and brings it and the vehicle and
the persons la It to a stand* JTbe tbreorob
here ab bot like the Situation. They Jump
trdin tbe-Wagon end take recourse tt> night;
Two are fortunate euougli to escape among
.the passing throng on Broadway. Thu
'third turn* down Worth atreet,’ and on
turning tbs comer of Ghnrch atreet runs
Into the dutobes of Officer Gibson, ol tbo
Fifth precinct.- Tbei officer, . though
not knowing what the matter Is,
but wisely conolndlutf .that It la bettor
to riib lbls fugitive: 1 than let hltn pass
om.MUeablm. Hla prisoner strike* ,hUn,
.which makes him more determined to
; hsdg T on to him; and 1 so he catches.him
around the neck aPUhold. him fast tilt an
pthor officer comes to hla assistance. The
prisoner 'was forthwith 'taken to tho
Fifth preolnot elation bouse,Yvshere he gave
thdnameof James Bnlkley, He proved, to
.be disguised, . Over a fine pair '6r. Frenoh
pants were a pair ofoDUta* ; bIoe ll c6lton
overalls. Hehid. slao ond knit.wet and
sbsbby hat apd. ls a
hardkndt foibdddtHg,expre*>iou
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