HOW 11K FOOLED HE It.
Bungay, the real estate agent over
at Pecnader, suspected that Mr*. Bun
gay didn't care so much for him as
she ought to. So one day ho went up
to the city, after leaving word that he
would be gone two or three days. While
there he arranged with a frieud to
send a telegram to his wife, at a cer
tain hour, announcing that he had
been run over on the railroad and
killed.
Then Bungay came home, and slip
pod into the house unperccivod, he se
creted himself in the closet in the sit
ting room to await the arrival of the
telegram and to see how Mrs. Bungay
took it. After awhile it came, and he
saw the servant girl give it to his wife.
Kho opened it and as she read it she
gave one little start. Then Bungay
saw a smile gradually overspread her
features. She rang lor the girl, and
when the servant came, Mr*. Bungay
said to her:
"Mary, Mr. Bungay's been killed.
I've just got the news, I reckon I'll
have to put ou black for him, though
I hate to give up my new honuet for
mourning. You just go over to the
milliner's and ask her to fetch me
up some of the latest styles of widow's
bonnets, and tie a piece of black crape
on the door, and then bring the under
taker here."
While Mrs. Bungay was waiting,
she smiled continually, and ouce or
twice she danced around the room,
and stood in front of the looking glass,
and Bungay heard lier murmer to
her*clf:
"I ain't such a bad looking woman.
I wonder now what James will think
of me ?"
"James !" thought Bungay, as his
widow took her seat and sang softly,
as if she felt perfectly happy. "Who
in tho thunder's James? Bhe cer
tainly don't mean that infamous old
undertaker, Toombs? His name is
James, and he's a widower; hut it's
preposterous to think that she cares
for nim.or is going to prowl after any
man for a husband as quick as this."
"Mr. Toombs, Bungav is dead ; run
over by locomotive au<l was chopped
all up.'
"Verv sorry to hear it, madam; I
sympathize with you in your afflic
tion."
"Thank you, it is pretty sad. But
I don't worry much. Bungay wa* a
poor sort of a man to get along with,
and now that he's deau, I'm going to
stand it without crying my eyes out.
We will have to bury him, I suppose ?"
"That's the usual thing to do in
such cases."
"Well, I want you to 'tend to it for
me. I reckon the Coroner will have
to sit on him first. But when they
get through if you will collect the
pieces and shake him into some kind
of a hag and pock him into a coffin,
I'll be obliged."
I "Certainly, Mr*. Bungay. When
do you want the funeral to occur ?"
"Oh, most any day. Perhaps the
sooner the better, so's we can have it
over. It will save expense, too, by
taking less icc. I dou't wan't to spend
much money on it, Mr. Tooml>*. Rig
up some kind of a chrap coffin, and
mark his name on it with a brush, and
bury him with as little fuss as possible.
I'll come along with a couple of friends;
and we'll walk. No carriages. Times
are to hard."
"I will attend to it."
"And, Mr. Toombs, there is another
matter. Mr. Bungay's life was insur
ed for about twenty thousand dollars,
and I want to get possession of it as
soon as possible, and then I shall think
of marrying again."
"Indeed, maflam!"
"Yes; and can you tliiuk of any
body who will suit me ?"
"I dunnn. I might. Twenty thou
sand you say he left P
"Twenty thousand ; yes. Now, Mr.
Toombs, you'll think me bold, hut I
only tell the honest truth when I say
that I prefer a widower, and a man
who is about middle age, and in soma
business connected with cemeteries."
"How would an undertaker suit
you?"
"I fhink very well, if I could only
find one. I often told Bungay that I
wished he was an undertaker."
"Well, Mrs. Bungay, it is a little
kind of sudden ; 1 haven't thought
much about it; and old Bungay's
hardly got settled in the world of
the hereafter; but business is business,
and if you must have an undertaker to
love you and look after that life in
surance money, it appears to me that
I am just the kind of a man. Will
you take me ?"
"Ob, James! fold me to your bosom!"
James was about to fold her, when
Bungay, white with rage, burst from
the closet and exclaimed :
"Unhand her, villain 1 Touch that
woman and you die! Leave this
house at oooe, or I will brain you with
the poker! And as for you, Mrs.
Bungay, you can pick up your duds
and quit. I've done with you. I
know that you are a cold-hearted,
faithless, abominable wretch! Go, and
go at once t I did this to try you and
ray eyes are opened."
"I know you did, and I concluded
to pay yon in your own coin."
"ThaVa too awful thin. It won't
hbold water."
true anyhow. You told Mr.
BgiU you were going to do it, and lie
told w."
"He did, bey ? I'll burst the head
off of him."
"When you are really dead, I will
be a good deal more sorry, provided
m M it •' dSSt~.itS r-'WI
you don't make such a fool of yourself
while you're alive."
"You will? You will really be
sorry ?"
"Of course."
"And you won't marry Toombs!
Where is that man Tuoralw ? By
George, I'll go for him! He was
mighty hungry for that insurance
money! I'll step around and kick
him at once while I'm mad. We'll
talk this over when I come back."
Then Bungay left to cull upon
Toombs and when he returned ho
dropped the subject. He bus drawn
up Ins will so that his wife will bo cut
otr with a shilling if she employs him
us the undertaker.
COMMON AND NOHMAL SCHOOLS.
Fr<nn the Dcjrltiiwn Itomucrat.
Governor Uobinson of New York
Btate makes the following allusion to
the schools of the State :
"In my former messages I have
given fully my views in regard to the
proper scope and extent of the schools
that should be maintained by geuerul 1
taxation. All my subsequent observa
tion has continued tho opinion ex
pressed upon this subject. To the ex
tent of giving to every child in the
State a good common school educa
tion, sufficient to enable him or her to
understand ami perforin the duties of (
American citizenship, and to carry on ]
intelligently and successfully the ordi- i
nary labors of life, the common schools
are and should lie objects of the deepest
concern to tho whole community. To
a few who desire and are capable of a
still higher education, and who have
an ambition to shine as professional
men ami in the arts of literature, mu
sic, painting and poctrv, the door is •
wide open for them to win distinction
in these callings. But to levy taxes
upon the people for such purposes is a
siiecies of legalized robbery and even
the recipients come to know it. Their
sense of justice cannot tail to condemn
it; it lowers their standard of mitralitv
and helps to debauch instead of purify
ing, public opinion. It also breeds
discontent on tlie part of those who are
educated to something above that
for which they are fitted, it readily
disqualifies them for those duties and
labor* to which alone they are by na
ture adapted, so that not only great
injustice but great demoralization is
the result of a system which collects
money by force from one to educate
the children of another man, for call
ings which they can never fill. The
nrgumcnt sometimes advnneed that
this system is a benefit to the poor is
an utter fallacy. The children of the
poor man generally leave the schools
with a common school education and
go to work for themselves or their pa
rents. Yet while the poor ninn's chil- :
dren are thus at work his little home
is taxed to give to the children ofj
other* a collegiate education. Nine
in ten of those educated in the so-called
high-schools at the public expense j
would far better pay their own bills
than to have them paid by the people
of the State. These views are so man
ifestly just, that 1 have no tloubt they
will ultimately prevail. Indeed there
seems to have been already a cessation
of cfTorts to establish high schools,
academies and colleges and support
them by taxation. Ho far as I can
learn, the Normal schools established (
in various parts of the State are, with j
two or three exceptions, wholly useless
and fail almost entirely to accomplish ;
the objects for which they were estab-,
cd, and for which the State is annually |
paying large amounts of money from j
the treasury. I recommend an in
quiry into the working of these insti-'
tutions, 'and discontinuance of all
those which fail to accomplish the
puriiose of theirestablishment."
The above is what Governor Robin-'
son says about the higher class of
schools supported at public expense.
We believe he is right. The founcler* of!
our system of common school educa- !
tion never intended it should extend !
lieyond teaching children the rudi
ments of English education, at the ex- j
iwnse of the public. But in course of
| time it has been extended until the
; purse of the taxpayers is made to pay ;
for tho higher branches of education, ]
[ for the sons and daughters of men who
are abundantly able to pay themselves, j
and should be made to pay. It is
very seldom the children of the poor |
get beyond the district school, where '
they receive the benefits the system j
was intended to confer. Those who
attended our Normal schools arc the
sons and daughters of men in good
circumstances, who can afford to pay
their children's hoard and tuition,
which the poor man now helps to pay,
We would dispense with the Normal
schools and save that expense to the
people. We do not believe they have
been a benefit to the cause of educa
tion. It used to be the case, that
every village in the Btate had its
Academy or classic school, where boys
and giru could receive a good solid
education at their parents expense, and
boarding schools were numerous. But
the Normal schools have shut up
nearly all these. Private boarding
schools cannot compete with institu
tions supported mainly by the Btate,
unless they are sectarian and have a
powerful religious organization at
their hack. There is not a Normal
school in the Btate that is self-support
ing, and if Btate aid were withdrawn
we think tbey would all go down.
They are constantly asking appropria
tions, and generally getting them.
The Normal schools have broken up
the academies and privata boarding
schools, and parent* are obliged, in
most instances, to send their children
a considerable distance from home if
they wish t > give them a better educa
tion thaii tho district school afford.
We believe tho cause of education
would be advanced if tho Normal
schools wero closed to-morrow. It
would ro-e*tabli*h tho Academy and
local classical school where parents
could give a* good. If not a better,
education to their children, uud a
large umount of money would be saved
to the taxpayer.
WHERE TIIK MOSEY (JOES.
Tho appropriation to meet claims
arising during tho next fiscal year
under the recent pension act, the ap
propriations for Mexican veteran* ex
cluded, will distribute a vast sum in
such small amount* a* to carry relief
to thousand* of needy futiiilnw —a*
well a* inuiiy not very needy —ull over
tho Union. We say all over the
Union, for it i* true that every section
will get Home jsirtion of it, ulthougli
the greater i>ortiou will, of course, go
to those state* which furnished the
most men for the union army, and in
which tho veterans still reside.
Am nearly a-s can be ascertained
from data at hand in the [amnion bur
eau, Massachusetts, Hbode Island and
Connecticut will get, through the Hoa
ton agency, $2,0*0,000; Vermont, New
Hump-hire and Maine, through the
Concord agency, 82,040,000; Eastern
New York, New York citv and Ing
Island, through the New ork agency,
81,4. r O,OO0; Western and Northern
New York, through the Cannndaigua
agency, 81,000,000; Krstcrii Pennsyl
vauia, through the Philadelphia agen
cy, 81,800,000; Western Pennsylvania,
through the Pittsburg agency; 81,-
450,000; Ohio, through the Columbus
agency, 82,600,000; Indiana, through
the Indianapolis agency, 81,850,000;
Michigan, through the l)etriot agency,
81,150,000; Minnesota and Wiscon
sin and territories of Dakota and Mon
tana, through the Milwaukee agency,
81,200,000; Nebraska and lowa,
through the Des Moines agency, 81,-
lOO.OOO; Colorado, Kansas and Mis
souri, through the Su Ixiuis agency,
sl,s< >0,000; California, Oregon, Ne
vada and territories of Washington,
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico,
through the Han Francisco agency,
8200,000; Kentucky, through the
Louisville agency, 8760,000; Ten
nessee, Virginia, West Virginia and
North Carolina, through the Knoxvillc
agency, $880,000; Illinois, through
the Chicago agency, $2,210,000;
Maryland, Delaware, city of Wash
ington and District of Columbia,
through the Washington agency, sl,-
000,000; Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, ftouth
Carolina and Florida, through the
New Orleans agency, $560,000.
In addition to bearing her share of
the public burden imposed by the
regular jiension rolls and the liberal
maintenance of four splendid houses
for volunteer soldiers, the South must
contribute her proportion of this large
total and all tnc other millions that
may follow before the provisions of
this act are complied with. Yet wo
hear no howl of indignation from that
section, and the "Confederate briga
diers" in the Capitol do not indulge in
any of those tirades so common on the
part of Radicals when any measure for
the benefit of the Houtkeru people is
suggested.
The Southern soldiers bare no pen
sions, and do not want or expect any.
The maimed veterans of the Confeder
ate armies have no homes provided
for them, nor do Ihey ask or look for
such provisions. The South is poor,
while the North is rich. And yet wc
see the representative* of the South
cheerfully voting for pension bills and
the wipjiort of homes for those who
triumphed over tbcm in the great
civil contest, and the people of the
Houth uncomplainingly hearing their
share of the taxation consequent upon
such expenditures. On the other
hand, we find the North fairly ablaze
with alarm and indignation at the
proposal to rebuild the walls of an
ancient seat of learning in theHouth,
which was destroyed by the Union
army. The contrast is suggestive.
SHOW I M THK DOCUMENTS I
General Rrishin, U. HA., says of
the resources of Montana: The yield
of grain is prodigious. Mr. Forbes
raised a field of wheat of twenty acres,
which yielded him 82 bushels per
acre. Mr. Raymond, of Lewi* and
Clarke county, raised 102 bushel* on
each of a number of acres. Mr. Bur
ton had a field of barley which cut 113
bushels per acre; a field of oats 101
bushels, and a patch of laud in pota
toes on which he dug 613 bushels per
acre. The largest yield of wheat in
Montana on a single acre of land was
113 bushels. These figure* are not
fancy estimates, but sworn to by dis
interested parties, and the production
is an actual fact. The figures will
seem astonishing, if not im|KMible, to
Eastern farmers, but they are true,
and can be provided if necessary. The
average yield of wheat is thirty-eight
bushels per acre. The root crops
grew enormously, and I have had a
good opportunity to observe them in
our fine garden* at EIIU. Peas, beans,
tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, melons,
potatoes, licet*, parsnips, turnips, onions
and squashes attain remarkable size
and flavor. We have had potatoes
weighing four pounds each, and ruta
i bag a* seventeen and a quaiter pounds.
KYEBIUHT ANH HEADING.
HOW TIIK INJURIOUS EFFECT! UPON
THK EYRB MAY UK AVOIDED,
from ill* London Tim**.
M. Javel, in a recent lecture, trie*
to answer the question, Why in read
ing a specially fatiguing exercise? and
also suggests some remedies for this
fatigue. First, M. Javel says reading
require* an absolutely permanent ii|>-
plicutiuu of the eyesight, resulting in
a permanent tension of the organ,
which may he measured by the
amount of fatigue or by the produc
tion of permanent niyopy; secondly,
hook* are printed in black on a white
ground. The eye i* thus iu presence
of the most absolute contrast which
can be imagined. The third |>cculiiir
ity lie* in the itrraugcincnt of tliu
characters in horizontal line*, over
which run our eyes.
If we iiiuintau during reading a
perfect immobility of the book and
the head, the printed line* are ap
plied successfully to the same part* of
the retina, while the interspaces, more
bright, also affect certain region* of
the retina, always the saine. There
must result from this a fatigue ana
logous to that which we experience
when we make experiment* in "acci
dental images," and physicists will ad
mit that there is nothing more disas
trous for the sight than the prolonged
contemplation of these irnitgi*. laist-
I V, unci most important of all, in Mr.
novel's estimation, is the continual
variation of the distance of the eye
from the jKiint of fixntiou on the book.
A simple calculation demonstrate*that
the accommodation of the eye to the
page undergoes u distinct variation iu
proportion as the eye posses from the
In-ginning to the cmf of each line, and
nud that this variation is all the great
er in pmistrtion to the nearness of the
Imok to the eye and tho length of the
line.
A* to the rub* which M. Javel in
culcate* in order that the injurious
ctb-cts of reading may be avoided, with
reference to the permanent applica
tion of the eyes, he counsels to uvoid
excess, to take notes in reading, to stop
in order to reflect, or even to roll a
cigarette; but not fo go on reading for
hours on end without stopping. As
to the contrast between the white of
the pa[MT and the black characters,
various experiments have been made
in the intrisjuctiou of colored papers.
M. Javel advise* the adoption of a
slightly yellow tint. Itul the nature
of the yellow to be used is not a mat
ter of iuditference; he would desire a
yellow resulting from the absence of
the blue rays, analogous to that of pa
per made from a wood paste, and
which is often mistakenly corrected by
yie- addition of an ultramarine blue,
which produces gray, and not white.
M. Javel has been led to this conclu
sion both from practical observation
and ali* theoretically from the rela
tion which must exist between the two
eye* and the colors of the spectrum.
His third advice is to give prefer
ence to small volumes which can be
held in the hand, which obviates the
necessity of the book being kept fixed
in one place, and the fatigue resulting
from accidentally image*. Hastly, M.
Javel advises the avoidance of too
long lines and therefore he prefers
small volumes, and for the same reason
those journals which are printed in
narrow columns. Of course every one
knows that it is exceedingly injurious
to read with insufficient light, or to
read too small print, and other com
mon rules.
M. .lavcl concludes by protecting
against an invidious assertion which
ha* recently been made "in a neigh
boring country" (Germany, no doubt),
.according to which the degree of civi
lization of a people is proportional to
the number of the short-sighted shown
to exist by statistics; the extreme
economy of light, the abuse of reading
to the detriment of reflection and the
observation of real fact*, the employ
ment of Gothic character* and of a
too broad column for book* and jour
nal* are the conditions which, M.
.lavcl believe*, bads to niyopy, espe
cially if succxwsive generations have
been subjected to the injurious influ
ences.
MIMIC.
"Crni," In lb* AllnnM Trl trans.
Music, like many other arts, is de
rived chiefly from the ancients. Of
its origin uo certain knowledge can be
obtained. There arc many fabulous
stories attributing its origin tj the
heathen gods. It was in all probabil
ity coeval with man, and it is also pro
liable that the vocal music preceded
the use of instruments. The simple
elevation or depression of the voice in
expressing the different passions and
emotions of the mind would, most
likely, have led to its discovery, and
the idea of regulating it might have
naturally lieen obtained from the mod
ulated song of birds. A portion of
the songs of the blackbird U well
known to consist of true diatonic in
tervals. "Music U the only one of all
the arts that doo not corrupt the
mind." And hard must be the heart
that music cannot touch. It lifts us
above ourselves and all the petty
trials of life; it makes us feel grander,
nobler and holier. We know that the
voice of auy human being becomes
touching in distress, and even on the
course-minded and low, religion, and
the higher passions have made the
deepest impression. 1 have never
known man, or woman, with even a
spark of noble feeling, whose voice at
time* did not deepen to a chord of
grundeur or soften to the notes sweet
a* the music of Apollo's lyre. We
are surrounded by unwritten mimic.
There in no sound of nature not mu*i
cal. God in the great musician; the
sounds which He made are all har
monious, bocause they are governed
by the Great Author of ull harmony.
'I he gentle winds of Hummer blow
lightly over the waterfall- and brook*,
bringing u nound to our ear sweeter
than any written munic, yet the wind
at bent i but a fitful player; playing
now last, now alow, now loud, now
low; never twice the name. 1 once
heard a legend of Scotland, which I
think in beautiful. It in believed by
the Highland i*-a*niitH that to the ear
of the dying (which before death al
waya becomes exquisitely acutej, the
(icrfect harmony of uature in to en
trancing a* to make him forget all bin
naiii and hu lb-ring, and to die gently
like one in a plea-ant dream. And
so, when the lout moment approache*,
they take him from within and bear
him out into the oja-n sky that he may
hear the familiar sounds of nature.
The old Philosopher we read of might
not have been dreaming when he de
clared that the order of the sky wax
like a ncroll of written munic, and
that two stars (which are raid to have
appeared centurion after his ilcath in
the very place* he mentioned ), were
lacking to complete the harmony. AH
honor be to theme whose uiin in life is
proficiency in munic. Have courage
and perseverance and you will suc
ceed iu thin grand art.
FROZEN TO IfKATII IN VIRGINIA.
THE I.AKT SURVIVOR OF THE EXPE
DITION THAT EXPLORED LOUISI
ANA TERRITORY.
Captain Tom I> wis, colored, near
ly 90 years old, was found frozen to
<leath in the public road in Albemarle
county. He was farming in a small
way in the county, and it is supposed
that he ha/1 gone out to rut some
wood. (apt. I//wis had led an event
ful life, and was famous as the last
survivor of the Lewis and Clark Kx
jH-dition to explore the Missouri river.
Merriwetber Lewis, the oldest son
of Mrs. Marks, of Locust Hill,by her
former marriage with Colonel Win.
Lewis of the Revolutionary army,
was Private Secretary to I'resident
•Jefferson shortly after the purchase of
the I Louisiana Territory, and was se
lected to explore the Territory. He
had permission from the President of
selecting hi* aid and companion, and
he chose Lieut Clark of the regular
army. The comjmny was organized
with about 30 private soldiers and
commanded by Capls. Isewi* and
(■lark, (apt Lewis also took along
one of his slaves, a youth named Tom.
Tom wa remarkably black, and
neither comely in person nor attrac
tive in manner. Tom was Capt
Lewi*' favorite body servant, and
stuck by his master to the last Capt
Lew is often told how Tom had saved
his life after the expedition had cross
ed the Rocky Mountains and was
about to descend the Columbia river.
Lewi* was in the wilderness with no
companion save Tom, who had been
chrislianed "Captain Tom Lewis," and
which name stuck to him to the day
of his death. The two were attacked
hy three Indians from the tribes then
in that country. Captain Lewis was
seriously wounded in the thigh. He
sent the only hall in hit rifle through
the head of one of bis assailants. The
other two rushed on him, and would
have slain him had not Tom hurled
one insensible to the ground, and with
the butt end of the gun of his master
brained the other. He was Herculean
in strength. He went through all the
trials and hardship* of that great ex
pedition without flinching.
The Lewis and Clark expedition
terminated in 1805. Capt. Lewis
came to his mother's home, near Joy
Depot, in Albemarle county, and went
thence to St. Iuis, the capital of
Missouri Territory, of which he was
then Governor. On his return he
stopped for the night at a little inn on
the roadside somewhere in Tenneasee.
In the morning he was found dead in
his room, with his throat cut, whether
by another for some unaccountable
purpose or bv himself remains a mys
tery to this day. Tom was his body
servant then, and knew more about
this mystery than any one else, but he
always shook his head when asked and
said: "This is a matter the less talked
about the better." On the death of
his old master Tom returned to Albe
marle county, and with savings bought
a small farm, which he occupied on the
day his death. It is supposed that
from fcblencßs and exhaustion he fell
in the road, and not being able to rise
was fqpten to death. This ends the list
of survivors of that historic expedition.
Saint Paul sad the Infidel,
A Christian was speaking to an in
fidel of salvation through Christ.
" Pshaw 1 H said tho infidel, in a tone
of disgust, "this preaching of the cross
is to me perfect foolishness."
The gentleman smiled.
"You and St. Paul agree exactly,"
be said, quietly.
"How so r asked the scoffer, in some
surprise.
Turning to Paul's first epistle to
the Corinthians, the other read, "The
preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness."
The infidel was so struck by the
truth of this statement that he felt
impelled to read the Bible for himself
He l*'gan at once, and the result wan
hi conviction of it* truth, and hi* ac
ceptance of the Gospel that he had
despised.
A MIJtP/H REMERYED POWER.
Sr.*. CoartxJmnul.
This mule looked like he wan 128
year* old, and was dead standing upon
liia feet. lie waa hitched to u pine
bodied spring wagon, with a high oaah
board. The "team" waa atanding on
the levee in mute silence, while the
old darkey who "driv" it went alioard
the boat. A tramp could make a
barrel of money aelling picture* of
that mule labeled "patience." Hia
long, flabby earn hung down each aide
of hi* head like window awniuga with
the ro<l* out of them. Hia far* wore
a aober look, while out of hia mouth
hung a tongue eight inchea long. Hia
tail swung down from the rear end of
hia hurricane roof like a wet rope,
while hi* whole body aoemed motion-
Icmi a* d<-ath itself. Presently a red
haired urchin, with an old boot in hia .
hand, walked up in front of him, and,
looking in hi* fare, saw that the mule
wa* ash-en. He walked around, climb
ed into that wagon, leaned over the
danhbo&rd, lifted that mule'* tail, and
let it eome down in time to catch a
death-grip on that boot-leg. That
mule woke up an quick that he kicked
the boy and the dashboard twenty
feet iuto the air. He changed the po
sition of hi* earn, hauled in hia head
between hi* knee*, and from the lore
shoulder* to tip of hia trunk wo* in
lively motion, and he didn't look
like he waa more than two years old,
the way he waa kicking that old wajj
on-body into kindling-wood with hia
heel*. He had it all to himself, and
waa doing fine, when the old darkey
rushed up the hill, got in front of him,
and grabbing him by each ear,shouted,
"Whoa ! I tell vou. Wats de matter
wid you ? Wno-up!" and, looking
around at the crowd, yelled : "Will
some o' yer gemmen git dat er Wit
leg out while I hole him ? Kaw- do
wag gin's mine an' I jis borrower! do
mule." But no one ventured, and
; wh-n we left his heels bad almost
; reached the tail-gate, and the old
| darkey was still yelling "Whoa!"
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
A JURY BKHUBK TO RERDKR A VER
DICT WHEN DIRECTED BY
THE COURT.
I fnan U. Alteon* TrttaiM of M*rrti A
The famous "Brandin case," which
has been the courts some twenty
years, came to an extraordinary clone
on Friday at Pottsville. The court
directed the jury to find a verdict for
the defendants. The jury heard the
order, but when the clerk of the court
said, "Gentlemen of the jury, barken
to v<Hir verdict as the court has record
ed it," etc., not a man in the box stir
red or opened his mouth. The court
again directed the jury u> find a ver
dict for the defendants. No attention
was paid to this order either, where
upon Judge Pershing intimated to the
jury that they should do as directed.
(>ne of the jury, Mr. Godfrey Leonard,
then stood up and said, "Well, if we
are here for nothing I suppose we have
nothing to my." He then sat down
and the verdict was recorded as the
court directed, although not a single
juror complied with the order to re
turn such a verdict- The verdict was
decided on law points by the court,
who intimated that it was not neces
sary to place the case in the hands of
a jury. After their discharge, the
jury gave vent to its feelings. Several
of them, of their own accord, said:
"If we see anything in the papers
about us rendering a verdict for tho
defendants we'll deny it, because we
didn't find such a verdict. We were
told to find a verdict for the defen
dants; hut we were sworn to do our
duty to the best of our ability, and
we couldn't render such a verdict-"
"How did you want to findr "For the
plaintiff," was the reply. "Every
man of us want to find a verdict for
the plaintiff." Plaintiff's counsel are
very wrathy on account, as they my,
of the manner in which thev were
treated by the court. Plaintiff's coun
sel will carry the cam to the Supreme
, Court, and have already taken steps
! to prepare paper book.
A Mother Who (.ate Tea Sans U the
Army.
A very remarkable case of patriot
ism of a family has been developed at
the War Department Some time ago
Congressman Deering. of lowa, ap
plied to the Secretory of War for the
discharge from the regular army of a
young man named Norman M. Mer
chant, of Battery B, United Stoles
army. The favor was asked by his
mother, who said she was 72 years of
age, had given ten sons to (he defense
of her country, and as she was now
unable to support herself she asked
that her eleventh son might be dis
charged from the military service, so
that she could have care" and atten
tion in her declining years. Upon in
vestigation the Secretory of War found
the names of the ton torn whom she
said she had given to the defense of
her country, the regiments in which
they served, and the military record
of each, in every particular as she had,
slated. The Secretory of War imme
diately ordered the discharge of the
eleventh son, and wrote the did lady a
letter, in which he extolled her "pa
triotism, and thanked her in the name
of the United States for contributions
to iU list of defenders,