FOB THE YOUNU FOLKS. HIMB. The sudden stxn shone through the pane. And lighted both their faoett— A prettier sight just aftor rain Ne'er fell in pleasant places. Two girls. One held a vaao of glass, . And one, a ball unsightly, Ragged and soiled. And this, the lass Upon the vase laid lightly. " What lovely flowers we'll have !" said they, "After it starts a-growlng." The sun delighted slipped away, And down the west went glowing. —llriti* BUI, in fit. Nieholat. A Doe's Memory. There is-a well-known story of a mur derer being discovered by a dog flying at his throat and bearing him to tno ground, when he confessed that he had murdered the animal's master. The Btory iH matched by one told in IMm I and Water of Nelson, u black spaniel. One night the dog was missing from his favorite corner, and nothing for sev eral weeks could be heard of him, not withstanding the most searching in quiries. After the family had retirod to rest, one miserable winter night, the well-known bark of old Nelson was heard at the door. He was soon admitted to his oozy quarters, supplied with food, which ho ate with many a grateful wag of his tail, and looked a mere bag of bones in comparison with his former Bell, besides being very lame. A neighbor came in and inquirod if Nelson had arrived, as he met him on the previous dny at Macclenfleld, eigh teen miles from Manchester. The driver of the mail-cart had also seen him at Derby, and gave him a feed of milk and oat-cake, but could not induce Nelson to remain with him or with the hostler of the inn where he baited. Home time after the dog came home, the ow.ier of Nelson called at a public house in the ncighl>orhood, having with him his four-footed and faithful friend and oompanion. A sturdy, surly-looking man stood at the bar, and to the surprise and alarm of everybody, Nelson sprang at the throat of the stranger, striking his teeth through the waistcoat, and holding on with the utmost tenacity. With a strong effort, Nolson's owner released the man, who confessed there and then that the cause of the dog's anger arose from the • fact that "he was the man who stole him, took him to London by the canal boat, where he sold him and left him." The dog must, therefore, have traveled from London to Manchester. . • Mathla* to Da. Kit had taken a slight cold, and so she did not have to go to school. Al though glad enough to stay at home, she could think of nothing in particu lar to do, and after breakfast sho wan dered around the house aimlessly for awhile. Bhe finally strayed into her father's study. No one was there. On the table was the unfinished sermon, just where her father had left it. Kit glanced over the neatly-written pages but did not attempt to rend them. Then she went into the sitting-room; but her mother was not there, for she had gono out also. Kit returned to the study, feeling a trifle lonesome, and for lack of better enjoyment she built a large fire on the hearth. Hhe placed the back-log and fore-log in their places; and this done she sat down in a big cbair to enjoy the blaze. Hhe had not sat long there, when she heard a queer rustle, and turning toward the door, she saw enter a half-dozen crash towels. They were sighing at a tremendous rate; and finally one of them said quite plainlv : "Hhe promised she'd hem us the first day she con Id; and she hasn't thought of us once." Kit's oonacjencc reproached her. Bhe was jnnt going to excuse herself, when a pair of thick-soled walking boots ahnffled in. M Seven buttons off 1" they groaned dismally; " and she declared she would sew them on the first day she hod time." Kit felt much ashamed; but she oonld think of nothing to nay, BO she *at very still, blushing, however, a good deal, for the crash towels and walking-boots were staring at her most unpleasantly. The silence waa growing oppressive. The towels and shoes stared and atarcd, nntil poor Kit felt very mnch like cry ing; and sho wonld have done so had not her attention been attracted by a fanny scraping noise in tbe hall. The towels bent their heada forward to look, and the shoes turned themselves Bnarely around to look, as there entered t'a tipper bnreau drawer. Such a looking thing a* it was I It waa crammed fall with ribbons, pins, bits of jewelry, collars, cuffs, morsels of very sticky taffy candy, fancy work, cheat nut sheila, handkerchiefs, gloves, some apples, notes from the schoolgirls—a little of everything, in fact; and it seemed aa though Kit had stirred them all together like a pudding. The crash towels langhed disagreeably, and the boots squeaked in diedain. " Hhe waa going to pnt me in order as soon as she had time," said the knob of the drawer, meaningly. Bang! From off the top shelf dropped a fat history of the United States, and as it landed on tho floor, it leaves opened at the ac count of tbe settlement of Mew York by the Dutch in 1610. Kit's ebeeks grew redder yet. Hhe had promised her fatter to road that sometime when she hsd nothing else to do; and hero she had dawdled away nearly a whole morning in trying to amnse herself. She looked sadly at the nnhemmed towels, the grinning shoes, the disordered barest! drawer, and the history; and Uiay looked at her in each a disagreeable way that Kit put her hands np before her face and began to sob. Straightway the shoes bopped np and began to kick her, the crash towel slapped her face, the bureau drawer flnng apples - at her, and the fat history climbed np on top of her head and began to pnah her in the Are. With a great effort Kit tried to get away; and at last she enceeedcd in rolling off her ohsir to the floor. Then she woke np. Hhe moved her eyes and stared around the quiet nom; and after a second she re alised that she bad been dreaming. Straightway she roes and went to her own room, took tho nix crash towels out of the basket, and liemmed them till dinner-time. — IndejHndmt. Long and Short Steepen. Beamcn and soldiers, from habit, can aloep when they will and wake when they will. Oaptaiu Barclay, when per forming his wonderful feat of walking 1,000 miloe in an many Temsocntive honrs, obtained anch a mastery over himself that he fell asleep the minute he lay down. The faculty ol remaining asleep for a groat length of time is pos sessed by some individuals. Much was the case with Quin, the oolebrated player, who would slumber for twenty four hours sncccssively; with Elisabeth X)rvm, who slept three-fourths of her life; with Elizabeth Perkins, who slept for a week or a fortnight at a time; with Mary Lyell, who did the same tor sue oessive weeks; and with many others, more or less remarkable. A phenomenon of an opposite char acter is sometimes observed, for there aro other individuals who can subsist on a surprisingly small portion of sleep. The oelebrated General Elliott was an instance of thin kind; he never slept more than four hours out of the twenty four. In all other respects he was strikingly abstinent, his food consisting wholly of bread, water and vegetables. In a letter communicated to Hir John Binclair by John Gordon, Esq., of Hwine, mention in made of a person named John Mockay, of Hkerry, who died in Htrath nave, in the year 1797, aged ninety one; he only slept on an average of four hours in the twenty four, and was a remarks bly robust and healthy man. Frederick tho Great, of Prussia, and the illustrious surgeon, John Hunter, only slept five hours during tho sumo period. The celebrated French general, Pichegro, informed Hir Gilbert Blaine that during a whole year's campaign he had not allowod himself aliove one hour's sleep in tho twenty-four. The KuaTe Bible. About two centuries ago an idoa— partly originated by Fuller—was cur rent that iu some rare editions the apos tle Paul designated himself "Paul, a knnvo of Jesus Christ." No suoh Bible really existed; and the duke of Lander dnle, the well-known Bcotch viooroy of Charles 11., having in vain endeavored to procure one, it occurred to Thornton, a worthless fellow by all account, that he could, by a little ingenuity, gratify his grace and serve himself at the same time. Fie got a Matthews Bible, dated MDXXXVII., and by careful manipu lation he erased the XVII., thus leaving the date 1520 instead of 1587—fifteen years earlier than the oldest English Bible extant, that of the Cover dale. Not oontcnt with this daring im position, he in a similar manner rubbed out the word "servannte," in Romans i. 1, and substituted "kneawo," made up of letters cut from other parts of the volume, so that the vorse read, " Paul, kin-awn of Jeans Christ," instead of "Paul, a servannte of Jesus Christ," 17ie book, thus mutilated, was taken to the duke, who gave him seventeen guineas for it. (Lewis' History of Translations, p. 47.) Although "tho mark of the raztire was very visible," Lauderdale was apparently pleased with his unique bibliographical treasnre, and had his arms and coronet stamped on both sides. How tho forgery was dis covered is not mentioned; but Dr. Eadle remarks that a volume, said to t) the identical copy, wan sold at a book sale in London in 1865. Hence its being sometimes called tho " Knave Bible," which designation, in more scnsereon, and that lockjaw * resulted therefrom, of which the pa tient died. If every peraon in the world was aware of a perfect remedy for all anoh wonnda, anil wonld apply it, then all anch report* muat cease. But although wo can give the remedy, we oannot enforce ila application. Borne will not employ it beoanse they think it too aimple ; other* will have no faith in it when they read it ; while other* often think anch a wound of email ac count, and not worth fnaeing over, un til it ia too late to do any good. Tet all anch wonnda can be healed without the fatal eooaeqnencea which follow them. The remedy ta aimple, almost always on hand, and can be applied by any one ; and what is better, it ia infallible. It ia simply to amoko the wonnd, or any hrniae or wonnd that ia inflamedi with burning wool or woolen cloth. Twenty minnten in the amoke of wool will take the pain out of the worat wonnd, and repeated once or twice, it will allay the worst case of inflammation ariaing from a wonnd we ever aaw. People may aneer at the "old man's remedy aa mnch a* they please, bnt when they are afflicted ju*t let them try it. It ha* saved many live* and mnch pain, and is worthy of being printed in letters of gold and pnt in Je very home. Vex Iran Manner*. A letter from Mexico *pvk* xerr highly of the gentlemanly way in which the preen of Mexico reoeived and enter- Uined some visiting American Jour nal iete. After a pleasant dinner they were taken to the hnll light, which the correspondent describee ae brutal and repulsive. The letter mention* the poor traveling accommodation* in Mexi co, bat says that several care of each train are reserved for ladies— gentlemen not admitted nnder any circnrantance*. According to thia correspondent there ia a grim horror in the politeneea of Mexicans. He saya : The Mexicans of all olaaees are polite—exceedingly ao. The gardener, or water-carrier, shakea hand* on aoeotiug an aoqnaintanoe, lift* hie hat, bows, and on parting, after ex changing a few words, goea through the same ceremony again. When excited and onarrelsome he never forgets him self, bat prefaces hie offensive remarks in this wise r " Manor, yoo are a fool," <>r "Honor, Ton are a raacal," etc. When it Anally comes to the knife, and he falls to thojrround mortally wound ed, his rival will smilingly bow toward his victim, raise his sombrero, wipe off his knife, and retire in good order. The Dying UnlTalo Ilull. General Low Wallaco has an article in Scribncr H on n " Huflulo Hunt in Northern Mexico," from which wo take this extract: I remember yet the.excito meut of that ride, tho eagerness and i expectancy with which we nearod the knot of troon, our dash throngh, pistol in hand. In quiet hours I hear the shout witli which the colonel brought us together, In an opening scarce twenty yards square lay a dying bull. He was of prodigious girth, and covered head and shoulders with a coat of sunburst bair to shame a lion. Long, tangled locks, matted with mud ami burrs, swathed his forelegs dowu to the hoofs. The pondorous head of tho brute rested helplessly upon tho rotten trunk of n palm tree; the tongue hung from his bloody lips; his eyes woro dim, and his breath came and went in mighty gasps. The death-wound was in his flunk, a I horrible sickening rent. Tho earth all > about bore witness to the fury of the duel. Long time he confronted his foe, and held him with locked horns; at last ho slipped his guard—that broad fore head with its crown of Jove-like curls— and was lost. Who could doubt that the victor was worth pursuit ? We helped the unfortunate to a speedier deatht aud lingered to observe him. His travels had been far, begin ning doubtless up " ID tho land of tho Dakotah," whence winter drove bim with all his herd down the mnrky Missouri. On the Platte somewhere be passed the iiecond summer; then, from the hunting of tho Hionx and their fierce kinsmen, he escaped into Colorado; after a year of rest, in ooaroh of hotter noctures, he pushed southward again, lingering in the fields abont the head-waters of the Arkansas; there the bold riders of the Comanche fonnd biro; breaking from them, he disappeared for a time in the bleak wilderness called tho Htaked Plains; thence to the Rio (Irnndo, and across into Chihuahua, the pursuer still at his heels; and now there was an end of trawl and persecution. As we re turned from the chase, I saw him again, lying where wo fonnd him, a banquet for the whimpering wolves. Already he was despoiled of bis tongue. The Discovery of Batches. The story of this diacovcry lift* lieen told by Mr. Holden himself in the house of commons before a select committee appointed to inquire into the working of the patent lawn. Wo cannot Jo better, therefore, than give it in bin own words: " I began an an inventor on a very small scale," said Tklr. Holden, in the course of hia evidence. " Fof what I know, I WOB the flrat inventor of Inciter matches; but it woe the result of a happy thought. In the morning I used to get up at four o'clock in order to pursue my studies, and I nard at that time the flint and at eel, in the tine of which I found very great inconvenience. I gave lectures in chemistry at the time at a very large academy. Of course I knew, as other ebcmiats did, the explosive material that wan necessary in order to produce in ntantaneona light; but it waa very diffi cult to obtain a light on wood by that exnloeive material, and the idea occur red to me to put under the ezploaive mixture sulphur. I did that, and pub liabed it in my next lecture, and ahowed it. There waa a young man in the room whoae father waa a cbemiat in London, and he immediately wrote to hie father about it, and ahortly afterward lucifer matches were issued to the world. I believe that waa tho flret oocaaion that wo had the preeent Ineifer match, and it waa one of thoae iuventionN that aomc people think ought not to be protected bv a patent. I think that if all inven tion* were like that, or if wo could dia tingniah one from the other, the princi ple might hold good. If all inventiona were aaccrtaincd and carried out into practice with aa much faculty aa in thia cane, no nno would perhapa think of taking out a patent. I waa urged to go and take out a patent immediately; but I thought it waa ao amall a matter, and it coat me ao little labor, that I did not think it proper to go and get a patent, otherwise I have no doubt it would have been very profitable.Aon don .Society, The Hive of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa., produces more then helf the glass raede in the United Htata*. It* factories nnmber scventy three, with 890 pot*, end give employ ment to 5,248 hand*, whoee wage* ap proach $3,000,000 a year. The material* employed in the mennfectnre were, the peat year, 12,110 tone eoda aah, 48,840 tone of aand, 152,000 bushel* of lime, 1,218 tone nitrate eoda, 793,500 hnahele of ooke, 4,625,700 hnahele of ooal, 4,025 eorda of wood, 8,055 tone of atraw, 2,700 barrel* of ealt, 250 tone pearl aah, 800 tone of lead, 160,000 Are brick, 2,966 tone of German clay. The packing boxes eoet $484,250, and required 2,109 kega of nail*. Ninety-six wagon* and 130 horeea were employed in nanling. The apaoe occupied by the building* la equal to 208 acrre, and the capital in building*, machinery andgronnda i*, in round nnmber*, $3,500,000. The busi neaa prodncee al>ont $7,000,000 a year. Reporting hy Machinery. A reporting machine at the Paris ex position, known as "la machine sten ographiqne Michel*," the latter being the name of its inventor, attracted much attention. The claims made respecting it are that after a fortnight's practice, any peraon can tako down in shorthand character* a speech however rapidly de livered. It is a small instrument, piano-like in form, with twenty-two keys, white and black, and the steno graphic characters are 'small Und im pressed on slips of paper. Bignor Michel* claims to have classified all the sounds which the bnman organs of speech are capable of producing, and to have so oonstrncted his machine that it shall report with unerring fidelity what ever ia said in German, French, Italian, Spanish and English. Tbe machine ia highly ingenious, and seems to have stood several practical tests satisfactorily To CURB A Fsum.—Tske ont s por tion of tbs inside of a lemon, and thrust the finger into it. Or take the akin of the inside of a fresh egg, bind it on with the moisture of the white of the egg next to the finger, and it will draw the small globule that can urn the sore to the sur face. As it driea make new applications. The Fuel Supply. There is one point in household econ omy upon which tho landlord and the guest will never agree. It is on the quantity of wood required to heat a room. Now the landlord is lirmly con vinced, and ho grounds his convictions upon a long aeries of actual tests and E radical experiments, extending over a >rm of years which date back to the year he began to "keep tavern," that two sticks of wood, about two inches in diameter and somewhat longer than a match, will, if properly nsed, keep a bright fire, snapping and roaring, in a large stove all day, and then, if yon cover them np carefully when yon re tiro, they will smolder all night long, and you will only have to open the damper to have a nice warm room to dress in the next morning. He knows this, liecanse, he tells the guest, he has tried it, and does try it, very successful ly in his own room every night. I never heard the guest dispute the land lord, but I can't remember ever having seen him look convinced. When I order a Are in my room I usually have aliout this kind of a circus. I say to the l>oy, iu commanding tones : " Bring np some wood." The boy looks amazed, goes away slowly and just before tho Are goes dead ont returns with two nrmfols of wood, one stick in each arm. The sticks are abort, bnt thin. I seize them gladly aud thrnst them both into tho stove. "Now then, 'lcry cheerfully, "bring np some wood 1" The boy disappears, and I catch a passing glimpse of his white, terror stricken face as he slides down the balus ters. In due time, comes to the room, not the frightened boy, bnt with heavy, solemn tread, the landlord. There is trouble in bis face. "What do yon want?" he asks, sus piciously. " Wood," I say, " wood 1 wood 1 My cry is still for wood ! Fuel I Combus tibles! Inflammable snbstances I Vege table growth and development! Wood!" " Why," he asks, with a puzzled ex pression on his face, " didn't the boy bring you np some wool just now ?" "Yes," I reply, truthfully. Audit sounds kind of oddly to me, bnt after all, I am glad I told it under the circuta s tan cos. The landlord looks wonderingly around tho room, glances behind the stove, stoops down and peers under the bed. "Well, why," be says at last, in a perplexed tone of countenance, " where is ii ?" "In the atove," I say. An expression of incredulous bewil derment spreads over hia questioning face. He aaka, feebly and falU-nngly : " Tea, but the rest of it?" " Iu the atove, too," I say. "What 11!" the good man ahonta, "all of it?" And there aren't enough capitals and exclamation pointa in the news room to convey hia emphasis and exprcasiona to the types. I regard hia indeacribable amaxrment with pitiless composure. " All of it," I aay. He doean't believe me. He atoops down before the atove, opens the door and looks in. llis worst fears are real ised. Wih a hollow groan he cloaca tho door and shuts t be damper with audi an easy, quick, long practiced turn of the what that an inexperienced man can never detect it, and rising to hia feet goes feebly down stairs, holding one hand to hia bewildered head, and the other to hia throbbing heart. Ry and by he cornea liack into the room, with tho wan, silent face of a specter. He l>eara two sticks of wood, somewhat thinner than the one* tho boy brought, hut, on the other hand, considerably shorter. He shudders aa he walka past me, and lays them down in the bottom of the wood-box, and covers them np with a piece of an old onvnlope to hide thorn from my extravagant eves. Hut I aeixo them from under hia handn even while ho is hiding them, and not heeding the tremulous hand he reaches forth to atop mo I thrust the sticks into the atove, and aay, calmly and sternly ; " Bend the boy up with some chunks." The landlord prease* btit hand* over hie cyoe and goes reeling crat into the hall. lie says, in a ghastly whisper : •' Well, of yon can t crowd more wood into thikt stove then eny men I over see." And aa he goo* down etair* I can hear him eohbing, and telling the hall-t>oy* they'll hare to keep an eye on the craxy man in No. 72 or he'll act the hone# on fire. Jhurd'ttc in liurlington J/atck rye. A Microphone ( oncert. The wonderfnl invention, the micro phone, baa been put to a novel nan in thia city, experimentally. A few day* ago Hnperintendent Bckert, of the Tele phone exchange, placed a microphone at each end of the atage of the Grand opera-house, and connected them with wire* leading to the Central exchange. Parties having line* in connection with the exchange were notified that they would be treated to a novel concert, and at the appointed time a large number, in varioua parts of the city, took ad van tage of the invitation. The action of the microphone* was marvelous. The moat delicate *traina of the orchestra were heard, and "election* readily recog nixed. The word* of the actor were diatiugniahed, and, in aome in- tancea, the players' voice* recogniaed.no perfect waa its articulation. Many in the su burb# of the city enjoyed the treat, and regarded the entire programme aa very natiafactory, considering that no ooat of admission waa charged to the enter tainment Thia is a verification of the prediction we made aome time ago. Cincinnati American Inventor. A remarkable circumstance has been noted in connection with the prevalence of aoarlet fever in New Tors. When ever the disease persist* with any de gree of virulence beyond the middle of January, ii ! s ccitain to reappear in epidemic form early in the summer. In ordinary seasona the fever rapidly subside# after the first week in January, and remain* in abeyanoa until the ap proach of the warm weather. But each great aoarlet fever epidemic has been marked by a continued virulence of thia disease along with diphtheria through the winter and spring month*. Aa thia ia what ia happening now. New York is considerably alarmed at the outloek for next summer. A Woman's Wonderful Nerve. Mrs, Isadora Middleton, a leader in Mobile (Ala.) society, has given a re markable exhibition of courage. Her husband was absent from the city, and Mrs. Middleton was in her chamber, putting away her Jewelry, when sudden ly she noticed t|iat a lamp in the back part of the room had thrown the shadow of a man who was crouching under the oentcr-table, on the floor at her feet. Instead of fainting with fear or shrieking for help, the brave woman seated her ' self at the very table, underneath which the miscreant was concealed, and rang for the servant. " Hand me writing materials, Bridget," said she, with per feet calmness. "I want yon to take a note this instant to Mr. Forfar, the jeweler, and huvo him send you baek with my diamond neck lace and ear drops, which I left there for repairs several days ago. Bring them with yon, no matter if fully repaired or not. They are by twentyfold the most valnable articles of jewelry that I posses*, and I do not wish to pass another night with out having them in my bureau drawer." The note was at once written and dis patched, bnt, instead of being in the tenor that she had signified, it was a hasty note to the jeweler, an intimate friend, in which she stated her terrible position, and urged bim to hasten to her relief, with the requisite police assist ance, immediately on receipt of the mis sive. The agonies which that woman underwent when left alone in the house with that desperate robber crouched tinder the very table upon which she leaned can only be left to the reader's imagination ; bnt ber iron nerve sua tainod her throngh the ordeal. Bbe yawned, hnmmod an operatic air, turned over tho leaves of a novel, and in other ways lulled the lnrker into a senac of perfect security and expectancy, and waited, her eyes fastened upon the Lands of her little ormoln clock with a feverish gaze. At last eame the ring at the door bell, and she strolled carelessly into the hall and down stairs and open ed it. The rnse had been a success. Hhc not only admitted Bridget, but also Mr. Forfar and three stalwart police men. The latter passed stealthily tip stair* and into the chamlier, where they suddenly pounced upon the conoealod burglar so unexpectedly as to secure him witli hardly a strnggfe. 'Hie prisoner proved to lie a colored criminal named Clapman, but mostly known as "Two Fingered Jeff." He was in great re quest about that time for several rob bories, and is now serving a twenty-years' sentenoe in the Alabama Btate prison. A Terrible and Deadly Affrav In the annala of deadly affrays in thia State, nay a the Yieksburg" (Miaa.j ffrrald, wo know of no occurrence so fatal in its resulta aa that which occur red on board the steamer Sunflower, while lying at Johnaonville, the county neat of Sunflower county. Col. D. A. Ilolman, while in Johnaon ville, on entering Dr. W. L. LJWTT'S store, wns accosted by Dr. Iyowry, who ordered Ilolman out, remarking, it is said, that Ilolman waa no gentleman, and did not keep hia word, or something to that effect. Ilolman departed, saying in substance he would ace Lowry again. On the morning of the affau Col. Hoi - man engaged pannage on the steamer Sunflower for Vicksburg, accompanied bv hia father-in-law. Dr. O. C. Walker. The boat arrived at Johnaonville some what earlier than nsnal, and C<>l. Hoi man and Dr. Walker together went on abore. but in a abort time returned. Perhapa a half hour later Dr. Lowry, aa was naual with him. came on the boat to transact his business, and while en tering the cabin was caught, it is said, by the lelt arm or bark, by Col. Hoi - man. whoturned Lowry half way around and putting hia pistol to hia breast fired. Lowry started down the cabin, but in atantly turned, aild seeing hia clerk, John C. Arnold, start from hia chair Hieing aliaved at the time), said: " Kill him, John; kill bira. be has shot me." Arnold ran out of the cabin to attack Hoi man, and Lowry, walking to the cabin door, cocked bis pistol and fired at Ilolman. At the same instant of time, perceiving Dr. Wslkcr Willi a pis tol in his hand, he pointed bis pistol at Walker wilh deadly effect; Walker fall ing and expiring almost without a strug gle. Lowry then walked in the cabin staggering, and fell, and in about two minutes expired also. ID the meantime Arnold and Holman were fighting ontaide the cabin. Arnold received a wound in the cheat, and died shortly after being removed from the boat, CcL Holman being wounded in the left arm and aide. Ail the partie* engaged are very high ly respected. Dr. Lowry was a brother of Gen. Robert Dowry, and leaves a widow and six children. Arnold waa a brother of Jndge Arnold, of Colrnnbn*. Mil*, Col. Holman being a prominent and talented lawyer, ami respected in the community in which he lives. Dr. Walker waa one of the oldest resi dents of the oonnty, snd we believe had no enemies. 001. Holman, the only survivor, was immediately arrested. ({ulrktard t'ossctenre in a Beg. A correspondent pf the Loudon Spec tator tells the following story: "A yonng fox-terrier, about eight mouths old, took a great fancy to a small brush, of Indian workmanship, lying on the drawing-room table. It had been pun ished more than once for jnmping on the table and taking it. On one oooa a ion the little dog was left alone in the room acddently. On my return it jumped to greet me aa utmsl, and I said, ' Have you been a good little dog while you have been left alonef Immedi ately it pnt it* tail between its legs and slunk off to an adjoining room and brought back tbe little brush in its mouth from where ft had hidden if. I waa much * truck with what appeared to me a remarkable instance of a dog pos aeeaiug a conscience, and a few months afterward, finding it again alone in the room, I asked the same question while patting it. At once I saw it bad been up to some mischief, for with the same look of sbame it walked akiwly to one of the windows, with its nose pointing to a letter bitten snd torn into shreds. On s third occasion it abowed me where it bad strewn a nnrobei of little tickets about the floor, for doing which it had been reproved previously. I cannot account for these facta, except by sup posing the dog most have s ooneoicooe." CURRENT NOTEM. Natchez, Minn., ia threatened with the fate of Vickshurg, namely, deser tion by the riyer. The recent rise of the Mississippi river haa thrown the towheae required to ascertain the state and prospects of the American crops, and to assist in promoting the grain trade of Russia. The oft-repeated story that the Quaker* area decaying laxly does not seem to t>e true, for an English journal assort* positively that not only ha* the falling off in the number of member* of the society been checked for many years but a oomrmrativclj rapid growth ha* also occurred dnring the last few year*. Thi* ia marked by the increase of some of the older " meetings " of the body both in England and America, and by the spread of the denomination into ottei countries, if even on a small scale. Notwithstanding emigration, there is an addition to the small number of Quakers in Norway and Denmark, and a "monthly meeting" has been ex tab lishod in Hyria. Home time ago a Friends' mission was begun at Mount Lebanon, and there are a score of mem lers there. The trial of n Chinaman for assault and battery in the police court of San Francisco has brought out a strange story of a Chinese girl's unhappy ex perience*. She said that her parents in China had sold her to " s gray-haired V lady '' for twenty dollar* when she was ten years of age. She was resold to a Chinese doctor in San Francisco named Lia Po Tai. Thi* doctor has several wives, one of whom sold her to s China man for 040. Her market price gradu ally increased to 0160, and by the time she was twenty years old she had changed hands s dozen times. Recently she heard that alie was to be sold to a Chinaman living in the interior of the State, and it was in consequence of her refusal to go that the assault was com mitted and the disturbance creates] tLat brought the case before the public. Itmrd Fuller** Tragic IK at li. Of thin gifted American author, wife of the Count D'Osaoli, the Cincinnati Commercial, say* : In tiie spring of 1850. Margaret was irresistibly drawn to her native land. Bhe wished to pnb liah her book, that was to do justice to great principle* and great men. It would seem that Margaret Fuller had boon strangely prepared, by life and by temperament, to chronicle the Italian struggle. "Eseb order of things has is angel." Every great event has its historian. Every great need, whether individual or national, ia always met. It was with many misgivings that the Count and Countess D'Osaoli embarked on hoard the ship Elisabeth, on a voy age that was indeed, the voyage of eternity, " Beware of the sea," bad been a prophecy given to Oasoli in his boyhood, and strange, subtle apprehen sions of risk hovered around Margaret. Hhe wrote thus : " I have a vague expectation of some crisis—l know not wnat It has long aftrmod to me that in the year 1860 I should stand on a plateau in the ascent of life, when I should be allowed to pause for a while and take more clear snd commanding views than ever before. Yet my life proceeds as regularly sa the fates <>f a Greek tragedy." On this voyage Margaret gives the last toncbes to her book on Italy. On the 18th of Jnly the vessel was off the coast of New Jcrsev, and they retired for what they believed to be the last F night on shipboard—alas 1 the last on earth. In the night a terrible hurri cane arose, and the vessel was driven headlong toward the sandbar off Long Island. About 4 o'clock in the morning she struck on Fire island beach. Her doom was sealed. No human power could save ber. Hhe lay at the merry of wind and waves. For twelve hours they elung to the wreck. It is possible that Margaret might have tieen saved, but she refused to leave ber husband and child. It bad long before been her prayer that " Oasoli, Angelo snd 1 might go together, and the anguish be brief." The prayer was strangely granted. The only one of Margaret's treasures that ever reached ber native land was the dead body of her child, which the sea gave up to tender ministries. Kino's body was taken to her home, and is buried in Mb Auburn cemetery, Boston. A monument is plaord there to Marga ret, with ber face sculptured on it in medallion, in the Fuller family lot. And this was tbs home oomiog. Ah, truly, it was going borne I It in mid that the native* of Australia and New Zealand are familiar with the deadly properties of putrid animal mat ter, and that many erf their poisoned ar> mwa and * peart are aimply ameared with the liqnida from a putrefying rorpre. According to Tallin the Narringena, who inhabit the lower Murray district of Australia, frequently procure the death of an enemy bv this poison. The instrument employed ia called a ,