WHAT A CHILD PIII Willi HOP'S
in: i.i'.
Ehcn 10 Ilex ford, in tho Houtrliold
Gem, tells the following pathetic storv,
which should be read by all our little
folks:
"Go 'way! We won't play with
you. Your father gets drunk!" A
group of children bad gathered by the
roadside to play. Tho speaker was a
girl of about twelve years. The one
addressed was n girl of about the same
age. Her eyes filled with tears, and
her cheeks 'flushed with shame and
wounded pride at the cruel words.
" 1 know father drinks, but 1 ain't
to blame for that," said she.
" Well, we won't play with you any
way, will we girls?" said the fir.it
speaker.
" No," answered tho others in
chorus.
"There! you heard that, didn't
you;?" said she to the child of the
drunkard. " 1 hope it satisfies you
that we mean to have nothing to do
with you. My mother says it is a dis
grace to have such children in school."
The girl covered her lace with her
hands and begat' to cry. Somewhat
ashamed of what they had done, the
others stole away and left her. When
she found she was alone, she turned
and went back slowly to the little,
miserable bouse she called home.
" What's the matter with my little
girl ?" her mother tusked, noticing her
tears.
" I went out to play with the girls,
and they wouldn't let me, 'cause
father drinks," she answered, burying
her luce in her mother's lap, and sob
bing as it her heart was breaking.
" I'oor child !" was what her mother
said. She had no words of comfort
to give, and she hail learned from a
loug and hard experience that tears
were of little avail.
" Mother, do you s'jmse father'll
ever stop drinking?" Mary asked, lo
am! by.
" I don't know," her mother an
swered with a sigh. "I hope so. 1
have prayed lie might, but if God
heard my prayer, be has not answered
it. We can only hope and jimy, and
leave it all to Him."
" I can't go to school, nnd the chil
dren won't plav with me, 'cause father
drinks, and wo can't do anything like
other folks," Mary said with such a
sigh as is always most sorrowful when
coming from a child.
"My poor little girl," Mrs. Deanc
said sorrowfully, with her hand upon
her chilli's head. "It is very hard to
sco your life darkened in this way.
Oh, if your father only would leave
otf that terrible habit!"
The words held the pathos and
sublimity of a prayer.
" What makes Mr. Strong sell
liquor?" asked Marx - .
" Because he can make money hv
doing so, I suppose," her mother au
■ we reel.
" I wonder if anybody ever asked
him to give up such wicked business?"
Mary asked. "Maybe he diMcn't
think how much sorrow he causes.
Do you think he'd stop if we asked
him to?"
" I'm afraid not," her mother re
plied. Then she got up and went
about her work. Mary -at and thought
for some time. Then she made up her
mind as to the course she should pur
sue, aud without saving anything to
her mother she started down the road.
When she got out of sight of her
home, she turned ofT the road, and
knelt down among some hushes and
prayed. It was a simple little prayer,
out there was something very touching
Jn it, for all that.
" iVar Jesus," said she, " plense
help me. I'm going to try to save
father. I don't want to be called a
•drunkard's child, I want to go to
school, and mother wants to go to
meeting, and we can't if father kee|s
on drinking. I'lcase, Jesus, help me,
and make Mr. Strong stop selling
liquor. Amen."
Then she got up and went on.
• The first person she met, when she
reached the village, was a merchant
of whom they often Isjught things.
"Anryou going to the store?" he
asked.
"So, *ir," answered Mary.
"All right then," said be, "I didn't
know but you came after something. 1
I thought I'd toll you that you couldn't
have any more 'till your father jwvs
what he owes us. He drinks up enough
in a week to pay his debt to us."
She went ou until she came to the
place where, in great gilt letters, she
read:
RALOON.
Thin, then, wa wlflft people called
"Strong** Hell." Here was where
death and ruin to the *oul wa* cold
over the bar at five and ten cent* a
gla**.
She went in. A man was standing
behind the bar.
"Are you Mr. Strong?" *he asked,
half frightened at what *hc had at
tempted.
"Yea, that'* rnv name," he answered
pleasantly. "Did you want anything
of me." "You don't look like a man
bad enough to well liquor," *he *aid,
someway beginning to loc her fear of
him.
"Had a liquor-dealer onght to look
like a very bad man ?" he a*ked.
"Yea , I think they had," *he an
awered. "Oh, Mr. Strong"—clasping
her hand pleadingly, and lifting a
face full of beseeching to hi*, "I come
down here to-day to awk you to give
up selling liquor. . You don't know
what awful work you're doing, I guc**,
or you'd stop. I lave you ever thought
of it ? I can't go to HCIIOOI, for 1 dou't
have clothes like other children. 1
cotihl if my father didn't drink, hut
you sell him lirpmr, and he can't stop
when it's sold right here in the place.
Mother can't go She used
to belhro there was u saloon here, and
she wants to now so much ! as much
as I want to go to school, I guess.
And the children won't play with toe,
'cause fin a drunkard's child. You
don't know how much trouble comes
from tins place. Father ain't a hit
like what he used to he, before lie got
to drinking. And we ain't the only
ones who suffer so. It's all through
the neighborhood, mother says. Kver
so many men drink, who didn't before
you came here. I thought I'd come
down here and ask you if you ev< r
thought about it. Uidu't any one
ever tell you? Ob, 1 don't wan't to
be a drunkard's child, Mr. Strong.
It's the worst thing in the world, I
guess. I)ocs your mother know what
you're doing ? '
She asked the questions abruptly.
It startled him, for he turned pale.
"If she knew, I'm sure she'd feel
very bad about it," Mary went on.
]'tea#c don't sell anVfinorc. Isd us
lmvcfuther back a sober man. Won't
VOll ?"
Then' were tears in the man's eyes.
II<T words had struck hotne, and the
heart of the liquor-seller, which was
not all had, smote him keenly. That
question, "NVluit would your mother
say ?" touched its tenderest place.
His mother had hoon dead many
years, but her memory was green. It
shg had lived, he might have been a
different man. Since her death, he
had been drifting hither and thither,
and the good impulses of his nature
had been choked in tares and brambles.
"Child," he said, and there was a
quiver in his voice, "you're giving mo
the best teni|>eranee sermon I ever
heard, and you've converted me!"
And then he went out, before she
fully realized the truth, and took
down the sign that had hung over the
door so long.
"There," he said, "You see by that,
that I mean what I say. I won't
stand between your father and his
chance of being a sober man."
"I wish you'd let me ki-s you," she
said. "I love you, and I always like
to kiss folks 1 love."
He bent down and she threw her
arms about his neck aud kissed him.
A* he did it, >ome warm tears fell
upon her face. They were promises
of a latter life.
This all happened years ago. Yea
terday I aw Mary in her pleasant
home, with her own child at her knee,
and she was telling her the story 1
have told you, and the little eager
listener was learning a temperance
I anon that I with could he put bofoto
every boy and girl in the laud to day.
vv HV vor IKS< ituti: HIM I
A facctiou* correspondent of the
Oil City Iterriek aks why the <lr< • * of
a bridegroom should not In.' dewril>cd
us well as the trosseau of the bride?
and then give* an example of his idea,
as follows: He wore a coat of dark
material, owning in front, with collar
rolled hack, terminating in lap|* I* ou
either side, and skirt bi*< < ted. This
was worn ov< r a waistcoat of same
material, cut low in front, the folds
gracefully caught up la-hind with a
<teel buckle; beneath w.is Want*
suttn, with hosom of plain linen, white
as the driven snow, terminating tij
wardly in a detachahlc collar, cn as
pirant ; lower garment, also detach
able, ot doeskin eassimere, dark as the
driven soot, and terminating down
ward in two perpendicular cylindrical
sections, seamed on the inner side,
from the bottom of each of which
emerged a foot: shoes of black leather,
tjnantum *uf. ; hair parted ou one side;
cars worn to correspond, one ou either
side ; ornament* —stud*, a white neck
tie and smile worn plain. That's the
way any groom ought to look, when
au fait and cn rrgU nnd thnt sort of
thing, nt the moment of his greatest
happiness and insignificance.
Auk* of Gkkat Mbi*.—A writer
in the I'hilndelphin /Ve*, who discus
ses old age in the genial spirit of a
healthy old man, reminds his readers
that Victor Hugo, in the latter part
of February, entered upon his Kth
year; Trd Itcaconsfield is In hi* 74th
venr; Gladstone is over TO; Gortseha
koff is in his 71st year; the Kmpemr
William is in his B'2d Jenr; Cnrlvle
has entered on hi* 84th year; Thiers
was over 80 at his death ; I'alincrston
died in statesmen harness at 81 vcar*
of nge; the I hike of Wellington lived
to B.'}; [yird Hidmouth, ex-prime min
ister, lived to his 87th vcar; Longfel
low has passed his 72<1 year. These
are good example* of longevity and of
healthy minds in healthy bodies. It
is observable, however, that only one
them is an American.
A VlßotNlA pai*" 1 give* the follow
ing advice to the bumptious Calif >r
niau* who want to *ccode: " Dou't go.
He warned by several who have IK:CU
there, and don't, for there'* nothing
accede* like secession.
A SAN FRANCMWO newspaper, re
lating a mining accident, *av*: "One
man and twelve Chinese killed." A*
a Chinaman would way, "It'* all
samec'"
"MONEY." war* an American editor,
"i* the mowing link between our aub
acribers and editor."
GENERAL WAYNE'S TWO GRAVES.
X All ANTIIONy'g lIC 111 AI. I'I.ACE—A OtWIOUB
HT'IKV l >r UK.NKKAI. WAY.N'b'* lIO.NKK.
KM-111 tin- llufTnlu Kx|-ri-*.
Genera) Antliony Wayne in oneof the
few I union* moil who have two grave*,
each equally entitled to commemora
tion. lie died of gout at Erie, I'M., limn
Fort l'resquo Isle, in 171)0, when ho wu
on Ilia return from hi* successful In
dian campaigns in the Noithwct. lie
woa liuricd at the loot of the flagstaff in
the fort, and then* lay uiidiHlurlicd for
nearly twenty year*. Then there came
through the wood* from the other end
of the Statu, in U sulky, hi* HOII, Isaac
Wayne, in uracil of hi* father's bones,
lie engaged l'r. .John Wallace, who
had been through the Indian war* with
General Wayne, to exhume hi* bones
and pack them in a bo*, that they
might be strapped to the sulky and
taken through the wood* and over
the mountain* to the family residence
in Chester county. When l'r. Wallace
opened the grave he found to hi* sur
pri-o, tho body in an almost perfect
state of preservation. The flesh had
not decayed. Hut it was impossible for
young Wayne to carry the eotlio and
content* in hi* sulky. So Ir. Wallace
who seems to have been a* devoid of
feeling MS one of the Indian* whom he
(ought—decided, on hi* own motion
and without consulting Mr. Wayne, to
*eparate the General'* hones from lluir
enveloping flesh, and thus enable them
to be removed. To accomplish tin*,
boiling had to be resorted to, and was
resorted to, and the bones were then
denuded of the tlesh by the use <•!
knives, and w, re packed and carried
away by young Wayne, and buried near
the homestead in which General Wayne
was born and in which hi* descendant*
still live.
The account of the ghoul like pro
ceeding* of J>r. Wallace has an incndi
bio sound, but it i* literally and strictly
true, and will be corroborated by any
old citizen of Erie. Young Mr. Wayne
knew nothing of !>r. Wallace's opera
tions until many year* after. He was
then greatly shocked, and declared thai
be would never have permitted such
treatment of his father's remain*, but
would have returned Ihetn to the grave
and postponed their removal to a more
convenient season. Yet tlu-re is no
reason to doubt that I>r. Wallace, who
was n useful and prominent man in hi*
day, thought he WAS doing everything
for the beat, an I meant no disrespect to
the mortal part of hi* obi friend and
patient and army comrade, General
Wavne.
Over the General'* bom** in Ghestor
county a monument wa* raised ; but bis
flesh was returned to it* grave at the
foot of the fl igt ifT in Fort Presque l*b*
by l'r. Wallace, and wa* forgotten.
The fort a mere stockade—-crumbled
away, the flagstaff decayed, and the
pre.use location of the grave was lost.
Some four year* ago, however, a dig
ger for relics on the site of the old fort
unearthed a coffin cover, into which
bra-* headed nails had been so driven
a* to form the initial* "A. W,," with the
figures of Wayne's age. date of hi*
death, etc. Tin* determined the loca
tion of the grave, and there lis* since
been in Erie a feeling that it should be
marked by a monument of some sort.
It ba*. in fuel, been *urrnund>-d I \
chain* support.- i try tour pieces of su
perannuated artillery nnd also marked
by a digital!"; but something more per
manent i* desired, and will doubtless be
built—-if not by legislative aid, tin nby
local subscription.
SOMETHING \HOI T FRIOtY.
American*.at any rate have no reason
to be atraid of Friday. Mr. Timb* give*
us this catalogue of fortunate circum
stance* occurring on that day.
t'n Friday, August 21, 14'.'J, Ghristn
pber Columbus sailed on bis voyage of
discovery.
Gn Friday, October 12, 1492, he fust
. -vered land.
tn Fti-lay, January 4. 14-M, he sailed
on hi# return to Spain, which, if he did
not reach in safety, the happy result*
never would have been known which
led to the discovery of this va*t conti
r.enl.
Gn Friday, March 15, 1493, he arrived
at Pain* in safety.
Gn Friday, November 22. 1493. lie ar
rived at lliipaniola, on his second voy
age to America.
< >n Friday, .lune 13, 1494. lie. though
unknown to hometf, discovered the
continent of America.
•>n Friday, March 6, I49fi, Henry
VII. of Kiiglaml. gave to John t'abol
hi* commission which led to the dis
covery of North America. Thi* i the
fir*t American *late p*per in Knglan'l.
On Friday, September 7, 1.V.3. Me
lemlea founds.- St. Augustine, the old
e*t city in the >'ruled State* by more
than forty year*.
On Friday, November 10, 1f.20. the
Mayflower, with the pilgrim*, ma le the
harbor of Province town, and on the
•ante day they signed the august com
pact the forerunner of our glorious
Constitution.
On Friday, IWemlmr 22<1, 1620, the
pilgrim* niado lhir final land at Ply
mouth Uock.
On Friday, February 22d, 1732. Oco.
Washington, the father of American
freedom, wa* horn.
On Friday, October 7th, 1777, the sur
render of Saratoga WM made which had
such influence in inducing France to
declare (or onr cause.
On Friday, September 22*1, 171*0, the
treason of Arnold waa laid bare which
saved u* from Heat ruction.
On Friday, October 10th, 17#!, the
surrender of York town, the crowning
glory of the£American arm*, occurred.
On Friday, July Ist, 1776. the motion
waa mar In in Congress* by John Adam*,
seconded by Kichard llenry Lee, that
the United colonies were, and of right
ought to be, free and independent.
CcaioaiTiu or TUB HARTS. —At the
cilv of Medina, in Italy, and about four
mile* around it, wheiever the earth ia
dug, when the workingmen arrive at a
distance of aixlv-threo feet, they come
to a lied of chalk, which thev lore with
an auger five feet deep. They then
withdraw from the pit before the auger
is removed, and ii|ion its extraction the
water bursts through the apertnr® with
great violence, and quickly fills the
netrly made well, which ia affectod neith
cr by rain* nor drought. Rut what is
the most remarkable in this operation i*
the layers of earth a* we descend. At
the depth of fourteen feet are found the
ruins of *n ancient city, paved streets,
houses, floor* and different piece* of
mason work. Under tbi* i* found a soft
oozy earth, made up of vegetable mat
ter, and at twenty *ix feet large trees
entire, such a* walnut tree*, with the
walnuts Htieking to the stems, and the
leave* and branches in a perfect state of
preservation. At twenty eight feetdeep
ii Hiift chalk i* found, mixed with a vast
quantity of shell*, and the bed i* eleven
f"et thick. Under this, vegetables are
found again,
♦ • ——— ——
TIIE f'I.EAN NEWSPAPER.
Kfiin th |!'*| <u 11 v r •%! I
There i* a growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journal*
which make it their *p,eial object to
minister to pet verted taste bv seeking
< ut mid serving tip in a seductive form
disgusting • earidtil i and licentious revel
ation*. 'I here i* good reason to believe
thai the clean newspaper is more highly
| rized to-day than it was four or five
years ago. Ii is also safe to predict that
a* people in nil ranks of life, who pro
tect their own at least from contamina
tion, become more conscious of the per
nicious influence of a certain class ol
journal*, called enterprising because
they are ambitious to serve up dirty
scandal*, they will be careful to sec that
tin- journal* they permit to be read in
the family circle are of the class that
never forget the proprieties of life. Al
ready men and women of refinement
and healthy morals have had llu ir at
tention called to the pernicious influ
ence of had literature, and have made
comiiiend.ibh • (Tort* to counteract the
same by ciusing sound literature to bo
published and sold at popular price,
these effort* are working a silent but
sure revolution. '1 be best author* are
more generally read to-day than at any
previous lime. The sickly, sentimental
story look* nrc slowly yielding the field
to worthier claimants. To the praise
of the decent newspaper, it may be
said, that where it has a place in the
family, and has been read for years by
young and old ; it has developed such a
healthy tone ami such a discriminating
(aste that the literature of the slum*
has no admirer*. Fortunately, the
number of such families > im reusing
in the land, and a* they increase, the
journal that devote* it-elf to sickening
revelations of immorality will be coin
pelted to find its sup|sirter* solely
among tbo*e -las-'-* who practice vice
or crone, or are ambitious to learn to
follow such ways.
EARLIEST PRINTING...ENGRAVER
HICK kS.
Trmn U* M -I*l Prlonr's Uui-J*.
Engraved stamp* arc of very early
origin, ami may l regarded as the
first process of every method of print
ing. Three thousand year* ugo the en
graving of form* f-r impressing seal*
•ml coin was practiced with a skill
scarcely surpassed in these modem
days. There are coins which were made
in the dsys of Pharaoh*, stamped in re
lief a well defined as the piece* in < ir
culation to-day. The first | roiling as
• ucli in the hi*tory'of the world was
probat iy upon bricks. An illustration
represents a brick taken from the ruins
of ancient Hshylon, and is really a
piece of the literature of that far awav
tone, which probably could have la-en
preserved in no other form so well,
flie letter* or word* are placed in par
allel rows, separated by line*, and nrc
no doubt intended to be read from top
to bottom.
In old Egypt bricks were made by a
method of stamping, but not *oelal*ir
alely as in Assyria. We have been
•side to procure cut* showing the face
and back ol an oil Egyptian stamp,
found i a torn'- of Thebes, which was
probably used in "printing'' brick* in
ih- so early days of the world's history.
This stamp i altout five inches long,
' two and a half inches wide and half on
inch thick, with an arched handle.
The characters are engraved into the
lace of the woo<l, so that the impression
'in the clay would show the letter* or
characters in relief, and have lecn
translated, "d MCn>pA, AcfotW ef truth."
We have it stated by some authorities
that Atnenoph was a ruler of Egypt al
tlie tune of the exodus of the children
of Israel.
Compared with modern typography
tin* nicihod of printing on clay wa
crude ami imperfect in the extreme,
Ilow easy it would have been to have
coaled the atamp with ink and impress
ed it upon paner; but al*. there were
yet discovered neither ink nor paper,
and inatead of tin* practice being im
proved and developed. it gradually fell
into di*U>e, and had been almo#t wholly
neglected for more than twenty-five
hundred year*, in the very land where
it originated.
MTKKAKY CAPACITY.
From Ih* DillhtlelfikiU Mfet
The truth i, that literary capacity l
a capital assistant to a practical man.
and learning U a good "crutch," hut
not a foundation to stand upon. Scott'*
immortal Ihuninie Hanipaon ia a type,
scarcely exaggerated, of a large claaa.
A an assistance, literary capacity give*
a hroad horiron and a clearer view to
the professional man. To the mechanic
and business man. it open* a wider
rang* for hia transaction*. To the man
of leinure, it give# opportunity for aelf
culture and for generoua u*efulnc*. In
theae way*, and in the*® only, literature
/xiy*. a* ailent partner, ao to speak —not
41 the head of the business. If chance
or good fortune bring* a literary man'a
•errice* into auch public demand thai
he nig be employed, he will find hia re
ward ; or if a book i to lie prepared for
the jre*a, he can make terma for that
*|eciflc employment. If a literary man
ia a clerk or aecretary, hi* clerkship will
be lietter performed, and he will com
mand the better aalary, provided hia
employment be one in which more than
routine ia required. Hut the dream of
fee* for email literary "jobs" from
atrangera will never Iwi realiaed, aa It
never ha* been. The man who aeeka a
lawyer or a doctor oonfeaac* that he
dora not underatand law or phytic.
And thero ia no humiliation in that
oonfeaaion. But he who aaka another
to shape his English for him think* that
he pay* enough for tho service l,e a*k*
in admitting that unyhody can do bet
ter thmi hitn*olf. And that compli
niont i*—literary wage*.
A HINGI'LA K KTORI.
now amah iii Aor. ix westhhn rxjtNsvi.VA
ma was iibokkx orr.
From r<irr*.|.-'rt-l"hr* of I'ht!*ilr l| his Tim**.
NoariiuMiiEKi.Aivo, March 24.—0n the
arrival of the 15.45 P. M. train over the
Lackawanna road to-day it soon became
evident that something uriusuul was on
the tapis. The centre of attraction wa
il stretcher, which had been removed
from the train to the waiting room and
upon which was tho half-unconsoiou*
form of a young man, apparently about
twenty-one year* old. Inquiry from his
nttendun ({elicited the fact that this young
man i* M. 1). Falkner, of New Orleans.
Hi* parents died of the yellow fever in
IK7.'J. Since he left Princeton, tn 1871,
he has led a roving life. Last summer
he made the acquaintance of a woman
in London, England, who hits brought
him to thi*. When he left her she
followed to this country, and found him
ten days ago in Western Pennsylvania,
on the point of marrying a respectable
young lady. Von Kida, tbo Kuglish
woman, determined to ruin Faulkner
in that locality, and by a well-laid and
executed plot succeeded, for the present
nt least. I hey both went to New York
(•ii the I.oth instant and remained over
Sunday. Faulkner left on Monday
night tor St. Von Kida followed
him. He stopped off ut Port Jarvis; *o
did she. The next morning, a* he
came out of the breakfast room, she
met iiitu nt the door and began firing
upon bimwith a heavy calibre revolver.
Faulkner drew a pistol and fired once.
She fell, shot tl.rough the tr<;a*t.
Faulkiier lias a dangerous wound in
liis lefi long. Ili" physician, It. H Mott,
is trying to get him home to New (r
--h-ans, where he lie will recover.
A SI RANGE I'KOPLK,
Hr. K. R. Heath, in a paper on "P< ru
vian Antiquities," describe* a strange
people living in a town called Kten, in
seven degrees south latitude and ut.out
two mile* from the sea. They number
about 4.000, and they speak beside* the
Sfiantsh a language which some of the
recently brought over Chinese laborer*
understand, but there is no other simi
larities between the two people*. They
intermarry uncle*, neices, brothers and
sister-, nephews and Aunt*, promiscu
ously, with no run* of consanguinity;
but they will not jM-rmit any intermar
riage in their number, or with the out
side world. 'lhev h*ve laws, customs
and dress of their own, and live by
braiding bat* and mat*, and weaving
cloth*. They will give no account of
the place whence they came, or of the
time they settled at Kten. History doe*
not mention their existence before the
Spamsrd arrived. Among them there
are no sick or deformed js-noni, their
custom being to send a committee to
each *ick or old person, and those who
are reported pa-t recovery or | ost use
fulness, are promptly strangled l-y the
public executioner. Kten order* it. they
*y, and with Lien's orders there t* no
interference.
Tier engagingly frank history of Re
publican campaign noeratinti* given to
t !*• Wall wo committee by Mr. Gorharn,
ito Secretary of the Senate ami arcrrU
ry of (ho national republican executive
committee. ia chiefly interesting in view
of tho Federal atmuto and tho l'.fecu
t livo g--ncrl order which Mr. (iorham
of>nfoao* to have defied with tho con
" nivance of several members o( lhr''t
not. It ia noi rtc that tbi* wa done,
hut it ia official confirmation that Secre
tary Gorham now mnk.-* matter of rec
ord. Tho false | .sition of theadmini
t rat ion on tho question of civil service
reform ia l-estitifnily illustrated by tho
a|>o.'tclo of tho Secretary of the Senate
calling for contribution* for political
purpoaea from neatly every officer in
' the civil aervico ladow the grade of
I'abinet Miniater rfhd sending aolicitora
through all the department*, nave one,
to tnnke collection of these assessment*.
Ilow effective the scheme nv i* ahown
hy the astonishing fart that of the 4iov
<**> used under the auapicca of thi
committee in the late campaign all but
113,(100 came front thoe in the civil
service of the I'nited Slate*. The con
tributions may have liecn voluntary in
one acnae, but they were none the )c*
a fund raiaed by placemen a* the price
of their place*, ami it shows how little
*<ib*tantial interest any hut placemen
had in the success of the cau*e upon
which Mr. Male and Mr. (iorbam wottld
hare ti believe the very life of the na
tion waa hanging. /'AiWr'pAm Timrt.
Tim following poatal change* were
made in Pcnnaylrania l*t week: E*
tabliahcd -'inodell, McKcan county,
rteorge 1,. Martin, poatmaatcr; Marvin,
Weatmnrelund county, Alpheu* A. Bush,
poatmwtor; Shelly. Buck* county, F.mii
*V. Haring, potinator. Name Changed
—Moyer'a atom, fwirka county, to
Blooming tilen. Pontmaatera Appoin
ted—Abraham Snyder. Alaaoe, Berk*
county; I>aniel Sneifrit. Beckewille,
Itcrka county ; l*lnlt|> S. Schurr. Kant*,
Snyder county; Samuel McKnhan,
Mount Hock. Cum Iter land county; M.
H. I>ewia, New Milford. Clearfield coun
tyj John It. Kern. I.andiseille, I.ancaa
tcr county ; 11. 8. Thompaon, Kard'i
Cap. .luniatacounty ; Charlea K. Strau**.
StrauaaUiwn, Itcrka county; .lame*
Bethel, Tannery. Indiana county ; Rob
ert Thompaon, Tompleton, Armstrong
county ; Charlea B. Fulton, Upper Pro*-
idencc. Ddewarc county; William S.
Cart, Wenk'a, Adam* count*; William
Fowler, Wc*i Middlctown, Washington
county.
Kerna's adricea from Cape Town to
the sth ultimo mention a report that i
Colonel Pearson had made a raid and i
burned Cetewayo'a old kraal. Other I
adricea of the same date, bowerer, do j
not gire the impression that he is in a
position to undertake an offensive oper
ation, and state that the Zulus hare
destroyed tha toad from Tugela to
Kkowe, and seem determined to do
their utmost to prevent relief from
reaching him. All idee of attempting
to send him relief before Lbe arriral of
farther reinforcements seems to be
abandoned,
ANOJTfFIt WOVRKRHL INVESTIOS.
Oal-na Cm. r*i(furi,>y NV.
I desire to give your reader* * partial
ducriptiou of a recent invention of a
steam engine by a mechanic of ouf town,
which bid* (air to supersede every steam
engine now in use. ihe inventor, Mr.
1 isher, it. an ingenious German me
chanic, who owna the. machine shop
near the Itock Inland depot. Those of
your readers who have ever noticed bia
•hop have never aeen him or any hand*
apparently at work. Fiaher i* an in
ventor ami dreamer, and for year* hi*
hour* by day and by night have been
devoted to. this idea, to the neglect of
hi* buaineaa and family. His grand idea
was a "rotary engine." The advantage
he claim* over the ordinary one is the
continuous application of the expansive
force of steam, utilizing all its j,ower.
Then the mechanical simplicity of con
si ruction—no steam-chest, no piston, no
crank. It is simple, compact and of
great strength, and will not cost more
than one third per horse power a* much
a* the old style. lie brought his model
over to the (-levator, last week, and at
tached it to the boiler, and away it went
at a2 40 whirl. A slight move of # lever
and the motion i reversed, and away it
goes on the other tack. Fisher is |oor,
and may not he able to pu*h his inven
tion, lut if parties having sufficient
capital will take hold of it and work it
up, "there's millions in it."
A Senator ( aut'ht Sapping.
W IsHts-r to IVjll' h J'oit.
A jocular Senator from the West tells
a very good story about another Senator
; from a Southern State. The latter be
-1 gati life a* a brakeman on a railroad,
and by industry and foresight lis* ac
cumulated a fortune and high political
honor*. Senator Thurman, while *jeak
ing, usually hold* his eye-glasses in one
- hand and a huge red handkerchief in
the other. Ho blow* a sounding blast
on bis nasal organ in the mid-t of a
-peech quite a* naturally as Senator
1 >i*e* look* up at the galleries every
time he addresses the Vice President,
it was an all night session. The Silver
bil! was under discussion. The South
ern Senator referred to was quietly
deeping on a sofa in the cloak room.
Mr. Thurman was speaking. He blew
iii* nose with such vigor that the report
could almost have been heard in the
Secretary's office. The sleeping Senator
wa" awakened by the noise,ana leaping
to hi* fe t grasped a chair by the side of
•he sofa and twisted it around until the
author of the story gruped hiru hy the
arm and brought him to a realizing
sense of his whereabout*. It is now an
unhealthy matter for any one to call
d<jwn brakes' to the victim of the joke.
The ( iriciiuiati Fraud*.
s TiioaoK.n kxrosrac or aci-ruMCAW
vii.i, si\v t'loviiitii rot
The memorial of i incinnaii election*,
which was pre.- - ntd in the House yes
terday by Mr. McMshon, charges:
FiTMt—That there was a corrupt vio
lation of law in the appointment of
I nite i State* Marshals who were des
ignated to officiate in the V'ongreasion
al election last fall.
AVi-r.i.V—That they were not resident*
! or qualified voter*.
Third—Tiiat they exhibited no badge
of office.
I'ourlh —That they held the ticket* of
and solicited vote* for the Republican
candidates.
Fifth —That tbey procured and aided
illegal voting.
iSurth—That they encouraged repc-at
ers and prevented their arrest.
tevmth-—That Rutierwortb and Young
were neither of them elected.
Thi* memorial is signed by the fol
lowing names : John F. Follett, John
A. Shank. Wm. B. ("sssilly, t\ . W. Sut
ton, IV. P. Riddle. I. J. Miillaney, L.
Meifngh. J. Kramer, Wm. 11. Pugh,
I ho*. MeHonough, 11. 1. ('ami-bell,
Thoina* Schweitrer, Alexander Ix>ng,
Johji (j. Fratx, W. Au*tin Goodman, K.
I'. ltriotstreet. Wm. K. Jonas, I/ewl* (f.
Bernard, ('. Hilh, N". Caldwell, C. If.
v *rgcnt, C. W. ]><tncnhower, Jeremiah
Mulroy.
Parmmifm by the Northern Central
railway rejiorted that Wednesday
: last the depot at lfarri*bnrg, Pa., wa*
crowded with emigrant* for Kansas,
comprising Pennsylvania farmers and
their families, in the morning a train
j twenty five cars, in two sections, lefl
with as many |eople a* they could ac-
I commodate, and in the afternoon two
more trains of ten and eleven car* re
spectively for the same destination. It
i is estimated that the emigrants num
bered 3,(k*t. They came from Lebanon,
Cumberland, Fulton. Dauphin, Mifflin
and other counties of the Mate, beside*
some from Western Maryland. Two
i carloads of people of the religiou* de
nomination of Hunker* were with the
company. The emigrants pro|-oe to
establish regular colonies in Kanaa* and
will be joined bv many others. The
exodus of Penn*ylranians to the West
this soring u described as almost un
: paralleled.
TH* coal operator* of the first and
second pool* of the Mnnotigahela Valley
met on U nioMiUy last and decided to
pay three cent* p<>r bushel. The min
ing operator* of third and fourth pool*
will be obliged to follow auit, and in
two days the whole Monongshcla Val
ley will be at work again. The strike
ha* l>een in progress for *ut week*,
though very little mining has been done
-ince November. Three thousand men
and boys hare been bile during th
strike. The strike in the Connelisnlie
coal region* keep* spreading and be
tween fire and ait thousand person* are
now idle. Between thirty and forty
minera onnricled at Washington, Pa.,
last week, were unable to pay their
share of the eosta, which aggregated
93,000, and are now serring out their
term in jail.
Shaffer, convicted of murdering his
I wife at Chainbershurg, who was to be
hanged Tuesday, March Ik, was respited
by (far, liojt until April ITlh.
Governor Nichols has signed the bill
repealing the charter of the Louisiana
State lottery.
The death of Count Joseph Valery,
a member of the French Senate in
Florence, Italy, Is announced, x