MARY CLEMMKit ON GRANT. Frt'in th In depend not. A man never lived who personally possessed in a less degree the qualities which inspire enthusiasm. The fact that the euchantment of distance and the manipulations of politicians have lifted him into a hero in the minds of those who know him least, only prove how marvelous are th.e powers of the human imagination. Fatally, for such glamour, I know Grant well. It was my misfortune to live for eight years in the very tliiek of his civil administration. It was impossible that I should be mistaken in its character. An Administration more corrupt never cursed a country. This was true while Grant himself was, at least, negatively an honest man. He did not nick and steal him self, though lie harbored and trusted thieves. He had that overweening love of money, of all that money brings, that nearly always marks tln* man deficient in the native power of money-winning. Such men poverty makes sordid. The man of substance, the natural money-getter, the sons of inherited fortune, are the ones who fill his imagination, nmke his choeu so ciety, if not his trusted friends. Such men were always nearest and dearest to Grant. Stolid as he .-••••m d, stubborn as he was, all discovered the unerring nerve in him which thev l ad but to touch to hold him forever—the nerve of his inordinate self-love. Its all altsorbing activity did not prove him to be by nature selfish beyond his kind. Condition and circumstance had quickened it to preternatural a cut en ess. The man put oIF, batfl.-d by fortune, is the man whom sudden success overcomes. He is the man who never learns the highest and finest use of jnawer. As President of the United Suites such a man was Ulysses Grant. The sycophants, the place-seekers, the place-keepers who surrounded hint, despite his reputat >n for pugnacity, found it perfectly easy, by feeding his vanity,to hold this man in thrall. They told him that he was " the greatest soldier that ever lived that he was the final star in the triumvi rate that was to blaze for all jiosterity —Washington, Lincoln and Grant— that empire was in his destiny, and that he was to live and reign " chief," if not of Europe, of the United States. It was as agreeable as it was natural for him to believe all this, to gloat ami swell with self-importance in th belief. lu its full acceptance In left this country, expecting as his right that all Europe would " uncover" ami bow before him, the chief of the west ern continent, over whose United States he was yet again to reign and rule to their ruin. As I have written before, Grant's tour through Europe and around the earth was decided upon and prearranged by the manipu lators of his " third term " before he left the White House or the city of Washington. Among many letters received from men since I wrote first of Grant as a candidate for the third term, is one from a Presbyterian clergy man in a city of lowa. He addresses me in that curious tone of mingled re spect, condescension and authority in digenous to the Presbyterian ministe rial mind when directed to one of that portion of the human fumily whom even St. Paul evidently did not al together understand, dispite his assump tions and very excellent advice. The clergyman tells me that I " should have said less about Grant or a great deal more." I differ from the clergyman, as I should, doubtless, in his conduct of "prayer meetings," though I myself " never" speak in any meeting what soever. Deficient as it may In- in quantity and quality, I seem to have ! said enough about Grant to have stir red considerably the minds of my brethren. Ix-t me now confiws to these perturbed beings, including the : Presbyterian minister, that I say as little as possible about Grant, not wishing to talk alsnit him or nhout any man whom it is beyond my jwer conscientiously to praise. The clergy man points triumphantly to the fact that Hamilton Fish's praise of Grant has great weight with the public mind. • Well, the "public mind" would be less moved by such praise were it as well acquainted with Hamilton Fish and Ulysses Grant as I am. Hamilton Fish is a gentleman by inheritance, birth, breeding—the m-nt of a gentleman Grant ever hail in his Cabinet. A family more refined and praiseworthy than his never graced , public life in Washington. Amid a crowd of plebeians and pretenders, their grace and simplicity wns as con spicuous as it was solitary. Yet Hamilton Fish himself is a man of the world —a hon virnnt. While he far transcended Grant in inherited finwe; in, in fine, life-long associa tions ; in all that makes a gentleman ; the tone of his nature, his intellectual habits, were not of that higher quality which suggested damaging compari sons and put his chief to alwolute dis advantage, as did the personal and mental characteristics of Carl Hchurz and Charles Sumner. The unity of at least one side of the natures of Fish and Grant begot familiarity, if not sympathy between them; while the j su|>eriority of Fish on the other gave him a mental ascendancy over the President never habitually achieved by any other member of hi* Cabinet, (jonsidering what for years their rela tion was, it would have been a strange, not to say disloyal, act for Hamilton Fish to have spoken in other than terms of personal praise of Ulysses Grant. It was less honorable in him that, in praising Grant, lie shouhl have dropped disparagement upon the name of Charles Sumner. I heard from Charles Sumner's own lips the entire tale of his personal as sociation with Grant, and of Hamilton Fish's personal part in the affair. After making due allowance for all human infirmity in the three men, one inevitable conclusion remained— that the mental arrogance of Sumner, if such he felt it to be, was less insuffer able to Grant than the immeasurable moral and mental superiority of Charles Sumner himself. Nothing so unerringly marks the intrinsic fibre of a man's nature as the quality of the men whom ho chooses us his nearest companions. The strong, crude, narrow forces of Grant's mind, fought instinctively the the broader, higher ideas of great men. Their simple admission put his own at dis count. Mighty in the brute force that holds ami propels armies through seas of human blood, he was a selfish boor in the use of the finer weapons of mind and spirit that make and unmake the peace, the purity, the prosperity of a nation. The people have but to know and to remember the character of the men lifted and held in place by this man— that their abuse and degradation of political power made the administra tion of Grant memorable as the most corrupt in the whole history of the Government —to make it ini|o.-sihlo that a like administration lie ever re peated as a national nffliction. The rejKirt has been brought back from India that General Grant will refuse the nomination. Why? Not except ing his friends and admirers, does no body believe it. Whv? Simply lie entire everybody who Knows the man knows that he not only will accept a third nomination, but that he expects it. S> blinded is be by adulation, by lust for perpetual ]w>wer, by the Mat tery and promises of the toadies and office seekers whose future importauce hangs upon his re-election —which by day and by night they are manipulat ing—he can no longer see that his one chance of honor with |x#terity lies in his speedy retirement as a solJier. Ist itiin in such retirement make the rejic titioo of the failures, the mistakes, the sins of his civil adini*tration, forever impossible, and the tarnished repute of the Executive may yet 1m; covered by the lustre of the soldier's name. The New York Herald, which, the world knows, is so devoted to his fame that it has sent a polished Boswell to proclaim it round the entire circle of the earth, yet declares that, if General Grant wishes to per|etuate it undi minished, unclouded, upon his return he will retire, crowned with a soldier's fame. There is certainly oue pen that will never follow him into such retire ment with one line of reproach or ac cusation. But let no man assume to arraign tnc for writing the truth of a man who, standing at its head, yet through self-love, allowed the Government of his country to be administered on the lowest plane of selfish greed and cu pidity. Neither Grant, or any man politi cally or personally identified with him in Washington, should ever IK; made President of the United States. Sure ly the nation is not so p<s>r in manly honor, in exalted personal probity, in Executive worth, that it can find no man "available" as a possible President outside of the hungrv "hacks" and "hummers," political, who have lieen perpetually |M**ing and masquerading for the Presidency for the last five years. I love my country, love its people; best of all, love its honor, I cannot live so close to its heart to see it dis honored —accursed as 1 have seen it— by the men who assume to govern it, without consecrated protest. I do not overestimate the force of any won! of mine. It may drop far short of its mark ; it may reach but one human mind; but wherever it falls, it shall lie the priceless seed of truth. Germans and European Thrones. During the last fifty years all the newly created thrones in Europe, or those in which the male hereditary succession had from any cause ln|sxsi, have been filled by princes of German dynasties. A Prince of the House of Snxc Coburg was elected ruler of the newly formed kingdom of Belgium shortly after he had refused the title of King of the Hellenes, which lind becu offered him. Princes of the same house married the Queen of Portugal, Marin II de Gloria, in the year IK3H, and Victoria, Queen of England, in the year 1840; and their sons have become the heirs to the thrones of those HtAtes. All attempts to fill the thrones of Hpain and Roumania with rulers not proceeding from German dynastic* have proved a failure. Both King Amadou* I of Savoy and Prince Couza, a born Roumanian, were, after a brief period of rule, compel led to leave the countries of which they had become sovereigns. The throne of Greece was first oeeupb-d by a Prince of the Bavarian dynasty, Otho I; and after his dethronement by George I, n Prince of the Hloswic-Holstein-Hon derburg Gluckshurg line. The present ruler of Koumania is a Prince of the house of Hohensollern Siginaringen, and the new Prince of Bulgaria U also of German origin. Fifty years ago the privilege of filling vacant or newly ! created thrones belonged almost cxelu ! sively to France and Austria ; several | thrones in Italy were held by Hotirboris j and Hapshurg* only twenty years ago. I'RKAtHISU IIY TFFFI'IIONE. I.IBTENINO TO A l'ltKAf'ltKß AT A IIM TAftCi: OK THIRTY-MIX MII.KH. Krnm ManrhMil-r (Fn* )Oii*ri|i>n, April t!>. A nutiiberofgentleman—elcetrieiaiiH and others —met on Hunday morning at the office of Mr. F. C. Warhurton, Hujerintendent Kngincer Lam-a-liicr and Yorkshire Railway Company's Telegraph Department, Manchester, 1 for the purpose of witnessing an intcr c-ting experiment with the telephone. Their object was, in fact, hy means of this instrument to form part of the auditory of the Rev. Dr. Sb-llor, who was conducting his usual service at the Square Congregational Church, Hali fax. One of the ordinary conducting wires of the railway telegraph was u-ed. It was fitted at the Manchester 1 end with four of Rcll'stelcphonc*, while at Halifax the wire was extended to Dr. Mellor's chapel, and connected with one of Mr. Ismis John Cror-ley's pat ! cnt telephone transmitters, which is a modification of the microphone of Prof. Hughes. The arrangements at Hali fax hud bis-n carried out by Mr. Km not (Messrs. Hlakey Brothers A Km not). The distance lietwccn Man chester and Halifax as th<- wire goe is about !!•> miles. Precisely nt 10-30 o'clock the service commenced with the singing of a hymn, which was re produeed through the telephone ablest perfectly, the sonorous voire of Dr. >1 •!lor Jieing heard above that of the congregation. Afterward there was prayer and the usual lessons ; but we puss at once to the sermon, which was regarded as the crucial te.-t of the in strument. The result wa*, on the whole, very encouraging, though it was made evident that much remains to Is- done before this mode <d" rom munieation I* jicrfectcd. The chief draw hack to the succes- of the cxjs'ri ment was the induction caused by the transmission of massages along the telegraph wires, the wire in con motion with the telephone gathering in the sound and drowning the voice of the -|a-aker. Thi* difficulty, however, will lie overcome. When the wire* were at rest Dr. Mellor's powerful tone* were heard quite distinctly, but the articulation was not so char, and it was rarely that whole scntcm** could Is-heard. A down or twenty consecu tive words might lie caught, and the n-st were lost, owing, doubt leas, to a way which the preacher seemed to have of lowering Lis voice at the end of a sentence. In order not to expose it to the gaze of the congregation, the transmitter or microphone wa- placed in the pulpit, almost at the reverend gentleman's feet, *<> that when he lean ed over the pulpit or turned his head in a particular direction, hearing was rendered difficult. Had the instru ment ls*-n placet! before him it is un questionable that but for the unhappy trick which the conducting wire had of gathering in sounds from the other wires, every word would have Iwen distinctly hoard. The experiments will Ik- prosecuted further, and it is hoped, in course of time, to introduce the telephone a* a means of communi cation between the railway signal box es. It is obvious that it will have for that purpose many advantages over the telegraph. After the service, con versation was carried on between par ties at Halifax and Manchester, and the hearing wa* perfect. We may mention that the telephone is nn insti tution in Dr. Mellor's chapel, it having for some time been in successful opera tion between that place of worship and the residence of nn invnlid lady, about three miles distant. The transmitter u*i was the same one which the tele graph wire was connected on Hunday Making I,umber from Straw. H fxMii* Journal af o Comm*tf, Mr. S. 11. Hamilton, of Hu-hnell, 111., ha* discovered a process for mak ing hard wood lumls-r out of common wheat straw, with all the effect of polish and finish which is obtainable on the hardest of black walnut nml mahogany, at a* little cost a* clear pine lumber enn lie manufactured for. The process of manufacture as explained by Mr. Hnmilton is a-follows: Ordinarv stniwboard such a* is manufactured at any pajier mill is used for the purjKise. As many sheets are taken as is requir ed to make the thickness of the )uinl>cr desired. Those sheets are passed through a chemical solution, which thoroughly softens up the fiber and I completely saturates it; the whole is then pressed through a succession of rollers, dried nnd hardened during the passage, as well a* polished, and comes out of the end of the machine hard, dry lumber, ready for use. It is claimed that the chemical properties hardening in the fiber entirely prevent water soak ing, and render the lumber combusti ble only in very hot fire. The harden ed finish on the outside also makes it impervious to water. The sample ex hibited could not he detected. It is susceptible of a very high polish, and samples of imitation of marble, mahogany, etc., were shown, which might deceive the m*t experienced eye. Not only doe* Mr. Hamilton claim a substitute for lumber in sash, doors and blinds and finished stuff, but also a substitute for black walnut and other woods in the manufacture of all kinds of fine furniture, coffins, , qte., ami also nn excellent substitute ; for marble in inarhlo top tables, mari ! tie pieces, bureaus, etc. He claims that it will not warp in the least. MISS Ml I.O( k'S (AltFKit. j From l ln* Christian Union. Kite wan obliged to write for her daily bread, and that she might forget liow miserahle she was, she wrote a great deal. Of course, with nil this practice and with her vast cxjH-rienee in sorrow—for her pen was actually dipped in tears—she wrote latter and better, (ill finally this retiring, grief stricken woman awoke to find herself famous. Her first novel, 'The (>gilvies,' was very successful, and was published in lHlli, when Miss Muloek was only twenty-three, but Iter great master piece, "John Halifax, Gentleman," did not uppcur till 1807. In 1871a pension of sixty pounds a year was awarded Miss Muloek. All this fame and unqualified suc coss doubtless assuaged her grief and helped to make ]jfo endurable ; hut to one with such a loving lu-art and such quick sympathies, bereft of a home and without a relation, her life was still very sad and lonely. Hut in 18fi" < 'aptaiu (ieorge Lillie Cruik, an officer in the Knglish army, who had been in the Crimea, met Mis- Muloek, and al though some years her junior, ad dress <•<l her and sueeecoded in winning Iter hand. They have proved most con genial companions, and their married lite has been all that they could wish, with hut one exception. The woman whose love fur children amounted al tno-t to passion, ami who wrote "Philip, my King," has been denied the happiness of fis-iing baby fingers upon her eln* k or of ever hearing herself railed Mother. This is a se vere sorrow, hut even this pain has been partially assuaged. Strangely enough, one dark, rainy night, while -he and Iter hu-hand were -peaking of children and of the jov and brightness they bring to so many dwellings, there came a loud ring at the Is-ll and then a furious knocking. <)n opening the door, lying upon the -ill, they found a ba-ket enclosed in many wrappings. When they were removed, they dis eovc-rvd a lovely little babe only a few hours old. The child wa* wrapped in ! one roll after another of India muslin, and on its breast was pinned a note begging Mr-. Craik to l>e kind to the little waif thu* brought to her door, and a— uring her that no mean blood flowed in its vein*. Tenderly she lift ed the little thing in her loving arms, and her heart o|*-ii<*l a- warmly to take in the j**ir little deserted "crea ture. Fhev called the child Dorothea, (Jodgiven, and she is now their legally adopted daughter whom no one can take from them, not even the parents who so cruelly deserted her. The lit tle girl is most tenderly attache*! to tUe only mother and father she has ever known. Mr*. Craik's happy home i* in the vicinity of Richmond. I>et us boric that she has left all her sorrows behind her. and that while she lives no pain or grief shall ever again cross her peaceful jiatb. Mark Twain's Hrtrw. " Gentlemen, thi* horse of mine was tough-bitted, and he went so fa*t that I had to guide him by electricity— hod to hnve wire lines nnd keep a battery in the wagon all the time in order to stop him." " Why didn't you stop him by hol lering whoa?" t inquired. ".Stop him hy hollering whoa? Why, I couldn't holler loud enough to make that horse hear me. He traveled so fast that no sound ever rea<-bed him from lichind. He went foster than the sound, sir. Holler whoa-a! and he'll be in the next town lie fore the sound of your voice reaches the da-li loard. 'Travel fat?' I should snv he could. Why. I one*? started from Virginia City to Meadow Crock right in front of one of the most dreadful rain storm* we ever had on the Pacific mnt. ' Wind and rain?' Why, the wind blew eighty milra nu hour, and the rain fell in sheet*. I drove right before "that storm for three hours—just on the edge of fliat hurricane and rain for forty mile*." " Did you pd drenched?" " Drenched? No, sir! What did I keep a fast horse for? Why, I tell you, I drove right in front of that rain storm. I could lean forward and let the sun shine on me, or lean back ward nnd feel rain and eatch hail stones. When the hurricane slacked up the horse slacked up, too, and w lien it blew ftistcr I just said ' Git up!' to the horse and touched the bat tery, and away he went. Now, I don't want to lie about my horse, and I don't ak you to believe what I say, hut when I got to Meadow Creek my linen duster was a* dry a* powder. Not a drop of Vain on the wagon scat, either, while the wagon box was level full of hailstones and wntcr." w Where the lost Crrtiflrate was Foaad. A man bought some of the lift gov ernment certificates at the Cincinnati office, nud missed one after retiring from the window. He could find it nowhere. "Give me a dollar and I'll get it for you," said a boy. The of fer was accepted. The Isoy yanked another urchin oat of the line, and choked him until he opened his mouth, from which the hidden certificate dropped out. A. It. hikl the (treat American Teaser, From CnjrftAl. The. Springfield liejniblicnn, nnont | the pussage in the Hcuatc the other • lay between Blaine and Bayard—or rather the (terminal assault of the former upon the latter —observed that Bluine is t'a-1 earning the reputation l of the tir<-at American Teaser. It is worth while to remark that the /{f/tub liran, founded hy Ham. Howie*, honor* ably perpi'tnates the memory of that liohle fellow and splendid journalist under the management of his worthy son, and therefore i* hostile to Blairo- ; unlike the Tribune, founded hy Hor ace Greeley, which, having fallen into the hands of Jay Gould, quite natu rally admires the hero of the Little Hock and Fort Kinith infamy, and worhijm the author of the Mulligan ; correspondence. Hut this not to the ]*iint. The ufl'air between the two senators mentioned has provoked an unusual volume of comment, the gen eral drift of which is in the direction of amazement at the temerity of Hlainc. Keasouing simply from the vulnera bility of Blaine himself, ami upon the | logic of the proverb touching residence in gin** houses, nothing could he more natural than astonishment at the utter abandon with which that remarkable person rushirs into personal strife. Upon such premises it would appear that no man in the United State* ought to fight shy of inquiry into js-r- MIIIUI record ; for no man now promi nent, unji*s we except Robeson, is handicapped with such an utterly wretched and absolutely miserahle fiersotial record as he is. Living, as lie docs, at the mercy of his fellow senators, his impertinence i* so absurd that it ceaww to lie offensive and be comes ludicrous. Hut if you take second thought upon it, the reckless truculeuce of Blaine, nisi, ad of being a phenomenon, is really the most sensible course he oouhl adopt. There is no reason why he shouhi refrain from iuvitiug per son ml recrimination, for his own rec ord is a- bad already a* a record can lie, and nothing that Hayard or Thur man, or anybody else could say in re i tort or recrimination, could make it j any worse, either in fact or in ap 1* a ranee. Under those circumstances Maine stands in the attitude of a man who ha nothing to lose. On the oth er hand he can fairly assume that the association of his name with those of Thurman ami Hayard, even though it Is- the association of conflict, must tend to elevate it in the general esti mation. It is related that a certain Knglish nobleman once tamely sub mitt.*! to a rank affront from a gam ! liler at Newmarket; the nobleman wa* one of the boon comjaraion* of the Regent, afterwards George IV., and that spirited prince demanded to kuow why liis friend had not resented the indignity, adding: "If you don't chas tise the fellow, I'll go and kick him rnvself!" "I Is g you, sir, to do nothing of the kind," replied the nobleman. "That fellow would give a thousand guinea* to lie cha-tiscil by me ; to be kicked | by the heir apparent would make his ! everlasting fortune!" I will not say that the degradation lof Hlaine is such that the kick of a , gentleman would be a lioon to him ; but bis behavior sometimes amounts to a sort of paroxysmal desperation, or hysterical hardihood, calculated to suggest a much. Hear to Eirrj Heart. frtm lh (WlrmU I)r. Lilienthal recently stepped into : a sehisil room during a recitation in geography, and was invited by Uie teacher to ask the class a few ques tions. He courteously complied. " What is the capital of Michigan V " lauising," was the prompt answer. " What is the largest city in Michi gan ?" " Detroit." " Where is the great University of Michigan locate*! ?' " At Ann Arbor." " What is the capital of Pennsylva nia r " Harrisburg." " What is the largest city in Penn sylvania ?" " Philadelphia." " What building is there in Phila delphia that is dear to the heart of every patriotic American citizen ?" That was a poser; the class was troubled, hut made no answer. The doctor repeated the question. "I know," said a little fellow on n back scat, a* he stretch**! up his arm to its length. "Tell us what it is then, my boy," said the doctor. " The Mini," was the confident answer. A Frightful Jump. Peer, who jumped from the suspen sion bridge at Niagara Falls, a few davs ago, wore a rubber life preserver, to lessen the depth of bis penetration into the water; a sponge over his mouth and nostrils, to prevent the water from being forced into them, and thick cloth over his feet and legs, to Erotect them from concussion. A rasa wire, attached to his shoulders, was reeled out as he fell, with just enough tension to keep him in an upright position. To strike the water flatwise would be certain death. Pan dropped 19*2 feet in four seconds. lie was exceedingly nervous just before the feat, and it was thought that bis courage bad given out. Wild Life In Ihi- South. Three instances recently mention# 1 by the Houtherii pajs-r* chow that ail the superstition ha* not yet lxscu rub bd out of the negro. AM lie ctill keo|M memoranda of household ex js-nse* by ineanc of notches cut into a )'ie Stick, so he ctill fcarc the old bov with-horn*. A few day* ago the colored Meth<*ii*u of Macon unuerbrnk to bring aliout a miracle that would cure Minerva Jlrown, one of their number of lite. They met at the wo man's bedside and prayed hy turn* for nine hour* consecutively. During that time the sister was quiet, though she had previously been contorted a* often as once an hour. As soon as the pray ing hand went away she fell into a j worse state than ever. The exjieri ment will lie tried again. Another story eom<* from Raltirnore. Le.*t . week Husan Smith, a large colored ! woman, aged about sixty years, died in that city. Her family and friends i followed the coffin to the cemetery last j Thursday. At the grave the )if was torn from the coffin and the face of the dead exposed to view. All present , then gathered close around and watch ed one of the deceased's son* raise the liody from the coffin and carefully turn it over, face downward. While this was going on the bystanders kept their heads uncovered, mumbling an unintelligible prayer and going through strange motions of the body. They held charms in their hands. Hill, the old grave-digger, was greatly shocked. The darkeys refuse to tell why they buried Mrs. Smith face downward. Still another is from Boorwboro', Maryland, relating to Si mon Summers, deceased. After the burial of Summers his widow became impressed with the belief that unless changes should be made in certain matters connected with the interment a gr<at calamity would come upon the survivors. She accordingly had the grave and coffin opeuod and the changes made. A Sinimlar liream. Falrfi.ld, 'Ms ) Chrotkl. . Two voung men, residents of Nor ridgewock, met one morning and one said: " Charles, I dreamed last night that you were a Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine, that I wi- a minister, and that you called on rac to open your court with prayer." Just thirty years after this Rev. Dr. Charles Allen, late President of tho State College, happened to step into the Supreme Court room in Augusta. Judge Charles Dan forth tiockoncd to him and asked him to open bis court with prayer, and, heboid, the dream of thirty years was verified. Rev. Dr. Allen is now pastor of the Methodist church at Fairfield. THE other evening at a convivial gathering where all the guest* did not happen to be of the same political opinions, as they sat down to dinner one said to the company: "Gentlemen, I should, before we begin dinner, make a little explana tion of one of my peculiarities. It sometimes hspficns that when I have a little wine on l>oard I take it into my head to jibe people who are not of my way of thinking in politics. I as sure you thnt I mean nothing serious by such an action, and thnt if I should appear to IH> rude you will make a little allowance and not lay it to my j account." As he seated himself Another guest a man seven feet high and with a hand like a jambon dr Oiurinnali, arose and said as courteously: "Gentlemen, I too should make a little explanation of one of roy pecu liarities. It sometimes happens that when I have a little wine on board ami some one begins to iibe me for my way of thinking in polities I take it into my head to wring his darned nock or pitch him out of a second story window. I assure you that I mean nothing serious by such an ac tion, and that if I should appear to lie rude vou will make a little allow . ance and not lay it to my account" Not a word of politics was spoken at the table that eveniug and all wcut inerrv as a marriage bell. DEATH AT A CIRCTA.— An old man named .Samuel Widenien, whose resi dence wo* in Clearfield county, and who had been swindled out of consid erable money by some of the showmen, followed the rascals to Milton, and while making search for his man through the side shows in company with Constable Riascl of Milton, firfl dead. Up to the time he dropped a corpse he seemed to be in g-od health, somewhat excited, it is said, because he had seen the man who had wronged liim in the tent, Mr. Jacob Hartranft, landlord of the Broadway House, with whom the unfortunate man was during his stay in town, took the dead man to his former home. A lUMKRt iT's KxAHri.lt.—Hon- Scott Lord, formerly Democratic Rep resentative of the I'tira (New York) district in Congress, received a fee of • 100,000 from Cornelius J. Vander hilt for his services in contesting the will of his father. This nut Mr. Lord on his financial pins, and he returned to his former home in (teneasee, and ]*id, principal and interest, all his iiast indebtedness, from which the hank rapt law bad given him a release. This is an example many others in the country might follow with profit to their wronged and suffering creditors.
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