Jfwwftat. BELLEPONTE, PA. Tha Largest. Cheapest and Best Paper PUBLISHED IN OXNTRB COUNTY. from th New York Observer. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. fourth Quarter. sr asv. ntssr a. aaut-T, P. p. OCTOBER 23. Lesson 4.—The Peace Offering. termed 7: It—l*. (loins* TKT:—' "Offor unto 0L thauksgMn*. anil I*) lUy rows uulo th- MoO High."—fsalm .'sr. 11. Central Truth: —Joyful communion with God the privilege of the justified believer. Of the various Jewish sacrifices the most important wore three, tho sin-of fering, the hurnt-otfering and the peace otferiug, which are the subject of our present lesson. All these had points of resemblance. In each there was the sacrifice of animal life. In each the of ferer made the victim his own repre sentative by laying Ins hand upon its head. And in each there was the pour ing or sprinkling of blood on the altar, round about, and a portion at least of the ottering was to he burnt. But, lie sides these points ol resemblance, they had also others of difference. In the burnt-offering the entire animal was consumed on the altar. In the peace offering the sacrificial meal was the point of chief importance. A portion, after being waved to and fro or lilted upward in token of its presentation to God, was set apart for the officiating priest and the remainder was carried away by the offerer to he eaten by him self with his household and friends. It should be observed that the un leavened cakes and the wafers with oil were rather accompaniments of the peace offering than parts of it. These were of themselves a "meat" or food of- ! fering, expressive of thanksgiving and praise. The leavened bread was not placed on tho altar, bnt was added to make the meal palatable. The peace offerings were either public or private, for all the people or for the individual. The two lambs offered at Pentecost were a public offering. Ho was that which Solomon offered at the dedication of the temple' when "he of fered two and twenty thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand eheep." Private peace-offerings were, as our lesson indicates, of three kinds, the "sacrifice of thanksgiving" for mer cies received, the "vow" or fulfilment of some promise to God, and the "vol unlary offering" dictated by"R glad and loving heart. The Psalms are full of allusions to these, as where it is writ ten: "Thy vows are upon me, O God; I will render praises unto thee;" "I will freely sacrifice unto thee; I will praise tby name, O Lord, for it is good;" "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanks giving and will call upon tby name, O Lord; I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all tho peo ple." The peace offering was a joyous sacri fice. the most so of all. As the burnt offering specially expressed oonsecra tion, this signified reconciliation snd communion. Of this thereeould be no more impressive symbol the meal in which God himself warf supposed to abare. There was in this meal a fitness to promote human friendship and fami ly affection, as there is in our own thanksgiving reunions. But the pur pose in it was higher than this. It was to express anil promote fellowship with God, and how significant it is that atonement always went before, as if to {irepare the way for the joyous meal! >oes it not remind us that there can be no really happy fellowship with one an other, much less with a covenant-keep in? God, uotii the conscience is relieved of the burdening* sense of guilt? We cannot praise God truly until we are at peace with him through the one sacri fice of Christ. "By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continuity." It ia to he remembered that in this sacrifice the whole was first given to God. Therefore the portion which went to make up the sacrificial meal was in reality given back by God to the offerer. Thus it was God who spresd the table. It was be who provider! the feast, just as it is be who spreads and furnishes every joyous board. And bis conde scension to share the feast was the ful filling beforehand of the gospel pmm ise, "I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." Of this peace-offering there are many antitypes. There is a delightful one in the act by which the sinner closes with the Havior and takes him to be bis atoning sacrifice, and in the great joy which sometimes fills the soul in its new sense of reconciliation and oneness with God. There is one in the table of communion at which we commemorate the dying lovs of Christ for our pardon and life, und then, with emotions of grateful love, feed upon bim as the"liv fog bread." That is a glad feast, and never is God more sensibly with us. In deed, any expression which brings God, as our pardoning and covenant-keening God, near to the heart, and in which we fael that he it is who is loading us with benefits, or granting to us great deliverances, or gladdening us with good things, is of the nature of this feast of peaoe. And such high joy it is God's good pleasure to renew to bis people every day. It will be noticed that in the "sacri fice of thanksgiving" (v. 15) the flesh was to be all eeteo the same day. But io the others any remainder might be eaten on the morrow. Would this indi cate that the offering of praise was the more sacred and so to be "exhausted by generosity to the poor oo the dav of its offering?" But in no case could any thing be kept to be eaten after the sec ond day. It would then be corrupt and unfit for a feast at which God is to •hare. "It shall be an abomination." PRACTICAL SCOOMTIO.VS. 1. Since the mercies of God are abun dant and constant should net we offer the sacrifice o( praise continually? P 2. All the Jewish sacrifices somehow pointed to Christ. To understand them fully we most go to the New Testament for ita added light. Oo the other hend to understand Chriat, to see the fulness and many-sidedness there ia in him, wo need to approach him sometime* by way ol the ancient ay mbols described in tho Old Testament. The moat intelli gent faith and richeat experience come of the study of the whole Bible. 3. Again we are taught the absolute dependence of all human hope and true good on an accomplished atonement lor sin. But for it there could be no uc ceptable consecration on the sinner's part.no acceptable offering of praise, no flowing together of the hummi and di vine heart. Never can we express all the gratitude we owe for the great sac rifice made for us on the cross. 4. lieligien is not all self-denial and struggle. The pardoned soul haa a right to be glad. God provides for his reconciled ones a daily feast. Kven the fulfilment of vows is attended with joy. We are to watch und to be faith ful, but we are also to "sing and give praise." 5. The tablo of communion ought to be a place of bumble joy fulness. 6. It is impossible to estimate the liappinessof being included in the com puny of (tod's accepted people. Into this blessed fellowship God himself has opened the door. We have no victims to offer, but only to aocept the one sac rifice provided in Christ. Thus coming and making to him an honest self-sur render we are in the way of peace. Our portion is now much gladness here and an everlasting feast above. TIIE WIFE'S STORY. R.. CURISTUNCT OISCRIUING TIIE CECIL TIED or IIER IIL'SUANO. A few days since the cousel for Mrs. Christiancy in the divorse suit now pen.Ming between her husband, ex- Minister Christiancy, aud herself, inti mated to the attorneys for Christian cy that they had no desire to make a witness of the wife in the case, and would prefer that the principals to the suit be not called upon to testify. The other side informed them that the ex-senator would lie placed upon the staud, and his testimony taken at the proper time. Upon becoming acquain ted with the fact, the counsel for Mrs. Christiancy decided that in justice to themselves tliev must hear the testi rnony of their client in the case.! Accordingly a session was held at Washington on Saturday and the lady placed upon the witness stand, where she was kept three hours, and the cross-examination was not finished j at the time of adjournment. In addi tion to the attorneys ex-Senator Chris tiancy was present ami remained dur ing the hearing. Mrs. Christiancy not beiug a competent witness as to the charges of aduletry, her testimony was confiued to acts of cruelly as alleged in her cross bill. She testified that 1 while residing in I -arising, Mich., with her husband in the month of March, j 1*77, ou one occasion he struck her; knocked her down. Again during and the Chrismas holidays in the year 187*, while they when! raiding in Washington, he struck ber and knock ed |hT down and during the night j would not permit her to have any clothing on the bed. The weather was extremely cold and she arose and went to an adjoining room trying to make herself more comfortable. When 1 she started to leave the room which they had been occupying together he ! refused to permit her to take any clothing into the next room with her, and she was compiled to pass the night with the raiment she wore and what little could lie found iu the room which she had entered. In I'eru in the month of August, 187!', while living at the Legation, lie struck her several times, and on one occasion pushed her out of the house and shut the door against her. Afterward she returned with, her hus band's son. He struck her again, and shut both herself and his son out doors. He then called the son to come hack, and told him if he went away with witness it must be forever. The ■on answered that it would lie forever, and kept on and escorted Iter to the hotel, where she remained over night. The next day he sent for her to come back, the messenger saying that he was very sick, delirious and in almost a dying condition. She went hack to the legation, and instead of being sick, as stated, she found her husband quietly silting in the sitting room in his right mind. He became very kind to her and remained so until the next Monday. Then he came to her bed, abused her, pinched her, and used all sorts of violence, and said that he told au untruth when he said that he was sorry for the manner in which he had treated her. One month later at the legation he assaulted her while dressing. As he was striking her a gentleman stopping in the house over night stepped into the mom and came to her protection. After that she re fused to live with him longer and a few days later left Peru for home. No material change in her direct testimo ny was produced by her crose-exami tion. _ TUB speech of Mr. Vest, of Missou ri, in the Henate, yesterday, together with other efforts of that gentleman during the past two years, stamp him as one of the most effective debaters and polised orators in the body. His arguments were succinctly stated, and covered every phase or the subject ad vanced by the Republican side. By quotations from Henator Edmund's for mer speeches he completely overthrew that gentleman's arguments and van quished him in his chosen position, which be selected with such care and defended with such deliberation and conscious virtue. The close attention wliiirh Mr. Vnt rra-aieatl KnlK irn the floor and in tho galleries, wot* a deserved compliment to his able effort in behalf of tho right of the Democrat* to fill tho vacaut chair, and was an ex pression of tho interest in which the public held the subject under conside ration. In llie retirement of Judge Thurmnn to privulc life tho Democrats lost their best debutcr in the Kunnte; and the promising niuuncr in which Mr. Vest looms up as an opponent of tho leading sneakers on the other side of tho chamber will be tho cause .of general congratulation among Demo crats. THE ntI.NCE OF THAMES. Tilll ORAMISON OF Til* UREAT ORATOR, PAT RICK HENRY, A UECOAR. The recent romance of tramp life was exemplified recently by a delnpi dated looking individual with only one leg, whose name was registered at the station house as \V. H. Card well. He is known to many persons as a re porter. and has lived a most variega ted life. His full name is Wyatt Hen ry Cardwell. His father was the emi nent Dr. Cardwell of Kichmoud, Vir ginia, nnd his mother was tho eldest daughter of the world renowned ora tor, Patrick Henry. Cardwell is said to he a graduate of Washington Uni versity nnd has withal a polished edu cation. He bus the remarkable fac ulty of repeating long poems from memory. It is said he can troll out Childe lladold, Don Juau, and such poems from beginning to end. At the age of fifteen he joined the Confede rate army and was shot at Manassas, losing his leg. He wns taken to the Richmond hospital, where he excited the attention of prominent ladies urn! gentlemen by his precocity. After wards he became private secretary of •Senator Foote. He ho* wandered all over the country, being how heard of in New York, now in Cincinnati, now in Louisville, and now in Washing ton. At the present time he is heard of in Memphis. Helms done consid erable tiewspaper work in his time, was connected with the National Star at Goodman, Mississippi, in 1878, and afterwards was on the Kosciusko Chronicle. Wherever he has been, be ha* had a pursuer whiskey It lias made him tramp all over the United States and has frequently caused him to be arrested. He ha* au extensive acquaintance with the great men of thi* country, and has now in his possession a letter from Alexander 11. Stevens congratulating him on his reform. He is a man of good address and has reduced beg ging to a fine art. For instance, in approaching a stranger, he will say : "Will you pardon the perfect ingeuu ousnes* of the request, but could you lend me half a dollar to get a uigbt's lodgings?" Should the person thus approaehed deny the request, he will not be indignant or insulting but will gracefully change the conversation to national politics, the ethics of journal ism, the trait* of great men or similar topic*. He is au accomplished per former on the banjo. \\ ith all hi# had Imhits, he is *aid to be honest. It is the one remnant of the Virginia gentleman. A more remarkable ca reer could hardly lie imagined. From a fine family to the profession of a common tramp, and he is only about thirty five years of age. There was a time when he would force his way into the families of respectable people, but he docs so no longer, and it is on ly too palpable that he has lost caste with himself. The Good dMd Times. It sounds verv poetical to say "the good old times," but if we should be strictly truthful, having an eye on the actual rather than upon the sentimen tal, we should be more inclined to designate them as the "mean old times," especially, if by some power fur freak of nature, we should be ta ken up and set back among the days that fell to the lot of those who were men and women when our grandpa rents were little children. It is no wouder that lieiijamin Franklin, with his prophetic vision, wished it had beeu his destiny to be born two or three centuries later. Think of the journeys then requiring days, that may now he accomplished in as many hours, and with far more comfort. Think of sitting in church winter af ter winter without the cheerful light of a fire; save that which was kindled in the imagination by the glowing elo quence of the preacher, as he describ ed thn torments of the damned. Think of paying forty or fifty dollars a year for a newspaper, and think, al so, of the beggarly little sheet and all its meagre quantities. Think of liv ing without a friction match in the house, or a tooth brush, or is carpet, or gaslight, or furnaces, or a sewing machine, or doing without overshoes umbrellas and a thousand other things we call necessities. It is startling to consider the multitude of things, small and great, that we possess, which con tribute to our comfort, our welfare, our ease, our enjoyment, that were ut teriy unknown to our grandfathers, and never could have entered their dreams. The spirit of progress con sults oar convenience and multiplies advantages in every direction, en hancing the charm of life, diminishing its pains, and inviting us to come in, welcome and eojoy its innumerable gifts. PUT boys at work and see how they will play. Het them to play and see how they will work. The Eastern Nentlment Toward the Mormons. 0. C. Godwin, In Il trj.er'a for Octol>r, While this system is spreading and being daily strengthened, while some thing is going on in Utah, which, if left exclusively to itself, would, in a generation, bring women to the uuc tiou-block, and utterly brutalize men, the people of tjie east do not seem to be greatly worried. Though the gen tiles of iftah never wronged the Mor mons, though they have given to Utah its prosperity and accumulated wealth, though they own quite two fifths of the property of the territory, and though they have never asked unything of tho Mormons except that they obey the laws, still, the sentiment of the East is that they are a predato ry set and that the Mormons are en titled to peculiar and tender conside ration, because they, when their pres ence and customs had become intole rable to the people nmorig whom they dwelt, started out in the wilderness and established u thriving Territory. While doing this the Mormons have shrunk from no crime, recoiled from no falsehood, have murdered and rob bed Americans in secret, and laid the crime to savages, and still, while de spoilirig Americans, have shed croco dile tears over their extreme bufferings. They have disobeyed uud derided the laws, and still continue to do so ; they have insulted and driven away United States officials for no offense except that of trying to do their duty under their oaths, and all this has been jwr formed by the order of less than thir ty men, who, in the tnean time have absorbed so much of the earnings of the people that they possess more mon ey and property than five times twen ty thousand oj 1 their dupes possess. Worse than all, they have again forg ed the chains of an ignominious slave ry on the wrists of women ; what they call their religion offers a |>crpetual premium for men's lusts; their teach ings kill the germ of chastity in the hearts of childhood before it is ever warmed into life, and destroys the honor nnd sacredness of home. The men of the east should consider these things, nnd should remember that once before there was an institution in this country around which there was a shield of sympathy; its divine rights were declared from a thousand pulpits; Congress was too sorded and too cow ardly to deal with it; wholesale mer chant* and great corporations lent their influence to perpetuate it, and a venal press rang with anathemas against any who dared to denounce it. But there came a day at last when men had to choose which should live and rule, that iustitution or this na tion. The history of w hat followed is fresh in all minds; and little as the masses believe it now, there will come a time, if this monster in Utah is left to grow, when there will he another call of volunteers and for money; and, as before, tens of thousands of brave young men will goawuv, never to re turn, a* before, there will be an enor mous debt incurred; a* fwfore, the country will be hiliocked with graves, and the whole land will be moistened by the rain of women's tears. "Is this the Dark Horse!" THE MESSSGR THAT CORE I.IXO SENT TO GARTIELD AT CHICAGO. From the #rar<l tUp l* Tim**. From the KngU of yesterday we ex cerpt the following: The Dayton Journal mentions n lit tle incident of the Chicago convention which seems to show that Senator Conkling foresaw the outcome from ucarcr the beginning than many oth ers. It was an incident in which Conkling ami Garfield, one for Grant and the other for Sherman, were the characters, and it is related as follows: "'Among lh Isle President Garfield'* p|rf>r* will prnbsblr !• found ■ little memorandum from ftoscoe Conkling to turn In pencil, written in the hall of the national convention in Chicago, in about these word*: " 'My I fear tiartleld: If there 1* to he a dark horse in this convention there i* no person whom I would prefer beforh your self. CoXXLIXO. " 'The reply KM: •".My Ih-ar Conkling; There will be no derk hnr In this convention. lam for Sherman. J. A. OAariKLii. " 'This was pending the great struggle and just before the mighty tornado which carried Garfield into the ('residency—and the grave.'" Our esteemed contemporary must need* forego such pleasure as it may derive from fancying that "Conkling foresaw the outcome.' Wc were for tunate enough to have been present at the Chicago convention and to have seen the incident which gave rise to the above item. Conkling—arrogant, able, prcauming, neococky and plucky —was trying to throttle all opposition by passing a gag law binding all dele gates to support the nominee of the convention. A delegate from West Virginia—be who replied to the sneering inquiry as to his identity made by the turkey gobbler from New York by saying that he was the man who made a hundred speeches for Mr. Hayes in the last campaign while Conkling was making but one—op posed the motion, but just before it was put General Garfield came to the front and made his famous plea for peace, The waters were troubled for a time, but the oil poured by the poli tic Henator-eleet from Ohio quieted them, and the motion waa withdrawn. It was at thii moment that Conkling turned to General Garfield a face fintn ing with indignation and impudence. As the'Geucral took his sent with the Ohio delegation Conkling impetuously pulled from his pocket a card and wrote something upon it. Calling a jmge he sent the card to Garfield, who glanced over it, lore it into pieces and threw them upon the floor. Having noticed the affair we were curious about the contents of the card, and when the convention adjourned we ex plained to u journalistic friend, who was upon the floor of the house, lie found the card. Upon it was the sin gle sentence, with no address or signa ture: "Is this the dark horse putting him self forward?" The occurrence made a marked im pression upon us at the time auJ since then we have narrated it ujiori several occasions. We tell the story again only because it is presented in a dis torted light by several of our contem poraries. The Chinese Pigtail. OHIOIN or Till* f'ECCUAR CL'STOM IN THE CELESTIAL EMI-IHB—THE I.UNU-II AIHEIJ RACE—UAIMiE OK CONQt'EST. A recent inijteriu) edict on the sub ject calls attention to the origin of the pigtail, which is now the distinctive mark of a native of the flowery king dom. It is one of the strange pheno mena of that country, whore every thing is so ancient and where so few innovations have hern tolerated, that this practice, which was originally the badge of conquest, should have been not merely accepted hut permitted to intertwine itself so closely with the na tional life that it would require forci ble measures to induce the people to forego it. For in the days before the Mauchu conquest,*hen the throne was occupied by the great dynasties of an tiquity, the Chinese allowed their hair to grow as best it pleased them, and they were even then known to some of their neighbors as the "long-haired race." But when the great soldier Noorhachu inarched southward from Moukdcn to conquer China and estab lish the Manchu dynasty he gave an order to his lieutenants to compel the the people a* they submitted to shave their heads in token of their surren der. The Manehus were thus enabled to discover at a glance which of the Chinese were vanquishes! and which were not, while the thoroughfares of their success was expressed in the most formal and emphatic maimer. This practice, which was adopted partly from the exigencies arising out of the conquest of the multitude# of China hy a mere handful of Tartar soldier*, was coutinued, and la-came an integral portion of the Manchu svstetn of gov ernment, and the result bas tended to coufirm the wisdom of the founders of the present dynasty. The popular views on the subject of the pigtail have not yet been ascertained with any degree of certitude; hut it may be re turn ked that all the insurrections of the last twenty years have put forward as otic of the feature* the intention tore new this practice, which ha# been re presented as a badge of conquest. There now, however, seems more chance than ever of it* i*cs|M-luation. Soranambnltstir Drawing. * ITRTI.U* CASE WHICH AI-I-BAHS WORTUT nr *< ILMiriC IKQCIRV. A case of somnambulism, which would appear to he wortliy of expert investigation, is that of a little New York bov of I I, Martin Frobiscber by name. The buy's tut her i- a teacher of elocution au<l acting and say* that little Martin, who ha* been from hi* < arliest boyhood in the habit of ri*ing in the middle of the night in a som nambulistic slate, ha* become greatly laflcinatcd with the study of drawing, for which he shows marked talent. Thin study has taken ouch an intense hold of the hoy's mind that he rises in the night in a completely uncon scious stale and will continue to work on nn unfinished piece of drawing with as much skill and dexterity as though hewero awake. The other night he got up and drew a head, from a cast which he had drawn on paper during the previous day, on the wall of his chamber. Last w inter he caught a se rious cold during the night in his night-shirt engaged upon his usual ab sorbing pursuit, nud next morning his mother found him with a decider] stiff nes* of the knees. "I can understand," the father said, "how a somnambulis tic subject can go through certain me chanical motions, hut it is iticouceir able to me how the boy is able to draw with such perfect attention to every detail —to put expression into an eye, for instance, and spirit into a face." He exhibited some very clever draw ings by the boy, partially done, as he declared, while the little fellow was in this remarkable condition. When asked whether it was a hereditary ten dency in the family lie said that his own brother—the boy's uncle—had beeu subject to it, and, strange to say, Martin's youngest brother was now catching the infection of nocturnal es capades The boy is a bright, good looking little fellow, who appears to be thoroughly sound, but has evidently aomewbat suffered from confinement and overstudy. He was closely ques tioned, but he could not be induced to say anything except that he was utter ly unconscious of what ho had done in the nights in which he had been up yntil he saw his drawings next morn ing on the table or the wall. The father hopes that the case will have the light of a scientific investigation, as he say* it is a great mystery to him self and the satire family. The Stewart Urate fisbbery. TIIE BOUT STOLEN ft-OK THE ORIOINAL THIEVES— A lIETECTIVE's STOKV. HT. Lot;t\ September 27.—A new phase of the Ktewart body robbery is piveri by an officer of the werel serv ice who has been working upon the case. When the attempt was made in IH7<> to steal Abraham Lincoln's re mains this officer was cognizant of the plot and rendered valuable service. I'lfe men who were captured and sent to jail—Mullin and Hughes—he says were merely the tools of a ring. This same ring is at the bottom of the Htcw art robbery. "I may say," be says, "that from the first / had an impres sion that the attempt which fuiled in Hpringfield would be repeated else where and prospect of suc cess. \e, there is evidence of the fact that some, at least,engaged in the planning of the Lincoln conspiracy formed the plot carried out iu the Btewart case. The plan was the same substantially. In fact, there was a point of resemblance beyond even the suspicion of those who at first regarded the [dans as the same. In both cases the conspiracy was two-fold, or, rather, there were what might Ik- called two antagonistic conspiracies—one to rob the grave and the other to steal the body from those who had broken open the tomb. In the Lincoln case if the robbery had been accomplished the men who did the desperate deed would not have profited by it. There were men txhind Mullin and Hughes who would have caused the IKKIV to have been removed from the place of con cealment first agreed upon and held it for ransom." The officer declares that the body has been removed from its first place of concealment. The five who participated in the first robbery were iu turn victimized. The body was long since stolen from them. He says he knows where the body is and has ottered to tell Judge Hilton all the facts of the case and secure the re mains without reward, hut Judge Hil ton has not seen fit to accept his offer. IVrk* Advice to Daughter*. Trow lb# Mllvaukw NIB. "Come here, si*. ami sit down beside rue and let me give you a little talk ing to. I wish topfxak to you of your mother. It may lie you have noticed a careworn look UJIOII her faee lately. Of course it ha* not been brought there by any act of yours, but it is your duty to cbaxe it away. I don't mean for you to run at it and shake your skirt* aud tell it to'shoo,'as you would a hen, nor do I expect you to get on the other side of the fence ami throw old oyster cans and pieces of barrel slaves at it. Hut 1 want you to get up to-morrow morning and get breakfast; and when your mother conn* down and begins to express her surprise go right up to her and kiss her on the mouth. You can't imagine how it will brighten up her dear old face. Her face has more wrinkles than yours, far more, and yet if you were sick that lace would ap)>ear to you to lie more beautiful than an an gel's a* it hovers over you, watchiug every opportunity to minister to your comtort, and every one of those wrin kles would seem to be bright waveleta of sunshine chasing each other over the dear old face. Those burdens if not lifted from her shoulders will break her down. There, there, don't cry; she ha* not left you vet. She is down in the kitchen stringing beans for diuuer, and if you feel so hadlv you might go down ami finish tbera and let her change ber dress and rot an hour before dinner. And after din ner take down ber hair and do it up for her. You need not wind it over your finger aud luss to make spit curls, as she used to do with yours, hut give it a good brushing and wind it up geotly, tenderly, as if you en joyed doing it for her. The young man down in the parlor ran wait till you have performed these duties. If lie ex presses any impatience you may ex plain to him that you feel under more obligation* to your mother than you do to him. The Woman who Shot at Arnold. An interesting iucident of lite revo lutionary war not recorded in the books—benedict Arnold's narrow es cape from death at a woman's hands —it recalled by the death of Mrs. Ann lliuman Kellogg, of Fairfield, aged 92 years. She was the daughter of Captain Elisba Hinman, of the United BtaU* navy, and her mother was the only American who remained in the towu of New London when it was burned by Kcnedict Arnold in 1781. The latter knew Mrs. Hinman, <|pd when he raw her on her doorstep as he entered the town be saluted her and offered to rave her property if she would point it out. She indicated sev ers! neigh bora' house* as well as her own, and tbey were not burned. The sacking of the town, the capture of Fort (iriswold and the BiKOT of Colonel Ledyard and his soldiers fol lowed, inoeuaiug Mrs. Hinman so greatly that she descended from her house-top, from which she had wit nested the outrages, and taking a mus ket from a closet she leveled it at Ar nold as he sat on his horw in front of the house. With a long *ad deliberate aim she palled the trigger, and the piece missed fire. Hearing the snap of the lock Arnold turned and asked what the noise was, but with great presence of mind she dropped the gun out of sight and said it was the break ing of a chair. I t ?^V ' a*-ft &
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