©he ©enfre jjßenwctflt. BILLBFONTE, PA. Tks Urgstt,Cheapest and Best Paper PUBLISHED IN CKNTHK COUNTY. From tbs Nsw York OlwrTrr. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Fourth Quarter. ST SIT. HSSST M. OSotT, . D. OCTOBER 30. Lesson s.—Nadab and Abihu. Lsrmct-i 1": I—lo. (IOLDra TsiT:—" Yt ilmll ls> liolj: fur lam holy."— LST, 11<. Central Truth i —The path of reverent obedience is the way of safety. The Tabernacle has now been set up, and Aaron and his sons consecrated as priest*. The services of the Tabernacle had also been inaugurated. And, to crown the whole, the glory of Ood ap peared to all the people ; and, tire de scending from heaven, consumed the sacrifices heaped upon the altar. It was at, or soon after, this lime that the painful eventa occurred which are nar rated in our lesson. Nadab and Abihu were the two eldest sons of Aaron. Tnis fact alone would make them men of note and influence in Israel. Rut they had also been spe cially favored of Ood. It had been per nutted to them to accompany Moses and their father into the sacred mount, and there to have a vision of Ood such as had never before been the lot of man. Just now, too, they had been solemnly set apart to the priest's office, and call ed to assist in daily duties about the altar. It was these two highly favored men who now fell into great sin, re minding us that none are exempt from moral peril, that the most highly blest may transgress and perish. Of the nature of their sin it ia simply said: "They offered strange fire be lore the Lord, which he commanded them not." The office may have had many aides. Their act may have beeo an as sumption of duties not belonging to them ; an unwarranted intrusion into the moat holy place ; an offering of in cense at the wrong time, or of other in cense than that appointed. Rut the particular point of the offence must have been the offering of other fire than that which had been divinely kindled on the altar. It had been com manded that that fire should be kept up, and that none other should be used for sacred purposes. The officiating priests were to till their censers from this. Nadab and Abihu dared to dis obey this so recent command. How they come to do it is not told us. Some have supposed that they were intoxi cated at the time ; and there is an inti mation of this in the ninth verse. Or tbey may have desired to demonstrate their independence and importance be fore the people. The one important fact ia that they trifled with God's sa cred ordinances and set their wills above bis command. The punishment of their offence may seem severe. And so it was. It was similar to that which fell upon I'xzah when he put forth his band to steady the Ark of God, and upon Ananias and Stpphira when tbey lied to the Iloiy Ghost. A lightning flash devoured them, and they died before the Lord. The reasons for such severity are in dicated in the narrative. The great and central one was that God "might he sacrificed in them that come nigh him that is, treated as holy and as having a right to command. Ur it was that, if men would not reverence and obey him. he might at least be glorified before the people in the punishment of trnngres aion. No doubt the offence was the greater for the dignity of the offenders, and the distinguished favors they had enjoyed. The more exalted the tinner, the greater the tin. Particularly offen sive is the sin of those who serve i n spiritual things. Then, the offence Was against a solemnly ordained divine ser vice. God is jealous of the manner in which he will be worshipped. He would have men follow hit way, not their own. There is a sacred intent and meaning in bis ordinances. We are not to depise them, or to seek to improve them. There i* pride and rebellion in si tempt* to modify and mend bis command*. God intended that the punishment of Nadab and Abihu should ttea perpetual warning against such pride, and a per. petual proof that be wilt be served with fidelity and reverent fear. The silence of Aaron was a rare ex bibilion of submission under the inighty hand of God. To bim God's lienor was dearer than his own flesh. It is revrr enee for God's law* which makes do mestic peace and comfort possible. At any and all cost the divine authority must be maintained. Therefore "Aaron held his peace." The prohibition of mourning bad re spect to the priests and not to the pie. It would have interfered with their sacred duties; moreover, the priests, being nearer to God, were spe cially set to maintain his honor. It was Incumbent on them to bear testimony that God's ways were good and just. "Aaron and bis sons were in danger of being too much affected with the provi dence, and therefore they are forbidden to mourn; the bouse of Israel were in danger ol being 100 little affected with if, and therefore tbey are commanded to lament." s There must have been some partial Ur reason for the introduction, in this connection, of the prohibition against wine and strong drink. It is not un likely that strong drink was the occa sion of the offence of these two men. And it Is noteworthy that the fact of their intoxication was in God's sight no extenuation of their guilt. It did not lesaen the severity of their punishment —a foot to be especially commended to modern judges and jurors. The reasons attached to the prohibition were that a difference might be put between things sacred and other things, and that God a appointed teachers might always be In a condition to discern and teach tbedi vine statutes; reasons which now apply not to ministers only but to every Christian disciple as a servant and priest unto God. |1 PRACTICAL SVOOUTIONT. 1. The children of good men do not always walk in right paths. Kaj| 2. To be a miniiler in holy thing*, whether i the pulpit or out of it, due* not exempt from temptation or weak new; it rather demands the greater watohfulneM. 3. Sin in high placea ia at onoe more offensive to God and disastrous in ita influence over fellow-men. 4. God iletuanda reverence and obedi ence in our worship ns well aa work. It 19 for him to any when, where and how we shall appeal' before him. To neglect Ilia house or to bo reckleaa in it is an of fense in hit sight. 5. Roth preachers and people may now oiler strange lire on God's altar; he plainly doe* this who substitute* phi losophy for the gospel or seeks by ox travagancies or eccentricities to com mend himself rather than utter God's truth; and so does he who sits in his pew witli wandering thoughts ami an undevout heart or does any duly in the spirit of egotism or self-display. 0. If we will not honor Ood by will ing service he will glorify himself by showing in us the perils of disobedi ence. 7. It i a great sin to bo brought un der the power of wine or strong drink, especially in those who minister at the altar of religion or in other ways appear to the world as teligious leaders or teachers. No man can innocently in dulge in that which so surely tends to destroy both body and soul. It is cer tainly right and safe to abstain. It. It is a privilege and aduty to be at our' best for any kind of Christain work and to shun whatever may make worship otherwise thau intelligent, earnest, fresh and pure. THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE. WAVNE's COMMAND IN TIIK vol* TO UN CAMPAIGN —TIIE MOVEMENT To Till l'E< NINBCLA. I'r m the riilll)phi Tiiuw On the 'th of April, 1781, Mnjor General Arthur St. Clair issued an or der, dated at headquarters in Phila delphia, for a detachment of the Penn sylvania line to hold itself in readi ness to march to and assemble immedi ately at Yorktown, Pennsylvania, as York was then called. The total strength of the detachment was to be 1,139, officers and men. The colonels selected were Walter Stewart, Richard llutler and Richard Humptou; the lieutenant colonels, Thomas Robinson and Josiah llarmur; the majors, .las. Hamilton, William Alexander, Evan Edwards and Thomas L. Moore. The list of the line officers is a long cata logue of noted Pennsylvania names. Wayne's effective command when he left Yoik was 1,175, officers ami men. The Pennsylvania line was to be re duced, January 1, 1781, to six regi meuts of infautry, one of artillery, one of cavalry and one of artificers, by re solution of Congress of October 3, 178U; and it was when this reduction was about taking place, ami mi at tempt was made to hold for the war the soldiers who had enlisted for three years or the war, that the revolt broke out. This was quelled by yielding the legal point and paying up back scores from January 1, 1777, to August 1, 17H0, whereupon tlie most part re-en listed. The Fourth and Seventh regi ments went to Carlisle to he paid off and recruit, the Ninth and Fifth to Reading, the Sixth Lebanon, the Third to Easton Second to Downingtown. AftejpMT detail came Colonel Walter Stewart rode into Philadelphia, with a brilliant troop of his brother officers, and was mar ried to the "amiable daughter of lllair McClenachen," as the newspaper, of that day have it. Ry the middle of May the quotas from the different regiments reached York and were put under strict disci pline and daily drill. Mutiny and dis obedience were summarily quelled by General Wayne. He had twenty-one soldiers brought In-fore a court-mar tial, of whom seven were condemned to death. A captain's platoon was promptly detailed and they were shot on the little rise of ground beyond York, ami the whole detachment wheeled by companies around the place of execution to view the Imm lies as they fell. ox THE M.tnrif. The command left York at 9 A. M , May 2<*>, and Wayne's last despatch before leaving, referring to the execu tion, was: "Harmony and discipline again pervades this line." The second day they reached Littlestown, Adams county, ntid on the 28th they marched through Taneytown, Mil., halting on the hanks of Pipe creek; then byway oi'Middlebury and Woodsborough to the Monoeacy, encamping on the southwest bank to enable the soldiers to obey Wayne's order "not to come to the parade dirty, with a long beard or breeches knees open," for if they did they went huugry the next day. Here General Wayne reviewed his battal ions. On the 31st they marched through Frederick and struck the Po tomac at Xoland's ferry, still a well known point. Here a sergeant and three privates of the First Pennsylva nia were drowned in crossing. June 1 they arrived five miles beyond the river, where the road from Point of Rocks comes into that from Noland's ferry. Names are more enduring south of the Mason and Dixon line, and those connected with the Army of the Potomac can easily follow Wayne's general course, even after he joined Lafayette and commenced to rigsag nbout Orange Court House. June 3 tbey halted at Chapel Spring, and then marched through Leesburg to Goose creek. The next march was along the east side of Bull Run mountains to Red House, or Coxe's Mill, as McCleliau calls It in his di ary; June 6 at Elk Run chapel, Fau auier county. On the Bth tbey crowed te Rappahannock, apparently at Kelly's ford, and on thellth the Rapi dan at Raccoon ford,six miles beyond which, at Orange church, they made the coveted junction with Lufayctte on the 10th. On the 14th they pussed through Isiuisa county —"damn poor county and water scarce," says the emphutic Peltmun; "saw a great many negroes, the greater part being naked." Passing through llauover county they marched through and ten miles beyond Richmond ou llio 22<1. Not insensible to earthly pleasure Captain Davis and Feltman returned to town "to play billiards and drink wine," ENOAIIKMENTH ON THE WAY. On tha 20lh of June Col. Richard Butler, in commund of n small ad vance light corps, came up with Bim eoe, who was covering the rear of Cornwallis' army, marching down the Chickahominy, and, as Butler says, gave him a handsome shake,with little loss to his own force. This is what our soldiers in their pension applications call the fight at ".Spencer's Ordinary," within six miles of Williamsburg. On the bth of July occurred the battle of "Green Spring," so called by our sol diers, but the Green spring was some what iu the rear of the battleground, which was nearer Jamestown. Corn wallis had encani|R'd near James' island preparatory to crossing the James river to Portsmouth, but had only passed over his advance under Simcoc when Lafayette's troops made their appearance. Wayne had the right of our line and with his Pennsyl vania troops was opposed to the Sev enty-sixth, Eightieth, part of the For ty-third, the Legion cavalry and some light companies. Ensign Denny i graphically notes the scene. As they were going into action Captain Samuel Montgomery says to him: "Now, El., for the honor of old Carlisle do not disgrace yourself." Coruwallis,aston ished at Wayne's hardihood, deployed ; the whole army to the right and left, advancing the above-mentioned troojw to meet Wayne. The hero of Stony Point was iu lull uniform, his horse prancing in front of the Pennsylvania infantry, his face glowing with pleas ure. He seemed to Ensign Denny,who j -t<><"l near him, to oe amused with the ' loss of his plume, which was cut oil j with a hall U|miu the first fire. Wayne boldly advanced his infan try under a heavy fire of grajieshot 1 until within sixty paces of the enemy, and, as Tarleton says, gallantly main < tained the action for some time, when, ! observing the main British army fil ing off to the right and left to surround him, he gave the order to retreat. His manieuvre, to use the words of an offi- I eer describing it, "though it may have the ap|iearaiico of temerity to those j unacquainted with the circumManres, < yet was founded on the truest military principles, and was one of those neces sary though dariug measures which j seldom fail of producing the desired effect, that is, iu confusing the enemy and opening the way to retreat in sight iof a superior enemy." His lorn was upward of ouc hundred killed and ! wounded, among the latter twelve offi ; cers. The more seriously wounded, Captain Stake, Lieutenant White and Captain Montgomery, went home. Dr. Ezekiel Downey, of the Sixth, was unfortunately drowned on the Ist of July at York river. ACItOSS THE JAMES. Prior to the action of Jamestown, Wayne was kept oil the left of laifay ette s army. 'I he latter, fearing a <le sign of Cornwallis to return south ward, ordered the Pennsylvania line over the James river to the extreme right. On July 15, Wayne crossed the James at Westover, the seat of Colonel Bird, whose wife was a Miss Willing, ot Philadelphia. The colonel had died a few years previous and was buried in the garden, says the circum stantial Feltman in his journal. "Im provements superb ; saw nothing like them before," says Denny. They en camped the second day at Chesterfield Court House, three miles west of the road between Richmond and Peters burg. Then crossing Swift creek they reached the Apfiomattox a'. Goodes bridge. Goodes bridge fell down the day they were there—July 25 —kill- ing nobody, though there were soldiers under it obeying Anthony's injunction to lie clean. But Goode must have put it up again, as it appears upon the military maps of the recent un pleasantness down about there. MOVEMENTS AROt'NI) RICHMOND. They remained at Uoode'a bridge until the 30th. Meanwhile Wayne enforced discipline by hanging a sol dier of the First Pennsylvania for marauding. Crossing the Appomattox they marched by the right to Namoy iue creek, whence they marched to the right about north and reerossed the James at Westham Iron Works, two or three miles above Richmond, Aug. 2. Here Feltman gives a description of the curious works of Mr. Ballen tine: "He made a canal about one mile alongside of the James river forty feet wide, in the centre of which is a curious fish basket. At the end of the danal was au elegant grist mill witb four pair of stones, close by a boring mill where they bored caiiuon. Close by was the mansion house, four very large chimneys built of the best brick 1 ever saw. Each chimney has two air furnaces and a number of oth er works too tedious to mention. All thaw works were built at the expense of the State and all burned by that d rascal Arnold." August 8 they marched at 1 A. M., passed through Richmond at daylight and encamped on their old ground two inile# below. Thoy next moved to Bottom* bridge on the Chickabotuiuy. On the 13tn Marquis' troops ernes the Pumunky (bow this sounds like modern annuls?) und on the 17th Wayne goes over on the left und en camp* on George Philips' farm near Hanover meeting house, four miles from liuuover town and twelve miles from Bottoms btidge. If Keltman hud our present scientific armv maps before him he could not have hit dis tances better in his journal. He gives the distance of every march. Wayne hud with him the ablest surveyor in Pennsylvania, Benjamin Lodge, Jr., who resided ninny years alter the war in Westmoreland county, in Pennsyl vania. Wayne was ulso nil able en gineer himself. They were a mile und u half from Newcastle, where the watermelons were plenty, country full of the.u and the largest they ever saw, and there were plenty id' snaps and collerds raised by the negroes. [What they were George Handy Smith will lie able to tell 11s ufter he gets home.] Fell ma 11 care fully records his failings, Saturday, August 111: "A few of us bucks re mained in town (Newcastle) all night at the' Ornery,' he antes it (the ordi nary, Virginia name for tavern), got very merry." The next day General Wayne reviewed them and after pa rade marched them to church, where "Dr. Jones preached us a sermon." Chaplain Jones, who was the grand father of Senator Horatio Gates Jones, officiated in three wars—that of the revolution, Wayne's campaign againt the ludiatis and the war of 1812. l oder his ministrations we may leave the Pennsylvania line and take up their further adventures iu another article. Joiin HT.Atit Linn. A STRANRE EXPERIENCE. I From (be (VtvUud Hon. Htrangc as it may seem even to members of the Order of Knights of Pythias elsewhere, a bulge in Bay City, Michigan, has had the experi ence of inducing a female into the mysteries of two degrees of the Order, and partially through that of third degree In-fore her sex was discovered. It has placed the bulge in a saii dilem ma, and none of the memliers are able j to predict what will lie the outcome thereof. They have been very reti cent regarding the particular* of the I case, hut a reporter who belongs to the Order has, through diligent in quiry among the memliers thereof, been able to glean the following facts iu the case. About two year* ago a voutig man of prepossessing ap|K-araiice, tall and handsome, with a smooth face, dark hair and bluish-grey eyes, who gave his name a* Frank Chamber* and his place of nativity a* Cleveland, applied at a large clothing store on Centre street, Bay City, for a situation n a clerk, and his appearauoe made such a favorable impression on the younger of the three brothers who kept the store that, being in want of a clerk, he engaged the newcomer, and did nbt even ask for references. To this the other h rot Hers demurred, but the new clerk took hold in sueli a bandy man nar, bad such winning ways, and proved such an excellent salesman that no more was thought or spoken of references. From the start, leing apparently about the same age, the younger mem ber of the firm and the new clerk lie came ou very amicable term*, and were inseparable eoni|Mtiions, with the exception that the new clerk took a room and board at a private house, and would not listen to the proposal, often made, to occupy a room aud board with him. Mutters ran along smoothly iu this way for nearly two years, when the young merchant, after repeated solici tations, prevailed upon the clerk to join the order of Knight# of Pythian. Thereupon his application was pre sented to the lodge, approved, and the candidate elected. hen, however, at the next meeting, the clerk was re quested to lie in readiness for initia tion, he did not put in an nppearancc, and gave as an excuse that he felt timid about the matter; but at the next meeting thereafter he was prompt ly on hand, and inducted into the mysteries of the Page's or firat de gree of the order. At the next meet ing the newly-made Page was reluct ant to take the Esquire's, or second degree, hut was after a lime prevailed upon to do ao, and that night became an Esquire. When the lime arrived to take the third degree the candidate hesitated still more than before, hut not one of the brethren suspected the true cause thereof —they attributed it to his usual timidity, and after several of tlicni had talked with the young clerk, whom they all hail come to ad mire and reapect. he. ontered the lodge room, witnessed the first degree confer ed upon a new candidate, and bad nearly passed through the thin! de -sree before the sex was discovered, ust exactly how this came about the unwritten work of the order will not permit the writer to disclose; but the members were (truck with consterna tion, and then and there all further proceeding* were suspended. The young ladv had fainted upon finding out that her aex was discovered, and upon regaining consciousness was thrown into hysterics, and no coherent story could be wrung from her, either by the gentle pleadings of her em ployer or the threats of members; and her hysteria increasing, she was conveyed to her boarding bouse iu a close carriage, and a doctor called to attend the ease. 1 he above incidents occurred aliout five weeks ago, ami are now made public for the first time. The young lady hud a trunk full of female wear ing apparel, and in a day or two, after the doctor bud quieted her nerves, she donned her natural garments, sent for her employer's friend, and to him she made a clean breast of who she was and where her parents resided, but he refused to disclose any of the facta about her. She still remains in Bay City, and rumor is busy with the report that the younger member of the firm for whom she worked will marry her, und thus make a stronger liar to secrecy ou the part of the young lady. Rumor also has it thut the young lady met the young man on a certain occasion, fell in love at first sight, hut not being uhle to make his acquaintance, took that method to do so. CHEMISTRY IN CRIME. Fr *JTJ the C.Tjrqitrf f(§ C., Bulletin. The recent death in our State peni tentiary of W. W. Ward, the former sheriff of Williamsburg, recalls the circumstances that led to the discovery of his crime, which are the most ex traordinary in our criminal annals. At the spring term, l*7'd. of the Court of Common Plea* for Williamsburg county, J. H. Livingston brought suit against Ward to recover the sum of $5,0U0, money loaned on Ward's sealed note. His Honor Judge T. J. Mackey presided, and by consent of | counsel heard the case without a jury. The plaintiff proved the execution of j the note and then closed bis ease, j Ward's counsel produced the receipt of Livingston dated two days previous to the trial for the whole amount due, 1 principal and interest, aud a witness testified that he had seen the pnymntit made in $l<H) bills and fourfc'i'K) bills to Livingston himself on the day named in the receipt. The plaintiff took the witiits* stand and on examin ing the receipt admitU-d that it bore his true and genuine signature, but be solemnly protested that he bad not re j ceived one dollar from Ward and had not entered Ward's house in his life for any purpose He declared that he and his wife would be made homeless : by a false receipt which he could not ; explain, but which he never knowing jly signed. ON cross-examination Liv ingston, who is an old man, admitted that his memory was very infirm and that he had on previous occasions re ceived $2OO from another debtor of which he afterwards denied receiving, but which he recalled to memory when shown bis receipt. The plaiuliff and counsel at this stage of the proceedings were in utter despair, for their case was apparently lost. Judge Mackey, however, whose subtle brain and practiced eye nothing can escape, and who follows crime through all its windings, directed that ! the receipt should be handed to him. He then ordered the sheriff to proceed to the nearest drug store and purchase a drachm of muriatic acid and a small piece of sponge. On the return of the ! officer with the articles name*) the ! judge said to the plaintiff, "Mr. Liv ingston, did you ever write a letter to the defendant Want demanding the payment of your mouey?" The plain tiff answered, "Yes, sir; I wrote hitu many letters, hut never received an answer from him." Judge Mackey then observed to counsel, "I jicrceive ou the face of this receipt there are several peculiar brown spots, and the original surface of sizing of the paper ha* been removed except in that por tion <4* the paper where the signature was written. The body of the receipt is in the handwriting of the defendant. 111 ray opinion the defendant has takeu a letter of the plaintiff's and removed the writing with muriatic acid, and then wrote the receipt above the sig nature. I will now apply ibis acid to the writing on the tiack of the com plaint in this case, and it will be seen that the writing will instantly disap pear and the |per will at once ex hibit several brown spits identical with those on this receipt " The acid was applied to the paper, and as the writing disappeared tlx* brown blots were woo upon the surface and the crime of the defendant was clearly re vealed! Ward at this juncture looked as horror-stricken as Lady Macbeth, when, gazing upon her fair but mur derous hand, she exclaimed as she vainly rublied it, "Out damned spot!" The judge immediately rendered his decision in favor of the plaintiff, stating that it was the duty of the so licitor to have Ward prosecuted at once for audacioua forgery. On the next morning Judge Mackey left for Georgetown, forty miles distant, to j hold court. While there he received a letter from a friend warning him not to return to Williamsburg, as he had promised to do in a few days for the purpose of hearing an argument at chambers, as Warn hail sworn solemn ly to shoot him down at sight. The judge's record, however, shows that be is not one to swerve from the line of duty because of an armed enemy in hia'path. He returned to Williams* burg after an absence of five days, and meeting Ward upm the street he demanded whether he hail threatened to take his life. Ward answered that, he had, but that he had abandoned his purpose, At the next term of court Ward was indicted and placed on trial for forgery. When the verdict was rendered Ward ruee and discharg ed his pistol twice at Livingston* the prosecuting witne**. He *a instantly disarmed and sentenced to seven yearn at hard labor in the penitentiary. Ward wan a man of wealth and of good standing in his community. He died in the penitentiary, illustrating by his career the truth of the Script ure, "The way of the transgressor is hard." OLDEN TIM EH. In 1637 there were hut thirty ploughs in Massachusetts, and the use of these agricultural implements was not familiar to all the planters. From the annals of Saleio it apjiear* that in the year it was agreed by the town to grant l' k i#ardson Hutchinson twenty acres of land in addition to his share, on condition tnat he "set up plowing." 1038. A sumptuary act of the Geueral Assembly prohibited short sleeves, and required the garment* to be lengthened so as to cover the arms to the wrist, and required reformation in immoderate great breeches, knots of ribbon, broad shoulder hands and tay lee, silk rae#, double cuffs and ruff's. 10119. For preventing miscarriage of letters, it is ordered that notice be given that Kit-hard Fairbanks, his house in Boston, i the place ap|xiiiit ed for nil letters which are brought from beyond the seas, or are to he sent thither, are to lie brought unto him, and he is allowed for every such letter Id ; and must answer all miscarriage* through his own neglect iu his kind, provided that no man shall he obliged to bring his letter thither unless he pleases. 1047. The Court ordered, that if any young man attempt to address a young woman without the consent of her parents, or, in case of their absence, of the County Court, he shall be fined ill for the tirst offence, £lO for the second, and lie imprisoned for the third. 1049. Matthew Stanley was tried for drawing iu the affections of John Tarbox's daughter without the con sent of her jiareuts, convicted and fined £l5, fees 2s. 6d. Three married women were fined ss. each for scolding. 1653. Jones Fairbanks was tried for wearing great boot*, hut was ac quitted. Prevention of lljdrophobla. Science has never yet found any cure for that terrible disease hydro phobia when once the virus has been ah-orlied into the system of the person attacked. Only too frequently, also, the old physicians were baffled in their treatment of that dreadful and conta gious malady, smallpox, until the na ture of the disease was modified by inoculation or vacciuation. If hydro phobia cannot he cured may it not lie preveutcd? This is the problem that the celebrated M. I*alcur, with other scientific French experimentalists, have undertaken to solve, well know ing that the man who can discover a remedy against hydrophobia will he haihd as a benefactor to his sjweies. It would seem as if Prof. Galtier, of the veterinary school at Lyons, France, has taken a large stride in the right direction, even if he has not al ready made the important discovery. His experiments thus far have been wholly on sheep. But if the surceases he re[Krt* arc confirmed by other ex |ierimentalists a prevention to hydro phobia has been found; for the remedy a< applied to man would prove quite a effectual in his case as in that of sheep. Professor Galtier has found that if the virus of rabies lie injected into the veins of a sheep the auimal does not subsequently exhibit any symptoms of hydrophobia. Twenty sheep were experimented upon. Ten of these had the viras of rabies inject ed into the veins and were thou inocu lated with the same poison through the cellular tissue, a* if thev had boeu so hitteu hv a mad dog. The other ten had none of the virus injected into the veins, but were simply iuoculated through the cellular tissue. All the latter died of hydrophobia, while the first ten which had the vims injected into the vieus before tliey were in oculated through the cellular tissue continue alive and well, not ha\ ing shown any adverse symptoms. Thus far, then, the experiment is complete. Professor Galtier having satisfied him self that the injection of the virus of rabies into the veins of a sheep will protect it against hydrophobia, even if bitten subsequently by a mad ani mal, now proposes to extend his experi ments to dogs. The result will be looked for with grcul interest. An 014 ( siii's History. Mr.William McCtinlock, proprietor of the Dowuiugton marble works, Chester county, this State, is in posses sion of a $5 gold piece dated 1807 that has connected with it quite au in teresting history. He received it this week from Mrs. Mary Aun Taylor, in whose possession it ' has been since 1847, wheu it was bequeathed to her by her father, Gasper Peterman, who died in that year. Mr. Petennan had owned it siuce 1812. It came into his possession as bis first earning* after his arrival in this country. He said while he lived "it should never be spent unless it bad to go for bread." For sixty-nine years it has never been in circulation. Mrs. Taylor had in tended to present it to her nephew, fttmuel Casper Jouea, who died last year, on his becoming of age, tut thus being denied Iter she invested it u part pay for a cradle iuclosure for his grave. '
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