i 9 ———————————————————_—— A TERRIBLE NIGHT. “Ah, sir, see you'r admiring my flow, ers, Well they are pretty—that they are—though I doubt as some would call the marigolds and earnations common and old fashioned. You don't see many of 'em now in your fine newfangled gardens, do you ? It's a pretty little place this, ain't it, sir? And it's my own, too—my very own—and will go to my grandson after me, He's a good lad, he is—it's him as looks afterjthe garden. Mighty fond of flowers he is, and rarely proud he'll be, 1 know, when he hears as a fine town gentleman has taken vo’ tice of em! Ah, I was fond of garden: ‘fog, too, in my time! But I'm getting an old man now-—eighty-five I am come Christmas and [ can’t expect to be spared much longer, though I'm hale and hearty yet, thank heaven! Ah, times have altered, sir, since my young days! For the better, yousay ! Well things are grander now then they were then, but somehow I old times best, perhaps because | was young and strong in ‘em. And talking seem to like the of old times reminds me of something Like shall, welcome, if you don’t mind wasting an that once happened to me, to here it, sir? Well, so you and hour or so with an old chap like me. Sit that yourself comfortable. down, then, on bench and make “You've been to Chelmsford perhaps? Then may be you know the ‘Saracen’s Head ? Well, close to where stands there used to be an old inn call- | ed the ‘Swan.’ A queer old place it was | to be sure, with its casement and win dows and over hanging gebles, I was living at Ralphan then- sixty yesrs ago—a farmer Iwas, and had -its nigh upon been married only a short time to a dear little wife as I loved well and true till she died, poor lass! “One cold December day I started for to look at some stock as I thought of buying. As days’ journey, I meant to stop at Chel msford for the night, and go on early the next day. I didn't leave home till about two, and | Braintree, it was a two travel, so that the darkness came on be- fore I reached the gibbet on the edge of the common ; and [ can tell you my flesh crawled, as the saying is, when |] galloped past at full speed. [twas a bleak cold night, and the road was bad go that it Chelmsford. was late before I rode into “I put up at the ‘Swan’-that being he first inn | came to and was standing | watching the ostler rubbing down my | good old mare—for I always attended to that first thing—when the landlord came slowly out to me; he was a short, | sharp-faced man, with great black eyes that had an uneasy sort oflook in "em. I told him I'd had a long ride and was glad enough to get safe into his yard — for I'd gold about me and we'd beard | horrible tales of the robberies the mur- Well, he showed me into a long low room-—the kitchen it was—with a brick floor and a ders on the King's highway. bright fire burning. “There's a noisy lot in the parlor, sir,’ said he; you will be quiet and cosy here for mabe you're tired and chilly after your ride in the wind.’ ‘I ordered a steak and, as I ate my supper, I thought to my self thatl couldn't well have chosen a better place than the ‘Swan’ After 1 had finished 1 called for pipes and grog and sat by the fire with the landlord, but I might as well have been alone to stop at for he never spoke a word, but sat star. ing into the fire with a wickd look in his eyes that I didn’t like, though I didn’t take much notice of it then. Ah I koow now what his thoughts were as he gezed moodily into the glowing coals! He was thinking of the disgrace brought upon his name by his only son; and was to come from which must be procured wondering, where the money somehow if his boy was to be saved from ruin. And then no boubt he plaoned to murder me—ah, it's all true, sir— I've got his confession by me now—and bury me down by the riverside, in the meadow behind the stable. Then he meant to turn my mare out before dawn #0 that the servants might think I had left early ; and then, you see, when it was found, people would think some. thing bad happendd to me on the road to Braintree, Well, my companion roused himself after a time and began asking me what I thought of the coun~ try, if 1 had ridden far, whetkier | had been advised to put up atthe Swan, and such like questions. | answered them freely enough, never supposing that he asked them for any other pur pose than just to keep up the conver station, 1 ssked him to call me early and he promised he would do so, “I'l do it myself,’ ssid he, ‘for the girl and the ostler will be abed.’ “Then he called his wife and told her to bring me a candle, which ‘she did. She was a ocoarse-looking, oareworn woman, and | noticed when she showed me to my room that her hand was shak. ing and ber voice sounded thick as she bade me a civil ‘Goodnight.’ “My bedroom was a long low room with queer old furniture, quaint carved that now | had a weary road to | chairs and a great four-post bedstead which seemed as big ns a hearse, There was no lock to the door, and the bolts were rusty, so 1 could only put the latch down. I thougt of puting a chair against it but that seemed child ish and no protection after all. The night was wet and windy and the sky black as ink. Try as | would I couldn't get to sleep, and there I lay listening to the ghostly tapping of the ivy leaves against the window, and thinking of the evil look in the landlord's eves, and all the horrid stories I had ever real came crowding into my mind, when suddenly I started up in bed, wide awakeenough for 1 hear dsomething or some one climb: ing up the vy to my window: I lay with palpitating heart and straining eyes, listening to the horrible ghostly rustling which every moment sounded nearer “Suddenly a thought struck me; and | I smoothing the bed clothes, as though the bed had not been arose, hastily | slept in, I had just time to creep under the bed when the window was shaken open, and romebody softly slipped in. It was a man, and, listening intently, I heard him sigh wearily to himself, as if tired out. Then he got in bed, he drew the clothes over him, and in a few min- him snoring. You can felt, the scamp had my money-bsg under his What was to be done? | the utes 1 heard imagine bow pleasant I and pillow too! thought of my happy bome and | dear little wife now perhaps dreaming | of me and the thought of her gave me courage. determined to snatch at my money and fight for it with the un geen visitor to the death, if need be, I | was crawling from under the bed, when | heard snother sound, nearing the { the latch | door this time. In a minute uietly lifted, the door gently push- | Was q | ed open, and [ saw the landlord glide b, oo | into theroom. Then a hand holding a | | caddlestolein at the door—only a hand; | | but I knew those quivering fingers well | enough. The man crept on tiptoe to i | the bed and leaning softly over sleeper stabbed him to the heart. There was cne deep groan and all was over, | The murderer drew the money from | under the pillow and crept stealthily to As the door, glancing behind him | though he feared the dead man would | | get up and follow him. “Shaking sll over and with hair on {end I crawled from my hiding-place groped about the room for my clothes, | and after standing dazed a moment, with horror, followed the guilty couple. | Their room was almost opposite mine, and. I could see the light under their | door, which was barely closed. I push | ed it open and peeped in. The table | faced the d ‘or, and there they stood | with their backs to me, so intent upon the money that | crept close to them without being heard. “ ‘Look, look,’ I beard the man whis- grasp, | dashed the light fromthe wom an's hand and fled back swiftly to the room where the dead man lay. “Opening the window I groped about ing somehow to the sill with the other, and at Inst managed to scramble down, reaching the ground bruised, shaken, breathless, moment to get my breath, I heard from the room As | rested a above an awful ery sung out in a womans voice— eo ‘My boy, my boy, my only son! | “I clambered over the gate which led A watch-box stood close by in the square, and 1 hurriedly told my story to the watchman. He stared in horror, as well he might, and wanted to fetch his mate: but I told him we were more thau a match for those we should find at the inn, so he came with me. A frightened servant opened the door to us, and I led ghe way to the room I had just quitted, The watchman bent down and peered into the dead man's face, “Ah, he whispered, it's as | feared ! It's their own son-—they didn't know he was home, and so they mistook him for you, sir.’ into the street “I felt myself turn qeer and giddy, for I knew the meaning of that pitiful ery, my only son | “And what of the murderers ? They had not so much as tried to escape, and the door wasn't even barred against us, The woman lay mosniog on the floor; the man set huddled up ina chair by the bed. When we enlered he held out his hands to be maoacled without uttering a word, When I told him how it happened, that his son had fallen a victim instead of me, he just stared in my face and made no sign that he had heard the ghastly tale, “Well, sir, that's about all. The mother, poor soul, died raving mad, and the man was banged al. Tyburn; but not another word did he speak from first to laat, eave once—and that was when the Judge passed senjence pn him Then ke raised his nd, with look in raised bin hind, and; wi fore get, he said the | per—‘there is more than enough to | ——— save our boy. How they shine! And] I'he Democrats of the Tenth Ohio | all ours, wife—ours!’ District on Wednesday nominated “ No. mine ‘murderer!’ I shouted | Frank Hurd for Congress. with 8 loud voice of thunder, and, | Two sails of Isanc Beard, at Spring snatching the bag from his nerveless field, Ohio, set fire to their fathers house with one hand for an ivy bough, eling- | “iAn old, old man, my lord—my only son!’ “That's all, sir. The strangest story you ever heard ? Well, I dare say it is; but it's all true, every word of it, for I've got the papers to prove it, and if you'll be pleased to come in and see ‘am, you'll be welcome as flowers in May, that you will! Not now? Well then, 1'11 bid you good-day, and thank you kindly for letting me talk to you, for it does me good to chat a bit some- times, that it do! Good-day, sir, and a pleasant walk to you!” © —— Ry AI——— Right And Left, M. Delaunay of Paris, has made sn extended and careful investigation to assertain if in the majority of cases the right, upper and lower extremity be crossed over the left or the left over the right, and which side most persons incline to when in the sitting posture. M. certain breeds of dogs terriers, Newfoundlands and poodles, cross the right foot over the left, cross the left over the right: ans cross the right over the left. According to Delaunay The Chinese and Japanese Furope- M. tereeches observed, in ths Delaunay and salle d'asiles,” that infants under three years of age cross their left arm over the right, older children cross the right over the left, sixty per cent doing Robust cnildren cross the right over the left; the idiotic at six years of age. and weak including those who are inca- the left over pable of working, cross The Calmucks | cross the right over fhe le ft, like the A | cross the left leg over the right. i | bust chi | the right. and Arabs | women | Ro ldren cross the right leg over | Europeans. great many | the left earlier than their weaker play- | Chand ellor, John H. Carr, of | | Grand Vice mates. Persons who cross the right leg over the left lean toward the left when sitting ; those who place the left uppermost lean to the right, Hence consistently, with what might have been expected from what is observ. | ed in children with regard to crossing legs, until six years of age children lean towsrd the right, and afterward toward the left. would appear, try to prevent their p> French schoolmasters, it pils from assuming this position, beleiv ing that scollosis results; hence they encourage or enforce the use of elbow rests (accoudoirs), which oblige the | children to sit straight, a useless meas ure according to M, Delaunay, as the conformity Tailors position they choose is in with the process of evolution. afirm that the beck of a pair of trousers | is always more worn on the left side than on the right, Left-handed people always sit toward the right. M. De | launsy concludes from these observa | tions that the left brain develops previ- ously tothe right, and finally the right British Medidal predominates, Journal - SP Notes of News. on Wednesday, while playing with matches, and one of them aged five years was burned to death, | In Andover, Vermont, on Mrs. Ira Merrill, her son Sewell, and Mrs. Lucius Jacquith. thrown from a wagon by the horse taking fright. Mra. Merrill was killed, snd the others were injured. Mrs. fatally The Northwestern Lumbermen’s Av Tuesday’ were Jacquith perhaps sociation met Wednesday, in Chicago to | of down the mills curailing production, consider the advisability shutting | Sixty manufacturers were present. The matter was referred to a committee of five A telegram from Shamokin, Penn. save the Back Ridge mine, owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, is on fire, aad it will be | necessary to flood it through the Green back colliery. The loss will be heavy | at both collieries, The fire is supposed | to have caught from the machinery. The Republican State Convention of | Connecticut met Wednesday in New | Haven and nominated a ticket headed by Henry B. Mr. Lounsbury, who was Harrison's principle competitor for the nomination | was offered the nomination for Lieuten- ant Governor, but declined, and most of the Fairfield county delegaies left the Convention. The “Old Time Telegrapher's Associ- ation” met on Wednesday, in St. Louis, About fifty delegates were present, with George M. Dugan, the President, and 8. B. Fairchild, the Secretary and Treasurer. Several new members were elected. Messrs Plum, Burnell and Tey: lor were appointed a Committee to soli- oit papers to supply matter for the his- tory of the early days of telegraphy, and to secure specimans of old telegraphio apparatus, ‘ John Devo, a buteber, left Jewett New York, on Wedaesday, for Albany to purchase cattle. He bad considera ble money with him. Two hours after ward his horse and wages srere found. Harrison for Governor. | | S.& A LOEB. The wagon was covered with blood, and near by lay a bloody necktie and an empty pocket-book, but Devo could not be found. posed that he was robbed and murdered, The Sheriff and 100 men have scourged the country for miles, but no trace can be found of the miss ing man, he body of It is sup: At Reading on Tuesday night, Christian Bowman entered the McClellan House snd asked for a drink. The proprietor, George Kraemer, poured out a pint of whiskey and offered it free to Bowman if he would drink it all, Bowman drank it and was found dead in the yard of his residence on Wednesday morning. The Coroner's jury rendered a verdict that Bowman's death “was caused by excessive drinking, and censured Krae- mer ‘for furnishing so large a quaintity for a single drink.” The Chicago Breeders Gazette says that contagious pleuro-pneumonia has found a lodgment in Illinois, exist in five Jersey herds in that State and the infection may It is known to be more widely spread, The Commissioners of Agricul. ture at Washington bas issued a circular requesting, in view of the existence of the disease in lllinoise, that owners of all herds of Jersey cattle in the United States into which the new animals have been introduced since January last, stop the shipment of cattle until after Octo ber 1st, The Grand Lodge of Knights of | Pythias, in session at Lancaste, Penna. | on Wednesday elected the following officers for the ensuing year : Grand 1 Altoona , HAVING OPENED A NEW COACH REPAIR SHOP, ON LOGAN STREET, We would respectfully invite the of any work in our line, We are pre- pared to do ALL kinds of TRIMMING, REPAIRING #4 REMODELING, 180 make a specially of UPHOLSTERING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, All work will recieve prompt atten tion. 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