VOL. II.
ItlDGAVAY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1G, 1873.
NO. 46.
The Stiiife-Drlvcr. j
There is a magic in the calling of a
Hinge-driver. Everybody knowH nnd as
pires to know the stage-driver; every
body is known by, and ia proud to fie
known by, the Btage-driver. The little
boys remember it a month, if the stage
drivcr speakB to them. There is a par
ticular satisfaction to be able to distin
pniKli among drivers, and Bay it was
Winkle, or it wnB Nnson, or it was
Mitchell. The stage-driver is prince of
a peculiar realm; and that realm con
sists of the yellow coach he drives, and
the high scat he occupies, and his four
mettlesome horses, and forty miles of
c rantry roiul, and the heart of several
principal roads, not to speak of ten
thousand little matters of interest and
pleasure, bnsiness and profit, news and
jgossip, with wliich he is connected,
tlenoo he, like a prince, is held in rev
tmce of the populace. Of all the people
on the earth, he, is the one who rolls by
in a gilded coach; he is the ono who
rides through his immense estate with
tho most lordly and consequential ivr,
and all the rest of us seem to be but
poor tenants and gaping boors. It is
something to speak to a stnge-driver;
it is a grent thing to be recognized by
the stage-driver. To be perchance
known by one who knows nobody, is
nothing. To be known, 'to be pointed
out, to have your name whispered in a
bystander's ear, by one who knows
everybody, affects you no if Omniscience
were speaking about you. The stage
clriver differs from a steamboat captain,
in that tho latter is not seen to bo so
immediately connected with his craft as
the former. We meet the captain at
the breakfast-table; he is nobody; he
is no more tlinn we; we can eat ns well
as he can. But who dare touch the
stage-driver's ribbons ? Who dare swing
ins w mp t
How rapidly and securely he drives
down one hill and up the nextand
that with fifteen passengers and half a
tun of baggngel Then how majestically
be rounds to. at the door of the tavern!
What delicate pomp in the movement of
Hie four handsome horses! Iu what
style the cloud of dust, that has served
as an outrider all the wav, passes off
when tho coach stopsl How the vil
lagers the blacksmith, the shoemaker,
the thoughttul politician, and the boozv
loafers that liU tho stoop grin and
stare, and make their criticism!
How he flings the reins and the horses
to the stable-boy, who presently returns
with a splendid relay! How lie accents
these from the boy -with that sort of air
with which a king might be supposed
to take his armor from the bauds of
valet! There are his gloves, withal; he
always wears gloves, as a Saratoga fine
lady, and would no sooner touch any
thing without Kh'vcs than such a lady
would a glass of Congress water.
There is, moreover, a mystery attach
lug to the stnge-driver a mystery
deeper man tho question why the car
casses of elephants are found imbedded
111 the ice-mountlni8 of the Arctics
even this: Why the stne-driver is not
frozen to dcatff in our winters? His
punctuality has something preternat
ural in it. How, in the coldest weather,
iu the severest storm, in fogs, iu sleet,
in haik in lightning, in mud, when no
body else is abroad, the stage-driver
appears, rounding tho corner, just as
regular and just as quiet m the old
clock in the kitchen!
The Champion KnintsfiintlHt,
It may not be generally known that
Dr. Charles Spier of this place is the
oldest living and most successful numis
matist in the world. He hns been en
gaged in the collection of coins for over
hfty-seven years, and has now over
4,000 pieces, representing ever species
of coin ever produced iu any year, or
under the dominion of any sovereigu or
government, from the days of Semiramis
and the Pharoahs dowu to the present
time. His collection is worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars. He has over
10,000 of his pieces iu the vaults of the
Bank of California, and 4,000, or over,
hero. At tho Bank of California his
collection is pronounced the best and
most valuable in existence, not except
ing those of Queen Victoria and the
sultan of Turkey, which are particular
ly extensive and valuable. A few days
ago we examined the 4,000 of his pieces
which he keeps here. They proved a
most interesting study. Coins of the
ancient Jewish kingdom, of the various
kings, cjtteuls and emperors of Borne,
of TyiT, Sidon, Carthage, Nineveh,
Babylon, China, Palmyra, Egypt,
Japan, etc., with specimens of every
yeur s coinage ill all Christian lauds
from the time of Constantino till now,
were exhibited in prodigal profnsiou.
J. he doctor hns ninny coins which would
sell for many thousands of dollars each.
His collection has been the work of a
very extender! lifetime. He has travel
led uenrly all over the world, and is
constantly receiving new additions to
lua pieces from ljiirope and the .hast.
He has gold and silver coins from the
size of a very largo teacup, rfiiwn to that
of a pen. e wish we had the space to
particularly describe some of them.
UK! U1H lU, ttUU ITS IU fHPy llll IHIJ-
stanees and greatly advanced iu years,
though still robust for one of his age,
remains iu Yisaila on account of the ex
cellence of tho elimnte. His collection
is very interesting to any one apprecia
ting the mementoes ol antiquity.--Vixalia
(Cal.) Delta.
Four Men to he Handed. .
Four men, all of them whites, are now
lying in' the County Jail ot Burnet
County, Texas, under sentence of death
all to be executed at the same place j
on January 15. Their names nro Ben-1
jnmin Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ball
Woods, and William Smith. They were
all sentenced for tho murder of Beujn
min McKeever. Their case, taken in
all its details, is one ef the most inter
estiig in the nnnnls of criminal trials.
The evidence agaiust them, though eon
elusive, was entirely circumstantial.
McKeever was shot from his horse at
night near the residence of the Shelbys,
his throat then cut, and hir-t body
carried on horseback three miles and
thrown into a cave. A large rock was
placed on the bloody spot where his
throat was cut, but this precaution,
instead of concealing the crime, led to
the arrest of the criminals. The keen
eyes of a frontiersman saw that the rock
had been recently placed there ; so it
was remeved, and indications of blood
found. A closer search resulted in the
further finding of a paper-wadding that
had been fired from a shot-gun. On
examining a gun of Benjainiu Shelby
paper-wadding was likewise found in it,
and yet another wadding that had been
tired' from a shot-gnu like the first, was
found under Shelby's doorstep. Iu his
house was found a copy of the Chimney
Corner, and by comparisons it was
ascertained that the three pieces of gun
wadding had been obtained from that
pnper. Placed together the following
enjgma could be easily rend :
With piece of pnper or a slate,
Sit around the fire both large and
small;
A letter make, almost an eight,
And now you see what covers all.
There were several other circumstan
ces pointing strongly to the accused men
as the murderers ;' therefore the jnry
that tried them did not hesitate to find
them guilty of murder in the first
decree. The verdict is generally ap-
proved by the citizens of Burnet Coun
ty, and the latest advices from there
indicate that there will probably be no
interferences by Superior Courts or the
Governor to prevent the decreed quad
ruple execution.
An AJfeetionafe "TV;)." The Terre
Haute J-h-pren tells the following dog
story : " There were two dogfi living in
the same neighborhood, up town, that
were attached friends, often visiting
each other and making excursions to
gether. The other dny one of them
sickened and died. His canine friend
called to see him, and found him dead.
He watched beside the body until night,
and then attempted to drag it to his
homo. But the burden.was too great
After dragging it
yards, he was efm-
BUl even inm iif
He stood, for a time,
gazing sorrowfully on the dead, then
laid down in the street, beside him,
with his head on the neck of his old
companion, and thus he passed the
night, and thus he remained until the
body was removed. JSneh is dog friendship."
Chinese (Jamliliiif.
Little by little we are arriving at an
understanding of the Mongolian's habits
of life. Tho introduction of the race
into Pennsylvania has given us n new
insight into their "ways that arc dark,"
and the Pittsburgh Pout, which has
never ceased to wonder at them since
their pioneers reached Beaver Falls,
thus describes one of their peculiar
amusements : '
"Among the many little diversions
employetl by the Mongolians at Beaver
Falls, nunc are more popular than the
game called 'Chamie.' It is played by
the pigtails with 'tseen,' a copper coin
of the value of one-tenth of a cent.
The gamester is driven into reckless
profligacy by the necessity of throwing
a whole penny into the pool at oue time.
The game causes the utmost excitement
and the most intent ardor among the
plovers. On the table is a kind of dais
with holes all nrouud it. Into this each
player puts as many tseen or pennies as
he wishes, the number being restricted
within a certain limit, and then a spring
makes all the pennies put in tumble
into a heap. Each jilnyer then guesses
the number of pennies iu the pool, and
the one who guesses the nearest obtains
the pool. At first sight the game looks
exceedingly simple, and one would im
agine that each player would put in the
smallest number of pennies possible.
But this is not so ; for each one tries to
circumvent the others bv his cunning.
A player will put in sometimes a grent
iany more pennies lumscit than the
other, and then guess in proportion.
rlie mmn amusement of the game to
nn outsider is the manner of playing it
the ninuv ways which the players em
ploy to make believe that they are put
ting in many pennies by enlarging their
lists, or that they nre putting in little
by making them smaller, when theymny
be doiaig the very opposite. It is ex
ceedingly comical and interesting, and
all the time the jabbering and chattering
roes on at a pace that would astonish
Confucius himself."
Lave at Sifjrlit.
A servant girl of no strong intellect,
who lived with a ladv in the neighbor
hood of Paisley, one dny surprised her
mistress by giving up her place.
The lady inquired the cause, and
found it was that fertile source of diss
ension between mistress and maid-servant
a lad.
" And who is that lad ? " inquired the
mistress.
" Oh he's a nice lad: a lad that sits in
the kirk, inst foment me."
" And when does he intend that he
and you should be married ? "
" I ilinna ken."
" Are you sure that he intends to
marry you at all 1 " .
" I dare say he down, mem."
" Have you had much of each other's
company ?
"Not vet."
" When did you last converse with
him ? "
" Deed, we .hae nae conversed ava
vet."
" Then how sliould you BHppose that
he is going to marry you ? "
" On," replied the simple girl, " he's
been lung lookin at me, and I think
he'll soon be speakiu'."
' The Kniotioiinl Nature of Dogs
A little reflection shows that a dog
approaches a mnn much more nearly in
the matter of feeling than either of
physical or mental characteristics. It
is a startling fact, well brought out by
Jesse in a synopsis of the dog's attri
butes (" Eesearehes," chap, v.), that
there are very few human passions
wliich a dog docs not share.
A dog feels anger precisely as wo do,
and after provocation is sometimes vin
dictive and sometimes placable, accord
ing to his individual character. He is
susceptible of hatred of the bitterest
kind. He is so excrutiatingly jealous
that his life becomes a burden iu the
presence of a favored rival. His envy
continually leads him to eat what he
does not want lest another animal should
take it, and t illustrate the fable of "The
Dog in the Manger. " Gluttony holds
out to him temptations under wliich
even his honesty sometime succumbs ;
but, ou the othej hand, frpifl drunken
ness he is nobly emancipated. A dog
mentioned by the Rev. Thomas Jackson
(" Our Dumb Companions," p. 48), hav
ing once been made so drunk with malt
liquor that he was unable to walk up
stairs, ever atter declined to taste the
pernicious beverage, and growled aud
snarled at the sight of a pewter pot.
Again, as to love, Don Juan was a cold
aud unenterprising character compared
to a dog ; aiM as to maternal affection,
the anothcr-dog feels it with heroic pas
sion, starving herself to death rntlTPr
than forsake her offspring. 'Gratitude
may be almost said to bo a dog's leading
principle, supplying first tho spring of
allegiance to his master, and ever after
reconciling him with true ningnanimitv
to take evil from .the hand from which
he has accepted good. Kegret nnd grief
ho feels so deeply that they olten break
hiB hcurt. Fear is a passion which dogs
exhibit with singular variation, some
breeds and individuals being very tim
orous, and others perfect models of
courage ; the latter characteristics and
fortitude seeming to be more character
istically canine. A urevbouud has been
known, after breaking his thigh, to run
on till the course was concluded ; and
the excellent new volume " Ou the
Dog," bv Idstone (p. 39), is a frightful
"dory of a foxhound whom its ferocious
master flogged so savagely for " bub
bling " ns to cut out its eve with his whip.
Tho animal continued to hunt with the
pack till the end of tho chase, where
upon the human brute, a certain Colonel
ihoruton, took out his scissors aud
severed the skin byvhich the dog s eye
hud" hung pendant during the entire
run." As to hope, no ono can observe
the dog watching for his master's step-
as in Landseers picture of "Expecta
tion," without admitting that he knows
the sentiment as well ns we. Pride in
a successful chase may be witnessed in
eVery dog, and even felt in the quickened
heartbeats of a grayhound when caressed
and praised. J.hat dogs have personal
vanity appears from the fact that they
are so manifestly dejected and demor
alized when dirty and rnpged by lou
exposure, nild recover their self-respect
immediately upon being washed and
combed. Chivalry and magnanimity
may nearly always be calculated upon
in dogs, and wife-beating is an offence
to which the four-footed beast never de
scends. The stories nre endless of big
dogs generously overlooking the insults
of small curs, or taking them into water
aud giving them a good ducking ns a
punishment for their impertinence, and
then helping them mercitully hacK to
land (see Jesse's "Anecdotes," p. 117).
Sense of property, bifurcating into both
'ovotousnoss and avarice, is common to
all lings. The kennel, rug, collar, water-
basin, or bone once devoted to his use
no dog can see transferred t another
without indignation. Frequently he
"covets his neighbor's house," and at
tempts to enscorce himself in it surrep
titiously ; and almost universally he
covets his neighbor's bone, aud purloins
it if he dare. Even from uvurire he
cannot be wholly exonerated, observing
his immensity to bnrv his treasures.
Shame, humor, gratitude, in fact, nearly
all other emotional attributes not above
enumerated; are also to be noticed in
dogs.
A Burying Ground of (Jlniite,
On the farm of Mr. Harrison Whaler,
near Moorfield, in Carlisle Co.,Ky., is a
skirt of woods which possesses charac
teristics of deep interest. About three
inches beneath the surface of the entire
tract may be found innumerable bones,
evidently the remains of an extinct spe
cies of the humanrace. Several mounds
are also in the woods, and in one which
lias been pnrtially explored were found
skulls and bones which from their size
must have belonged to a race of beings
far more gigantic than the race which
now inhabits the eartn. -in mis mound
were also found many clay utensils
also arrow heads cut out of the solid
rock, and pipes of the same material.
Such a memorial q the past starts many
inquiries. Was the place once a battle
ground, whero tho aborigines fought to
maiutain the glory oi their respective
tribes? Or wos it a oommon burial
ground ? The first seems to be the most
plausible theory, inasmuch as tue wnoie
tract, covering at least fifteen acres, has
multitudes of human bones but a few
inches beneath the surface. It is evi
dent they were never buried, but origi
nally lay exposed to view, until the ac
cumulated deposits of time formed the
black, rich soil which covers them. But
whatever theory may be adopted, it is
certain that these bony materials ante
date history aud furnish another proof
of how little is known of the races and
tribes who flourished, it may be, cen
turies ago.
Forrest nuil the Lien Tamer.
for his strength.
several hundred
pelled to desist.
would not leave.
The volcanic rocks of the Pacific
coast in the Sierra Nevnda and Const
range consist of a cooled lava flood ex
tending from middle California.through
Oregon whe.te it is two thousand feet
thick-northward into British Columbia.
In this lava region, occupying an area
of not less than fifty-six thousand srtare
miles, are about a dozen volcanoes,
every one extinct, being, as Prof.
Joseph Le Conte of the University of
California- calls them, mere pimples
upon its surface. That geologist main
tains that these volcanoes could not have
poured forth so immense a quantity of
lava, and ascribes its occurrence to jfia
sure eruptions, instead f to the action
of craters.
Mr. Forrest had the reputation of be
ing a tyrant on tho stage, and was ex
tremely apt to bully all in the thea
tre, from the manager down. But once
he met his match. It was when he was
playing at the old Broadway Theatre in
New York. His pieces were followed by
an exhibition of lions by their tamer, a
certain Herr Driesbach. Forrest was
one day saving that he hud never been
afraid in all his life could not imagine
the emotion. Dmesbaeh made no re
mark at the time, but in the evening,
when the curtain had fallen, invited
Forrest homo with him. Forrest as
sented, and tho two, entering a house,
walked a long distance through many
devious passages all dark until final
ly Driesbach, opening a door, said,
"This way, Mr. Forrest." ,
Forrest' entered, ond immediately
heard the door slammed, and looked
behind him. He had not time to ex
press any surprise at this, for at the
same moment he felt something soft
rubbing against his leg, and putting out
his hand, touched what felt like a cat's
back. A rasping growl saluted the mo
tion, aud he saw two fiery, glaring eye
balls looking up at him. "Are you
afraid, Mr. Forrest?" asked Driesbach,
from out in the darkness. " Not a bit."
Driesbach said something; the growl
deepened and became hoarser, the back
began to arch, Jflid the eyes to shine
more fiercely.
Forrest held out two or three minutes;
but the symptoms became so ferrying
that ho owned up in so many words that
he was afraid. " Now, let me out, yon
infernal scoundrel, he said to the hen
tamer, "and I'll break every bone in
your body !" He was imprudent there,
for Driesbach kept him, not daring to
move a finger, with the lion rubbing
against his leg all the time, until For
rest promised not only immunity, but a
champagne supper into the bargain.
Animal Ingenuity.
The architectural ingenuity, r rather
genius, of the tarantula is a fact long
familiar to naturalists, a Ran Diego, Cal
ifornia, paper tells us. This insect has an
exceptional development of the instinct
which instructs all creatures which nre
not protected by nature with a warmtli
engendering hairy hide to properly
house themselves. The details of the
tarantula's dwelling, down even to the
matchless mechanism of the doors of
its edifice, have excited the wonder of
all interested in natural history. Tho
most elaborate inventions in locks and
hinges of vaunted human skill are dis
tanced by this venomous insect in the
construction of the door which secures
its privacy. But the road-runner, be
tween which and the tarantula a deadly
enmity exists, is its master, as an inci
dent which we are about to relate will
show.
Prof. Agassiz, during his recent visit
here, exhibited a special desire to be
supplied with as many specimens ns
possible of the road-runner, of the tar
antula, and of the tarantula-killer.
We are not advised as to whether he
was supplied with live specimens of tho
road-runner. This is a very timorons
and incredibly swift bird. It is about
tho size of a 'pheasant; its plumage is
not unlike that of the pheasant family.
It lias longer legs, and a slenderer
neck nnd body than the pheasant. It
trusts for locomotion almost altogether
to its 1or"t nnd mns with n switness
that would shame a rabbit or a hure. it,
is susceptible of domestication, and in
time learns to come at the call of those
who have petted it. But it is a hopeless
thing for a stranger to try to approach
this fowl.
It is as sagacious ns swift. e were
put in possession of facts about the
creature bv Mr. JosoG. Estudillo, which
excited our wonder and admiration. As
we have said, there is enmity between
the road-runner and tarantala. Ill
rond-runner is as noiseless as rapid. It
lies in wait for the tarantula, and tho
moment it finds its enemy asleep, it ap
proaches noiselessly with a twig of the
itvinl-lv fwixtna Deftly nnd stealthily ft
goes on piling the prickly prison around
the devoted insect, until at last a ram
part of the desired height is piled up,
It then selects a specially jagged and
henvv niece of cactus, and drops it on
tho tarantula. The last, awakened by
the shock, endeavors to rise niijl make
its exit. It is instantly impaled upon
the thorns, and the triumph of the rmd
runner is complete.
The Story of Stephen (iirnrd.
The man lives in Philadelphia who
when young aud poor, entered w bank
and savs he. "Please, sir, don t you
want a little boy?" And tho stately
personage said, "'No, little boy, I don t
want a little boy." lhe little boy,
whose heart was too full for utterance.
chewing a piece of licorice stick ho had
bought with a cent stolen from Iuh good
-. . . -,i .... : 1 i:
and pious aunt, wun boos puumy auui
ble. and with great globules oi wittei
rolling down his cheeks, glided silently
down the marble steps of the bank.
Bending his noble form, the bank man
dodged behind a door, for he thought
the little was going to shy a stone at
him. But the boy picked up something
and stuck it in his poor but ragged
jacket. " Come here, little boy," and
the little boy did come here; and tho
bank man said, " Lo, what pickest thou
A Hard Walk.
The train from New York to raterson,
N.J., got fast in adrift at a cut near
Clifton, one night during the lato storm,
and bid fair to stny there all night. The
Eassengers took tho affair in all sorts of
umors. One man said his daughter
was to be married that evening, and he
would give two hundred dollars to be
carried through. One lady had gone to
Passaic in the morning for an hour's
visit, and she was alarmed at the prob
able condition of the little nursing babe
she had left at home. Another man had
a wife who he expected would want him
to go for tho doctor before morning.
After waiting for a time, a number of
the more anxious ones, including the fe
male with the babe at home and several
other females, concluded, rather than
wait in the train all night, that they
would walk to Paterson.
It was an awful walk. In places the
snow was above their waists. One mo
ment they would be upon the track; the
next they would suddenly find them
selves precipitated into some ditch, or
over some embankment. The woman,
with the babe at home, delicate and
sickly ns she was, kept up with the rest,
although she was occasionally helped
bv the strong arm of some of the men.
When a male member of the party felt
iscouraged, and like giving out, he was
kept up by a sort of pride, thinking that
a woman could stand it, certainly he
pught.
Despite the situation, the cracking of
jokes never ceased, and good-humor
prevailed to such au extent that the
party had no time to get down-hearted.
Then somebody would disappear with a
yelp down some unseen cavity; all hands
ould rush to the rescue, and the miss
ing person would he extricated and
threatened with being left alone if he
1 such a thing again! Aud so it went.
The party finally reached Paterson at
about 11 o'clock nt night, having been
passed on the rond by the train they had
abandoned, which had succeeded in
forcing its way through, but without
stopping to pick up the trampers
through the snow.
An African Man of Business.
Soor Hadji Palloo was a smart young
mau ot business energetic, quick at
mental calculation, and seemed to be
orn for a successful salesman. His
eyes were never idle, tliey wandered
over every part of my person, over the
tent, tho bed, the guns, the clothes, ond,
luvmg swung clear round, began the
silent circle over again. His fingers
seemed never at rest, they had a fidgety,
nervous action at their tips, constantly
iu the act of feeling something; while
in the act of talking to me, he would
lean over and feel the texture of the
cloth of my trousers, my coat, or my
shoes or socks ; then ho would feel his
own light jamdani shirt or babwain loin
cloth, until Ins eyes casually resting
upon a novelty, his body would lean for
ward, nnd his arm was stretched out
with thA w.n..fr tincrcra n.a inws also
were in perpetual motion, caused by the
vile habit he had acquired of chewing
ictel-nut and lime, and sometimes
tobacco and lime. They gave out a
sound similar to that of a young shoat
in the act of sucking. He was a pious
Mohammedan, and observed theexternal
courtesies and ceremonies of the true
believer. He would affably greet me,
take off his shoes, enter my tent protest
ing he was not fit to sit in my presence,
and, after being seated, would begin his
ever-crooked errand. Of honesty, literal
and practical honesty, this youth knew
.1 . .. . A '.1. A il. 1- -
notning ; to uie pure iruui no m an
utter stranger; the falsehoods he had
uttered during his short lifo seemed
already to have quenched the bold gaze
of innocence from his eyes, to have ban
ished the colourot truthtulnoKslrom his
features, to have transformed him yet
stripling of twenty into n most ac
complished rascal ajid consummate ex
pert in dishonesty. African ( orre
nj)onden(.
Encounter With a Tantherl
Dave Mosher. a trapper and guide i
the North Woods, had a terrible encoun-
Jer with a North Woods beast last week.
Three miles from Sncondaga Lnko there
is a wild, rugged pass between the
mountains, known as Black Cat Valley.
The mountains on either side are very
steep and rocky, and are covered with
a heavy growth of black balsam and
spruce timber. As the snows deepen
and the weather becomes cold, many
deer and animals take Shelter in that
locality.
Among the rest are the martin, Having
a valuable aarK-coioreu xur, Known
among trappers in those regions as
"Black Cat." iney seldom move Dy
day, keeping concealed in trunks of
trees or between the fissures of rocks.
Owing to the uncertainty of finding one
twice in a place, and their natural shy
ness, it is quite difficult to trap them.
However, when they become pinched
with hunger they will jump at the bait
without hesitation.
A keen, strong, steel trap is set aud
covered with snow or leaves directly un
der a drooping branch that the animal
can reach by rearing; upon this -is se
cured the bait, and in the affort to reach
which it is pretty apt to step in the trap;
then oome a system of desperate
nianoevers, and the only way to hold
them is by having the trap chain at
tached to a small sappling that will
spring and lift them off the ground.
This sleek, fine-furred animal is about
the size of a red fox, and, as David used
to express it, " They're a sassy varmint
to get hold on."
As Mosher was going the rounds of
his traps, he saw through tho bushes
ahead a terrible commotion under a
large white birch, where atrap had been
set. As he approached, a long, gaunt,
tawny-colored, fierce-looking animal,
whose wild scream upon the mountain
side, nt night, will send a thrill of hor
ror to those who are safe in tho cabin,
sprang upon a lower limb of the birch,
and bid defiance with glaring eyes. It
was driven to desperation bv hunger.
Had David quietly backed out ha
could haveenjoyed his supper of veni
son nnd pancakes. But no. he raised
the old rifle and fired. In one-fourth of
a York minute, Bill Stewart's exact time
for skinning a Montezuma bullhead, nn
the clothes upon him would not have
made a bib for a china doll. He direct
ly found himself beside a log, partly
scalped, with his lower limbs looking as
though they had been through a threshing-machine,
while, at the same moment,
with a spit and a scream, a panther dis
appeared up the mountain side. When
he came up the panther was engaged in
killing and devouring a martin which
was caught in the trap, and his hunger
being partly appeased was the means of
the trapper crawling off with his life.
Auburn X. Y. Advertiser.
Aaron Burr.
Good-Eye, Old Year!
We bid you good-bye, with a smlla,
Old Year because it won't pay to ory.
Von ara hound to co. and leave ns, w
know, and we cannot but say good-bye.
We feel none the less that a long-drawB
sigh, a quiver of lip and tearful eye,
would better express, we will confess,
our heartiest last good-bye.
You ve piled upon us a neavy ioaa
and many an ache, on an up-hill road ;
yet enough for the day way the strength-
alway, ana nence our smu o
awry with which we say, Old Year, good
. - f.uit.ui.A..iiu
To Do sure, we nave icuiuhi mo uuot
and pains were often by pounds and th
joys by grains ; and the screws seemed
turned with an extra pinch, as though
Bome malice had hold of the winch ; and
others seemed having much mere de
light, and we much less, than was fair
and right; that coin of the realm and
bonds and stocks and real estate, in
squares and blocks and acres untold of
prairie and hill and silvery stream and
dam and mill ; that these and more of
the coveted real, and desires fulfilled of
beauty's ideal, were the lot of too few,
while we of the many were often in
want of even a penny. But then, sinoe
we know, or at least don't doubt, that
the broods of care are swarming about
the hordes of manifold wealth that burn
and sink ami leave by stealth ; that
" reumatic" loves to pain and twist the
grasping heart and the gripping fist
we about conclude that we do not know
of oue so fortunate here below with
whom we'd exchange what the year has
brought though little oi profit our
hands t have wrought and take his
share of trouble and pains, and also his
lot of regret and shame, and also th
gaunt old skeleton grim that in cup
board or closet is grinning at him.
We ennnot but feel, though a load of
enre, that to sny the least it is hard to
bear, it has been our lot all along th
years, that nevertheless there is joy in
life, in spite of sorrow, pain, and strife,
nnil ben eft we rcoret the old year gone.
and wish it's draft on time undrawn ;
that all to soon tho new is old, too soon
the wondrous tale is told.
The stream of time-Oli, woe is me !
Hath a current too strong and swift
It hurries me on to the silent sea,
Like a rudderless, soulless wreo
adrift :
Oh ! would that there were some little
',fty
Some headland, beneath whoso tranquil
lea,
We might forever at anchor lay,
Or float when we would 10 me oeop,
dark sea.
Bnt a-truce to regrets I let time roll
i ; what mat ters what comes or what is
gone ! It is joy to have bved, it is joy
to live ; why care for the flight of the
fugitive? If each have filled up the
r).. . ... all 1-
fleeting days with nooie aeeas ana uign
essays, then no remorse or Ba regrets
will cloud the year's serene sunset.
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up? Ana ne answered ana replied,
"A pin. Aud the bank man said,
"Littlo boy are you good?" and ho said
he was. And the bank man said, " How
do you vote ? lExcuse me, do yon go to
Sunday School?" and he said he did.
Then the bank man took down a pen
made of pure gold and flowing with
pure ink, and he wrote on a piece of
pnper, "St. Peter," and he asked the
little boy what it stood for, and ho snid
" Salt Peter." Then the bank mnn snid
it mennt " Saint Peter." TJie little boy
said " Oh!"
Then the bank man took the little boy
to his bosom, and the little boy said
"Oh!" again, for he squeezed him.
Then the bank man took the little boy
into partnership, and gave him half the
profits nnd all the capital, and he mar
ried the bank man's daughter, and now
nil he has is nil his, and all his own, too.
An Olil-FushUmcd Brigiiml.
Brigands of the old-fashioned type are
fast dying out, but some very fine spec
imens of the romantic sort are still to be
found in Corsica. A correspondent of
the Paris Temp mentions that, besides
some thirty-four very doubtful charac
ters, who systematically elude the po
lice of the island; there are three indi
viduals, nnmed Germaui, Suzzoni and
Alb-ti, about whom very sensational
legends are told. The exploits of these
brigands are, however, mere child's
play compared to those of Suzzou's pre
decessor, the famous Santaluccia. He
was perhaps the last of the old race,
and was a power in Corsica some thirty
venrs ngo. He took to the woods in
consequence of what happened to one
of his brothers, who was convicted on
the. evidence of false wituesse, and sent
to the hulks. Santaluccia gave himself
no rest until he had got those men into
his power. The first of these he tied to
a tree and addressed as follows:
" Yours is a lyiug tongue; you are
about to lose it; wuieli assertion ne in
stantly made good. To the next he said:
" x on nave declared, that your eyes ue-
held that which they have not seen;
you are going tt lose your eyes. To
the third he said: "You have sworn
that your ears heard what they had not
heard: you will lose your ears. He
then tore out the eyes of one nnd cut off
the ears ot the other.
UttMvv Wni-il TlponliPT wivs " Aaron
iiurr wits a Keener thinKer tnan ueorge
Washiuirton. Ho was a far more inge
nious man. a more active man. and, if
he had been a moral man, and main
tained normal relations with his fellow-
men, and with tho laws of rectitude, he
would have bean an abler man. Wash
ington was a man of good sense, but hfi
was not u man ot genius in any direc
tion except that of conscience. He was
a man of singular equity, great disinter
estedness, and of pure and upngnt in
tent. Sagacious ho was, by a light
which came from integrity. He endur
ed, having faith to believe that right
was right, that it was safe, and that
rierht in the end would prevail. That
which made Washington the only great
hero of our revolutionary struggle was
the light of the moral element that was
in him not any intellectual genius
which he possessed; Hot any rare tact of
administration, or any remarkable exe
cutive power. And if you look back
upon those names in our history that
have stood tle test, you will find that
they have been men who were fiaiitful
in the highest moral element. And as
time goes on, those men . who lack these
elements sink lower and lower and low
er till they set below the horizon; and
those who possess them rise higher, till
they reach the meridian, with undying
splendor, te shine upon history and the
world."
A company J Nci
. i tt.
-w xork ana l'enn-
sylvnuia capitalists have purchased ten
acres of hind at McKinuey's Station,
ten miles from Pittsburgh, Penn., for
the purpose of establishing works for
the manufacture of steel by the Besse
mer process. 1 1 The company has a eapi
talof $l,000y000.
Two yonng ladies residing on the Al
exandria turnpike, a few miles from
Newport, Ivy., learning that a young
man named Newman had beeu talking
improperly about them, waylaid him the
other night and beat him severely. He
has swern out a warrant for the arrest of
the parties,
The value iron acquires under the
hammer is something wonderful. It is
said that a bar of iron worth S3 is worth
$10.50 when made into horse-shoes, $55
when made into needles, 3,285 made
into penknife blades, 29.480 in shirt
. , i n. r rirvx 1 i
buttons, anuo,iwuai utuance Borings
of watches. Boys, may, from tkis, see
what labor is worth, and learn to value
nnd respect it, for it is the labor the
mind puts inte the iron that so iucreiiees
its value. Consider what would be the
reuult if there were no iron.
All the prisoners confined in the
Frankfort (Ky.) jail escaped one dark
night through the roof.
The Hen.
When a flea, under a microscope, is
made to appear as largo as au elephant,
we can see all the wonderful parts of its
formation, and are astonished to nnd
that it has a coat of armor much more
complete than ever warrior wore, and
composed of strong uolished plates, fit
ted over each ether, each plate like a
tortoise-shell, and where they meet hun
dreds of small quills project like thoso
on the back or a porcupine or hedge
hog. There are the arched neck, the
bright eyes, the transparent cases,
piercers to puncture the Bkin a Bucker
to draw away the blood, six long legs,
four of which are folded on the breast,
all ready at any moment to be thrown
out with tremendous force for that
jump which bothers one when they want
to catch him, and at the end of each
leg hooked cJuwa, to enable him to cling
on to whatever he lights upon. A flea
cun jump a hundred times its own
length, which is the same as if a man
lumped five hundred feet : and he can
draw a load two hundred times his own
weight.
Bad Memory'
Those even who are cursed with the
most treacherous memories generally
retain a pretty accurate recollection
w here dollars are concerned. But there
are exceptions to every rule, and a curi
ous one recently occurred in Paris. One
Madame Le Bran, when leaving the
Vineenues railway station, saw a little
packet drop from beneath a lady's dress.
She picked it up and gave it to her, but
the lady denied all Knowledge or u, ana
said that it could not be hers. Madame
Le Bruti, much puzzled, spoke tooue of
the officials at the station. He opened
the mysterious parcel, and found that it
contained about $4,000. Madame Le
Brun then rushed once more after the
lady, who came back protesting that it
wasnt hers; presently, however, uie
recollection suddenly, flashed across her
that her mother, who had recently made
a great deal of niouey, gave her a present,
a dnv or two beiore. oi tno sum in ques
tion; but, knowing that her daughter
was going to pay several visits, took the
precaution of sewing the packet oi notes
uto her petticoats an attention which,
had it been effectively carried out by a
more vigorous ply of the needle and
thread, would seem to have been by no
muans ill-bestowed in the case of a lady
who totally forgets in a few honss a
packet of $4,000. It is not every one
w he, when losing money, nat, uie hick mi
meet a with Madame Le Brnn.
OV-- ----
Aotivo preparations are in progress
to drain the great Okeefenokee swamp'
in Southern Georgia. The largest
(counting Florida out of the question),
in this part of the world, is now being
attacked in earnest, and a chartered
company propose to see if it cannot be
made valuable for something besides
bears, coons, wild turkeys and snakes.
The swamp which extends down into
the upper border of Slorida, is a thickly
timbered morass, nearly two hundred
miles in circumference nearly twioe as
iarge as the Dismal Swampand its
ornithological population, which in
cludes some strnnge voiced birds ap
parently peculiar to that particular do
main, is only parauea ny us enaiess
vnriety of sn'nkes and alligators. The
preliminary work of draining the swamp
required an experiment to show the
nature of the ground beneath it ; and a
shaft or tunnel, sunk at the border of
the morass, has disclosed curiously
enough the existence at the depth of
two hundred feet, of a bed of genuine
bituminous coal. Its extent, as well as
the comparative value of the coal, re
mains to be determined. The most ob
vious facts in 'geology will readily ex
plain, not only the existence of coal in
such a place, out uie prooaoie; inoc
that the bed is a large one. Other geo
logical facts of some interest are said
to have been developed by this shaft.
one being stratum of rock of tbe nm
rian age.
The hay consumed by different ani
mals does not vary greatly from three
pounds daily for each hundred pounds
taele is the result of various experiments
by different persons, and will be useful
lor larmers wno wisn to aetermine, Dy
calculation beforehand, how their hay
will hold out for the winter, 500 eubio
feet of timothy hay, in a full bay, being
one ton: Working horses, 8.08 pounds;
Working oxen. 2.40 pounds; Milch cows,
Boussingault's 2.24 pounds, Lincoln's
2.40 pounds; young cattle, 3.08 pounds;
Steers. 2.84 pounds ; Dry cows, 2.42
In the Cemetery.
Lodging-house keepers have serious
objections to the introduction of chil
dren to their apartments. These inno
cents nre apt to damnge furniture to
ereate disturbances not at all conduoive
to the peace of the rest of the house, and
to be the unfortunate subjects of infec
tious diseases. For these reasons those
lodgers are preferred who are "without
incumbrance." However, it is plain
that people with children must live
somewhere, and sometimes artifice has
to be employed to enable them to do so.
On All Souls' Day a gentleman, seeking
fresh rooms, was asked whether ne naa
any children. The man answered with
tears that they were "all in the oeme
tery." Satisfied with this reply, the
landlord accepted him as a tenant ; bnt
the agreement between them was no
sooner signed than -four children appear
ed on the scene, with their nurse. It
was true they had been to Highgate
Cemetery but they had oome back again.
The " Infant's Pavilion" will be a
notable feature of the Vienna Exposi
tion. Within this pavilion, gathered
from all nations, will fce grouped the
various oomtrivances used in the care of
children. Those that minister to the
physical needs, those that amuse and
develop the mental faculties, toys and
games of all kinds, will find a place
there. This is not all. It is the design
to prevent the various plans and systems
used in charitable movements lor the
care of children and the medical methods
and inventions used for remedying phy
sical defects and malformations. The
idea of the " Infants Pavilion" certainly
commends itself to the feelings of every
one.
A Boston Gentleman who could net
waltz ohered a young lady $400 if she
would allov him to hug her just as
much as the man did who had just
waltzed with her. It was a good offer,
and showed that money was no object
to him, but they put him out of the
pounds: Pigs, estimated. 3.00 wounds: I house so haid that Lis eves were Quite
Sheep, 2.00 pounds. I black.