5 ( ';- "X. -C t ; i HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr.y Editor and Publisher. Nil DESPEHANDUM.- Two Dollars : per Annum. VOL. III. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA:f -THUB&DAY," AUGUST 21, 1873. NO. 25. a? - Tho Ilelmsman of Lake Erie. ' BY EPES SABOENT. . Brave follows, in my day, Have I beheld, Brave on the quarter-dock, Brave iu tho hour of wreck, Brave where the hope Impelled Alid death before them lay. Bat if you ask of mo, Who of them all First to my thought appears, Bright through the mint of year, Foremost at memory's call, This would my answer be i John Maynard. he's tho first .. ; Hero's to his fame! JIe of the derail Queen, He of that fearful scene, Who. out of smoke and flame, On us a savior burst. Crowded with rasoii(;er " Was or good boot ; Crossing Lake Erie, we Hardly the shore could see, When came that dreaded note Which most tho heart-blood stire "Fiie!'' And tho captain cried: " See to it there 1 Wheel, ho ! Whose hand is on f" "John Mayuard's." "Steady, John!- East-south-east lot her tear!" " Ayo, aye, dr !" John rcphed. John, a rough sailor-lai Why nhould he stay ? Thurst at by tongues of fire, There at his post expire ? Fly, John, at once ! Away jVhera rescue may be had ! "Truo, all to God in thee Look now for aid j Trembling in view of death, Men. women hold their breath But shall they tare he made Through thy deep agony i " Swathed round wlih flamo and moke , John still held on : " Only five minutes more, And we may jump ashore. Steady !" the captain spoke. " Steady it iH," said John. " One minute longer, John, . Can you remain ?" '.'Aye, with God's help, I can," Quote the lad, grown to man In that extreme of pain, With crown celestial oa. Up, on its wings of flame, Up drove the keel ; Up to tho shelving beach, Out of the billows' reach, Where men could leap and kneel, All with a good acclaim. Saved ! All are saved !" one cries " Three aundred saved ! John Maynard where is he ? Bring him forth ! Let us see Him who the fire-fiend braved!" "Hush ! There, in Uoath, he lies !" The Railroad and tho Farmers, Raising Cora mid Wlicnt In Illinois mid Oetliiii; It lo.Uailit...sijtjniilid ot C.orn Buj'i Two Pull's of liouls. The great apostle of the farmers movement, writes a correspondent from Illinois, the man who planned the or ganization, of the farmers, and, by his earnest, well-directed efforts, has done more tlum nny- other to give it shape uuu ujuku it a power, is . m. smith, Secretary of the State Farmers' Asocia- tiou, aud himself a plain, hard-working prnirio larmer, a native ot Connecticut. Until I met Mr. Smith, the corresnond- ent adds, I had been unable to get any clear idea of the exact grounds of the farmers' complaints. " Railroad Extor tion," "Unjust Discrimination," " Monopoly," are general terms freely used by the farmers, but just what con stituted them l was unable to find out. One of my first questions, therefore. was whether the farmers of this State were not prosperous. I told him that the people of the East hearing of the wonderful fertility of Illinois soil sup posed the fanners who had been here for any length of time ninst be a well-to-do, comfortably situated class of people. Mr. Smith replied that this was a very erroneous idea. " The ma jority of the farmers of this State," said lie, " havo hard work to support their families. Year by year new mortgages are given to pay new debts, and it is the exception rather than the rule for a far mer to be saving anything. At least one-half of the farms iu this part of the State are mortgaged for money bor rowed at ten per cent, interest, and the majority of them will never bo re deemed. You let it be known that a mau in tins village has a thousand dol lars to lend on first-class security, and he will have a dozen applications before night !" ' Have these mortgages been given for balances due on farms purchased, or for money borrowed after tho farms Lave been paid for ?" " In some cases they represent a part of the purchase money of the farms, but in most cases the farmers have been obliged to borrow because they have been running behind. Nobody can make anything farming here unless he lias a largo farm, and I'll tell you by-and-by why, with plenty of land, a man can make a little ; but even then, he oan seldom realize ordinary interest on his investment. Now I have here a good farm, and you can see what I have made of it. But I never could have paid for it in the sixteen years I have been here from the profits of farming. I was suc cessful in a little speculation, and made enough to buy the laud." The railroad men say that you far mers are extravagant in your living; that during your years of prosperity the silk dress got into the family, and that you have nevtr been able to get it out in short, that you ere indulging in a etyle of living wholly unknown among you a few years ago. " It is not ao," was tho reply. " If you will notice vU little boxes of houses in which the most tf our farmers live, with almost nothing fa0ut them to make them attraotive, and tn jf you could go into them and see how meanly they are furnished, and how the inmntei have to eoonomize and count every cent tuey expena, you would see that the as sertion is not true. Take the farmers who live within ten miles west of me. and I don't believe the whole of them spend $15 a year in reading matter ; and as for dresB, your mechanics who work by the day and their families, are much better clad. - All over these prairies you see magnificent fields of corn ; but if it costs the farmer more to raise it than he can get for it, a good crop is no sign of prosperity." " Is it true that you have to sell your corn ior less man wnat it costs you to produce it ? " I asked. " Certainly, and I cau demonstrate it to you," was the reply. " I have given the matter very careful study for years, and I think I cau tell just about how much it costs me to raise a bushel of corn. You may take first the labor. I think any farmer will tell you that it takes a man and a team at least five clays to plow, harrow, mark out. dant. cultivate, harvest, and house an acre of corn. it cant be done in less time. Two dollars a day is no more than a fair price ior tne worit of a man and a team. Then the first item of exnensa is SS10. The land in this county is assessed at Sdd.ddf an acre ; it is worth, unless the sole of the whole of it should be forced, $40 ; I refused $68 an acre for my farm last year. Interest at ten per cent on $40 for one year is $L Fifty bushels of corn to an acre is more than the average of this comity. To shell a bushel of corn and haul it two miles to Kewanee, with taxes, the wear and tear on farming implements, c, costs at least five cents a bushel, or $2.50 for the crop on an acre. So you see my acre of corn nas cost me $it.5U. Corn is now worth in Kewanee 20 cents a bushel. My 50 bushels will, therefore, brine me only 810. That is, I barely get paid for my laoor, while I lose the interest on the money invested in my farm, the wear and tear of machinery, and get noting for shelling and carting, or with w hich to pay my taxes. Again, the oustiei ot corn has cost me 33 cents. suppose we can raise corn at a profit for 30 cents a bushel. Our farmers don't expect to get 10 per cent interest oa their investments, though thev have as good a right to it as tho capitalist or merchant. Then there is one other thing which I did not take into account. The stalks have no cash value, but they furnish fodder for our stock. The only thing that has saved the Illinois farmer from complete ruin and bankruptcy nas Deen uis stocK. Alter our corn lias been husked, we turn our cattle into the fields and they will come out in the spring tat. I said that I would tell you why a large farm might be made pay, where a small one could not. If a man has a large faim and capi al enough he can make money raising stock and hogs, because each will get a certain percent age of its growth from material on the farm that has no market, and is, there fore, really of no value unless used in this way. Besides, the corn which I feed to my stock and pigs, brings me much more than 20 cents a bushel. " I can give you some striking ex amples of the profit of raising corn and wheat in this vicinity, if you de sire. One forenoon a man went past here with a load of 60 bushels of com. He said that he had come a long dis tance hid started at four o'clock in the morning. As he returned in the after noon, I asked him how much he had got for, his load of corn. He held up two pairs of boys' boots, and said that his GO bushels of corn, and $1 in cash, had just purchased them. It took at least seven days' labor of a man and team to raise that corn, and another long day to haul it to market, to say nothing of interest on the farmer's in vestment and other expenses. I judge that each pair of boots cost about five days' laboiv or its equivalent. I knew another man who took a ton of corn to market for the purpese of buying coal. It purchased just a ton, and ho spent a day with hit team iu hauling. One year I raised 3,600 bushels of wheat, and kept a careful account" of its cost. When I sold it, and balanced my books, I found that I . had for my own labor, which I had. not. charged, and that of my wife, who' had a terribly hard time of it cooking for harvesters and thresh ers during the hot weather of midsum mer, just$300 ! Why, sir, $1,000 would not have paid for that summer's work. Wheat is so uncertain a crop, it has so many enemies from the time it is sown until it is threshed, and it is so exacting of the farmer, who must attend to it at a certain time, or he will lose it, that we can't afford to raise it for less than 90 cents a bushel. .-..'. " Now there is something wrong in all of this,- With our productive soil, and facilities for reaching market, the farmers of Illinois ought to be fore handed, comfortablyhoused and clothed. and able to save a little every year, in stead of getting deeper and deeper into debt. We are; an intelligent, hard working, economical people, and every one of us who owns his farm is to that extent a capitalist ; and we ought to be able to do as well as the journeyman mechanio, with less education than we, and no capital. It is not right that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail road, which only moves our crop to Chicago, a distance of 132 miles, and the trade in that city who handles it, should be growing enormously rich, while we are growing poorer. It is cot worth 11 cents a bushel to take our corn from here to Chicago, and the railroad that is charging it is robbing us of a part of the fruits of our labor." Cure for Bee Stings. A correspondent of a British maga zine writes: " On the 15th of April last a young man, employed near bees, had the misfortune of being stung. No other remedy being near at hand, I rec ommended him to apply the common soil to the wound, and it immediately relieved the paiu and prevented the swelling. Such a receipt is more valu able than gold to all who have anything to do with bees. I formerly used com mon blue for bee stings, but common oil is preferable." A Syracuse lad had his clothes taken completely off by passing through a soaoe of six inches on a, belt between tho wheel and the ceiling. A Brigand at Bay. Death ot the Itullnn Chief Scallae. For the last six years the brigand ocaiise nas been tne terror of (Jalabria on account of the boldness and cruelty with which he has carried out his plans of murder and plunder. While' Oabri elli, a polico oflicial, was at Gagliano about the 1st of July, ho learned through spies that the robber1 chief was then at the house of one Maria Rossilia, his mistress r.nd accomplice, iu Giurigliano. the priucinal village of the district. The police officer took six soldiers with lam to the spot indicated, and surrounded the abode of the bandit, Iu order to make escape impossible, the soldiers and gendarmes of tho vil lage Were also called out and distribu ted around the house. Scalise appeared at the window and opened fire on his pursuers, who re sponded with two shots which struck him in the head. He sprang back and ran over the roof of the house to that of a neighbor, a village official, in the garret of which he intrenched himself. While the captain of the gendarmes directed the outside operations, four men forced their way into the house. Two of these bersaglieri or riflemen stormed the room which served the brigand as a frtification, but they fell dead, pieroed through by balls from Scaliso'8 revolver. A third, man was wounded. None of the besiegers would now venture in the house, and it was determined to set it on fire. This was done, and the brigand, seeing escape cut off, surrendered. They started for Catrnzaro, but as ho attempted to escape while on the road, his guards were obliged to fire on him, and he was brought in a corpse. A broad scar on his body showed where he had been wounded in a former fight between tho royal troops and eleven robbers under his command. He had been cured of this wound at the open hospital at Giuriglano. He was onlythirty years old. He had a handsome figure and manly features, which bespoke unusual courage and energy of will. Desire for revenge, which has dyed the plainsof Cal abria with blood as often as it has those of Corsica, first impelled him to choose the forest as his home. His father, a gloomy and defiant old man, had en couraged him to do so, and the memory of his brother, who, as a bandit, hail fallen in a fight, acted as an additional incentive. ' . " Even the bloodiest stories," says tho Oiornale Calabrcse, "tako here a romantic coloring. One should look at the bandit's jacket and notice how lav ishly it is adorned with silver embroid ery on velvet and with four rows of silver pieces for buttons. Then, too, Maria Kossilla is a very charming ap parition, hue has been taken with her mother and sister to the prison at Cat- anzaro. All efforts to root out brigand age in Calabria will be iu vaiu while there still exists tho wide difference be tween the miserable and oppressed con dition of the hard-working country peo ple and the brilliant and luxurious life of the bandit, around which the glow ing imagination of the people throws a halo of power and glory." ' ' Ingenious Devices of Cruelty. Western papers mention an unusual instance of cruelty perpetrated upon a boy fourteen years old, iu Limer town ship, Marion county, Iowa, by two men named McKissick and Hart. The boy, who was living at McKissick's, was ac cused by the men of robbing the others. With pistols in their hands they fiercely threatened him with death if he did not confess. Failing to extort a confession, the raw-hide was mercilessly applied, at short intervals, till the evening, when he was taken to a well some ten feet deep, with about five feet of water in it, and, with a rope round his neck, he was lowered repeatedly head foremost into the water, until nearly drowned. The same night he was taken up stairs in McKissick's house by McKissick and Hart, and there laid on his face ou the floor, his feet bound with a rope passed over the rafters so as to draw his feet some twenty inches from the floor. His hands were bound behind him, and drawn up in the samo way to abou; the same elevation, and his head lashed to a bed-post by a cord from his neck. In this condition he was left until 10 o'clock the next morning, when some neighbors discovered and released him from his position, more dead than alive. McKissick and Hart, who are both men of property, were arrested, aud held to answer for assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury, and also served with notice in a civil suit for five thousand dollars damages. . Brigliam and His Wives. Brigham Young is reported to have expressed himself as follows iu one of his recent "sermons" in Salt Lake City: "I wish my women to under stand that what I am going to say is for them as well as others, and I want those who aro here to tell their sisters, yes, all tho women in tho community. I am going to give you from this time to the 6th of October next for reflection, ' that you may determine whether- you wish to stay with your husbands or not, and then I am going to set every woman at liberty, and say to them, 'now you go your way.' And my wives .have got to do one of two things, either round up their shoulders to endure the afflic tions of this world, and live their reli gion that is, polygamy or they must leave ; for I will not have them about me. I will go into heaven alone rather to have scratching and, fighting about me. I will set all at liberty. What, first wife, too ? Yes, liberate you all. I want to go somewhere or do something to get rid of the whiners. I do not want them to receive part of the truth and spurn the rest out of doors. Let every man thus treat his wives; keeping raiment enough to cover his body, and say to your wives, take all that I have and be set at liberty, but if you stay with me, you shall comply with the law of God in every respect, and that, too, without any murmuring or whining. You must fulfill the law ofGod.in every respect, and round up your shoulders to walk up to the mark without any grunting." A mower that can't mow might as well be no mower, ZZ "X Specific For Diarrhea. Considerable has been lately said in medical journals concerning tho value of milk as a remedial agent in certain diseases. An interesting article upon this subject lately appeared in the Lon don ililk Journal, in whioh it is stated on the authority of Dr. Benjamin Clarke .that in the East Indies warm milk is used to a great extent as a specifio for diarrhea. A pint every four hours will check the most violent diarrhea, stom ach ache, incipient cholera, and dysen tery. The milk should never be boiled, but only heated snffioientlyto bo agree ably warm, not too hot to drink. Milk which has been boiled is unfit for use. The . writer gives several instances to show the value of this simple substance in arresting this disease, among which is the following x The writer says. :' "It has never failed . in curing in six" to twelve hours, and I have tried it, I should think, fifty times. I havo also given it to a dying man who had been subject to dysentery eight months, lat terly accompanied by one continual diarrhea, and it acted on him like a charm. In two days his diarrhea was gone, in three .weeks lie became a hale, fat man, and now nothing that may hereafter ocour will ever shake his faitii in hot milk. A writer also communicates to Hhe Jledical Times aryl Gazette, a statement of the value of milk in twenty six cases of typhoid fever, in every one of which its great value was apparent. It, checks diarrhpa, aud nourishes and cools the body. People suffering from disease, require food quite as much as those in health, and much more so in certain diseases where there is rapid waste of the system. Frequently all or dinary food iu certain diseases is reject ed by the stomach, and even loathed by the patient ; but nature, ever benefi cent, has furnished a food that in all diseases is beneficial-in some r directly curative. Such a food' is milk. ' The writer in the journal last quoted, Dr. Alexander Yale, after giving particular observations upon the points above mentioned, viz'..:, its action iu checking diarrhea, its nourishing properties, and its action in cooling the body, says : ' We believe that milk nourishes in fever, promotes sleep, wards off deli rium, soothes tho intestines, and, in fine, is tho sini qua non in typhoid fever." We have also lately tested the value of milk in scarlet fever, and learn that it is now recommended by the me dical faculty in all cases of this often very distressing children's disease. Give all tho milk the patient will take even during the period of greatest fever; it keeps up the strength of the patient, acts well upon the stomach, and is iu every way a blessed thing in this sick ness. Parents, remember it, and do not fear to give it if yoHr dear ones are afflicted with this disease. ;- A Conductor to be Trusted, One day. before Cornelius Vanderbilt obtained possession of the Hudson River Railway, he was traveling, it is said, from New York to Albany ; and considering himself a privileged charac ter, went into the baggage car to smoke. He had been enjoying his cigar but two or three minutes when the conductor came along and informed him politely that ho must not smoke there. Van derbilt said that it would'nt make any dilrerence that it was alt right, sc.: but tho conductor was of a different opinion declaring that it was contrary to the rules of the road. "You don't know me," said the speak er. "My name is Vanderbilt ; I art sometimes called Commodore. I gen erally do about as I please." r I don t know nor ao 1 care who you ore, Mr. Vanderbilt. I intend to obey the rules. If you were ten times a Com modore I could not permit you to smoke here, and you must go elsewhere to finish your segar." Tho loyalty to duty displayed by tho conductor pleased the ancient Cornelius, and he went out, tiiougn not before he said to the conductor: "You are the right kind of a man for your place. You don't respect persons. I think of buying this road, and if I do you can stay on it as long as you liko." Vanderbilt did buy tho road and re tained the conductor. He frequently remarked that that man could bo trust ed ; that he was never mistaken in judg ing of character, and that he knew from the first that the conductor was sound. The conductor stayed on the road for five years, aud in that time, as the story goes, stole himself into a pecuniary in dependence. So much for vanderbilt s knowledge of character. Evidently the conductor knew Vanderbilt better than Vanderbilt knew the conductor. Food Exports and Where They Go To. The export of beef from the United States in the year 1872 approached 27, 000,000 pounds; mora than half this quantity was shipped for the United Kingdom, aud more than 4,000,000 pounds of it went to her colonies. The export of pork exceeded 67,000,000 pounds; nearly 13,000,000 pounds being destined for the United Kingdom, and 25,000,000 for its colonies. The export of bacon and hams exceeded 246,000,000 pounds 6f 'which the United Kingdom took 175,000,000 pounds. The export of lard reached nearly 200,000,000 pounds, nearly 79,000,000 pounds being sent to the United Kingdom. The export of butter approached B.OUO.UIK) pounds. 3,500,000 poundsof which were shipped for tho United Kingdom. The export of cheese exceeded 66,000,000 pounds, more than 66,000,000 pounds being sent to the United Kingdom. The total ex port in 1H72 of these six artioles exceed ed 600,000,000 pounds, of which the United Kingdom took 315.000.000 pounds. ... SiTIOT-nK OU" A Onii-inrw-iw k 'V ......... x yyjkiug quadroon girl named Medora Vining committed suicide in New Orleans by i . 1 .. I 1 -.J A 1.11 . - miuuK bh tuuiuB, a. iciier iound on her person revealed tho information that her lover had jilted her, and she 'committed the rash act in desperation. The letter was addressed to her fickle lover, and was couched in the most af feotionate terms, wishing him happiness in another's love hereafter, and request ing him to forget her, as she was doomed for the regions of the damned. .' The Surf-Doard Sport at IIllo." Hilo is one of the very few plaoes in the Sandwich islands where you can see a truly royal sport the surf-board. It requires a rough day and a heavy Burf, but with a good day it is one of the finest sights in tho world.- Tho -surfboard is a tough plank about two feet wide and from six to twenty feet long, usually made of the breadfruit tree. Armed with these a party of tall, mus cular natives swim out to the first line of breakers, and, watching their chance to duck under this, make their way finally, by the help of the under-tow, into the smooth Water far off beyond the durf. Here they bob up and down on the swell likft so-many ducks, watching their'Opportu'nity. What they seek is a very high swell, before which they place themselves, lying or kneeling on the surf-board. Tho great wave dashes onward, but as its bottom strikes the ground, the top, unretarded in its speed and force, breaks into a huge comber, and directly before this the surf-board swimmer is propelled with a speed which we timed, and found to exceed forty miles per hour. In fact, he goes like lightning, always just ahead of the breaker, ond ; apparently down hill, propelled by the vehement impulse of the roaring wave behind him, yet seem ing to have a speed and motion of his own. " ' It is a very surprising sight to see three or four men thus dashed for near ly a milo toward the shore at the speed of an express train, every moment about to be overwhelmed by a roaring breaker, whose white crest was reared high above and just behind them, but always escaping this engulfment, and propelled before it. They look, kneel ing or lying on their surf-boards, more like some curious and swift-swimming fish like dolphins racing, as it seemed to mo than liko men. Once in a while, by some mischance, the cause of which I could not understand, the swimmer was overwhelmed ; the great comber overtook him ; he was flung over and " ver liko a piece of wreck, but instantly dived, aud reappeared beyond and out side of the wave, ready to take advan tage of the next. A successful shot launched them quite high and dry on the boach far beyond where we stood to wntfb. Occasionally a man would stand erect upon his surf-board,- balancing himself in the boiling water without apparent difficulty. The surf-board is one of the ancient sports of Hawaii. I am told that few of the younger genera tion are capable of it, and that it is thought to require great nerve and coolness even among these admirable swimmers, and to be not without danger. An Illinois Stock Farmer. Here in Vermillion county a single individual owns and manages 7,000 acres, while other farms of still greater magni tude may bo found in adjoining coun ties. Mr. John Sidell, of the township bearing his name, has a domain of 7,000 acres. The tract is six miles long, and varies from one to two miles in width. Running through its entire length is the Little Vermillion River, skirted for two miles with beautiful groves and clusters of thickets. Three thousand acres are in meadow, and as much more in blue grass pasture, and the remaining 1,000 is devoted to corn. Roaming over the great pasture ore 1,500 cattle, 1,000 of which will shortly be shipped to NewYork city. Mr. Sidell has also about 1,000 hogs on his place. Tho corn he raises, together with thousands of bushels that he buys annually, is consumed on his farm. He employs about 40 teams and 50 men, and has nine comfortable tene ment houses upon the plantation. There are no pnblic roads through his premi ses, but Mr. Sidell says that it is a high way of itself. Wagon roads run through tho pasture from one end of the domain to tho other, with gates at the fence crossings. The farm ubounds in springs, aud is well drained throughout. The proprietor of this miniature dominion dwells in a brick mansion of size and surroundings corresponding with the general magnitude of his comprehensive undertaking. Danville Times. What Farmers Say. A largo convention .of farmers was held in Wayne county,' la., which dom inated a full county ticket. The follow ing was tho call that brought tho far mers together: " Fellow-Farmers and Laborers: Turn a deaf ear to the allurements of party. They are tho siren songs which will lead you to certain ruin. . Rise up as free and independent men, resolved to think and act for yourselves. Show these tricksters and traders in the sov ereignty of tho people that you aro no longer minors, and that their services as the guardiaus of your interests can well be dispenbed with. Go to your township conventions, and select your est men to represent you in tho com ing county convention, . that they may select Wayne county's best men to fill the several offices at your disposal this fall." . ' - ' Killing a Cat. There is a man on Franklin street, Daubury, who has been engaged in the past two months in a mighty effort to kill a cat. In that time that unfortu nate animul has explored tho bottom of every sheet and stream of water within six miles of Danbury, has had an unin tsntional taste of the several new va rities of powder, and has got so it can tell in the dark without looking around, the difference between a half brick and a whole one. The man himself hasn't got a whole piece of clothing in his wardrobe, and has almost entirely lost tne use or one leg irom rheumatism contracted while drowning the cat, and more scratches on him than the survivor of four wives. His aged father says he will take a chair out in the yard on a pleasant afternoon, and will sit there for two hours at a time, and look at that cat and swear. .A girl between seven and eight years ol age was found in a Mew Jiaven ceme tery weeping bitterly over the grave of her mother. The child was two miles from her home. The Indians near Camn Brown. Wyoming Territory, attacked a house ana muraerea two women, A Quiet Citizen. The Pall mall Gazette notices that a disagreeable character has just been taken into custody in Asia Minor: "The Smyrna correspondent of the Levant Herald reports tho capture of Deli Mustapha, (mad Mustapha,) a san guinary freebooter, who frequented the neighborhood of Nymphio, where he has for many years resided undis turbed by tho authorities on account of his reputed insanity, madmen being in vested with a special sanctity in the eyes of Mohammedans. From the tales related of the 'mad robber, he must havo been it terrible nuisance to the neighborhood, and it Is not surprising that his capture should be regarded with satisfaction. Upward of a hund red persons are said to have been mur dered by this interesting creature. The house where he lived was carefully avoided in the dny time, and after night fall none dared to approach it, for it was during the night that Mustapha used to prowl forth and perpetrate ins atrocities. Several Governors have at tempted to rid the country of the Rnnnrfe bv sendinir troons to canture him, but the supertitious terror attach ed to his name enabled him to set all armed force at defiance. Sureya Pasha, however, lately resolved to Secure him, and about three weeks ago dispatched a body of troops undercommand of a res olute officer, with orders to tako Musta pha dead or alive. Anticipating a des perate' resistance, the troops carefully surrounded his house, gradually draw ing closer until Mustapha who had not at first perceived the manoeuvre, was caught as in a net. Perceiving the sit uation, he mockingly defied the soldiers, and on tho latter attempting to set nre to. bin dwelling he became furious. Rushing forth from his doorway, yata ghan in hand, he dashed into the. midst of his assailants, wounding several of them, until he was felled to the ground by the butt-end of a pistol. He was then bound aud dragged to the nearest sta tion on the Cassaba Railway, whence he was conveyed safely to Smyrna, where crowds flocked to see him, as, loaded with irons, ho was conducted to tho dungeons of Djezair Khan. It is be lieved that he will bo decapitated, which, assuming tho stories told of htm to be correct, will not be a more severe penalty th in ho has a right to expect." Fashion in Jewels. Already turquoises so desired last win ter, have dropped out of favor, and it is not to be wondered at. Only the rage for undecided tints could ever have made them popular, and as that is wan ing, tho liking for them wanes also. Their mixed green blue is becoming to nobody, and their intrinsio worth not being great, they will, doubtless, be cast aside next season. Coral in all its lovely shades is no longer the mode, aud charming sets at cost prices lan guish unsold in their velvet caes. Coral, though not a precious stone, is one of the prettiest and most useful of ornaments, since it can be appropriate ly worn both on ordinary and full-dress occasions. Plain gold ornaments are passing out of fashion, not so much be cause they are no longer pretty, as be cause they have been so successfully imitated in base metals, that people aro afraid of being suspected of wearing rrench gilt. Tho handsome gold sets are so expensive, that we think it better and cheaper in the end to spend a little more money and buy a set of coral, or jewels which cannot be imitated, and of which one is not so likely to grow weary. The setting of jewels this year is m tho lightest possible framework of gold called, we believe, the knife-blado stylo and a distinctive figure is the separating of the jewels from each other so that the light may strike through from every side. This is far more beautiful and artistic than tho old form of clusters, and is destined to high favor. The marquise, or long oval, is the shape most in vogue for rings, as well as pins, earrings and lockets, aud it is particularly becoming. Bracelets are no longer meregolden shackles, but are inch aud half bands in all manner of designs. Chain nnd link bracelets, once tho most admired, aro not now much worn. Leap for Liberty, A Pennsylvania deputy sheriff, who had a prisoner in his charge in a rail road car, the other day, left him for a moment, and as soon as his back was turned the prisoner deliberately jumped, feet foremost, through the open window of the car. He alighted in a soft morass, and was not hurt, for he immediately picked himself up and broke for tho woods at a gait quite rapid. The officer noticed his sudden exit, and without a moment's hesitation jumped after him. He brought up in the same morass, but his efforts to recapture the fugitive were somewhat impeded by the fact that he pitched headlong into the mud and stuck there. He ao struck that his arms were imbedded nearly up to the shoul ders in the tenacious mire, and it was therefore an impossibility for him to bring his pistol into requisition. The prisoner took advantage of this singu lar combination of circumstances in his fvor by making a fresh spurt, and soon disappeared in the distance. The train was stopped, and the deputy sheriff was fished out of the mud, but he declined to enter upon further pursuit of the prisoner, and continued on his home ward route, the muddiest and maddest man lately seen in the State. A Valuable Invention. The cheapest, most simple and mac tical fire-alarm for ordinary household purposes is a small weight of lead or J 1. 1. .31 - il. - 1 r iruu muuu iu uuueru 10 tue ceiling oi each room with a piece of wax. When tho temperature becomes elevated above that of the ordinary atmosphere. the wax will lose its adhesiveness and allow the weight to drop. The weight can be attached by a wire to all the bells in the house or to sound anyalarm extemporised for the purpose. Tho weight should be kept away from stove pipes and out of the sun, and one should be placed in each room and hall way. They will not fail to give tho alarm when there is any excessive in crease of temperature, and no house should be without them. This alaim is not patented, and is free to be used by au wuuout money ana wiuiout puce. Facts and Fancies. An incendiary Are in Portland, Ore gon, destroyed nearly all tho buildinga on twenty-three blocks. A woman at Litchfield, 111., was ri diculous enough to pew her peach-trees up in bed ticking last fall, and now she has an orchard full of peaches and her neighbors have none. At Fair City, Perias Bridge, and Broad Creek, and elsewhere on tho American frontier, accounts of Indian mtrages have caused thd people to leave . - heir farms and crops. At Brown's saw-mill in White Haven, Va., a laborer, named Frank Donnelly, fell while at work nenr a large circular Baw and struck his head ngniiiBt it. In an instant his bend was cut cff. A member of the Princeton, Kansas, Farmers' Grange was taken sick, and being unable for a week to plow his corn, eight members of the Orange went to his field . and plowed it for him, A shower 'Of repHles fell in Minnesota recently, and some one has described them as about six inches long, with gills and fins, and four legs. The same kind of animals are. found in a Mexican lake. Bony Nash, the Cincinnati gambler, whose death was recently recorded, was congratulated a short time before the event upon looking in better health than usual, when he replied, " I bet you $20 I don't live a week." lie won. A newspaper editor at. Cynthinna, Ky., has sent a bill of $75 to Judge Arthur, of tho Sixth District, for print ing one of his speeches in Congress last winter. The ground for this singular action undoubtedly is that a mau who draws $5,000 back pay which does not belong to him is fully able to pay for his "puffing." A farmer of Rochester, N. Y., had the wheat from twenty-one acres of land threshed last week, and found the yield to be over forty bushels per acre, tho aggregate amounting to eight hundred amd sixty-three bushels. This sounds something liko old times, when tho Gjnesso Valley was the finest wheat producing region iu the conn try. What Danbury Says. No man can be a successful poet whose liver is not diseased. People who think they can wear noth ing cheaper than $20 pants should feel of a stoop before sitting on ir. a uau bury youth neglected this precaution, Sunday evening, and woio overalls Monday. . , At one time Saturday there were fivo bald-headed men in one of our dry goods stores; looking vacantly about, and each one thoughtfully rubbing his head with a finger that Lad a thread tied about it. ' What shall I cive my boy to make him honored and respected ?" writes an affectionate father. Education and moral precepts wero once required tor accomplish this purpose, but a diamond pin now covers the ground. A Slawson woman unostentatiously points to the fact that the funeral of her ate husband cost but eighty-two dol lars, which is fifteen dollars less than the neighbors thought she could do it, and yet there is not one of them who can say that anything was spared to make the occasion a success, and one long to be remembered by all who par ticipated. Ills Gratitude. The New Albany Ledger-Standard tells of an incident which, if true, does much towards redeeming our race from the charge of selfishness. A gentleman had assisted another to start in busi ness, whereby he had risen from povety aud obscurity to wealth and distinc tion. Quite recently the daughter of the benefactor was married. Her father, not having kept pace with his protege in the race for wealth, was unable to bestow upon her any rich gilt with which to commence life. But the gen tleman who, years before, had profited by his benevolence had not forgotten what he owed to him, and, considering that it would be a delicate way of acknowledging his indebtedness to be stow a present upon the daughter, held many consultations with his family as to what it should be. Unable to decido it was finally concluded to mako the present in money and let her invest itaa sho saw fit; aud, while the others brought gifts of plate and jewels, the grateful millionaire simply pressed in the hand of the bride a package of money and departed. Imagine the exultant joy of the bride and her spouse when, on unrolling it, the package was found to contain a dollar greenback. Caring for an Umbrella. An incident that befell a recent trav eler ou a New Hampshire railroad is thus told by the Portsmouth Chronicle: He had occasion to get out of the car at New Market Junction, leaving his um brella lying across the seat he had va cated. Returning, two nicely dressed ladies sat iu the seat ahead, and as ho resumed his sitting one of them Baid, " lou may pass mo that umbrella, it you please." He replied, " Is it your umbrella, madamor "L will take charge of it," said she, aiSd the accom modating gentleman passed his um brella over to the lady. Then a pause. ".Now, if you please, suggested the gentleman, " I will trouble you to re turn my umbrella. It s a silk one and a good one. I paid just $10 for it, and I'd dislike very much to part with it." The passengers by this time had become interested iu the conversation, aud, as the umbrella was returned to its owner, the lady who had shown suoh a peculiar interest in it was observed to flush deeply, while the owner regretted that he had fouud it necessary to rebuke her. Good Prices. At several of ' tb, watering-places tho prices are $5 per day, and $10 addition for private parlor. At private boarding-houses, $16 to $20 per week. Cosy cottages, with grounds, $600 a season, aud $150 extra for a sta ble. Some of the millionaires pay $8,000 a season. A carriage in the morning costs $6, and a phaaton $3 an hour in the morning and $1 an hour in the afternoon.
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