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RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA:f -THUB&DAY," AUGUST 21, 1873.
NO. 25.
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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
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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.