) MB Two Dollars per Annum. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. ,NILi DESPERANDUM. NO. 27. YOL. III. RIDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, . PA.,.. THUIISDAY, SEPTEMBEIl 4, 1873. Looking for Love, As a fisherman looks out over the bay For a ship that conies from sea, I look for my love from day to day, But my lovo comes not to me. , Who is the maid that the finger of fate Has given, and whore lives she ? IIow long shall I linger and hope and wait Before she will come to me P Or have I no love, and shall I bo blown Like a lost boat out to sea ?. No ! rieaure and pence shall be my own, And my love shall come to me. And when and where shall I know my doom ? In-doors, or where flowers grow ? Will the pear-trees all be whito with bloom t Or will they be white with snow f Have I evor heard of your name in talk f Or seen yon a child at play ? Are you twenty yet, and where do you walk ? Is it near or far away ? Come, my love, while my heart's in the south, While youth is about my ways ; I will run to meet you, and kiss your mouth, And bless you for all my days ! A FLIGHT FROM THE INQUISITION. Archibald Bower, whose singular ex-, perienees of an Italian inquisition in the last century we propose to narrate. was a native of Scotland, being bonr mere aoout the yeor HiSli. When only five years old, he was sent over by his parents to an uncle in Italy. In that country his education was entirely con ducted, and he became so great a pro ficient in learning as to be appointed, when yet very young, to various little scholastic offices. Eventually, he was made Professor of Rhetoric and Logic in the college at Macerati. Here was established an inquisition, the constitu tion of which may be gathered pretty accurately from Bower's own account. The Holy Tribunal, he says, consisted of an inquisitor, who was president of it, and twelve counselors. The latter were chosen by the inquisitor either from among the ecclesiastics or the laity,but were always men eminent for learning. They had a salary of about two huudred pounds per annum each, nnd an apartment in the inquisition house, where the inquisitor resided. There were, in addition, great privi leges and much honor to the counselors, besides a certainty of good preferment. The offences coming under their cog nizance were purely those against the faith or practice of the church, and these were generally very trifling such as doing or saying anything disrespect ful with regard to saints, images, relics, or the like. When any person was ac cused before the inquisitor, a council was summoned, always in the middle of the night. If any happened to be ab sent, their place was supplied by a no tary for all trials must be in a full court who made known to them the crime, without naming either the in former or the criminal. On an accused person being appre hended, ho was confined seven or eight days without tne least glimpse of light, or any other sustenance than a little bread and water once a day. After that time was elapsed, the court was sum moned for the trial. A notary attended, to write down all the accused should say, and a surgeon to feel his pulse, and tell how much torture ho could be made to bear. The machines and engines for torturing being all fixed, the prisoner was brought, and without eyer having been tokl either Jus ollence or accuser. or having had the least liberty to ex postulate, ho was exhorted to confess his guilt. An account of the tortures and pun ishments inflicted would be superfluous, for they (Ire well known. We pass on to Bower's personal narrative. While Professor of Rhetoric in the college, he was, by favor of the inquisitor, ap pointed to a vacaut otlice of judge, which, looking to emoluments, was con sidered a Rood preferment. Speedily. the horrid Bcenes he was compelled to Witness shocked his feelings. His sense of justice was outraged, and he wished himself well out of the position into which he had uufortuuately fallen. For three years he was projecting his es cape, and revolving m his mind every possible method of effecting it. But when he considered the formidable dif- ncuities with which each ot them was attended, and the terrible consequences if he failed in tho attempt, he was hel 1 in suspense. At last an accident hap pened which confirmed his resolution, but at the same time gave the inquisi tor an opportunity of trying him to the utmost. A person who was his intimate friend was accused to the inquisition lor saying something irreverent regard ing the Carthusian friars, and, by or ders of the inquisitor, .bower was order ed to arrest him. It was a dreadful trial of feeling, but ho executed his commission. The inquisitor said the next morning, when Mr. Bowers de livered the key of the prison, and told him that the gentleman was there " This is done like one that is desirous at least to conquer the weakness of na ture." After this, no one will be surprised that Bower was determined to effect his escape from an office so ill-suited to him. It was a most desperate under taking, but the manner of it was all that now occupied his thoughts. He resolved to ask leave to go to Loretto, nnd for that purpose waited upon the inquisitor several times. Conscious, however, of his own design, whenever he attempted to speak, he feared the words would falter on his tongue, and his very confusion betray him, and he was some time before he preferred his request. At last, ono day, being in familiar converse with the inquisitor, lie came out with it at once. " My Lord," said ho, " it is long since I was at Loretto, will your lordship give me leave to go there for a week Y " With all my heart," was the reply. Having all his matters in readiness, including his valuable papers, (among which w is the Directory,) he ordered a horse to be at his door early the next morning. When the horse came, he carried his portmanteau down himself, and fixed it to the saddle. He carried two loaded pistols in case of emergency, being re solved never to be taken alive. The plan he had laid down was to take all the by-roads into Switzerland. Four hundred miles must bo traversed before he was clear of tho pope's do minions ; he knew the road for barely half the distance. When he had travel ed about ten miles without meeting a soul, he reached a place where two roads met, one leading to Loretto, the other the way he proposed to go. "Here he stood, to quote his own words, some minutes in the most profound perplexity. The dreadful alternative appeared now in the strongest view ; and ho was even tempted to quit his darling project as impracticable, and so turn to Loretto. But at last collecting all the force of his staggering resolu tion, he boldly pushed his horso into the country road, and at that instant left all his fears behind him." It was in tho month of April that ho set out. In the first seventeen days he did not ge one hundred miles, so terrible were the ways he was obliged to take among mountains, thick woods, rocks and precipices; generally no better path than a sheep track, and sometimes not that. Whenever Bower met any one, which was but seldom, he pretended he had lost his way, and inquired for the high road, to avoid suspicion. For he well knew that as soon as they missed the papers he had carried away with him, or had any other reason to suspect his flight, expresses would be dispatch ed in ever direction where it might be expected to gain tidings of him. fcvery possible method would be used .to effect his capture. As appeared in the sequel, the expresses were actu ally a hundred miles in advance of him in a very short time. During these seventeen days ho supported himself with a little goat's milk, got from a shepherd, besides some coarse victuals he was able to purchase from people whom he met on the road, principally wood-cutters. His horse was fed with what grass could be found, his sleeping place being always chosen where there was most -shelter for himself, and a liberal supply of grass for the poor beast. At tho expiration of this time, having tasted hardly anything for the last three days of it, lie was compelled to strike into the high road, and enter the first house he came to, which hap pened to be a post-house, with only one small room, where gentlemen staid till their horses were changed. He begged the landlady to give him some victuals ; but looking about, he saw a paper posted up over the door, which contained the most minute de scription of his own person, and offered a reward of ight hundred crowns to any one bringing him alive to the inqui sition, or of six huudred crowns for his head. This was terrifying enough, as there were two countrymen in the house. He tried to hide his face by rubbing it with his handkerchief and blowing his nose ; and when he got into the room, by looking out of the window. But one of the fellows presently observing : " This gentleman does not care to be known," 13ower thought there was iiuth ing for it but to brave it out ; so, turn ing to the speaker, he put his handker chief in his pocket, and said, boldly: " You rascal 1 what do you mean ? What have I done that I need fear to be known ? Look at me, you villain !" The man made ho reply, but got up, nodded his head, and winking signifi cantly to his companion, they went out together, uower watched .them from the window, but a corner obstructed his view for a few minutes. In a.fhort time he espied them with two or thr,ee others in close conference. This forboded no good. Not a moment was to be lost. He drew out his pistols, put one in his sleeve, and with the other cocked in his hand, marched to the stable, mounted his horse, and rode off without saying a word. Fortunately, the men wanted either presence of mind or courage to attack him, for they certainly recognized him by tho description given in the adver tisement. He was now again obliged to seek refu'ga in the woods, where he must soon have been famished, had not for tune once more stood his friend. At night, when he was almost fainting, he met with some wood-cutters, who sup plied him with exoellent provisions. He wandered for some time through paths in which he rendered his horse more as sistance than hereoeived, being obliged to clear the roads and lead him As night advanced, he laid himself down, in a disconsolate condition, hav ing no idea where he was or which way ne should turn, vv.heu.the day began to break, he found he. was on a small eminence,- where he discovered a town at a distance, which seemed of consid erable extent, from the number of stee ples and spires winch could be counted, Though this was some satisfaction to him, yet it was not unaccompanied with tear, as he knew not what place it was, and he might incur much risk by going into the high-road to inquire. However, he advanced as fast as he could, and asking the first person he met, was in formed that it was Lucerne, the resi dence of the pope's nuncio, to and from whom all the expresses concerning the fngitive must have been dispatched. .This road, therefore, not suiting his views, he left it the moment his infor- mer was out of sight, and once more betook himself into the woods, where he wandered for some time longer, op pressed by hunger and cold, and per plexed with uncertainty whither he should go. One dismal, dark, and wet night, he could neither find shelter nor ascertain where he was, nor what course he could pursue; but after some time perceiving a light a long distance off, he attempted to proceed towards it. ith some dim culty he discovered a track, but so narrow and uneven, that he 'was forced to put one foot before the other in the most cautious manner. With much labor he reached the place from which he had seen the light it was a misera ble cottage. He knocked and called until some on looked out, and de manded whoi?;wa, and what brought him there. .. Jigfcf replied that he was a stranger, ano'ipsi ws way. " Way I" crjed the man ; no way to lose j , , "Why, where am I?" "In the canton of Bern." 1 there 18 " In the canton of Bern f Thank God I" exclaimed Bower, enraptured. " How came you here," said the man, Bower begged that he would come down and open the door, and ' he would then satisfy him. He did -so, Bower then asked him if he had heord any thing of a person who had lately escaped irora tne inquisition. Ay I neoru oi him, we have all heard of him ! after sending off so many expresses, and so much noise about him 1 Heaven grant that he may be safe, and keep out of their hands 1" Bower said that he was the very person. The peasant, in a transport of joy, clasped him in his arms, kissed him, and ran to call his wife, who came with every expression of delight in her face ; and making one of her best curtsies, kissed his hand. Her husband spoke Italian, but she could not; and Bower not understand ing Swiss, she was obliged to make her congratulations in pantomime, or by her husband as her interpreter. Jsoth expressed much concern that they had no better accommodation for him : If they had had a bed for themselves, he Bhould have had it; but ho should have some clean straw and what covering they possessed." The good man hastened to get off Bower's wet clothing, and wrap some thing about him till they were dry ; the wife busied herself in getting ready what victuals they had, which they regretted were no better than a little sour-kraut and some new-laid eggs. Three of these were served up with kraut, and he made a comfortable meal ; after which he enjoyed what might properly be called repose, for he was quiet and secure. As soon as he rose in the morning, the honest Swiss and his wife came to know how he had rested. The good dame was dressed in her holiday clothes. After breakfast, the husband set out with him to direct him on the road to Bern, which was at no great distance, but first insisted on returning with him a little way, to show him the road he had taken on the previous night. He now became aware of another great danger which he had escaped. He saw that he and his horse had passed a fear ful precipice, where the breadth of the path would scarcely admit a horse, the sight of which made him shudder. His host went with him for several miles along the road to Bern, and then left him with a thousand good wishes. At Bern, Bower inquired for the min ister, to whom he made himself known, and received from him as hearty a wel come as from the Swiss, with the addi tion of a more elegant entertainment. Ho was advised to go forward the next morning to Basel ; for, though protect ed from open violence, he was unsafe from secret treachery. From Basel a boat sailed at stated times to Holland, and was usually crowded with desperate characters, fugitives from their respec tive countries for all manner of crimes and offences. This conveyance seemed to afford the most expeditious mode of getting to England. Bower was re ceived kindly by the minister at Basel, to whom he was recommended by his friend at Bern. During the two days preceding the sailing ol the boot lor Holland, Bower kept close quarters, and equipped himself in a manner suit able to the company with which he was about to associate, putting his proper clothes into his portmanteau, of which, as he was instructed to be particularly careful, he made his seat by day, and his pillow by night. Being obliged to leave his horse, which was endeared to him by the hardships it had shared with him, he was determined to place it in the hands of a kind master, who prom ised that it should be ridden by no one but himself ; and that, when it be came old or infirm, it should be com fortably maintained. Disgusting as he found the company on board, he was compelled to regret the necessity of leaving it, in conse quence of the vessel having sprung a-leak, which obliged the master to put in at Strasbourg for repairs, which might detain him a fortnight. To stay there was impossible. Bower, there fore, took off his shabby dress, in which he was disguised, at the first inn he saw, and concealing it beneath the bed, stole out with his portmanteau to a tavern, from whence he sent out to en gage a place in the stage to Calais. For the first two or three days of his jour ney he heard nothiug concerning him self, which induced him to hope that the news of his escape had not reached France ; but he was soon undeceived. For tho last two or three stages every body was full of it. When he came to the inn at Calais, the first persons he saw were two Jesuites, with the badge of the inquisition a red cross upon them, in a road with several other officials, appointed to take care of the highroads, and to apprehend any crim inal who was making his escape. This was an unpleasant prospect, and Bower immediately hastened to the waterside to ask when the next boat sailed for England. He was told not till the Monday following ; it was then Friday. He turned to a waterman, and asked him if he would carrp him across in an open boat, offering a liberal reward ; but the man, and others to whom the same request was made, declined. He soon became aware that he had made a false step, as every one about began to take notice of him, feeling 6ure that he was person of great consequence, bearing most important dispatches, or else a criminal eager to allude justice. When he reached the inn, finding the room where the Jesuits had been unoc oupied, he inquired of the woman who kept the house what had become of the good company he had left there. " Oh, sir I" said she, " I am sorry to tell you, but they are up stairs search ing your portmanteau." What course to pursue, he could not determine. By water, he knew he oould not escape; and in order to get through the gates, he must pass the guards, who, most probably, were prepared to intercept him. If it were practicable to secrete himself till it was dark, and at tempt to scale the walls, he was unac quainted with their height; and if de tected, he was ruined- The dangers he had surmounted now aggravated the terror of his situation. After weather ing the storm so long, to perish within sight of the desired haven was a dis tracting thought. Whilst engaged in these sad reflections, he heard some company laughing and talking very loud ly, and listening at the door, he found them to be speaking English. He rushed into the room, and recognizing Lord Baltimore, whom he had .seen at I Rome, desired the favor of a word with him in private. The surprise occasioned by his sudden appearance, with one pis tol cocked in his hand and another in his sleeve, was increased by Mr. Bower's request, accompanied by his determined air. Lord Baltimore desired him to lay down his pistols, which he did, beg ging pardon for not having done so be fore. On being informed who he was, Lord Baltimore proposed to tho com pany that they should rise up, and taking him in the midst of them, try to cover him till they could get tohislord ship's boat. The scheme succeeded; the boat was near; they got to it unob served, and rowed about two miles to where the yacht lay, in which they had come for an excursion. The wind being fair, they soon reached Dover, where he was safely landed on the 11th of July, 1732. A long time afterwards, being with the same Lord Baltimore at Greenwich, a message came to him that some gen tlemen wished to speak with him at a house close by the water-side, where was a passage into the river from a summer-house in the garden. Lord Balti more asked who could want him, and recommended Bower not to go. But he, not wishing to be thought afraid, determined to" investigate the matter. Two armed servants, however, attended him; but when he andhisguard reached the house, no one there would own to having sent for him. The hero of the above story after wards procured an appointment as keep er of Queen Caroline's library, and died in 17CG, aged eighty. A Danbury Child Lost. A family named Cobleigh, living on Nelson street, Danbury, says the Ncwa, lost their little child, a girl of six years. The alarm was at once given, and a vigorous search was soon prose cuted. The neighbors for several streets adjoining either joined in the search or assembled at the house of the afflicted family and graphically recalled cases were little children were lost and after a long search found stark and stiff in death, and thus consumed time that would have otherwise passed drearily enough to the agonized parents. Several people remembered to have seen the little girl in several different direc tions, and parties followed the various directions. Then there were others who had ideas of their own in regard to tho whereabouts of the missing child, and one of these, a neighbor named Wakely, was led by this instinct to crawl under a barn, but in the transit became so wedged in that it took two men and a shovel to get him out again. A few minutes later his zeal and discretion led him to go down a well, and when pnrt way down he lost his hold, gave forth a whoop like an Indian, and disappeared beneath the sparkling waters. He was rescued more dead than alive, but still burned with svmnathv for tho stricken family, and with the water dripping from his garments, crawled up ou a beam to look over into a hay-mow, and owing to the slippery condition of his clothes, again lost his balance and came down to the barn-floor on his back with a force that deprived him of his breath, At ten o clock the search was given up for the night and the parents retired, but not to sleep. At half -past ten a knock sounded at the front door, which, being opened, revealed the lost child. She had fallen asleep on top of the hen house, and becomiug ur.easy in her dreams had fallen off and awakened, and had now come in for the particulars. No words con express the delight of the parents at the recovery of their child. nor depict the sensations of Mr. Wakely when he came around the next morning on a pair of borrowed erntciies, and smelling strong enough of liniment to knock down a chemist, and learned the result of the affair. It is pleasant to learn that not one of the excited neigh bors had any serious idea that the girl was lost, any of the time. The Family Newspaper. We clip the following truthful item from the Decatur Jlcpublican. It is precisely to the point : A child begin ning to read becomes delighted with the newspaper, because it reads of things which are very familiar, and will make progress accordingly. A newspoper one year is worth one quarter's schooling to a child, and every father must consider that substantial information is connected with tliis ad vancement. The mother of a family should be herself instructed. A mind occupied becomes fortified against the ills of life, and is braced for any em ergency. Children amused by reading or study are of course more considerate and more easily governed. How many thoughtless young have spent their earnings in a tavern or grog shop, who ought to have been reading? How many parents, who never spent twenty dollars for books or papers for their families, would gladly have given thousands to reclaim a son or daughter who had ignoruntly and thoughtlessly fallen into temptation. Tho Largest Steam Engine iu tho World. Pittsburgh claims to have in progress of construction a pair of engines which will be the most powerful in the world. Reducing the capacity of some of the largest pumping engines to a uniform lift of one foot in twenty-four hours, it is found that the one at the Lehigh zino mines will lift 3,450,000,000 gallons; the pair at tne unicago water works, 4,500,000,000 gallons; the pair at Haarlem, Holland, 10,000,000.000 gal Ions ; while the new Pittsburgh engines will lift 14,240,000,000 gallons. The pair will weigh 1,500 tons, and will cost 8423,550. The following dimensions will serve to give some idea of the mag nitude : Cranks, nine tons : shaft. twenty-four tons ; four sections of the two valve chambers, one hundred and twenty ons : fly wheel, seventy tons, The four plungers will weigh upwards of four hundred tons. Cylinder, sixty-four incnes diameter ; siro&e, iourteen teet. Plungers, forty inches diameter, eleven leet stroKe. The experiment of restocking the waters of Vermont with salmon promises to be a success. Those put into the Wiuooski last spring huve grown to be three or four inches long, and have be gun to run into the lake. The Great Water Divide. The Sourer! of Three ol the l.arfreat Ittvera In America Mountains Twelve Thousand Feet Above the Level of the Sea-Grand and Beauti ful Scenery, It is stated in the sixth annual report of the United States Geological Survey of tho territories, by F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist, that there is perhaps no more unknown or more in teresting geographical region in Amer ica than the different branches of the Snake river and the Madison the great water divide of the continent. The maps now in process of construction will almost entirely change the geog raphy of this wonderful region, within a radius of ten miles may be found the sources of three of the largest rivers in America. The general elevation is from 7,000 to 8,000 feet above the sea, while the mountains, whose eternal snows form the sources of these great rivers, rise to a height of 10,00 to 12,000 feet. Flowing northward are the various branches of the Missouri, Yellowstone, and Wind rivers, which all unite event ually into one mighty stream, the Mis souri. To tho south are the branches of Green river, which unites with the Colorado, and empties into the Gulf of California ; while South and west flow the branches of Snake river, which, uniting with the Columbia, pour their vast volume of water into the Pacific. The exploration of this remarkable water divide proves that the Madison Fork has its source in a small lake not hitherto noted on any map, and that the so-called Madison lake belongs en tirely on the Pacific slope. This latter lake was found to be about twelve miles long and eight miles wide. From this body of water flows a stream nearly 100 feet wide, which, after a distance of about five miles, empties into a second lake, which is four miles long and one and a half miles wide. The former of these lakes was named Shoshone, and the latter Lake Lewis, in honor of the great pioneer explorer of the north west. At the upper end of Lake Sho shone a new geyser basin was discovered with from 75 to 100 springs, many of them geysers of considerable power, The ornamentation about these springs was regarded as more interesting and elaborate than those in Five Hole Basin, The divide between the Yellowstone lake and Lake Lewis was found to be about fifty feet above the former, and 200 feet above the latter. This low ridge in the great water divide of the continent has doubtless given rise to the story of the Two Ocean river, and such a stream has found its way to most of our printed maps. From the summit of tho mountain the scope or vision embraced a radius of one hundred and fifty miles, within which four hundred and seventy moun tain peaks worthy of name could be dintinctly observed. The area that could be swept by the eye from this point could not have been less than fifty thousand square miles, embracing every variety of grand and beautiful scenery of mountain and valley, probably with out parallel on the continent. Ten large lakes aud several smaller ones were em braced in the view, and the entire Yellowstone Park was spread out under the eve. To the east the Wind river and Big Horn ranges, with the snow clad summits of Fremont's, Union and Cloud Peaks bounded the view. On the north the Yellowstone range, with Emigrant Peak, and many of the loftiest mountains ot Montana were clearly seen. To the west the numerous ranges comprised in what are called the Salmon river mountains of Idaho form the hor izon of vision in that direction, while the mountains near Fort Hall aud the Wahsatch range completed the mighty amphitheatre. This remarkable view embraced a large portion of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Utah Territories. About forty small streams, which unite and form the upper portion of Snake river, were carefully examined. The party then proceeded down the valley of Snake river, through its re markable canyons, examining Jackson's Lake and the numerous streams that empty into the main river on either side. Fancied Hydrophobia, Hydrophobia simply means the dread of water, which is one of the symptoms of canine madness ; but the same symp toms also occur in other diseases dis tinct from it. The horror of water al most (not absolutely) always accompa nies cunine madness, but it is also met with, in greater or lesser intensity, in several nervous diseases. It may be brought on by strong mental emotion of various kinds. A schoolmaster, af terla, violent fit of anger, died in fifteen hours, with decided symptoms of hydro phobia. Fright will have the same ef feet. A man bitten by a dog which he believed to be mad had fearful attacks of hydrophobia, which ceased several months afterward, on his learning that the dog remained in perfect health. A girl who witnessed a sudden broil, in which the disputants fought with swords, was so terror-stricken that she was seized with hydrophobia, and died. A woman whose companions had aban doned her alone in the fields all night was greatly terrified thereby ; next day she refused every sort of liquid, and shortly died. ' It is, therefore, not surprising that an aversion to water should have been occasionally induced by the bite of men and animals that were not mad. Mal- pighi records the case of his mother, who became hydrophobic after having been bitten by her daughter in an epi leptic fit. Cases are not rare in which, when one person has bitten another, the bitten person has been attacked by and some times died of apparent canine madness. The most singular instance is that of a young man, twenty-nine years of age, who bit his own finger in a violent fit of rage, and became so hydrophobic in four-and-twenty hours that at the very name of water he feu into convulsions. we have received a note from a tramp " desiring us to warn people against making apple sauce in iron ves sels. He says it spoils the flavor, and adds that he will not eat apple sauce cooKed in that way, it be Knows it. Gen. Taylor as a Historian. den. Tavlor. although an excellent soldier, and a man of strong good sense in the every-day affairs of life, had been educated in the .camp, and knew no more of statesmanship or the opera tions of government than a Comanche Indian j nor was he distinguished for colloquial accomplishments or narrative or descriptive talent. Then he had a habit of hesitation in conversation that amounted to almost a stammer. He spoke in a terse, sententious style upon subjects with which he was' familiar, and his suggestions, especially on mili tary matter, were marked py a quica Eerception and a sound judgment. But e was never diffuse or demonstrative, and wasted no words upon anybody. Judge Butler, a colleague m the sen ate of Mr. Calhoun, calling to pay his respects to the President, begged him to describe the manner in which the battle of Buena Vista was fought. His brother, Pierce Butler, commanding the Palmetto regiment, and a very gal lant officer, fell in the battle, and the Judge was naturally anxious to learn the particulars of that desperate contest. " Well, well, Jlldge, you warn. 10 mu how the thing was done. Come and dine with me to-day and I'll tell you all I know about it." Judge Butler was a hasty, impetuous man, and the words noweu irom ms mouth in a torrent whenever ne uaa oc casion to speak. He was all impatience during the dinner, and the moment they were alone he brought . up the subject of the battle. ' Yes, yes, Judge, your brother was a brave man, and behaved like a true soldier. But about the battle you want to know how it was fought? " " Yes, General, if you will be so kind. I wish to learn how your troops were disposed on the field, and how you nested them to resist a force so over- whelming. Santa Anna must nave : . . . out numbered you at least four or five to one." The difference was greater than that, I think, but we didn t stop to count the Mexicans. I knew there was a heavy force, and longed for a couple of regiments more of regulars. "Undoubtedly," oid the judge; " but what was your order of battle ? " Why. why. vou see. Judge, we went to fighting early in the morning the first day, and we tic an day long, losing a good many men, and at night it looked pretty bad. " Well, what next r " When it got dark I rodeover to Sal tillo to look after our stores and to pro vide against a surprise. Why did you go yourself hy not send one of your aides " You see. everything depended on not having our supplies cut off, and wanted to see after things myseit i " How was it the next morning when you come on the field ?" inquired Judge HutJer. Not much change since the night before. Who was the first man that you met ?" "Gen. Wool." "And what did he say?" " 'All is lost.'" " What was your reply ?" " ' Maybe so. General we'll see. And upon that we went to fighting again, and fit all that day, and toward night it looked better. The Judge, looking rather blank, asked " What next ?" Well, the next morning it was re ported to me that Santa Anna and all his men had disappeared in tho night, and I was very glad to be rid of them so." Thirst Quenched Without Drinking. It may not be generally known that water, even salt water, imbibed through the skin, appeases thirst almost as well as fresh water taken inwardly. Iu il lustration of this subject, a correspond ent has sent the following abridged quotation from a "Narrative of Captain Kennedy s JjOBing his Vessel, and his Distresses Afterwards," which was no ticed in " Dodsley's Annual Register " for loui). 1 cannot conclude without making mention of the great advantage 1 received from soaking my clothes twice a day in salt water and putting them on without wringing. It was con siderable time before I could make the people comply with thiB measure, al though, from seeing the good effects produced, they afterward practiced it twice a day of their own accord. To this discovery I may with justice at tribute the preservation of my own life and six other persons who must have perished if it had not been put in use The saline particles, however, which remained in our clothes, became in- crusted by the heat of the sun and that of our bodies, lacerating our skins, and being otherwise inconvenient ; but we found that by washing out these parti cles, and frequently wetting our clothes without wringing, twice in the course of a day, the skin became well in a short time. After these operations we uniformly found that the violent drought went off, and the parched feeling was cured in a few minutes after bathing and washing our clothes, and at the same time we found ourselves as much refreshed as if we had received some actual nourishment. Four persons in the boat who drank salt water went de lirious and died ; but those who avoided this and followed the above praotice ex perienced no such symptoms. A Railroad Suit. An important suit has been com menced in Fillmore county, Minnesota, by C. Easton and others against the Milwaukee and at. r aul and the South ern Minnesota Railroad Companies. In 1871 the Minnesota Legislature made law prescribing maximum rates for the transportation of freight upon railroads, The companies above named disregard ed the law, and made their own schedule of charges. The plaintiffs were heavy shippers, and paid without protest or objection the rates demanded. They now sue to recover the amount paid above legal rates. The decision of the Supreme Court affirming the constitu tionality ot the law seems to give color to the plaintiffs' claim. If the case is decided in their favor, Minnesota rail road companies may have to refund millions of dollars. Items of Interest. Very small ear-rings are the proper thing. Time never "stays." That accounts for the great waist of time. A California dog revealed a murder by bringing home a human arm. An attempt is being made to use saw mill refuse for smelting iron in Michi gan. Mint. Minnesota will export this year 20,000,000 bushels of wheat. Tbfl St,. Louis I)isnaich is going to publish an edition on Sunday afternoon, a novelty in newspapers m iu The proposed new constitution of Pennsylvania covers sixty large printed pages,' being five times as large as the old one. Suburban Peorians mistake their new letter-carriers for boon agents auu lightning-rod peddlers, and throwstones at them. A Louisiana paper states that the in scription " for sole or lor rem, i posted on more than o.uuu uuusco stores in New Orleans. Ceylon exports between two and three million gallons of cocoanut oil every year. The business has increased since the opening of the Suez Canal. From Dubuque: "In order not to ruin the reputation of Dubuque busi ness men, the names of drunkards be fore the police court are suppressed by the papers. i It is proposed to change tho name oi Chicago to Edwardsville, in honor oi the Directory man, who has done for the city what no legitimate census-taker could do. St. Louis Globe. A 1- rim Mimnn nrofesses to have dis covered, by experiments upon himself, thatcoffee taken upon an empty biuuimju renders the mind abnormally ciear anu the temper unnaturally bad. A young lady was thrown from a car riage in Shrewsbury, Mass., the other day, and had one leg broken, and the accident was still farther complicated by her falling on a wasp's nest. A fastidious lady in Chicago broke an engagement because her lover stained her sash and the back breadth of her dress suit with tobacco juice. The dis carded lover now taunts her for her pride. It is said that many thousand pounds of trout e-re annually caught among the Adiroudacks which are left to rot along the shore. Such senseless barbarism is hastening the depopulation of the streams. Peter Kessler, the mule-stealer, who was imprisoned in Jefferson City, Mo., hiiB been hanged by a mob, and the Sheriff who had him in charge has been mortally and two others very seriously wounded. Thirty years ago Mr. William Allen of Ohio used to say that the Gulf of Mexico was the mouth of the Missis sippi river, that Cuba was its tongue, aud that every mouth had a right to its own tongue. The " rush " for Europe this season has not been so great as was expected, the number of departures being 18,533, against 18,018 during the same period last year. The Vienna Exhibition didn't " draw " much. A father in Wilmington, Del., who took a great dislike to one of his child ren that was "reel footed "having feet turned out was arrested for en deavoring to persuade his wile to assist him in poisoning it. No locomotive is allowed to use a steam whistle iu Altoona, that city of railroads where engines, trains and shifting cars are almost constantly in motion by night and day so that if whistling is essential in any town that would be one of the places. The German Minister of War has re cently' issued an order that every man subject to military service in tuo em pire shall present himself for enroll ment with a photograph of himself in his possession, duly certineu to uv mo police or municipal authorities of the locality in which the candidate may re side. A new and important fact in silk cul ture has been developed by the Accli mation Society, France, namely, that silk of varied color can be produced by feeding the silk-worm on different leaves. Worms fed on vine leaves produce a silk of magnificent red color. Lettuce has been found to produce an enierak green colored silk. Scene in the Goldsboro' (N. C.) post- office: " Nothing, sir." " Thar am t no letter for me, you say?" "Nothing." "Dad fetch the luck! Say, mister, ain't thar 'nuther 'postoffice in town ?" Only ore." "Well, all I've got to :'. . . x iv-i il say, it s a one-norse town unit can i s'port but one postoffice," was the com ment of the countryman as he strode into the street. There is now current a story of a girl who killed a calf belonging to her father in order that his attention might be dis tracted while she went to meet her lover. This is evidently a rehash of the old mythological legend, relating how Me dea tore her little brother Absyrtus in pieces tat her rather Aetes might have so me Hung to detain him while shew ran away with her beloved J ason. Ammonia is a useful household ar ticle which it is worth while to keep on hand for common purposes. It is ex cellent for cleansing paint, silver, and glass; a teaspoonful put in the water produces a wonderful effect. Wherever there is grease to be removed, ammonia is efficacious. Consequently it is excel lent for cleaning hair-brushes. Indeed, it is an almost indispensable toilet article. A new motor has recently been pat ented in this country, the operation of which the journal of the Franklin In stitute describes as follows: Oil is sprayed into the cylinder behind the piston, and, being mixed with air, is ignited at the proper time by electrici ty. The consequent expansion drives the piston forward, the momentum of the fly-wheel returning.it to its former position. An ejector supplies the oil from the tank to the sprayer, the ejector being connected to a piston blower driven by a crank connected with the main shaft,
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