1 0' r . v - V. V l HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPEP,ANDUr. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. III. MDOAVAY. ELK COUNTY, l'A., THURSDAY. JANUARY 1, 1874. NO. 44. . . - ft: iV T 1 Little Annette. I ittle Annette ! little Amictto! With your rosy checks and tresses of jet : Willi the lashes concealing yonr gypsy eyes, Meet for a king's or an emperor's prize ! Yuiir white teeth gleaming like drifted snow, Or shining like pearls iu a well-laid row ; I.ittlo Annette! little Annette ! I hear the ring of your laughter yet. T.ittle Annette '. darling Annette .' Only a year ha flown, and vet. Ere yon conld melt the sdow with yonr breath, A messenger came, and Lib name was Death ! Little Annette ! darling Annette ! Never yonr face can I forget. Listen! The augels are calling yet. Over the pine-trees. " I jttlc Annette !" JOHX MAKROTrFIUrS CHRISTMAS. " It's very odd," said John Marrow prat, scratching his head -with the end of his penholder, and looking dubious ly at the columns of figures he had been adding up. Mr. Marrowprat had been elerk for Josiah Lickpenny, ship-chandler, for ten long years, but never, in all his ex perience, had he encountered so ob stinate a set of figures as those before him. Three times had he carefully arranged and compared them, each time in a different way, but every combina tion had successfully resisted his en deavor to strike a proper balance. Whether it was owing to the fact that the solitary candle, mounted in the neck of an old ink-bottle, gave so poor n light, or that the day's labors had been very arduous, or that his mind was employed upon some other subject than the one then before it, I do not know. Certain it was that the results he obtained were anything but correct, and they so perplexed llini that from scratching his head he proceeded to rub his nose, and afterwards gazed into the three-cc'iriertd bit of looking-glass tacked up before him to see if any wan dering ink had found a resting-place on his face. Satisfied that such was not the case, he ran the fingers of his left hand carelessly through his locks, and saw for the tirst time that here and there a gray hair had entwined itself with its brown fellows. Then he put Lis pen in his mouth and, biting it, al lowed his thoughts to wander much in this wise : " Christmas Eve again. Christmas Eve ! the happiest eve of all the long year to many ; but to John ' Marrowprat the gloomiest. And whv 5s it to John Marrowprat the gloomiest' jj-.icu . lc-ui po'-'u posmou at a lair salary, with the prospect of seeing a iiew sign hung over the door in the near future bearing the names or -Lickpenny k Marrowprat ?' Hasn't he cot r comfortable back-room at Mrs. Win tile's with a little stove in it that does Ler... terribly wLcn wellfed, and a large, cozy rocking-chair, and a shelf of l.ooks, and a table with two drawers in t, and pleasant light ? Isn't there old Mr. Windlo to talk to, and Miss Coy to nlay chess with ? Miss Coy to be sure. I must have played as many as twentv ne.mos with Ler, and yet, 'now that I think of it, we are not very well ac quainted. She seems to be a' very nice .iittle body though, and has a very pleasant smile : a smile very like the ene that so frequently illumined moth er's kind face. Ah, the old home ! How joyous we.:e the holidays I spent there! Again can I hear mother's gentle re proof for our boisttrousness, and again do I see the ruddy face of father as he heaps the wood upon the roaring fire. Those were happy days beneath the old roof days never to' return ; for the earth covers all thc.se dear T'.cfs that ro longer can brighten at the sound of Christmas W lis no longer gather about the dear old family board." There were tear's in simple John Marrow-prat's eyes as he trimmed the candle end turned again to his figures. "John," sa:d Mr. Lickpenny, thrust ing a very r J face, surrounded bv a frame of stubborn sandy hair, through the little window in the" partition that Oirided tbe private office from the store, ' when can I Lave a statement ? " "AlaiGb any time, sir; I'll come own after Burner and finish, up," an swered Mr. Murrowprat, wiping his pen on his coat sleeve, and proceeding to close and put away the books. Mr. Liekpeimy shut the little win now. t'Ut lilllnpdllitolT- runui. J- iL. doorwa " Veil, John, it's CLrittmas Eve, and pay-day, too." " Yes," replied John, somewhat sadlv. "It has alway l.een my custom, as you well know, to :.Ld bome'thing to the usual wages at this time of the vear,'' continued Mr. Lkkpennv, produ'eing'a well-worn pocket-book, ' but raonev has U-en so awfully tight with me for tin- past few months, and things work so .incommon bad that e-a 1 I Lave thought it best to dispense with that little ceremony. Of course, to one who expects a change in the condition of things, and is in a measuie preparing for that change i which is not so far dis tant as. it might be), this is no great disappointment. I only mention this, Mr. Marrowprat, that vou may know tha whole matter." As he Landed Lis honeEt clerk the am kmt of Lis we.ek'6 salary there was a cunning gleam of the eye and a twitch ing t the corners of the month that ill befitted the gravity of Lis speech. " So ftj a that's concerned, sir, re f rring, of course, to the promise of ad Tanoement you have made, I've always : - vv uui v. jj, m lime, I have become worthy of a closer con nection, I shall endeavor to deserve it," answered John, as in substance Le Lad answered many times Lf-fore. Mr. Lickpenny Dodded and smiled, and so did John. Then Mr. Lickpenny went back into Lis little offioe, rubbing Lis Lands ; and John, putting on Lis great coat, went forth into the cold, evening air. The lamps were lighted throughout the city, and the toy and candy stores were" resplendent' with gold and red and silver ornamentation. As Le passed one of them and saw the throng of pleasant-fed people within, purchasing happiness for tfce little ones fat Lome, Lis Leart was heavy with the thought that there as no 'little soul, near aad dear, for Lim to gladden pn the morrow. it was n short walk to Mrs. Windle's boarding-house, and, soon leaching it, he entered by means of a latch-key. He had built a fire at noon, and his room was now warm, but there was an air of loneliness to it that it had never worn before. After washing, he passed the few minutes elapsing before supper in looking over the evening paper, a copy of which he had purchased on his way home. His eye naturally sought the amusement column not that he was in the habit of frequenting theatres, but because he hoped to find there some cheerful notices of Christmas panto mimes and plays. There were, indeed, several announcements of this sort of entertainment, but they were not at tractive. The time had been when he had read with delight the names of the Clown and Columbine ; but these fic tions no longer possessed any fascina tion for him, and to-night they served but to arouse sad memories of boyish frolics. At the bottom of the column, however, was the notice of a perform ance of " The Messiah," and he read the names of the singers and the other particulars with interest. Nothing could exceed his love of oratorio music. At the supper-table he sat beside Miss Coy and learned from her that she had several errands to call her out that evening, but was in fear of being dis appointed in her desire to perform them, as it Lad begun to snow. " That need make no difference," said John, endeavoring to look uncon cernedly at a plate of toast before them. " I am going out again and have a very large umbrella, and, if yon are not afraid of getting wet, I should be glad to accompany you." It was not a very elaborate or artistic invitation, but Miss Coy seemed de lighted with it, and soon" after Btipper was seen by several of the boarders es saying from the front door with her mit tened hand on Mr. Marrowprat's arm. Now John was anything but a ladies' man. He was somewhat awkward in their presence, and was painfully con scious of the fact ; and ry frequently he got tongue-tied. Ent when Miss Coy told him that the object of her ex cursion was the purchase of some trifles for her sister's children, whose hearts would be broken if Aunt Annie neglect ed them cm the morrow, John became forgetful of himself.and was soon peering in at windows with a beaming face and making suggestions regarding the pur chases, and went so far as to buy a squeakiug dog with pink eyes and a woolly tail for his landlady's' little boy. Long betore thev got to this point. however, they had become quite com- niumeative. "I should think," Faid John, placing the nmbrella so as to more effectually protect his companion from the storm", ihnt yon'd ftid it very tiresome teach ing school." " Oh, . -:t"" T do. But there are many pleasures that compensate for the fatigue," was the cheerful reply. " I forget iu! about niyseif iu watching the children's fnee. There's nothing so plear:t to lock at as a child's face." "That's so," said John, "it makes us feel young again. That is," he in stantly aided, conscious of a blunder, " 6uch as are old." " I'm sure you don't call yourself old," responded Miss Coy, in a tone strongly deprecating such a conclusion. " Ye, I do," said John, in all sincer ity : " I'm getting along fast. At least, I feel so. Perhaps it is owing to my solitary way of living, perhaps not. I don't know." There was such a yearn ing for sympathy expressed in his voice that the" bright look tint Miss Coy habitually wore faded for a moment, and one of kind conc.rn took its place. But it came back almost immediately, and her increased vivacity was an evi dence of her desire to dispel the sadneES that had fallen upon him. And she was very successful. The snow, which Lad begun to fall early in the evening, had given place to rain that froze as soon as it reached the earth and covered the walks with an icy coating extremely dangerous to pedestrians. Mr. Murrowprat, with the brown raper parcelb containing their purchases in one hand, and the wind - losseu umureua in me omer, louna con siderable dimcultv in supporting his fair companion. Twice she slipped, and twice, with Lis assistance, laughingly recovered herself. By and by, one of the bundles i- ; and, in stooping to pick it up, J.hn felt his feet fly from under Lira, and, notwithstanding a con vulsive clutch t the air, down he wevt Leavily, and something Fnapped. In attempting to rise he found that he had in some manner injiired his left foot, for he could bear no weight upon it. " I'm afraid that I've sprained mv lean on me. " John looked ut the little figure be side Lim and smiled ; but he pave her the bundles nevertheless, and atte mpted to proceed. "I can't get on," he said, with a groan, " Dear me 1" cried Miss Coy, "what can I do for you ?" " Hurt ?" sententiouslv inouired a policeman who had witnessed the acci dent. ' " Yes," said John. " Get a carriage, Tin you r He leaned against a convenient rail ing and awaited its arrival, endeavoring to avoid any expjession of the pain that grew more and more intense everv mo- ment He still gallantly held the um- trena over Juiss Uoy, wfiose anxietv was great. When the coach came the officer helped Lim in, and as Le was about to perform the same service for Miss Coy Le said, bluntly: You'd better get a doctor to Lim "as soon as yon can, for ia my Lumbla opinion Le's got a broken leg." I Leard it snap." Miss Coy got into the ooach in an ex cited condition of mind, and the vehi cle rolled away. In a short time it drew up before Mrs. Windle'B, and with the aasistance of the etout and sympathetic hae-kman John was taken in and placed upon his bed, where Le was soon sur rounded by Lis landlady and such of the boarders as happened to be at Lome. When the doctor came Le bent them all out of the rom, however, and soon declared that Mr. Marrowprat HUKlf. -tl IhN I HIV. Ill- EHliI CnnBTflVlI.n 1 . v. ..tt i r ,,, b wno tiaa never su2-red from nervous nf nf;. B ' ;nfortun"te, : ! ness. She verv cooll v raised his hea 1. l?trlW.T,iln 8 ! -! calling to Miss Coy, who hammed had sustained a very ugly fracture of th leg. Mr. Johnson, a fellow-boarder, re mained with him that night, but in the morning left him to fulfill an engage ment. After breakfust there was the most timid knock on the door imagina ble, and in answer to his invitation Miss Coy came softly in. There was no denying the fact that he was glad to see her pleasant face and to listen to her greeting of "Merry Christmas," for hi9 face brightened and his reetlessness ceased. " It's all but a merry Christmas to me," said John. " It's all for the best," she answered ; although I'm afraid that I was the cause of it." "No, no I" responded John, earnest ly. " I was going out anyway." And there flashed across his mind the long columns of forgotten figures that had worried hirn so, and which he Lad promised Mr. Lickpenny to cara for on the preceding evening. He was won dering what Mr. Lickpenny would sav, when his visitor asked him if she could not write to some of his relatives for him. " I have none to write to," he an swered, sadly. " Your friends, then ?" she hastily added. " Nor friends," said John. She remembered the sad tone that their conversation the night before had taken, and was turning away with tears in her eyes, when John said : " Would yon kindly write a little note for me to Mr, Lickpenny?" Bin gladly cartified her willingness, but had scarcely prepared the materials when they were' interrupted by a knock at the door, which, opening, disclosed the figure of Mr. Lickpenny himself. " Umph 1" said he ; " broke vour leg, did you ?'' As he approached the bed he winked so familiarly at Miss Coy that that young lady blushed, and John stared at him in amazement. "Yes, sir," replied John, when he had recovered himself. " Umph 1" ejaculated Mr. Lickpenny, " it don't pay to go on love excursions on winter nights, does it ?" He winked again at Miss Coy, but she turned away her head in confusion, and hurriedly put up the ink and paper. " What !" cried John, lifting himself up on his elbow and surveying his em plover vita indignation. "'Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Mr. Lick penny, ' eautrkt at your age, who'd have thought it. Come, do not look so i innocent. Vt hen a man neglects his I business and pocs oil with young j women, a thing he never was guilty oi I before, the case is vtry plain." Miss Coy having replaced the writing materials hastened from the room with . ti bumi'iir face, and John, preatlv dis ! tressed, f.-lt oacis on Ms pillow again. " Well, John," said Mr. Lickpenny, ( when she had gone, " how did it hap pen and how iu the world am I to get i those books balanced ?" Never until this moment had John ' considered Mr. Lickpenny other than a gentleman. To be sure, during all his i years of service he had never seen Lim under circumstances calling for precise deportment ; but instinctively he had ! clothed him with all necessary attri ; butes only to have them now torn off, j and the hue character of the man dis j played in all its deformity. The scales fell from John's eyes, and his Wood boiled at the insults offered to innocent, 'kind-hearted Miss Coy. He held his ! anger, however, and answered as calmly as possible. "Mr. Lickpenny," Faid he, "you hare insulted a very worthy young lady, I without the least cause ;' i"nd mv a's ! tonisk.ir.ent at your ungentlemanlv re i marks is only exceeded by my disap . pointment. I did think, so lately as j yesterday, that you were some-thing dif ' ferent from this." "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Mr. Lick penny, "can't stand raillery, hey? Why, John, you'rs worse than a boy." " If I was out of this bed, sir, you'd find out the difference," cried John, waxing wroth ; " you can leave the room the sooner the better. Get vour J confounded books fix-d up as best you can. I won't touch them again bv a jug ful." Mr. Lickpenny Fuddenlv became grave, and began expostufuiing. but , John would not listen to him, and de , man led that he leave the room in such j loud tones that the landlady appeared, asserting that she thought be had called for her. There being no other alterna tive, Mr. Lickpenny angrily departed ; but John, in his excitement, having i attempted to move his injured leg, im meaiuieiy lamina wia the pain. JUrs. Win die was a tall, mui.cnlar female. passing anj who bhe e.siied through the half-open door, she Boon, with her assistance, brought Lim back to consciousness. As Le was lowly re covering, Le thought he heard, as if in the distance, the voice of Miss Coy, saying: " Poor fellow, he wm to ie quite alone in the world ;" but vihen he opened Lis eyes they beheld no one in the room save Lis landlady. He lay for some time, until Lis mind was quite clear, and then Le Bent the I landlady for Miss Coy, who Lesitated, , t but at last came in. When Le Baw Ler all Lis old diffidence returned, and it was with difficulty that he told her of his deep regret at the insult she had suffered, of lis self-dismissal from the employment of Mr. Lickpenny, and of Lis sorrow at being unable to take Ler to the oratorio that evening, as Le knew the loved good music. " Do not mention it." she said : "vou Lave suffered too much for my Bake. If there 13 anything I can do for you, I pray you let me do it" " Miss Coy," said John, Lis Leart speaking through Lis faltering lips, "I Lave lived alone, quite by myself, for a number of years, and Lave few friends and no relatives to take care of me ; can I ask you to do so J" "Oh, gladly!" Bhe said. "lean sjend considerable tide with you, and will read or write for you as yon wish." " I intern Jortvcr" continued John, with emphasis. She put her bunds to Ler 'face and burst into tears; but, bearing John bitterly repeating Lis rudeness, eLe went to him then nul knelt beside the bed. Tenderly Le smoothed her bair, and softly fell hiH words upon her oar. " If I am not too old, dear, it is indeed merry Christmas to me." And, rais ing her head and looking into his kind, sad eyes, she answered : " We will grow old together, John, and laid Ler head on his happv breast. ' Five years hnve passed, and again the bells are ringing on the eve of the blessed holiday. John Marrowprat, seated in his own house with a fair haired child upon his knee, hears them with a calm contentment, for the sad pictures of the past that of old were conjured up by their silvery tones have grown dim compared with the happy pictures of the present. About Dyspepsia. Sufferers from this horrible malady will find some of their own feelings de scribed in the following article from the Orrrland Monthly : Did you ever have the dyspepsia? Did you ever have or ever imagineyon had a complication of all known, and several unknown diseases ? If yes.then you have had the dvspepsia, or its full equivalent. Chronic dyspepsia may be defined as an epitome of every com plaint wheewith transgressing mortal ity is scourged. It is as nice a thing to have about you as a trunkfull of taran tulas, with the trunk lid always up. An eminent English physician "has said: " A man with a bad dyspepsia is a vil lain." He is, and worse. He is by turns a fiend, a moral monster, and a physical coward and he cannot help it. ne is his own bottomless pit, and his own demon at tbe bottom of it, which torments him continually with pangs indescribable. When a worm of the business dust of this world has writhed with the dys pepsia until it has assumed a virulent chronic form, who shall find colors anu abilities varied enough to paint his condition ? His blood becomes first poverty-stricken, then impure, and, as "blood will tell," every part of hi system is contaminated by the foul stream. The brain complains bitterly on its owu account, and vehement com plaints are being continually sent up to it from the famishing liver, bowels, spleen, heart, and lungs. Like "sweet bells jangled out of tune," the entire organization breathes discords. Even the remote toes telegraph up to the brain: " We are starving down litre; send down some provender." Tbe brain makes requisitions on the stomach, which are futile. The stomach is pow erless to provide, ahd the brain cannot iransmit. At times dl the starving or gans conspire together, suspend woik and undertake to compass by riot what the-r fail to get by appeal. Then life trembles in the balance. Thenth solation O, the consolation ! that is visited on the dyspeptic. Friends when he is lifele-ss from lack of vitalitv friends will exasperate him with taunts of being "lazy," "shiitless," " indt-lent," and " without ambition !" Nor can his friends be made to appreci ate that it is as preposterous to expect one who is undergoing constant torture and consequent exhaustion to Lave " ambition " as it would be to expect a corpse to have an appetite. Kemedy: everybody's advice that is, ride every body's hobby. Cart: death. Drugs are but aggravations, and " bitters " are bitter inde-ed. We have heard of a chronic dyspeptic who took his cue from his chiciens.Rnd by swallowing daily a moderate handful of gravel stones of the size of a pea downward, finally succeeded in trans forming "cue" into "cure." He claimed complete restoration. In the face of this evidence to the contrary, we re-assert that, for chronic dyspepsia in its worst form, there is but one certain cure absolute rest. Preventive: take as good care of the coats of your stom ach as you do of the coats of your bae-ks. Do you wish for faith in God, in human love, in earthly happiness, iu the beneficence of Nature, and in im mortality? Keep your digestion vig orous; on that hang' all of these. Wouid you prefer an abiding faith in tortures unspeakable, in horrors inexpressible ? Destroy your digestion. Would yon live in the body for ever ? Kep your digestion ia full vigor; and although the end of the world may come, your end will not come you will have to go after it. Old age is but the failure of nutrition. Nutrition is life; non-nutrition is death, A Kej to a Person's Name. By the accompanying table of letters, the name of a perou or word may be found out in the following manner: A B D H P C C E I (, E F F J i: G G G K S I J L L T K K M M U M N N N Y o o o o w Q . R T X X K BY Y Z U V V Y Z W W W W Y Z Let the person w hose name you wish to know inform you in which of the up right columns the first letter of his name is contained. If it be found in but one column it is the top letter; if it occurs in more than one column, it is found by adding the aljihaljeticJil num bers of the top letters ol these columns, and the eum will be the number of the letter bought. By taking one letter at a time in this way, the whole can be ascertained. For example, take the word Jane, J is found iu the two col umns commencing with B and H, which are the second and eichth letters down the alphabet; their sum i6 ten, and the tenth letter down the alphabet is J, the letter sought. The next letter, A, ap pears in but one column, where it stands at the top, N is seen in the col umns Leaded B, D, and H; these are the second, fourth and eighth letters of the alphabet, which added give the fourteenth, and so on. The use of this table will excite no Lttlo curiosity among those unacquainted with the foregoing explanation, TLe happiest woman, like thfc happiest nations, Lav no history. The '.Vlilpplnir Post. A correspondent thus describes the whipping of four burglers at Newcastle, Delaware : It was rumored in Newcas tle that 1,300 men would come down from Philadelphia to rescue the pris oners. The fill eriff established an arm ed patrol, and the entrancesjto the town were picketed. No disturbance occur red. The conourso of people was im mense, and shortly after 10 o'clock, when the jail-yard doors were opened, a surging crowd, impatiently waiting iu the street outside, pressed in and filled the narrow space in n moment. A guard, armed with Springfield rifles, and a de tachment of police were stationed to keep order. At about 10:20 Carter and Hope were brought out of prison and put in the pillory, which accommodates two nt a time. The Sheriff and a dep uty fixed their necks and arms in the Loles. nope being shorter than his companion, who is known as big Frank, and is a very tall man, was suffering from phthisis, and waB allowed to stand more erect than Carter. In his case, too, the stocks were not fastened by the usual hooks, but were held down with strings. Cartvr was securely lock ed iu tliein, placing Ills Jong, saU'ly beard under his throat as an easy rest for the neck. At the end of the Lour they were released. Carter complained of pain in the chest from standing in so bent a position. Hope spoke more of the soreness of his wrists. Lawler and Hurlburt were put in next, and their hour expired about 112:23. All this was decorously done. The crowd was dis posed at one time to jeer at the cul prits, but the Sheriff quickly interfered, saying that no remarks would be allow ed from the spectators, as the punish ment itself was sufficient for the pris oners to bear. The men had their hats on their heads and blankets or coats were thrown over their shoulders, the day being raw and cold. Upon the re lease of Lawler and Hnrlburt they were taken back to prison, and the four werv then brought out one at a time, and whipped. Before commencing this, the Sheriff, coining forward with the old-time hardened "cat " in his hands, made pro?lamation that no disturbance or remarks would be tolerated. " Big Frank " w;is whipped first. He came out, already stripped for the purpose, with a coat loosely thrown over his shoulders. This being removed, he was fastened up, and the Sheriff ap plied the " cat " to the extent of the forty blovs, a deputy standing at one side, and counting them off in an audi ble voice. The culprit stood with his head bowed between his arms and took the castiga tion without flinching. His back was considerably reddened, and slight welts were raised, but no blood was drawn, nope was whipped next. He stood erect, and there seemed to be a slight yielding r hie benty uudn th -woigLt of the blows. Closing his eyes, he threw his head back a little, and several times shivered perceptibly, as though in much pain. No blood was druwD, although red welts were raised across his back. Lawler was brought out next. He was, apparently, more severely pun ished than his companions, for' welts were raised which turned black, and under a few more blows would have opened and sent a stream of blood. Hurlbert received his punishment last. He dropped his head between his arms, and his lace was hid from view. He is a man of powerful built, and did not flinch under the lash. Large red welts were made across his back, but no blood was drawn. This ended the perform ance. The evident expectation of many persons was that the Sheriff would be very severe. But he applied tbe whip verv moderately, and this produced no little disappointment. The four men now begin a term of ten years' impris onment. Carter is said to have com mitted a housj burglary at Trenton, and to have helped rob the Bene5cial Savings Fund in Philadelphia, after ward killing one of Lis confederates to compel Lim to give up the plunder. Hope'B real name is said to be JameB J. Wutson, and he is reported to be a graduate of Yale College and a man of reputable family. He is a brother-in-law to Jimmy Haggerty, who was killed by Iieady the Blacksmith of New York. He has been'concerned in several burg laries, and escaped from Sing Sing last Bummer. Lawler is also called James Howard, and is from New Eng land. He was sent to Sing Sing in l"sTl for grand larenny, and escaped about a year ago. Hurlbert, or Brady, is a well-known burglar, who Las been fre quently imprisoned, and is also Baid t have escaped from Sing Sing two or three months ago. The Signals. The late lamentable disaster, sayB an old sailor, shows either gross ignoranc-e of the " rules of the road," or gross carelessness ca the part of the seeiond officer of tbe steamship Yille du Havre, if the weather was such as to allow the lights of the vessel to be Been, Thebe " rules" are very simple, and have been turned into verse, and run thus ia re gard to lights at sea : tireen to green. Or red Uj red. There i no danger ; (io ahead. If nnou yonr Krt it w.cu A Hanjer biartowd hght of preen, There ifc not much for you to do. Tor green to port keeji clear of you. If red njion your marboard appear. It ie your duty to keep clear : To act ae judinueut wiy u projer. To fijrt or Kiaruoard. back, or etop her. The Loch Earn was upon the port track, with the wind to the westward, and if the steamer's green light was seen, she Lad the right of way to hold Ler course, and the steamer should have ported her helm and passed astern of the Loch Earn, instead of at tempting to cross that ship's bows. From the steamship, if the Loch Earn light was visible, it was Ler red light, and being ou the ttarboard aide of the steamer, she sbould be governed by the third verse " to act as judgment says is proper, to port or starboard, back, or stop Ler." " How much did Le leave ?" inquired gentleman tf a wag on learning the death of a wealthy citizen, "Every thing, responded the wag, be didn't take a dollar with him. The late Prof. Agasslz. The loss of Agsssiz will bo deplored throughout the United States as a na tional calamity. For. twenty years Americans have come to look upon Agassiz as a countryman, as an orna ment to our national household, and the champion who chiefly entitled us to be represented among tlua few persis tent " interrogators of natnro " whose patient questioning had drawn out clear and definite answer. The Ameri can Cyclopaedia even describes him as "an American naturalibt of French de scent." Louis John Piudolpli Agassiz was born in the Canton of Fribourg, on the Lake of Morat, May 2H, 1807. The father of Agassiz was a Protestant pas tor, as, indeed, his forefathers fir six generations had been. His education was conducted by his mother until he was eleven years old, when he was sent to attend the gymnasium of Bienne. After four years of Bienne he spent two at the college of Lausanne, and there for two years botook himself to the medical Bchool of Zurich. For a year more he was at Heidelberg. In 1827, in his twenty-first year, he entered Munich, uui It wao wlille li; still an undergraduate Lere that he was chosen by Martins, the explorer of Brazil, to complete the ichthyological report on that empire, left unfinished by the death of Spix. Whether this appointment determined his specialty or not, it is certain that for several years he devoted himself to ichthyology. Cottii, the publisher, recognized the value of his materials for a "Natural History of the Fresh- Water Fishes of Europe," and advanced him money to complete it. After taking the degrees of doctor of medicine at Munich and doctor of phi losophy at Erlangen, he went to live at Vienna. At the close of his Brazilian studies he studied for seven years the fossil fishes of Europe, and in 1832 be gwn the publication, not concluded till 1844, of the work upon that subject which not only established his reputa tion as one of the first of investigators, but also made known his claim to be recognized as one of the first of natural philosophers. For it was during the preparation of this monument of patient study that he was led to accept the doc trine of special and successive creation, and to reject except iu a limited sense which by no means satisfies the de mimds of the upholders of that theory. Tlie controversy which seems at fir't sight us barren as the dispute upon the letters of Phaluris, but which has de veloped into irreconcilable doctrines of the existence of divine providence, the nature of man, and th'j conduct of life, and ramified into every lyceum plat form and every pulpit almost in Chris tendom, was then just beginning. The stand which Agassiz took in "it und wbicu )' maintained with little modifi cation to the last, won lor hit first im portant work an attention wider than it could otherwise have gained, and it is not venturesome to infer that it was this result of his studies rather than the mere merit of the researches, which so few are fit to judge, which commended him first to the admira'.i-.n and finally to the affectionate veneration of the Am'-ricans and particularly of tbe New Englanders, among whom "his later lot was cast. At least it won him instant and universal recognition among natu ralises. He was made an LL.D. of the uni versities of Dublin and Edinburgh, and enrolled a citizen of both cities. Dur ing the publication of his great work he sent to press also several monographs on sub-divisions of his subject or sub jects cognate to it. His vacations for ten years had been devoted to excur sions among the Alps, the result of winch was the publication, m fragment ary parts, of his glacial theory. In the autumn of 1S4G he reached this country with a commission from the Kitig cf Prussia, provided for him by Humboldt, to examine and report upon the natural history and geology of the United States, and an invitation from Mr. J. A. Dowell to a lyceum in Boston. The next year he was offered all the facili ties which the Coast Survey service af forded of continuing his explorations, ana it was this offer which decided lira to remain in the United States. J this year also he took the chair of Zoology and Geology in the scientific school of Cambridge," then wly founded, and his first vacation from the duties of his professorship produced Lis "Lake Su perior." Iu 1Vj2 he accepted a pro fessorship at Charleston, but the condi tion of his health forced Lim to return to the North. Since 1808 he has been a lecturer at Cornell. The results of hiB voyages to and up the Amazon in 180o, and around the Horn in 1871, are already known by such aB have cared to study "their records. This year the island of Penekese was granted to Lim to found a scientific school upon, and his efforts to establish there a scientific class, apart from aud not auxiliary to the ordinary course of liberal educa tion, Lave now been brought to nothing by Lis deatL, since Lis tuition for twenty years Las not yet developed a pupil capable, by the acknowledgment of men of science, to take Lis place. What is Sold for H ay. PurcLasers of Lay in this city, says a New York paper, often find in the in terior of bales large stones and bufcbels of beed or chaff, and on the hickory bands, which are always twice the nec essary size, large, Leavy knots, skill fully turned inward and hidden by the hay. Small buyers are compelled to submit to this fraud of the honest coun tryman who packs the Lay, but the Iobs fails heaviest upon livery men who pur chase large quantities. These usually buy from contractors, who are bound to furnish a good article. Keepers of Email livery Btables wbose Btoek of Lay is exhausted are compelled to buy on the wharves. A bale weighing from 240 to pound Las frequently been found to contain 80 to t0 pounds of stones, sticks, wires, and seed or chaff. The superintendent of a stable in Amity street bays that one-fourth of eight bales of Lay received from a well -known feed store was worthless. An Albany ttian baa invented a pro cess for making paper boxea from the pulp without beams, Items of Interest. Why is a beefsteak like a locomo tive? It's not of much account with out it's tender. Teach a child to lie, and then hopo that ho will grow up honest. Better Ent a wasp in a tar barrel and wait till e makes you honey. St, Louis Las a bogus expressman who collects freight charges on neat looking packages containing potatoes, which he delivers C. O. D. to persons to whom Le has previously addressed them. During the past year the Methodist Episcopal Church has grown 84,000,000 richer, and gained over 5,000 members, making a total of 1,404,027 members and probationers. The number of deaths during the year is 18,'JOO, which is unusually large. " There is one good thing about ba bies," says a late traveler ; " they never change. We Lave girls of the period, men of the world, but the baby is the same self-possessed, fearless, laughing, voracious little heathen in all ages and in all countries." It was a very ungrateful person who ". by earrier.iiyf.,ijf the following message to his place in the country: " Send basket of early green pease by express train; pack the bearer of this in with them, as ho is a plump bird, and I intend to eat him with them." The Peoria Jtevirw saysthat thereans seven thousand men in that city who want a war with Cuba, provided they can go as sutlers. They do not care for the honors and glory of war; all they want is a chance to avenge the violated honor of our bleeding country by sell ing cheese at 87J cents per pound, skip pers included. A live-stock dealer iB purchasing rab bits at Chicago to sell iu San Francisco, whence they will be exported to China, whose almond-eyed beauties will pay from ten dollarB to twenty dollars a pair for them, and make them fulfill the functions of pets, as American ladies do poodle dogs. Ireland is profiting by the large in crease in the price of coal in England. The island is known to contain many rich coal fields, which have been hither to worked on a very small bc1c. Capi talists are now beginning to look to these as profitable investments, and preparations are being made to work the coal on a large Bcale. Production Las been impeded: the stock of goods is diminishing; there is little likelihood of overproduction for some time again; the country will soon wish to use the savings it has been making; and, after a Bcare, as every one knows, the reaction is always lively. People will buy all the more eagerly for their 6elf-demal and previous economy. The stock war in Colorado is extend ing to the northern part of flip Terri tory. A German who Lad about four thousand bheep within a few miles of Denver awoke on a recent Saturday night to see fifteen or twenty armed med firing into his corral with rifles and revolvers. He discharged several shots at the intruders, but a volley of, bullets drove him back into his house. In the morning he found that 8'.i of his flock were dead. Tlie Late Judge Selsou. Mr. Samuel Nelson, ex-assoeinte Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States, died suddenly of apoplexy, while sitting in his chair, at his home in Coopers town, New York. Judge Nelson had been for borne months past in good health and spirits. A week be-fore his death he complained of having titken a slight cold and was confined to his room some days. An hour later than usual on the morning of his death he took breakfast and seemed to be as well as usual. While sitting in his chair, between one and two o'clock, listening to the reading of a letter by Mrs. Nelson, he made au inquiry in re gerd to it, and then, without a word or sigh, suddenly died. He had reached his eighty-first year on the 10th of No vember, Lang been born at Hebron, Washington county, in the year 1T'J2, Judge Nelson graduated at Middle borough College, Vermont. He w as a member of the New York Constitu tional Convention of 1821, and under the judicial system the constitution then adopted, was in April, 1823, ap pointed Judge of the Sixth Circuit, which included Otsego county. This position he held until February, 1831, when he became Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State oi New York, In 1837 Chief Justice Savage resigned, and Judge Nelson was pro moted to Lis place, holding it for eight vears, and bringing to the discharge of Lis important magisterial duties great learning and ability, a high sense of Lonor and the most inflexible integ rity. After an honorable and dis tinguished career of 22 years upon the bench of his native State Le was eleva ted to the Bench of the Supreme Court of the United States in February, 1815. This offioe Le filled until Thanksgiving Day, 1872, when Le bent in Lis refcigua tioii, and it was acoepted on the 1st of the following month. Since that time till his death took place, the eminent jurist resided at Oooperstown, sur rounded by all the quietude and at traction of a beloved Lome, passing away the evening of a noble life amid that eplendid scenery which Cooper Las immortalized in Lis famous novels. The Hoofc&e TunueL Nearly C50.000 pounds of explosives nitro-k1 vcrine, dualin, and powder have btx.u used in penetrating the Hoobac Mountain. Nitroglycerine Las been chiefly effective. Its ube was firbt attempted in connection with the tunnel in 1 80C, and was Buooebsfully introduced in 1808, suioe which time it has been used with most powerful results. There Lave been many 'disasters at the Hoosae TunueL Accounts vary as to the whole number killed during the entire pro gress of the work ; but it is generally admitted that the aocidenta which Lave occurred in connection with the use of nitro-gly oerine Lave been the result of carelessness, A better understanding ol its nature Las led iu more reoent years to greater ewe ia its use everywhere.
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