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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
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1UDGAVAY, , ELK COUNTY, PA.',' "THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 187,4.
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. . Season Song.
Sweet love," eaid I "His the forth of the
year,
The snow is gone, imd the roses are blowing ;
Oh I say my hope may banish my f oar,
I'or my love grows strong as the flowers are
growing."
And she Paid, for the thrush's glad note was
ringing,
1 No need of love when tho birds are sincing.'
'Sweet love," said I, "'tis the summer's'
prime,
And the leafy earth is a sea of gladness )
Oh I make it my perfect summer-time,
Of Buu-lit joy after wintry sadness."
And she said, and her voice was sweetly mel
low, " No Deed of love when the corn is yellow."
" Sweet love," said I, " the year grows old j
But many a beauty still is staying ;
Oh 1 bo your lovo like the autumn gold
To giM brown loaves loo soon decaying."
And hIio said, for the reapers and gleaners
were come,
",No need of love at the harvest-homo."
" Pweot love," paid I, " tho year is dead,
And the trees are baro iu the killing frost j
Tho buds avo i-ilint, tho roses are fled,
And my hope, like tho sunshine, is almost
lost."
And she said, 'I take my heart from its cover,
For winter is cold without a lovor.'
AJT EDITOR'S EXPERIENCE.
I tell you now, rf it -wasn't for the in
dependent press the country'd go to
the dogs 'n less 'n no time. Yes, sir, I'm
for a inderpt-mleut press all the time ;
but it costs n powerful sight of money
to keep it up. Cause why, you dassent
borrow or lend.
There's not nienny as knows .more
about the business of runnin' a paper
than Wirt Suttredge. Alius Lad a
Lankerin' that way. Head the papers
from the time I could cpell out words ;
ef I've pored over Gibbon's ' Rise and
Fall" an' "Josephus" onct, I've gone
clean through them a dozen times.
Yes, I reckon I know all about inder
peudent au' somethin' about cor
poration papers, too I I see you don't
quite take my meaning. An' to tell
you the truth, it's only lately I discover
ed what a corporation paper is. I run
a corporation paper down to Goosetown
without kuo win' it. It has grown up
on me blow like, but it's a hard-baked
fact now. An' nuothcr thiug has grown
on me. An' that is, after you've begun
on a corporation paper you've got to
keep it up, for el' you try to make a
independent paper of it tho chances
are it won't stand tho wrench. It's
like giving a man an all-fired twist in
a wreetlin' match ; ef he don't know
how to free himself of a toe-look, or
catch his man on tho hip, he's sure to
see stars. I speak from experience,
because I was fool enough to think I
could switch off the track I was runnin'
on, an' make a inderpendent paper of
the Streamer of Liberty. Ef you ever
saw a bunch of freight cars shunted off
on a siding a lcetlo ruie too strong, an'
a bringin' up in a heap after buttin'
down the snubbin' posts, p'raps you
can form tome idea how I folt when I
got through with tho experiment.
Seein' as you don't know much about
tho press, of which I am proud to say I
am still a honorable member in good
standin', I'll explain how I fell inter the
business. If you take notice it's a
business people generally fall inter. At
tho same time it's more like a lottery
than auythin' I can think of. It takes
mighty good management an' pluck,
an' plenty of money a power of money
to keep a man alloat in it, unless he's a
fool for luck (which I never was), or
a genius (which is wns, ef anything !) or
his credit is uncommon. Mostly I Had
that runnin' a country newspaper is a
distraetin' business ; a man may hang
on by tho eyebrows, ready to suspend
every week for months an' years, an'
at the end of that time not have enough
money in his clotheH to treat himself to
a good square meal ; consequently
country edditurs mostly get treated ef
you notice.
What I was goiu' to say, or tho heft
of it mostly, was about my corporation
paper.
When the railroad from Huekleberrv
Flat up to Goosetown was first talked oif
the railway folks sort o seemed to halt
'tween two opinions. You see. thev
hadn't made up their minds whether
to go around by Crab Tree Hollow or
shin 'round by Smoky Eun. The
Smoky Eun people got up a big meet
in' and had a big time speakin' and
resolutin. I reckon there was nigh on
two hundred people or more, an' every
man voted to take a sheer in the new
road.
The Crab Tree Hollow people weren't
to be got over in that style. They held
a rousiu' meetin', voted to take twice as
many sheers as Smoky Eun, au pledged
the town corporation to take as many
more. You'd think that ought to have
settled it. But it didn't You just try
to get one town to acknowledge its
neighbor has the purtiest women, the
bebt bosses or lighters, an you'll Bee
no end o' nonesense I
The proceeding of the Crab Tree
people more than woke the Smcky Eun
people up. They held another meetin',
voted to take as many sheers as the
Crab Tree Hollow folks, an' offered the
railway the town for a depot. You'd
think Crab Tree Hollow couldn't beat
that. An' it was liberal of the Smoky
Eun people. Ef it hadn't been for the
fact that the railroad company didn't
jest know their own mind two minutes
to onct, Smoky Euu'd made the riffle.
An' while they were a deliberatin' of it
among themselves, the Crab Tree Hol
low people sent over a sub-committee
to Scrub Grass, a town site where you
couiu 6caseiy Keep in range 01 the
houses, an coaxed them to jine forces.
Then they held a sort o' secret council,
an' voted both towns to the railway
company, an' pledged theirselves to tax
theirselves 60 much a head down to
their grandchildren. Same time they
resoluted thanks to theirselves for the
benefits they were a conferrin' on pos
terity. When it leaked out through some of
the railroad men, Goosetown came
right np level with the Smoky Eun peo
ple an' went live generations better.
That fetched the railroad. Smoky Eun
couldn't go no further, an' the railroad
men said as how they were tired of the
wrangle, an' the railroad to Goosetown
was begun in earnest, an' pushed
through just as long as tho people's
money held out. When that was nil
done every last cent gobbled up the
folks at Goosetown plunked down their
mortgages ; same time the Huckleberry
Flat folks forked np on the some line,
an' by that time the road was ready for
the rollin' stock.
No 1 I forgot. The company found
they'd made an oversight somehow, for
whon the depots were built they hadn't
enough money left to lay in their win
ter's stock of coal, so they had to pay
tor that out of their own money.
I lived midway between Goosetown
an' Huckleberry Flat then. I was my
own man, with nigh nine hundred dol
lars in my pocket, an' a feelin of my
oats purty- well ; bo nothiug 'd do me
but a professional life. An' us I was
counted strong in our debatin' society,
an' was a master hand at epellin', I
concluded to start a newspaper.; The
moment I said I'd do it, the Goose
town folks covered every dollar I had,
an' . blamed ef I wasn't a edditnr
almost afore I knew it ! Well, jest
about that time the railroad was com
pleted, an' everybody was crazy to get
a trip over it. Some folks made so many
trips they made quite a talk. There
was the Mayor, he'd run down to
Huckleberry Flats as much as two,
three, or mebbe four times a week.
Thinks I, here's my chance. I've start
ed the Streamer of Liberty on the
strength of : tho railroad, an' -the rail
road's got to support me. I conoluded
I'd see about the Mayor's many trips,
so I went over to tho railroad office, an'
kinder struck up a desultory conversa
tion with the superintendent. You see,
I wanted to come at the business iu n
roundabout way. Says I, " See here,
Shackleford " (I knew him like a book
went to school with him), " what's
the reason Tom Winterbottom spends
so much money runnin down the road ?
How can he afford such nonsense ?"
"Sh-h-h," says Shackleford, givin'
me the wink; "haven't you been
fixed?"
" What do yon mean ?" says 1 jest
liko that.
" Hasn't no one been to see you with
a ticket ?"
" It's likely they'd found me if they
had."
Shackleford's face cleared up. " I
was wonderin' why you was so savin' of
your ticket. Look here, now, Wirt,
yon ought to be on the dead-head list."
I didn't half like his look. It was a
cunnin' pmile Shackleford had, and
sly. Au' he was so blamed deep you
never know where to find him. So I
told him right short :
" I don't think a man who can edit a
paper is any deader in the head than
railway officers." -
" Pshaw 1" says Shackleford j " yon
don't take. All edditurs are dead
heads, an' it's onacountable how you've
been overlooked. I'll fix this thing
right at onct. I'll givo you an annual
pass."
" Is that tho way the Mayor does it ?"
said L
"To be sure." ". ! '
The next day I got aboard the cars,
an' there was Tom Winterbottom ahead
of me. But the conductor knew his
trick like a gambler, an' nobody was
any the wiser until somehow it leaked
out, I reckon, all along of Winterbot
tom's ridin' over the road so much.
Jest about this time the company
wanted to dig a two-foot trench acrost
to tho new settlement. They'd made a
perfect lake of tho old town, chopped
up the old town hall for kindlin' wood,
an' did purty much as they pleased, an'
no one could say boo ! because the town
was purty much theirs to do as they
pleased with. But when the Town
Council learned about the Mayor's free
ticket, they kicked upa terrible rumpus.
They held a secret meetin' one Sunday
iu Si Sturgis's grocery, an' swore sol
emnly the company shouldn't strike a
pick in tho trench until the matter was
settled satisfactorily. That fetched the
company. They knuckled at onct, an'
every man got a free ticket.
Same time I writ a colyum an three
quarters in the Streamer of Liberty
dwellin' on the importance of the early
completion of the new trench. I almost
made myself believe that the new trench
was necessary to the salvation of the
State, an' without it ruination might
fall upon every last featherof theohick
ens in the limits of Goosetown. I took
occasion to point mookingly at the
prostratioiwof Smoky Eun, proved that
more butter an' eggs were sold in a
week in Goosetown than were sold in
Smoky Eun in two (which wasn't so
wonderful, cousiderin' Goosetown was
twice as big), an' came down on the
Town Council severely for their shilly
shallying temporizin' policy. So coun
cils was compelled in a manner to rec
ognize the importance of the two-foot
trench.
The company got along for a-spell
first rate after that. They broke down
a ilimpsy bridge or two, killin' abont.a
dozen people, an' all strangers, but the
Streamer of Liberty demonstrated that
such accidents were unavoidable, an' to
be expected, like any other dispensa
tion of Providence.
But one day the widow Klingenfel
ter's cow got her nails pared ruther
close right on the edge of the new set
tlement. Leastways the heft of the
testimony tended that way. There was
forty witnesses swore the cow was fair
on the line between the old an' the new
town, an' as many swore she was more
than half on the old town. 'Twas
mighty clost swearin'. The widow was
very popular. She was rich an' remem
bered her friends likewise her enemies.
Her cow was ruined, an' she wanted its
value. The company's lawyer said he
pay for the hoof, but he wasn't in the
milk trade. The j udge wriggled out of
it at last. You'd never suspect how.
Said he to one of the, widow's wit
nesses :
" How was the cow headin' "
" For the old settlement," said the
witness, afore his lawyer could give him
the wink. ,
That settled the widow's case. Every
one of the company's witnesses swore
the same thing, an' the widow was cast
in the costs. Everybody thought the
suit was ended, but the widow's lawyer
moved for a new trial, au' as the com
pany had a dead sure thing of it, the
judge 'lowed him till the next day to
prepare his reasons. Tho next day
fmrty much the whole town was on
innd to hear the reasons. But the
widow's lawyer moved that judgment
be recorded at once, an' as soon as that
wns done, ho got np on a wagon in
front of the court-house nnd made a
powerful speech. He said the reason
judgment was rendered agin tho Widow
was on account of bribery. All the
Town Council, the Mayor, the Judge
and his family had free passes. He
called on nny one present to deny the
fact. But "nobody was fool enough to
say a word.
I saw at once how the pop'lar mind
was goin'. I knew ef the widow had
been poor nobody would havo cared a
gnat's heel for her ; she might have lost
her last pullet an nobody'd loaned her a
patent egg for a fresh start. Thinks I,
now is the time to let fly at a great
abuse. So I writ the matter up that
night. Said I in my eolyums :
" The current of popular sentiment
has been stirred to its depths by the
recent decision in the cafe of Klingen
felter versus the Goosetown and Huckle
berry Flat Eailway Company. It is
not becanse the widow Klingenfelter's
cow's head was really towards the new
or her tail switching near the old settle
ment that public sentiment sides with
her ; it is because of tho wholesale
bribery practiced by the railway com
pnny. Tho company gives truck for
truck. It don't bow courtesies of this
kind broadcast for nothing. Every
free pass is framed in a consideration,
ef we could only get at tho facts, an'
tho consideration is mostly in favor of
the company. It is a -well-known fact
that a drink of whisky will go ten times
as far to'ards influenciu' a man's vote as
ten times the whisky's money's worth
would go. On precise! 1 the same
principle a railroad pas3 has forty-hoss
corruptiu' power. Wo cannot take time
to explain the principle more fully in
this issue. We simply ask, shell the
the people of Goosetown be content to
let this system of pass bribery to obtain,
until it saps, the foundations of our
institutions ? We trust not. We hope
public sentiment will eventooally
crystallize inter a law forbiddin' ail
city officers an' judges to accept passes
from railways, steamboats, canal-boats,
and rafts."
That was nbont the heft of my edi
torial. Thinks I, that'll draw like a
poor man's plaster. The people will
rally round me, mebbe send me to the
Legislature 1 But to make sure of it,
I threw in a lot of stuff 'bout tho tre
menjus inflooence of the independent
press in freein' the people from the
corruptiu' an' overmasterin' power of
tho railway corporations.
When I met Jim Shakleford next day
he looked sort o short grained. Said
I, "How do you liko my edditorial?
It ought to save tho company a heap of
money. I've made a little calculation.
Ef everybody pays, tho company will
make more than twenty thousand dol
lars of a savin .
" I reckon everybody will pay their
fare, incloodin' the ass what edits the
Streamer of Liberty," said he, jest like
that.
An' they did. It shct down tho hull
business. Consequence was, everybody
in office and everybody that wanted to
get office (an' that incloodcd pretty
much the whole town) came down on
the paper heavy. Suit. Consequence
was, I couldn't get credit for soap to
wash my hands after that, let alone buy
a wholo ream of paper twict a month, so
the Streamer of Liberty suspended.
Wirt Suttredge.
A Model Love-Letter,
Madam : Your honesty and grave
countenance, your modesty and your
wisdom, your wit and great judgment,
and thousand other virtues with which
you are most happily endowed, besides
the incomparable beauty which in
creaseth your renown in all parts of the
world, havo so entangled my thoughts
in the consideration thereof that I have
been forced to collocate and place the
sum of my felicity in meditating the
rare gifts both of body and mind by
which it hath pleased the gods to make
your ladyship famous. But when I
consider mine own unworthiness and
perpend the great difference which is
between such excellency and myself,
such is the despair which possesseth
my heart that I suffer incredible tor
ment. Yet tho force of your beauty
constraineth me to judge myself happy,
in that I suffer a paiu for so worthy a
lady as yourself. So that I feel sin
gular joy and gladness in my evil, and
receive an extreme glory in enduring
grief. Pain unto me is a pastime ; to
weep, a pleasure; to sigh, a solace;
grief, health ; which does rain the fury
of torment in me, though therein I en
joy a blessed content. All this do I
suffer for you, madam; it is your
ueauiy uuu vinne wnicn caueth me to
be so tormented with such contrary
passions. And, therefore, pit y an un
fortunate lover who offereth you his
own life, and who desiretn not that his
evil may be addressed, but ouly wisheth
that it may be known.
The Rheumatism.
An Englishman with the rhenmatio
gout fouud this singular remedy a cure
for his ailment : " He insulated his bed
from the floor by placing under each
post a broKeu-oft bottom of a class hot
tie." He says the effect was magical ;
that he had not been free from rheu
matio gout for. fifteen years, and that
he began to improve immediately after
tne application oi the insulators. "We
are reminded by this statement," Bays
the Scientific American, "of a patent
opcainea through this oihce lor a physi
cian, some twelve or more years ago.
which created considerable interest at
the time. The patent consisted in
placing glass cups under the bed posts
in a similar manner to the above, and
the patentee claimed to have effected
some remarkable cures by the use of
his remarkable insulators." A gentle
man in San Francisco who has been
afflicted with rheumatio gout, or gouty
rheumatism, one or the other or both
combined, accidentally stumbled upon
the above statement of facts, and tried
.the experiment. The result is, that al
though nearly 50 years old, he is ready
to run a foot race with any man of his
age in the State for one hundred yards;
drinks of lager beer for himself and his
competitor being the wager.
WHAT IS IITDROniOBIA 1
Soma ' llemarkaltla Instances of the
K treats of Dog Bites after Many Years.
An interesting paper on hydrophobia
was rend by Dr. Charles P. Eussell at
tho meeting of the Medical Society of
Now York. Dr. Eussell has given the
subject much thought and research,
nnd his essay will bo a valuable contri
bution to the not very extended litera
ture of this most dreaded and myste
rious disease. He fully sustains the
views expressed by us some time since,
that it is among curs and mongrels, the
Pariahs and outcasts of dogdom, the
disease usually originates, and that
these should be unrelentingly destroy
ed. It is certainly better that ninety
nine innocent dogs should suffer than
ono guilty one should escape to destroy
human life by the most terrible of agen
cies. That is a dootrine which scarce
ly Mr. Bergh himself can dispute, more
especially since Dr. Eussell supports
Mr. Bergh's views, which are also the
views of every sensible person, on the
fallacy of supposing that muzzling dogs
in hot weather will act as a preventive
of the disease. Dr. Eussell stated very
clearly there is no distinctive season
for hydrophobia ; and, if anything,
there is rather less liability to it in the
summer, unless the tendency be in
creased by this most absurd and cruel
practice of muzzling.
Two points appear, in thQ discussion,
says tho New York Times, to have been
less fully elucidated than those who
are interested in the subject would de
sire. One is the curious eclectioism
if we may so term it shown by the dis
easo in attacking only one or another
out ol several who may have been bit
ten by the same animal. This would
seem to support the theory of those
who contend that it is, to a great ex
tent, an affection of the imagination
aud tho nerves. Yet, on the other
hand, enses are numerous where the
imagination can have had little or no
influence in producing tho most horri
ble manifestations of the disorder. And
of these none are more remarkable than
two instances recorded in the news
papers about a fortnight since, and
which, if authentic, tend to deepen the
mystery aud increase the inevitable
uess which make hydrophobia so ap
palling. Eighteen years ago, it is said, one
Darnel C. Weidner, of Farmiugdale,
N. J. , then a child of six, wns bitten in
tho arm by a rabid dog. The wound,
though painful, healod after a time,
and ho doubtless congratulated himself
on a wonderful escape. No incon
venience appears to have resulted from
it until a few days ago, when, on iti
tempting to wash his face, he was 'at
tacked by convulsions, which tho doo
tors declared to bo those of hydropho
bia. In spite of every effort he grew
worse, and died in great agony within
forty-eight hours after the attack. The
weak point in this narrative, as we find
it recorded, is the omission to "stato
whether at any time during this, inter
val of eighteen years he had been! again
bitten. It is plainly implied, however,
that ho was not, and that his hydropho
bia was the result of the wound inflicted
eighteen years agtt
The other case is even more striking.
Twenty-one years since, a little daugh
ter of Peter Hank, of Monroe County,
Pa., was bitten, as Weidner was, by a
dog unmistakably mad. She, too, un
der 'prompt and proper treatment, re
covered, to all appearance ; she grew to
womanhood, and was married, without
any unfavorable consequences from tho
wound. Two weeks ago, however, tho
fatal symptoms appeared, and after
four days of extreme suffering she died
of what her physicians declared to be
undoubted hydrophobia. Tho same
omission is noticeable hero as in the
other case, and, indeed, it seems in
credible that hydrophobia should re
sult from a wound inflicted so many
years before. Both cases are worthy of
investigation, and we should be glad to
seo an authoritative decision on their
merits by the Medical Society. It will
add immeasurably to the horror of
hydrophobia to know that its venom
may be latent iu the system for nearly
an entire lifetime, only to carry off its
victim at last, when he has long deemed
himself entirely secure.
Lf gal Holidays.
The New York Journal of Commerce
notes the muddle which has been cre
ated by the effort to settle by statute
tho question as to notes falling due on
holidays : Most persons suppose, it
says, that wheu a note falls due on Sun
day it is made payable on Saturday by
statute ; but this is a great mistake.
We never had nny such legislation.
The courts had simply come to recog
nize the popular custom of requiring a
note due on a holiday to be paid the
day before. Sunday being a universal
holiday, this custom applied. But as
most other holidays were only recog
nized by part of the community, the
custom was divided, and the case could
not, therefore, be settled by common
consent.
A bill was passed by the last legisla
ture with reference to the holiday law,
which, the editor says, is one of the
most extraordinary pieces of legislation
eVer attempted in any country. It en
tirely overturns all the practice con
cerning notes, etc, as connected with
Sunday or any other holiday, and makes
all such maturing paper payable on the
next Bucoeeding, instead of preceding,
secular day. This would mako our
State an exception to all the rest
of the world, and before the new rule
could be universally known would lead
to endless complications among busi
ness men.
. The Popes. The popes of Eome
have, until modern times, had a rather
rough time of it. The first fifteen, it is
said, were beheaded or crucified, and
between 224 and 1304 ten were killed in
a variety of ways. Of those who have
filled the pontifical chair 170 have been
Italians, and most of them Eomans ;
nine nave been ureetts, nine Syrians,
fifteen French, two from Palestine, two
Sardinians, one Portuguese, one Aus
trian, one Dutch, one English. There
are so many Italian cardinals that the
chances are largely in favor ol an Ital
ian pope.
SCENES OP A SIEGE.
Incidents of the Parti Civil War as
by Rochefort. -' .
tol(
Bochefort, in his first letters after his
escape from Caledonia, tells the follow
ing terrible story of incidents in Paris
during tho civil war there :
During eight days a sinister sound
filled the Labau barracks, wrote the
immortal author of " L'Anneo Terri
ble." Hundreds of prisoners were taken
in chains nud placed before the mitrail
leuses nnd blown to pieces. At the
Buttes Chanroont the ignoble Gallifet
caused tho National Guards to dig im
mense graves, at tho sides of which he
gronped pntiro . bnttalions, whom he
fired on till they fell in these impro
vised tombs. Oue of our companions
of captivity iu the casemates of Fort
Boyard was a bravo republican, who had
been but badly slaughtered, and waited
for the advent of night to crawl out
from among the cadavre with which
he was surrounded and to gain a place
of retreat, from which he was not taken
till several months afterwards.
Behind the prison walls of La Bo-
quetto the butchery had been such that
burial had become impossible and the
good health of the neighborhood was
much interfered with. Ihe omcers in
charge of the execution had found, as
they thought, the 'solution of tho matter
by bringing into requisition n largo
number of wagons, into which they
pitched the dead as they were handed
out. Probably to give an interest to the
proceedings they compelled the National
Guards to put into enrriages the bodies
of their dead brothers in arms, and
each time that a prisoner had finished
his sinister task, that the tumbril was
full nnd that he was preparing to de
scend from it, a shot from a gun
stretched him next to his companions,
and the cartman carried to the same
grave the dead nnd their gravedigger.
These recitals seem imprinted with ex
aggeration. Well, I affirm they nro
still very far from tho reality. Wo can
only mention sortie episodes, and it is
the multiplicity of like events which
augment their horror.
I saw every day for ono year, walking
in tho courts ard of tho citadel of St.
Martindo Ee, a young man whose name
and profession J could never learn. Ho
was walkingconstantly, his eyes wide
open and fixed on something horrible,
absolutely silent nud forgetting the
meals which his comrades servod him,
and which ho took mechanically and
without leaving his frightful contem
plation. This unfortunate Was one of
tho rare prisoners who, taken to throw
tho dead into tho carts, had escaped by
a miracle, or rather bv the fatiaue of
the assassins, from the cud which
awaited him.
Another, as a consequence of this
lugubrious work, had not. fallen into
insanity like the other, but in tho midst
of the unimportant conversation he
would becomo pale all nt . onco and
would precipitately nnd several times
pass his hands all along his body, as if
to make the blood run off, which ho
thought 'was perpetually dropping on
his clothes.
I have known, and my companions in
tho escape have kuown liko myself, at
Fort Boyard, a condemned man, who,
wouuded in the leg by n hand grenade
at the beginning of the fight, had beeu
shot in his bed in tho Hospital of St.
Sulpice, where ho had entered. The
ball had gone through him, completely
through, nnd had even broken one of
tho bars of tho bed. lie had neverthe
less resisted this new assault, and we
found him iu tho midst of us nearly re
covered, this victim of tho fury the
most hideous that ever Soiled a civil war
I know him, I could name him ; but
this dead alive is actually in Caledonia,
in tho power of those who, after having
shot him a hrst and a second time,
would make no scruple about shooting
him a third time, which would probably
bo the last
Killing a Pig.
In one of the late Chief Justice
Chase's letters to a friend, he says :
One ludricrous incident of the chore
kind impressed itself strongly on my
memory. Tho Bishop and most of the
older members of the family went away
one morning, ho having ordered me to
kill and dress a pig while they were
gone, to serve for dinner that day or
uext. I had no great trouble in catch
ing and slaughtering a fat young pork
er, and I had tho tub of hot water all
ready for plunging him in preparatory
to taking off his bristles. Unfortunate
ly, however, tho water was too hot or
otherwise in wrong condition, or per
haps when I soused the pig into it I
kept him too long. At any rate, whon
I undertook to take off the bristles, ex
pecting they would come off of them
selves, to my dismay I could not start
one of them. The bristles were set in
pig-killing phrase. I picked aud pull
ed in vain. What 6hould I do ? The
pig must be dressed. Iu that there
must be no failure. I bethought me of
my connsin's razors, a nice new pair,
just suited to a spruce young clergy
man, as he was. No sooner imagined
than done. I got the razors and shaved
the pig from toe to snout. I think the
the shaving of the pig was a success.
The razors were somewhat damaged in
the operation. They were carefully
wiped and restored to their place. My
impression is that, cn the whole, the
pig-killing was not satisfactory to my
uncle, and my good cousin found his
razors not exactly fit for use the next
mornin g.
Severe on Soothing Syrups,
The Popular Science Monthly re
marks that one of the great dangers
attending the use of the various seda
tives employed in the nursery is that
they tend to produce the opium habit
These quack medicines owe their sooth
ing and quieting effects to the action of
opium, and the infant is by them given
a morbid appetite for narcotio stiutn
lants. The offering for Bale of such
nostrums should be prohibited, as tend
ing to the physical and moral deteriora
tion of the race. In India mothers
give to their infants pills containing
opium, and the result is a languid,
sensual race of hopeless debauchees.
Jn the United btates the poisonous
dose is administered . under another
name, but the consequences will proba
bly be tne same.
I How tho Discovery was Made,
At 'the time of the last war between
England and Franco, a brig, commanded
by an Ameiican, was captured off San
Domingo by the Sparrow cutter, under
tho belief that she was sailing under
false colors, or, st any rate, carried
enemy's goods. . The Admiralty Court
at Port Eoyal found the ship's papers
perfectly correct ; and ns. the captain
sworo hard and fast to her American
nationality,' the Court deoided in .his
favot. The Yankee immediately com
menced proceedings against the Spar
row's commander, Lieutenant Wylie,
for the illegal capture. While the case
was pending, a small tender, in charge
of Midshipman Felton, entered the
port, and the young officer being a
friend of Wylio's, went on board the
Sparrow, and was not long before he
became acquainted with the latter's
misfortune, and most unexpectedly de
lighted him by declaring the brig was a
lawful prize, rnd the proof forthcoming.
It appeared that the tender, cruisiug
near the spot where the Sparrow's chaso
began, sighted a shark, which was upon
deck iu a very short time. Hearing the
men employed cutting the monster up
cry out, " Stand by to receive letters,
boys ; tho postman's como on board,"
Mr. Felton went to see what it meant,
and received a bundle of papers just
taken from the shark's maw. Upon ex
amination, theso turned out to be the
genuine papers of the brig, thrown
overboard when capture was imminent ;
and they proved beyond any doubt that
her cargo was Frcnoh. The friends
hastened to Kingston ; but the news
had traveled on before them, and the
Americau skipper had disappeared,
leaving his ship to be condemned, and
Lieutenant Wylie to bo made richer by
three thousand pounds. Wylio and his
crow were not the only ones destined to
profit by the happily timed catch. In
consequence of information derived
from tho strangely recovered papers,
the captain of the Trent frigate was in
structed to look out for a certain brig
engaged in the same risky business,
having ono Penrl Darkey for its mas
ter. Before many days had passed, tho
Trent fell in with a vessel answering
tho description given, and Captain
Otway ordered her to heave to. As
soon as the American skipper appeared
on the frigate's quarter deck, Captain
Otway accosted him with, " Glad to
seo you, Mr. Pearl Darkey ; you are
the very man I have been looking for.
I know all about you, and nm going to
send you to Port Eoyal 1" Taken aback
by the unexpected recognition, Mr.
Pearl Darkey, for it was he, did not
deny his ideutity, or demur to visiting
Port Eoyal, where his ship and hi3
cargo were adjudged a lawful prize to
the Trent. Chambert's Journal.
Fashion Notes,
Tho sacques and jackets that Cud fa
vor are not slashed like those of last
year, but each seam is sewdd to the
end ; they are also longer than formerly,
and nre very loose, easy, and careless
looking. The Medicis sacquo is the
popular fashion ; for undress wraps this
pattern is lengthened behind to make it
even with the front. Tho plain back
then fits smoothly over tho slight
toumnro. Black cashmero sacques are
worn until they aro displaced by lace
sacques nt midsummer. Many of thorn
are literally incrusted with jet beads,
dotted about in most irregular fashion,
while others are wrought iu vermicelli
patteru.or in more elaborate arabesques.
Jet trimming bought by tho yard is re
jected by people of wealth, and tho jet
embroidery done by hand on tho gar
ment is tho extravagant substitute.
Modistes pay Frenchwomen large wages
to do this work. Ladies who have
plenty of leisure sew the beads on their
own garments of black silk and cash
mere. Bias bands of black silk, dotted
in diamond spaces, with clusters of four
tiny beads in each cluster, are very
effective on black silk basques as head
ing for bead fringe or bead luco. Hang
ing loops of six jot beads in each loop
are placed at intervals all over cashmere
sacques. Very elegant black silk dresses
have tho new scarf over-skirt embroid
ered all over with jet. This scarf over
skirt begins under tho belt in front,
laps there, passes around the sides,
holds up the puff of the train, and
hangs in long ends behind. Arabesques
wrought in jet en the sun cover the
scarf, and jet fringe edges it. The
basque has lengthened side pieces fill
ing in the outlines of the scarf, with a
dagger of solid let embroidered there,
and concealing a pocket. Dotted jet
bunds and fringe for trimming the
basque. On the collar aud cuff's are
smaller daggers, beautifully embroid
ered in fine cut jet bends. The demi
trained skirt is trimmed with Knife
pleatings and puffs, with bands botwecn
uiuuaea wnu jet.
Black Grenadines.
Many dresses of black grenadine are
being nia '.e by the modistes for summer
wear. The newest grenadines nave pin-
head dots, cross-bars, and lozenge
shaped figures ; but there are also many
sntin-striped, watered-striped, polka
sootted. and plain canvas grenadines
An elegant black grenadine dress-for
one of the lenders of fashion in Wash
ington has tiny pin-head spots. The
silk skirt has alternate knife pleatings
ot silk and of grenadine three in front,
curving up higher to six in number ou
the back breadths. The long apron is
of alternate stripes of grenadine and
beaded lace, with gathered lace on the
edge ; this apron is hooked together
over the touruure, and the square back
drapery, consisting of two wide ends
and loops, is formed of grenadine and
laoe. The basque is square behind,
with belted front and Pompadour neck,
This is for dressy afternoon and car
riage toilettes. Imported oastumes for
the street have skirts of black taffeta
silk, trimmed with five or six very line
pleatings, and a polonaise of spotted or
of striped grenadine, without jet, but
trimmed with beautiful fringe of curled
Bilk tape. These polonaises are very
long, with apron fronts trimmed with.
smrala of the grenadine and fringe,
while the Frenoh back is prolonged
over the tournure in the Marguerite
fashion, giving the appearance of being
moulded to the long slender waist ; the
front is usually without darts, and worn man is one of the largest business opera
with a belt. tors in Bay street.
Items of Interest,
The treasures of the deep are not so
precious as are the concealed comforts
of a man locked up in a woman's love.
" What is the maximum ball ?" said a
young lady to a soldier in tho Woolwich
Arsenal. " The Minio-mum," was his
reply. .
As an excuse for rejecting a widower,
a fair young damsel informed a friend
that "she did not wunt a 'warmed
over' man."
Eegard this world as though thou
wert destined to live forever, aud the
world to oome as though thou wert to
die to-morrow.
The sage observed, " A good name is
the noblest pedigree, and closing the
eyes the surest protection against world
ly allurements."
A boy was recently killed near New
ton Highlands, Mass., while trying to
" stump " another boy to cross the track
before a locomotive.
A lady asked Mr. Johnson if he liked
children. "Don't know, ma'am," an
swered that crabbed old gentleman ;
" never tried 'em am not tin ogre."
The Eev. Dr. West of Cincinnati de
clared in a recent sermon that " the
crimes of that city have well nigh made
Sodom and Gomorroh respectable."
' A Western editor thinks that the
habit of carrying tobacco in the pistol
pocket is a bad oue. To meet a man on
a lonely road and see him reach for his
tobacco box suggests unpleasant pos
sibilities. ,. .
At one point on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, where two years ngo was a
howling wilderness, there is now a hand
some depot and not a house for 20
miles around.
Certain Vermont rumscllers havo es
tablished their saloons on the Canada
line, tho back part, with liquors, being
in her Majesty's dominions, and the
customers' room in the United States.
La Mothe was not a great writer, but
he understood human nature. Finding
that his book had a slow sale, he pro
cured a prohibition against the read
ing of it, and every copy wn3 dis
posed of.
A woman should never consent to be
married secretly. She should distrust
a man who has any reason to shroud in
darkness the act which in his own esti
mation should be the crowning glory
of his life.
It is estimated that threo million
cubio yards of levees are required to bo
built to save Louisiana from nbother
innudation next year, and tho State is
not in a condition to pay for one-third
of the expense".
According to tho last German Army
List, tho German army numbers now
1,32A,910 men, with 2,740 cannons. Tho
held forces number vua.vuu, tne neiu
reserve forces 213,ol0, and the garrison
troops 375,700 men.
A woman at Lcwisvillo, Oregon, who
was blackballed from a grange, blamed
a man living near her for doing it, nnd
shortly after, meeting him at cnurcn,
gave him a drubbing. She is fifty rears
of age and the man seventy.
An enual quantity of chalk nnd an
thracite produces a strong flame nnd
good heat, nnd experiments recently
made iu England prove that a certain
mixture of shale aud coal will yield
greater heat than oruinary coal.
A Virginia politician is so anxious to
go to Uongress next session inai no
promises laithtuny to be content; wiiu
one term, and moreover that ho will
give SJ2.000 yearly from his salary to re
ligious and benevolent organizations in
his district.
A phvsician of skill nnd experieece
says a mustard plaster should never be
mixed with not water, dub wiui me
white of an egg : and when so prepared
does its duty as a counter-irritant with
out producing the anguish of a blister,
as in the old method.
Seth Green's grayling spawn at the
Caledonia trout ponds are hatching sat
isfactorily, nnd probably in a lew years
the grayling will be as well known in
our cold waters as the trout. It is be
lieved that they will increase twice as
rapidly as the trout, being mucn
hardier.
No French or English woman of cul
tivation nowadays wears her garters
below her knees. The principal vein
of tho leg sinks there beneath the mus
cles ; and varicose veins, cold ieet, ana
even palpitation of the heart may be
brought on by a tight garier in wu
wrong place. Vhen it is fastened above
the knee all this pain and deformity
may be avoided.
If additional testimony be wanting to
prove that the English language is
rapidly becoming the universal tongue,
the card of a hotel proprietor at Havana
is herewith offered to supply the lack :
"The Both Wold .ttotel, JSumtSan Jg-
nacio Street, Plaza Viea. in tms es
tablishment set as the European style,
receives lodgers which will find an
splendid assistance so iu eating as in
habitation, therefore the master count
with the elements necessary."
A Hint to Youug 9Ien.
In 1855 a young gentleman registered
his name in the largest hotel in the
City of Louisville, Ky. He had a pretty
good wardrobej bucu as young men
usually have, including a gold watch
and chain. He was in search of occu
pation. At the expiration of two weeks
he took an inventory of his personal
effects ; " Out of work and no busi
ness." He had a brief interview with
the proprietor of the hotel. His trunk
was left as security for his board bill ;
he hypothecated his watch for the loan
of $i0, and having kissed the tip end
of his coral fingers to a kind and sym
pethetio landlord he " went diving for
the bottom." Ha found " bottom " on
Water street, where a steamer was be
ing discharged of cotton by Dutchmen,
negroes and Yankees. Having purchased
a heavy pair of boots, a blue shirt and
overalls, he commenced rolling and
piling cotton at the rate of five cents
per bale. In three weeks he was pro
moted to the position of marker,"
with a salary or$45 per month, and at
the expiration of nine months he had
a right to grow mellow over a salary
of S125 per month. To-day this gentle-