HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum. .VOL. IV. . BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, FA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1875. NoTI ' ' " ! 1 1 ; . . . . ; , V Caldwell of Springfield. NEW JEHMET. . . .(1780). Hero's tbe spot. Look around you. Above on tlio height Lay the Hessians encamped. By that church on tho right Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here ran a wall You may dig anywhere and you'll turn up a ball. Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run, (lowers blow Pretty much as they did ninety-throe years ago. Nothing more did I tay ? Ktay two moment ; you've heard Of Caldwell, the parson, who once preached tho word Down lit Rpringfleld? What, no? Come that's bad, why he had All tho JerneyH aflame ! And they gave him Hm name Of the " rebel high priest." Ho stuck iu their gorge, For ho loved tho Lord Ood and be hated King (leorgo ! He had cause, you migtt say ! Wheu the Hes sians tliHt day Marched up with Knypliauscn they stopped on their way At tho " Farms." whero his wife, with a child in her arms, Hxt alone in the house. How it happened none knew But Ood and that one of tho hireling crow Who fired tho shot ! Enough ! there she lay, And Caldwell, tiio ehapluiu, her husband, away ! Did ho preach did he pray? Think of him, as you btaud By tho old church to-day think of him and that band Of militant plowboys ! See the smoke and the heat Of that reckless advance of that straggling retreat ! Keep the ghot-t of that wife, foully slain, in your view And wlirt could you what should you, what would you do ? Why, jui-t what ho did ! They wero left in the lurch For the want of more wadding. He ran to the church, Broke the door, stripped tho pews, and dashed out in tho road With his arms full of hymn-books, and threw down his load At their feet ! Then, abovo all the shouting and shots. Rang his voice " Put Watts into 'em Boys, give 'em Watts !" And they did. That is all. Grasses Bpring, flowers blow Tretty much as they did ninety-three years ago. You may dig anywhere and you'll turn up a ball But not always a hero like this and that's all. Bbet Haiitk. THE YEAR 1874. Notable Events find Incident of the Year. JANUARY. 3. The Spanish Cortes forcibly dis solved by General Pavia ; Serrano made President. 4. First services of tho Reformed Episcopal Church held in New York. 5. Meeting of Congress, 6. The New York State Legislature organized. 9. Caleb Gushing nominated for Chief Justice. 13. Commiinist riot in Tompkins Square. Surrender of tho Cartagena In transigentes. 15. Charles Astor liristed died. 17. Death of the Siamese Twins. 19. Tho new Texas government takes possession of the State offices. Nomina tion of Morrison It. Waito for Chief Jus tice. 20. The nppointmeut of Mayors given to the French government. 22. 1 )eath of Madame Parepa-Rosa. 23. Marriage of tho Duke of Edin burgh. 24. English Parliament dissolved. 20. Announcement by cable of the death of Dr. Livingstone. 29. The Ashantee city of Coomassie surrendered. FEBRUARY. 3. Imprisonment of Archbishop Le dochskoski, of Posen, Prussia. Death of King Lunulilo, of the Sandwich Islands. 6. Baron Mayer de Rothschild died in London. 11. The Massachusetts Senate rescind ed the resolution censuring Senator Sumner. 13. Burning of Taylor's Pantechnicon in London ; loss, $15,000,000 ; two lire men killed. 16. A straiige horse disease broke out in New York. 19. Great lire in Panama. 24. Severe snow storm in New York. 27. Ex-President Cespedes shot in Cuba. 28. The Tichborne claimant sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. MARCH. 8. Death of ex-President Fillmore. Rev. John Stevens, American mission ary, murdered by a mob at Ahualulco, Mexico. 11. Death of Charles Sumner. 16. The Prince Imperial of France at tains his " majority. 22. Death of Judge Dent. 26. Riot at Bergen tunnel. 27. Fighting at Bilbao, Spain. 28. University race on the Thames won by Cambridge. 29. State troops sent to Susquehanna, Fa., against strikers. APRIL. 4. Steamer Europe foundered at sea ; no Uvea lost. 6. Navigation on the lakes open. 11. Henri Rochefort'left Melbourne. 14. Steamer Amerique abandoned at Bea ; picked up afterward ; no lives lost. 15. Disastrous tornado at Nashville. The body of Dr. Livingstone arrived at Southampton. 18. Funeral of Dr. Livingstone. 21. Disastrous fire'in Yokohama. 22. President's veto of the currency bill. 23. Volcanio shock at Stone mountain. N. C. 27. Over 20,000,000 acres of cotton and sugar land on the Mississippi inun dated. 29.. Senate declined to pass the cur rency bill over tho President's veto. MAY. 1. Famine in Asia Minor. 2. President Serrano entered Bilbao. 4. Trial of Rev. Dr. Swing for heresy. 6. Erie canal opened. 11. Port of Montreal opeuoil. 12. Tho Czar of Russia arrived in England. Geneva Award bill passed the United StateR Senate. 15. The President recognized Baxter as legal Governor of Arkansas. 16. Bursting of a reservoir nt Wil liamsburg, Mass. ; flooding of Williams burg, Haydenville and Leeds ; great loss of life. 21. Marriage of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr. Sortoris. 23. United States Senate passed the Civil Rights bill. 27. Colonel Ellsworth's monument dedicated. 30. Henry Roehefort arrived in New York. 7. Terriiie storm in Oneida and Onon daga counties, N. Y. Tornado in Illi nois. 13. Conference Currency bill defeated in the United States House. 19. Sinking of the Turkish ship Kars iu the sea of Marmora ; 320 lives lost. 20. The Currency bill passed the United States House. 22. United States Currency bill signed. 23. At Syracuse, 14 persons killed and 100 injured, by tho giving way of the floor of tho Central Baptist church. 30. Henry Grinnell died, aged 75 years. JULY. 1. Charlie Ross is stolen from his home in Philadelphia. 4. Terrible hailstorm hi New Jersey. 10. Abolition of passports for Ameri cans iu France. 12. Flood caused by reservoir break ing at Middlelield, Mass. 13. Attempt by Kullman on Bismarck's life. 14. Great fire at Chicago ; damage be tween 84,000,000 and $6,000,000. 18. Saratoga regatta ; Columbia wins, 16. 42 J. 19. All Spain placed under martitil law. 23. Mr. Disraeli, ut the Lord Mayor's banquet, declares iu favor of an active participation of England iu European nguirs. 25. Tho new United States Five Per Cent. Loan bids partly accepted. 26. Tho German fleet ordered to cruise oft' the Spanish coast. 27. Extraordinary rainstorm and freshet at Pittsburgh and Alleghany City, Pa. Opening of the Brussels International Congress. Tho United States Five Per Cent. Loan entirely taken by Roths childs, Belmont, and Seligman. 28. The American yacht Enchantress arrived first, iu the French Club race from Havre to Southlea, but the Corinua wius by time allowance. I. Death of Charles Beke, tho African traveler. 3. Public Worship Regulation bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons. 5. International base ball and cricket match in England, between Americans and Englishmen. 7. Election iu North Carolina ; Demo cratic success. Prorogation of the Brit ish Parliament. 8. The military called out to suppress riots in Portsmouth, England. 9. Disastrous flood in the Seinde, India. 10. Bazaine escaped from prison. II. Negro riot at Austin, Miss. 13. Recognition of Spain by European Powers. 15. Rochester races ; Goldsmith Maid wins, 2 :14 J ; the fastest time on record. 16. Meeting of 50,000 British . miners on the Durham Race Course. 20. (treat typhoon at Nagasaki, Japan. 21. Expedition of General Custer to tho Black Hills. 22. Shore end of the United States direct cable laid on the Irish coast. 29. End of the Brussels International Congress. 30. Murder of six Rejuiblican officials at Conshatta, La. 31. Eruption of Mount Etna. V. SEPTEMBER. I. Republican victory in Vermont elec tions, 3. Riel elected representative for Mani toba. 4. Fred. Dockray leaves Havana for a Spanish prison. 5. German war ships fired upon by Carlists. 8. All cable wires broken between Newfoundland and the United States. II. Frightful collision on an English railroad, near Norwich; twenty people killed. 14. Election in Maine; Dingley, Re publican, elected by 11,000 majority. Bloody riot at New Orleans; six citizens killed, and twenty of the metropolitan police. 15. The President issues a proclama tion to the Louisiana rioters. 17. McEuery's government surrenders to tho United States troops at New Or leans. 18. A second famine reported in Asia Minor. 21. Protest of Denmark against the expulsion of Danish subjects from Suhleswig by the Prussians. 22. Typhoon at Hong Kong; eight steamers lost, and 1,000 lives. 25. The Prince of Wales accepts the Free Masons' Grand Mastership. 26. Rifle-mateh between Irishmen and Americans at Creedmoor. 27. Another disastrous eruption of Mount Etna. 30. Collision on the Allegheny Val ley railroad; tliree men killed; many wounded. OCTOBER. 1. Tho headquarters of the United States Army transferred to St. Louis. Marriage of General Sherman's daugh-. ter. Fire at Saratoga; the Grand Hotel burnt. Revolution in the Argentine Re public. 2. Explosion of a gunpowder barge in Regent's canal, London. 5. Arrest of Count Von Arnim. 6. Overflow of the Nile; considerable damage to crops. 9. The Archbishop of Cologne set at liberty, after six months' imprison ment. 11. Battles near Buenos Ayres be tween tho Insurgents and government troops. 12. Newmarket races in England; Aveutiuiero the winner. Threatening note of Serrano to the French govern ment. 13. Elections; Democratic success in Ohio, Indiana, etc. ; Republican success in Iowa. 15. The President visits Chicago and the West. 17. Fiji Islands annexed by England. 20. Marriage at Chicago of Colonel Frederick D. Grant to Miss Honore. 21. Terrible storm on tho Northern coast of England; houses blown down; 17 sailors drowned off Glasgow; many other people killed. 22. Explosion nt Detroit of the pro peller Brooklyn; 16 deaths. Fnlso re port of the capture of Nana Sahib. 24. Difficulties between Turkey and tho three Northern Powers, relative to Roumanian treaties. 27. Count Von Arnim released on bail. 29. Opening of the German Reichstag. Trial of Kulhnunn, the assailant of -Bismarck. Death of John P. Laird, M. P., the great shipbuilder. 30. Kullmanu sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment. NOVEMBER. . 3. November election in New York and other States ; largo Democratic gains. 4. Bombardment of Inui by the Carlists. 0. Laying of the direct Unitod States cable. 8. Election in Italy ; the Ministerial majority decreased. 10. News of a revolution in Venezuela. 11. Iruu relieved, after a great -battle between Carlists and Republicans. 15. Railroad accident near Bologna, Italy; 35 persons killed and wounded. 19. Burning at sea of the English sliip Cospatrick, bound from London to New Zealand; nearly live hundred lives lost; three survivors. 20. Mr. Boker, United States Minister at Constantinople, protests against an outrage done by soldiers upon American missionaries iu Syria. Terrible explo sion in a colliery at Warren Vale, York shire ; twenty-four miners killed. 21. Bismarck violently assailed iu the Rrichstug on account of his religious and foreign policy. 22. The thickest fog of the year iu England; many casualties. 23. Tremendous hurricano in Ala bama, Maryland, etc.; twelve persons killed at Tuseumbia, Ala. Strike of the New York longshoremen. 25. Eleven persons buried by an aval anche on the Great St. Bernard moun tain. 27. Religious riots in Para, Brazil. 29. King Kalakeua, of the Sandwich Islands, arrives atS:in Francisco. Foun dering off Ushaut, France, of the cable steamship La Plata; CO persons drowned. DECEMBER. 2. Fred. Dockray pardoned by the Spanish government. 3. Meeting of the Quebec Legisla ture. 4. An annuity voted ts Garibaldi by the Italian Parliament. 6. Tho Lowell Boiler Works nearly destroyed by fire. 7. Meeting of Congress. Presidential Message. Strike of puddlers at Pitts burg. Attack against Vicksburg be ne groes, 70 of whom arc killed. Drawn battle in Venezuela between the Insur gents and tho Government forces ; 700 to 800 men killed. 8. Express car robbed of 830,000 on the Kansas Pacific railroad, by robbers who stop the train. 10. Tranquility re-established ut Vicksburg. 12. King Kalakaua arrives at Wash ington. End of tho Argentine insurrec tion. .15. Two burglars shot at Bay Ridge, near Fort Hamilton, New York, sup posed to be the abductors of the missing boy Charlie Ross. 17. Tho Pacific Mail steamer Japan burned near Hong Kong. Adjournment of the Mexican Congress. 19. Count Von Arnim sentenced to three months' imprisonment. A flood, occasioned by the breaking of the Mill River dam, of Haydenville, Mass. 21. Explosion of a powder magazine at Scutari, Turkey ; 200 persona killed 22. The U. S. Senate passed the Specie Payment bill. First three de cisions by the Alabama Claims' Commis sion at Washington. 23. King Kalakaua in New York. 25. Ex-Governor Warmoth kills, at New Orleans, Mr. Byerly, one of the proprietors of the Bulletin, 27. Genend Concha orders lenient treatment of ally insurgents, but the exe cution of incendiaries and fillibusters. 28. Collision in the East river between the ferry boat Alaska and the cattle boat Golden. Death of Gerrit Smith. Ills Distaste. Sheridau had a great distaste for any thing like metaphysical discussions, whereas his son Tom had taken a liking for them. One day Tom tried to dis cuss with his father the doctrine of ne cessity. " Pray, my good father," said he, " did you ever do anything in a state of perfect indifference without motive, I mean, of some kind or other i " Sheri dan, who saw what was coming and by no means relished such subjects, even from Tom, said " Yes, certainly." "In deed ! " " Yes, indeed. " " What ! total indifference total, entire, thorough in difference?" "Yes total, entire, thor ough indifference." "My dear father, tell me what it is you can do with mind I total, entire, thorough indiffer ence?" "Why, listen to you, Tom," said Sheridan. Tom did not soon again trouble his father with any of his meta physics. Lunacy. A Canadian official report on lunacy says about fifty per cent, of the idiots of large towns in Canada are the children of drunkards, while a long catalogue of other diseases is given as especially common with the same un fortunate class. The marriage of first cousins is strongly denounced as pro ductive of idiocy and insanity.. The taint from the mother is far more fre quent and dangerous than from the father. X Colony of Communists. In 1842 a society of German Commun ists settled near Buffalo, N. Y., and after remaining there awhile removed to a point seventy-four miles west of Daven port, Iowa. They call themselves the "Congregations of True Inspiration," and from the name of their principal vil logo they are known as the Amana Com munity.' The society bos 1,450 mem bers, all Germans. They own 25,000 ocres of laud, divided into seven small towns. A correspondent who has visited the colony tells some incidents of the manner of living, etc., that are interest ing. Their head is a woman, who is sup posed to speak by direct inspiration of God. Tho villages are about a milo and a-half apart, each having a store at which the neighboring farmers trade, and a tavern for the public. The houses are well built, of brick, stone, or wood, but very plain, and not painted. The school house, -church, cook houses and prayer houses are larger than the dwellings. Iu the principal village there are fifteen cooking and eat ing houses for 450 inhabitants. The men, women and children ent separately. " Why do you separate men from women at table V asked the correspondent. " To prevent silly conversation and tri fling conduct," was the answer. Each branch of business has its fore man. The children go to school from tho age of six till they are thirteen. Their studies are alternated with knit ting. Boys as well as girls are required o kuit. The women work hard, and dress soberly. All ornameuts are for bidden. To wear the hair loose is pro hibited. Great care is used to keep the sexes apart. On Sunday afternoon the boys are permitted to walk in the fields, and so are the girls, but they must go in different directions. No young man is allowed to marry until he is twenty-four; and matrimony is not regarded as meri torious. Each adult male is allowed from $40 to 100 a year for clotluug, each woman from 825 to 830, and each child from 85 to 810. They have no library, and most of their reading is iu the Bible, and in their own books. They take no interest iu politics, and do not vote. They employ about two hundred hired hands, all Germans. They are excellent farmers, and keep tho cattle. The mem bers do not work hard. They say that three hired men will do as much as live or six of the members. They make woolen cloth enough for their own wants, and supply tho country about them. They own about 3,000 sheep, 1,500 head of cattle, 200 horses, and 2,500 hogs. They have no debt, and have consider able money at interest. In sickness they practice homoeopathy. Crime In High I'la-rs. A New York correspondent of the Boston Journal write3 : " In all these dull seasons, when a largo number of men are out of work, desperate men come to tho front. The present style is robbing iu the cars. These desperadoes select the most fashionable parts of the city. The Second and Third avenues have ceased to be the dangerous avenues on which to ride. The real aristocratic car is the Fourth avenue, running up through Madison, and on to the neigh borhood of the park. Here nightly scenes of violence and robbery occur. The residents on tho line of tho road have had a public meeting, and threaten, if the city does not protect them, they will protect themselves. Tho plan of operation is this. Everything is safe till the car sweeps by tho Grand Central depot. Above this tho localities are very elegant, but the population is scarce. Tho time selected is night, when the theaters break up, and ladies aro loaded with jewels. Four burly fellows, two back and tv front, throw off the con ductor and any gentlemen who may bo on tho platform, rush into the cars, seize a lady round tho neck, strip her of watch, jewels and money ; each des perado selecting a victim. Tho work is done in a flash, the parties disappear, and tho police are no wiser for their movements. This is an exact description of what took place on o Madison avenue car one night recently. Wealthy, but timid gentlemen are afraid to go out nights ; and instead of meeting their friends at the Fifth Avenue Hotel as usual, those who want to see them have to call for them. Mnrray Hill is not as safe at night as Five Points. Hereditary Crime. Some of the most remarkable statistics regarding hereditary disposition to crime that has ever been collected were lately produced by Dr. Harris at a recent meet ing of the New York State Charities Aid Association. It appears that the atten tion of Dr. Harris was attracted to a county on the upper Hudson, in New York, in which the proportion of crime and poverty to the entire population was extraordinarily great, there being about one criminal or pauper to every ten in habitants. The recurrence of certain names among the list of unfortunates also excited his interest, and led him to genealogical investigations which have resulted in the following astouislung statement of facts; Seventy years ago a child, having no other name then Margaret, was a vagrant about that locality, There was no alms house, and it seems that the girl lived as a waif, occasionally helped by the charita ble, but never educated and never given a home. She gave birth to children, who became paupers like herself; they increased and multiplied until, up to the present time, nine hundred descendants of the friendless woman can be traced. Of this immense progeny, extending through six generations, two hundred of the more vigorous ore recorded as crimi nals, and a large number as idiots, luna tics, prostitutes, and drunkards. In one single generation there were twenty children, three of which died young, and the balance survived to maturity; but nine were Bent to State prisons for aggre gate terms of fifty years, and the rest were constant inmates of penitentiaries, jails, and almshouses. The Typographical Union of Harris burg, Pa., has resolved to reduce the price of composition from 40 to 35 cents per 1000 ems. This proposition originated in the Union, there having been no de mand on the part of the employers. A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE. What Tlrior Huso until nt the irnve ot Madmne fllcnrlrr, in Furl. The woman to whom we come to pay tho supremo tribute has honored her sex; she had all tho charms for love, and all tho strength for suffering. She leaves behind her the companion of her life, Paul Mourico, a spirit luminous and proud, one of the noblest men of our time. Let us bow before this sacred tomb. I witnessed their marriage. So pass the years. I saw them both young, phe bo beautiful, he so radiant, unite their future before the human law and before the law divine, and give their hands to each other in hope and morning. I saw. that entrance of two souls into love, which is the true entrance into life. To-day is it tho exit that we see ? No ; for the heart that re mains continues to love, and the soul that has llown continues to live ! Death is another entrance, not into mere love, for the love below was complete, but into more light. From that radiant hour of the begin ning, to tho stern hour where we are now, these two beautiful souls sustained each other. Life, whatever it may be, is good, traveled thus. She, admirable woman, painter, musician, artist, had re ceived every gift, and was made for every pride ; but she was abovo all, proud of the reflection of his famo upon herself ; she took part in his success ; sho felt herself honored by the applause which hailed him ; sho participated, smiling, in those splendid ovations at tho theater where the name of Memico was shouted amidst acclamations and enthusiasm ; sho had the sweet pride to see unfold for tho future, and triumph before the mul titude, that series of works, strong and exquisite, which shall have in the litera ture of our age a place of light and glory. Then came tho times of trial : she ac cepted them with stoicism. In our day the writer should be at need a combat ant : woe to the talent behind which is not seen a conscience ! A poetry should be a virtue. Paul Meuriee is one of those clear souls in whose depths is seen duty. He wanted liberty, progress, truih and justice, and he bore the conse quences. This is why, one day, he went to prison. His wife comprehended this new glory, and from that day she, who till then had been only good, became great. And later, when disasters came, when trial took tho proportions of public calamity, she was ready for every abne gation and every devotion. The history of this ago has some never-to-be forgotten dtiys. At times, in humanity, a certain sub limity of the woman appears ; in the hours when history becomes terrible, one would say that her soul seizes the occa sion, ond seeks to give an example to the soul of man. Antiquity had the Roman women ; tho modern nptes will have tho French woman. The siege of Paris has shown all that woman cau be : dignity, firmness, acceptance of privations and miseries, gaiety iu anguish. The bottom of the soul of the French woman is an heroic mixture of family and country. The generous woman in this tomb had all these grandeurs. I have been her guest in those tragic days ; I have seen her. While her husband did his double and rude task of writer and soldier, she also rose before the dawn. She was, while it was yet night, iu the rain, in the frost, h"r feet in the snow, to wait long hours, like the other noblo women of the people, at the doors of the butchers and bakers, and she brought us back food and joy. For 'the truest of all joys is duty per formed. There is on ideal of womau in Isaiah ; there is another in Juvenal ; these two ideals the women of Paris have realized. They have had the courage which is more than bravery, and tho patience which is more than courage. They have shown, before peril, intrepidity and sweetness. They gave to tho de spairing combatants the encouragement of the smile. Nothing could conquer them. Like their husbands, like their children, they wanted to struggle ti the last hours ; and iu the face of a savage enemy, under the grapeshot and the shells, under the furious blast of a five months' winter, they refused, even to the Seine loaded with blocks of ice, even to famine, even to death, tho surrender of their town ! Ah ! let us reverence this Paris which has produced such women and such men. Let us go down upon our knees before the holy city ! Paris, by its tremendous resistance, saved France, which the dishonor of Paris would have slain, and Europe, which the death of France would have dishonored. Let the beautiful soul, flown away, but present, who at this moment hears me, be proud ; all venerations surround her collin. From the height of the unknown serenity she can see around her all these hearts full of her, these friends who glorify her, this husbaud who niourus her. 'Her memory, at once sorrowful and enchanting, shall not be effaced. It will lighten our twilight. A memory is a ray. Let the Eternal Soul iu that lugh dwelling-place receive this immortal soul. Life is a problem ; death is the solution. I repeat it, and it is thus I wish to end this farewell, full of hope : the tomb is neither dark nor void. There is the great light. To that light let it be permitted the man who now speaks, to turn. He who, it may be said, no more exists here below he whose ambitions are all now in death has the right to hail in the depths of the infinite in the sinister and sublime dazzle of the sepul cher, the immense star, God ! Dangers of Benzine Scouring. M. Dumas, at a recent meeting of the French Academy of Science, stated that, in examining the process of scouring fabrics as usually practiced by cleaners of old clothes (vvashing in benzine), he had discovered a novel and dangerous cause of fire. Workmen engaged in this industry had frequently complained of the benzine becoming inflamed during the scrubbing ; aud in order to test the question, M. Dumas caused a piece of cashmere to be dipped in for a length of 18 feet. Every time the stuff partially emerged from the bath, while being rubbed between the hands, a sharp pricking sensation upon those members and on the face was felt ; and finally Bparks were emitted from the fabric, sufficient, if the scouring had been briskly continued, to have ignited, the inflammable fluid. "MOSTLY TOUXG MEN." A Had Story of a Holidny nt the Capital. It was a Washington dispatch, and it told very briefly how Christinas was ob served at the national capital. A mere Iiassing note; statement of a simplo fact; lordly worth more than a flying men tion. It only said: "The 'police ro port the arrest of an unusually largo number of intoxicated persons, mostly young men." That was all. A larger number than usual deliberately extin guished their sense of responsibility to society and to themselves, aud having so dethroned their reason, went reeling through the streets, iu which condition they wero arrested by tho police, and safely held until kind naturo hod re stored the faculties they had thrown away, and they had ceased to be dan gerous to society or themselves. And they were '.'mostly young men." Not much of on item that. To a great many readers who skimmed over it, it sug gested nothing, the New York Tribune says. It had no special significance to them. There was nothing in it touching the financial question; no intimation of tho policy of the administration toward Louisiana; nothing to throw any light upon tho Pacific Mail business; nothing but a bald statement of a quite unim portant fact, to wit, that a great many people were intoxicated, and that most of them were young men. Perhaps some old fellow who knew Washington smiled a grim, hard smile, and said : " The boys have been having a good time Christmas." And perhaps some other sedate person who was never young, or, if he was, it was so long ago he has forgotten it, read tho two or three lines and said it was " outrageous " for young men to act so. But tho mass of mankind slipped by it, as they but ton up their coats and hasten on when they meet in the streets any one who staggers. Not everybody, though. Iu a great niany homes and to a great many hearts it meant a great deal more than tho classification of a holiday's police re port. It came to them' like news of shipwreck to one with friends at sea. There was a reading between the lines that made fathers anxious and mothers distressed. "Mostly young men!" Ami hero was the boy just ripening into manhood upon whom his parents looked with pride, and for whoso future they were so deeply anxious ; could tho father help tho involuntary reaching out to catch him from falling, as lie read in these three words the story of so many young men down aud disgraced f Could the mother fail to reflect that her boy was very much like other boys, and that other boys the young men in the Wash ington station house had mothers, per haps just as tenderly solicitous for their sous' welfare as she'for hers ? " Mostly young men 1" Ah, how many a mother, when she read it, olmpo1 Hoser to her bosom the curly head and dimpled cheeks of her own darling, as if she would keep him back from manhood, and from all the storm and stress which carry down so many. And then the motners, whose darlings with their curls and dimples, and all the sweet aud win ning ways of childhood, have moved on out of the radiance of tho morning into the heat and dust of the noontide, whose hoys look level now into mother s and perhaps into some one's not a mother's eyes how these sweet, thoughtful women must have shuddered at the bare dreadful possibility that some time their boys might go reeling to tho station house. " Mostly young men !" It is a sugges tive, a painfully suggestive statement. It's tho coming of a new crop, and a crop of reckless, dissolute men. Young men to-day ; and perhaps with enough of conscience left to suffer remorse, enough of self-respect to suffer shame, but every day growing harder as habit grows and the senses deaden. There is no need to write a homily on temper ance, or preach a sermon. Tho homily writes itself, aud tho sermon preaches it self. There's no such sickening sight in ull tho world as the drunken young man or boy; nothing so painful to the sensibilities of man or woman; nothing that seems so harsh, aud unnatural, und shocking. It is a deliberate flying in the face of nature and flinging away the best gift of God. But the procession moves along. Thins out rapidly to be sure toward the end, but the young men keep stepping in and the ranks are al ways full. It is the thing that fathers dread for their sons and mothers pray God their boys may bo delivered from, but it goes right on, and the recruits are " mostly young men." The State can not stop it, quackery caunot cure it. Cheerful homes might save many and in Washington good examples in high stations might keep many more from falling. How would it do to try it. Spontaneous Combustion In Hay. The question of spontaneous combus tion is undoubtedly to be credited with many of the burnings of barns, stacks, etc. Many fires iu cities are clearly traceable to this cause, for many sub stances liable to decay, especially vege table fiber iu a state of compression, and in connection with moisture, will heat,and sometimes break out into flame. Iu our dry climate where hay may be thoroughly cured before stacking, or mowing, this combustion is rare, but iu England it is not uncommon. Abbe Moigno, iu Lcs Monde, gives the following as the theory of the phe nomenon ; Hay, when piled damp and in too large mosses, ferments and turns dark. Iu decomposing, sufficient heat is developed to be insupportable when the hand is thrust into the mass, and vapors begin to be emitted. When the water is almost entirely evaporated, the decom position continues, and the hay becomes carbonized, little by little ; and then the charred portion, like peat, peat cinders mixed with charcoal, sulphurous pyrites and lignite, etc, becomes a kind of pyro phorus, by virtue of its great porosity and of the large quantity of matter ex posed to high oxidation. Under the influence of air in large amount, this charcoal becomes concentrated on the surface to such a degree that the mass reaches a temperature which results in its bursting into flames. A philosopher has discovered that " folks who have no mind to be of use have always the luck to be out of the way when anything is to be done," How to Buy ('lollies In Xaplrs. I selected what seemed to mo tho leost objectionable of the lot, and ap proached tho delicate subject, tho price thereof. Boppo beamed upon mo ; I don't know what his name was, but it might easily hove been Beppo. Beppo said, "Only seventy-five francs for that complete and lovely outfit." It struck mo that tho price was reasonable, and I was about to settle the bill, when my friend plucked mo by the coat-sleeve, with an expression of horror, and ex claimed, " You mus't never pay the price asked you ; make him an offer I" I wondered if he would feel insulted were I to suggest sixty-five francs as a fair bargain. Again my friend saved me from a disgraceful sacrifice. "Offer the fellow thirty, "said he. I offered thirty francs, and expected to be stabbed on the spot. But no ; Beppo thought it a cruel thing for so excellent a gentleman as myself to thus rob him of "tho finest suit of clothes iu Naples " at that figure. He would take fifty francs and nothing less ; ot which an nouncement he did the clothes up iu a porcel. " Make it thirty-two francs and stick there." This was the last utter ance of tho monitor at my elbow, and when I obeyed orders with the calm de liberation of one who proposes to fight it out on that line, poor Beppo burst into tears and pleaded his cause. This was too much for a man with a largo family and no mean stomach ; he might, owing to the fact that he had secretly admired me ever since my arrival in Na ples, make it forty francs ; but friend ship, selfish aud undying friendship, alone prompted the generous act. With that announcement my friend took me by the shoidder and walked mo out of the establishment. We didn't go far ; we tarried about tho threshold for a moment, and I was onco more seized and walked back again, while Beppo embraced mo tenderly, and cried with much emotion, "Take them for thirty five francs take them ; I am a ruined man, but I would not have you go out into tho world naked and forlorn for the sake of a few sous!" Feeling, by this time, that I was quite a brute, I re solved to brass it out, and, therefore, put down my thirty-two francs, which Beppo received without a murmur. A tragedy in five acts could not have so worked up my feelings as did tho pic ture of Beppo weejiing in the midst of a numerous and starving family, and this picture haunted mo as I left that unhap py spot. A moment later Beppo was at my side, begging that I would give him a glass of wine only six sous ! It was conscience money, and was freely given ; but as I turned the corner close ot hand, Beppo was still watching me, and I saw then there was a twinkle in his eye, that seemed to say, " After all this shopping, I have the best of you, my boy." Of course, the cloth is pasted together, and the buttons are put on witli eiavol f 6iuiB iq fleeting, flnd perhaps I shall rise into cooler latitudes in season to save myself. A Pathological Liar. Tho disease known among alienist physicians as aphasia, and the symptom of which is the patient's inability to ex press his meaning by a proper use of words, so that should he wish gruel he will call for snuff or his boots, has re cently caused some curious develop ments iu the case of the Corotter, about whose moral and social accountability there has been much discussion. She is, says a Paris correspondent writing to an American journal, utterly unable to tell the truth on any subject- -at least she has not for years been known to tell it and in hr defense ou tho charge of per jury her advocate, M. Henri liornouilli, has pleaded her eauso on grounds very similar to those so often urged iu Amer ica in behalf of criminals temporary in sanity, moral insanity, and tho like first used, I believe, by the late Mr. Seward in his defense of the negro Free man. In a trial that grew out of a case of inheritance, Madame Corottier swore so wildly that at its eloso she was imme diately held for perjury, and her counsel proved by physicians that, beyond all manner of doubt, there was such a ner vous disorder ai aphasia, and that those afflicted with it are not always and iu every instance subject to its influence. They cau at times call things by their right names ; the disease is an obscure one, nor is it possible to detect its pres ence by other external signs than this misnaming of facts and objects. This being proved, M. Bernourlli next called numbers of witnesses who had known the prisoner for years, and whose testi mony was to the effect that it always seemed impossible for her to tell the truth. Iu questioning the prisoner dur ing tho proves verbal she had been de tected in numerous misstatements ; she called one physician a cow ; said that a slop-bowl examined her, and addressed M. Bornouilli under the title of " hair brush." M. Bernouilli is one of tho most eloquent and subtle of Parisian ad vocates, and, on the grounds shown above, actually succeeded iu acquitting his client of the crime with which sho was charged. To many her caso will seem to be simply that of an enormous liar ; but, as her swearing was gratui tous, and she was in no way benefited or could have been benefited by it, her position was peculiar. But how many gratuitous liars are there in the world, and if aphasia can be used as a plea for them what is to become of morals and of criminal justice ? Tho Spanish Republic. The Spanish republic has lusted a little less than two years. On Saturday, the 8th of February, 1873, King Amu deus announced to his Ministers his in tention to abdicate. They endeavored to disauade him, but without effect, and at nine in the evening of the following Tuesday the Cortes, specially assembled to deliberate on the emergency, adopted a republican form of government, on motion of Senator Ti y Morgull, by a vote of 259 to 32. The Cailists were al ready active in the North, and the abdi cation of Amadeus greatly raised their hopes of success. The king, in his mes sage to the Cortes, had stated that his short reign had been kept in perpetual disquiet by the Spaniards themselves, and that he resigned in despair of being able to bring peace to the distracted country. Since that day the troubles and disorders which drove out Amadeus have rather increased than diminished.
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