:.'- ' - , .- - - ... . - . ; . . I , . ' - v . - ' HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPEIIANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. VII. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUHSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1877. NO. 38. Bide a Wee, and Dinna Fret Is the road very dreary ? Fatience yet I Host will be sweeter if thou art aweary, And after night oomoth the morning cheery. " , Then bide a weo, and dinna f rot. The clouds have silver lining, ' ' Don't forgot j And though he's hidden, still the una is shining .Courage 1 instead 6f tears and vain repining, .Just bide a wee, and dinna fret. With toil and eares unending Art boset ? ' Bethink thee, how the storms from heaven de scending Snap the stiff oak, but spare the willow bending And bide a wee, and dinna fret. Grief sharper sting doth borrow From regret ; But yesterday 1b gone, and shall its sorrow Unfit us for the present and the morrow ? Nay : bide a wee, and dinna fret. An over-anxious brooding Doth beget A host of fears and fantasies deluding ; Then, brother, lest these torments be intruding, Just bido a wee, and dinna fret. A WIFE'S PRAYER, For three days a terrible gnle drove before it the ship Pembroke, bonnd to Liverpool from the Kandwioh Islands. Under bare poles, with every timber groaning and creaking, -with the tall masts bending like reeds, with heavy sens and blinding spray sweeping her decks fore and aftr the vessel boomed on, rolling, plunging and quivering in her desperate struggle with the tem pest. At midnight, just before the ending of the third !tiy, a fearful cry, not loud, but hoarse and deep, went through the ship: " We have sprung a leak !"' -Then the light from -the two lanterns hung up in the main and tnizzen shrouds fell upon the sturdy forms of seamen, hurrying to rig the pumps. Soon the dismal clang was heard, as tho stout ic!low3 toiled and toiled, but all to no purpose. ' Oh, Henry, what shall we do ? The leak is gaining upon us I" cried despair ingly the young wife of Mr. Rogers, the nrstmote. She was a fine, noblo-looking woman, and was liked nud respected by every man abo.u-d ship. A true daughter ol . Eve, hor love for her husband was so deep and absorbing that she would have followed him through any hardship or pern sooner than separate from mm for a long period. Now as the sturdy, good-looking young mate heard his wife s cry of alarm, he Hung an arm around her waist H'xl bade her lie ot good cheer. , ' If it should come to the worst," said he, " we will probably fall in, ere long, with some other crait Meanwhile the leak steadily gained The captain sent his carpenter into the "Captain I" cried the 'hitter, when he returned, " it's all up with us ! There 'must be a big hole in the ship, ris the water in ner is already seven feet deep, A loon 01 uusrnay settled on everv face. "Get the boats ready," said the . skipper. W hile the men were obeying the order, . the Bhip's hull, settling lower and lower, was soon nearly engulfed in the rushing, roanug seas. The sailors had barely time to put a bag of sea-biscuit, a couple of cans of prepared meat and a breaker of fresh .water iu each of the boats, when, with a sidelong sheer, the vessel rolled half way over to leeward, as helpless as a log, preparatory to going down. The mate aud his wife, with eight men, took to the long boat; the lost of the ship's occupants, amounting to ten sailors, entered the quarter boat. Just as the two light vessels put away from the doomed craft, the latter plung ing her bows under, a dull report was heard, as the hatches were burst open by the rising water in the hold. A minute later, elevating her stem, the ship sank out of sight in the stormy ocean. In the darkness and amongst the heavy seas, the mate's boat soon became separated from the other. At dawn no sign of the latter could be discovered by those who looked for it. Keeping the bout dead all day against the wind, the mate with his companions vainly watched for a sail. Thus, day after day passed, until near ly a week had elapsed, by which time the scanty allowance of sea-biscuits hav ing given out, there was nothing left to eat iu the boat, while in the breaker (a small cask) there remained hardly two quarts of water. Three days later, neither laud nor a 6ail having yet been fallen in with, the sufferings of the people iu the boat, re duced almost to a state of starvation, were terrible. " Oh, Harriet 1" gasped the mate, on the morning of the tenth day after the ship had been abandoned, "if I could only obtain food for you even provided the rest of us had none it would bo great comfort to me." " Nay," answered the young woman, in a fault voice, while tears streamed down her hollow, flushed cheeks, "yon should have my share, Henry. I could manage to wait for a sail, which I trust we shall soon behold. Later in the day, a wild, fierce expres sion gleamed in the eyes of the men. They exchanged significant glances, but at the time said not a word. Each, however, guesse4 ,the horrible thought that ha I entered 'the mind of every sailor, although they hesitated, as yet, to express it At last a roan named Miohael Kruno a half-breed between an Englishman and a Portuguese let loose the dreadful -idea. ...... "It must be done," he almost screamed. " Two hours more without food will put the death seal upou us. One of us must die." -"Oh, no. no," cried Harriet. "We can wait still. We shall see a sail before long. I feel sure we will." But nil her pleadings rvere in vain. Borne paper was cut into strips, and these being held by Bruno,-the drawing of JoU to tee who sUuld die was eoni- menced, it having been arranged that he who drew the shortest slip was to yield up his life for the benefit of the rest. As pale as death Harriot sat watching the drawing. A moment later she be held her husband looking at a small bit of paper in his hand, while the hoarse voice of Bruno grated on her ear : "Mr. Rogers has drawn the short slip I He must die 1" "Ay, ay, men," said Rogers ; "I will soon be ready 1" Wis, wire tlung herself upon Ins bosom. "Never I never shall thev tear you from mot" she cried, twining her arms aDout ins necK. " But, Harriet," he said, " it is neces sary. It is only fair that I should die." Ion must not : yon shall not," ex claimed the young woman. "We can nil go without food some hours longer, during which we may see a sail." " Mo, no, no," cried Rogers ship mates simultaneously, " We must have food now." Hunger had driven them to despera tion. Their teeth were clenched, their eyes wild and bloodshot, their faces more like those of wolves than of human beings. "Let me go, dear Harriet," said the young niau to his wife. "Let me bid you good-bye, and may Heaven bless you." Some of the men advanced toward Harriet, who still held her husband in an embrace from which he could not dis engage himself. Turning towards the sailors, she said : " Back, back, never shall you tear me from him. But if you must have a hu man life, take mine instead of my hus band's." At this the men drew baok. Even at that dreadful moment they could not endure the thought of killing a woman. The first officer, who had watched his chance, now bv a sudden movement tak ing advantage of his wife's head being suddenly turned, and nerved to ad ditional strength by the harrowing thought that his shipmates might at length come to the conclusion of accept ing Harriet s proposition to sacrifice her life, broke from her entwining arms and r:m towards the bow of the boat. There he was quickly joined by the other men, ono of whom now placed himself as a barrier between the young woman and her husband, whom bub was making frantic of.orts to reach. Perceiving that she could not pass the man, she fell upon her knees, and, in a voice of the most heart-rending agonv. again begged the others to take her own instead of her husband s life. But her supplications were in vain. She saw her husband leaning back pre pared to die, while Bruno proceeded to sharpen his knife for the dreadful work oujone of the hoops of the breaker. Having at length prepared the weapon, he stooped over the young man to cut his throat, while a companion stood by with a tin cup to catch the blood. "For mercy's sake wait," she cried, ' Look first and see i there is not a sail in sight." The men obeyed her request. They scanned the ocean far an near, but no sigu of a sail was to be seen. "How do you know there -is not one hidden by that mist ?" she inquired, pointing toward a small fog-bank a U ague to windward. "There is none," one of the men un swered. " I feel sure ; I looked at that very spot bsfore the fog settled there, about fifteen minutes since." "No, no: you may bo mistaken. I conjure you, I implore you to wait till the fog clears up, when you may see a sail." The men exchange glances. " It's no use," cried Bruno ; " but to satisfy you, we will wait a few minutes before we take your husband's life." At this Harriet started up. With her hands clasped and her hair streaming down her back, she stood, her eyes turned toward the sky. In this position there came upon her face an expression that had never been seen there before. It was almost divine, filling the coun tenance with an unearthly beauty, light ing the eyes with such a radiant gleam a look of such strong, concentrated will, blended with heavenly supplica tion, that the rough men drew back with mingled respect and awe, trembling under a sort of supernatural influence. A moment the young woman stood thus, and then from her parted lips came her voice, full of strange, wierd power, making the blood leap in every vein : " Oh, heaven, a sail ! a sail !" The words were simple enough, but the manner in which they were uttered thrilled her listeners to the heart Instinctively they all glanced around upon the ocean, as if expecting that the prayer would be answered. North, couth, east and west they looked, but they saw no sign of a vessel. When about fivo minutes had passed, however, Bruno was seen pointing toward the strip of fog, which, slowly rising like a curtain, revealed a sail. Yes, there it was, sure enough, and with a cry of wild joy on seeing it, Har riet, no longer kept from her husband, flung herself upon his breast, while the others gave expression to their feelings by hoarse shouts, soba and frantic laugh ter. Signals were made, the vessel bore down for the boat, and the occupants j were soon en deck, to be kindly treated by the captain of the bark Java, bound j to London. i The half-starved men were agreeably surprised to find aboard this vessel their shipmates of the quarter-boat, which, it seems, bad been picked np four days previously. In due time the vessel arrived " at her home port, where the sailors related to their friends how Harriet Itodgers had saved the life of her husband. Some of the men insisted that ten or fifteen minutes befere she uttered her prayer, there had been no vessel at the point where it was discovered. Of eourse they were mistaken, having doubtless looked in some other direction ; but this they firmly denied with the com mon superstition of seafaring men, de claring that the sail appeared just when and where it. did, in answer to the " Wife's Prayer." . , Never tell a man he't a fool j in the first place he won't believe you ; in the next; you wake kus jour enemy, A REMARKABLE RECORD. An Kpldemlo of Hnlclde In New York The Cause Generally Intemperance, Iluslnese or Domestic Troubles Some Curious ttases. The record of suicides and attempt at suicide from August 24 to October 16, says the New York Herald, is remarka ble in the fact that the number of cases far exceed those of any like time in the previous history of the oity. Many rea sons are advanced for the apparent epidemio of suicide, and it is urged that unless some method is devised to check it an increase may be expected. The laws of England until within a compara tively short period were very severe against felo de . .The property of the suicide was confiscated and the rites of Christian burial were denied the body, which in many cases was buried in the open highway with a stake driven through the breast. These laws were confirmed during the reign of George IV., and were continued in force into the present century, when public opinion forced their disuse. It is argued that the season known as Indian summer has the effect of stimulating suicide ; and in deed the records of past years show more suicides during that period than at any other time of the year. At any rate, whatever the cause, the death rate by suicide during the two months has been alarmingly increased. The total number of suicides was twenty-two and of attempts fourteen. It is a somewhat curious fact that of the total number of persons wanting to die sixteen were of German birth. The other nationalities are about equally represented, and, although, in some cases it was difficult to ascertain the birthplace, the following figures may be relied upon as accurate. Of the suicides, ten were born in Germany, four in America, two in Ireland, and one each in England, France, Norway, and Cuba, Two persons were unknown. Of the at tempts six were of German birth, two each of English, Irish and American birth, and one each of Russian and French. It is an exceedingly hard matter to as certain the real cause of many attempts, particularly where the attempt is suc cessful ; but t here is little doubt that the majority of cases are due to mtemper mice and domestic infelicities. The classification that follows was made from a careful investigation of the facts in each case. Under the heads of "tern porary insanity," which is unjustly ap plied iu many cases. " melancholia " and ' family troubles " there will be found cases differing widely as to their nature and yut properly classed nndeik those lieaus. Of the suicides five were ' due to tern porary insanity, two to family troubles, three to business troubles, three to melancholia, two to drunkenness. - Of ! four cases the cause was unknown, and in one case a man jumped from Niagara Suspension Bridge through grief at the death of a son who had some time pre viously committed suicide in this city, Of the' attempts four were due to melan- cholia, two to family troubles, two t jealousy, one to drunkenness, one to un requited love, and the reasons for four others were unknown, Vaisel Procheski, a native of Bohemia, was at ono time a pract-'cing physician and a man in good standing in his' nafve town. Some "years ago he enmo to the United States with the desire of follow ing his profession here. His money went by degrees, and as he became poor er he removed to Boston aud established himself there. Luck seemed to be against him. A short time ago he came to New York and, after wandering about the streets for some days, gave up in despair and took a dose of laudanum. He was taken to the hospital, and his life may be saved. He is sixty years of age, During the month of August Dr. Ed ward Stein committed suicide at French's Hotel, in this city. His father. Dr, ) Lewis M. Stein, a physician of estab lished reputation m this city, was so overwhelmed with grief that he oould not remain in the city where his sou had died. Restless and apparently heart broken he wandered from place to place, at last reaching Niagara Falls. Ou the 1st of September, Dr. Stein went out on tho Suspension Bridge. After remain ing there some hours he was seen to clasp his hands to heaven, and a moment after went plunging down to the water. Geneve Kaiter on the 7th of Septem ber died from a dose of Paris green, which she took intentionally. The cause, as given, was that she had considerable trouble with her husband.brought about by his jealousy. Not wishing to pro long the struggle, as she expressed it, she put an end to her existence. Catharine Stines was forty-eight years of age when she died, on the 8th of Sep- ' tember. She was a drinking woman, and when under the influence of liquor evinced an almost insane desire to de stroy her life. On the day in question she found her opportunity in a fourth story window, through which she jumped and was instantly killed. Tho case of George Geier, who waa an old man of seventy-two years, and whose n U who no uvuuvtnto " cut aw iiic as deliberate i: i ,i ,,.v,o s....;.... cause. Ho was a man of considerable means, or l loof l.O.l Won lWro-O business misfortunes. Bogus insurance companies were his financial ruin. After having invested his money iu them and losing it, he decided that he had nothing further to live for, and so he jumped into the river. Andrew Nelson died on the 5th of October from a dose of two ounces of prussio acid administered by himself. Just prior to his death he explained at length, in a letter to the Herald, his reasons for bis taking on. a cnarge 01 LSgi aAimll-aao of the most dangerous and 1.A former aprvant in hi- IiouhO. worried P1? k 6wo.ra nev?rto by a former servant in his house, worried and annoyed him. He appealed to the law, which he thought waa too slow, and harassed and despondent he left his case " .:i7 1.a A i.i. unfinished here and went to plead cause in the Court of Court. tt t A n fv. ...n I age and a cartman. In bis younger days T- dt :.X; i;. he had amassed considerable property in his business, but acquired with it the habits of excessive drinking and gamb ling. He drank away hia health aud gambled away his property, and on the 7th of October hanged himself to a beam in the cellar of his house. - " Andrew Cooper .was seventy-seven years -of age and ailing an' old man, with gca&i and wliitettuig locks aud yet he was impatient to meet the dread de stroyer. On the fltJi of October the old man took his way to High Bridge, and walking to tho cehtre gazed for a time over the parapet. The distance below was nearly two hundred feet, but it seemed to'have no terrors for him. He carefully laid his cap upon the stone, and as careiuiiy mounted ana stood upon the parapet, his white hair streaming in the wind. A moment and he waa over, and a splash below announced the re ception of his corpse by the river. imnnes Martin, a renenman, iorty five years of age, lived for the nine years immediately preceding his death, which occurred on the itith of September, in a small back room iu the house No. 156 Forsyth street :He lived aa a hermit, and for a living made children s toys. He had no friends and made no acquaint ances, and the sole dosire of his life seemed to be alone. His business waa a good one, even during the financial troubles, and after his death orders for hundreds of dollars' worth of toys were found on files it his rooms. His was certainly one of those cases where "unknown" might be justly answered when the question as to the cause is asked. He was found dead with a bullet wound in his head with the pistol on the floor beside him. He died as silently as he had lived. A Sister' Devotion. Never have we been called upou to chronicle a more heart-rending accident, nor one which has enlisted a more gen eral and genuine ympathy with the af flioted family, than that which occurred at Union Mills on list Friday afternoon, says a recent issue of the Nicholasvillo (Ky.) Jessamine i Journal. Misses Blackford, Misses Bourne and Charley Bourne composed a party at Mr. Clai bourne Rutherford s; hat day. In the morning some of the company attended the protracted meeting in progress at East Hickman, but they all met at the dinner table, when one of the young ladies proposed to go to the the flouring mill, stating that she had never seen one working. Consequently the party named above, with Miss Julia and Miss Annie Rutherford, went down to Steele & Bro naugh's mill, and Captain Steele, with his usual urbanity, was showing them around. They had been looking at the bolting-cloths, aud passed over some shipstuff. Miss Annie Rutherford shook her skirt to rid it of the dust which had adhered to it, when it caught in a mitre apg-whecl, about one foot from the floor, which drew it into the machinery, and there was a similar wheel about iliree feet higher, in which her left arm was caught and was taken i lean off, together with the flesh and bone off her breast. Clinging to the shaft, her skirt fast in the bottom wheels, die was 'whirled round at the rAte -of iriry-four revolu tions per minute. Frautio with excitement, Miss Julia Rutherford rushed to her sister's assist ance. Charley Bourue did his best to keep her from the danger she was ex posing herself to, and at the same time doing his utmost to extricate Annie, but Julia persisted that she conld not stand to see her sister in such a place, and putting her arras around her, had her right arm taken on by the same wheel, Annie's clothes were so twisted that it was impossible to pull her away until the engine was stopped by Captaiu Steele, which took about one niinnte to do, and Mr. Samuel Gosuey, perceiving there was something wrong, instantly lowered the stones. The scene now baffled description. There were the cogs rilled with flesh and bones. An arm lying on the floor, the glove still on the hand, two lovely girls prostrate in their Wood, Uhorley lioumo with his left thumb cut off, from which he has suf fered intensely, and was threatened with lock-jaw, but is now probably out of danger. Mr. James Bronaugh, Jr., took Julia home in a buggy, and Mr. Steele fixed Annie on a board and presented her to her distressed parents. Thus the company who, a few minutes before, were happy and joyous, were plunged into inexpressible grief by a shocking and deplorable accident. ' Drs. Jasper, Woloh and Skillman have been indefati gable in their attendance on the suffer ers, and at last accounts they were inv proving. Miss Annie did not rally from the ef fects of the shock for forty-eight hours. but since reaction has taken place fully stie bids as fair to recover as Alias j nlin, whose arm was amputated on Saturday, A Robber's Wife Suing a Sheriff. The wife of J. M. Berry, the Union Pacific Railway robber killed by Sheriff Ulascock, of iayette county, Mo., has brought suit against that officer for $20, 000 damages. Sheriff Glascock, after the wounded robber had been brought into the town of Mexico, where ho died stated that he first called upon Berry to surrender, and only area when he at tempted to escape, thus committing an excusable homicide by the fact that it was committed in the lawful discharge of official duty. Jt is stated that the real fact is that Sheriff Glascock crept up on . . . l-ii 1 . ill. 1 ! xerry wiiue u wim ueieeij iu me unibii J.Md both barrels of his gun without -ttlAHJK UU IllUl VJ nUllOmiU. illiO BUILD- raent is made the more plausible by the significant circumstance that eighteen buckshot entered the robber's leg just above the knee, ranging upward, and lodging in or croing oat through the hip, thus showing that he must have been in a recumbent position, with hia feet toward the sheriff when the gun was discharged. It is furthermore stated that the sheriff, and one or two of his posse aiinutted this to be true, and lusti lied the act by the fact that Rerry was a tie taken alive, and that, being a dead 6hot, he would certainly have killed one i mole , 1118 pursuers nau ne received I a moment's warning. It is also charged against the sheriff that he permitted the : WOU! wounded robber to bleed to death : and Mhat with timely medical assistance. which was available, he would have un doubtedly recovered from hia wounds. A man near Wasted, Conn., while lmnting recently saw a gray squirrel high on the liiar) of tree. Aa be was about to fire a tawk pounced upon the squirrel andjraa bearing it away, when the man ipdg. a second aiin aud, brought them dfiw down. . BRIUIIAM'S "AYENHIXO ANGEL." A Pane or Necret .Mormon History foil of . Interest. A correspondent writes to a Cincinnati paper. " What I have told you must not find its way into print while Brigham Young lives? These words were ad dressed to your correspondent in Decem ber, 1871, at Omaha. The man who spoke them waa George P. Case, for several years a resident of Bay county, Michigan. I found him in Omaha at the date mentioned, sick, penniless and seemingly about to die, and it was only when he had become convalescent and was about ready to start for Mexico that he gave me the information used below. I had heard rumors that Case had passed several years of his life iu the employ of Brigham Young, but he denied these rumors in the most positive manner un til he felt assured that he would not be betrayed. Partly because I pressed him to, and partly from grntitude at the little I had been able to do for him, he gave me such a liistory of five years of his life as made me almost hate the sight of him, A year ago, when the John D. Lee ex citement was at fever heat, certain officials wero informed where Case could be found, and were given an inkling of what he could swear to if he would, but ho left Vera Cruz about that time and sailed for South America, where he now is, if Irvine. Georee 1'. uase was no more or less than ono of Brigham Young's paid as sassins or avenging angels. His ac quaintance with Young was brought about rather curiously, lie was at ait Lake City, on his way to California. This was in the spring of 1866, and the Gentile population of Utah was fast in creasing. Being on the street at a late hour one night, the prophet was recog nized by three or four boisterous chaps, and they were ready to give him a rough laudtiug. when Uase came up and took the old man 8 part and beat them on. He was asked to call on Young the next day, and before tho interview closed Case iad hired to the prophet as a detective. He was led to believe that his duties would e the same as those of an ordinary detective, but it was not long before he iliscovered that his associates were as sassins, and that assassination would be come part of his duties. Case waa rough ana reckless, but he . . ... ... was neither ji robber nor a murderer, When he found himself pomte 1 out on the streets as an avenging angel, no sought an interview with Young, and stated his desire to resign his position, " It would be safer for you to continue on, was the prophet s reply, " But I don't want to," protested Case, I want to go on to California. " Men who leave our service after be ing entrusted with our secrets do not- al- wavs sret alousr finely, continued louug. Wo npoke very, pleasantly and he seemed very friendly, but there was something in his look and tone that gave Case a feeling of uneasiness. Ho was given a day or two to reflect, and he finally decided to remain. Tho mystery mid adventure of the new calling wero a great temptation, the pay good, and the Micfiigander weut back to duty. Case had no incentive to deceive me in nnv particular. He was then tree from Mormon influence, about to leave the comity, and ho was giving me infovmu tion winch he know would bo locked up for years; and he made in statements which he conld not back up bv dates, names, personal descriptions and other incidents sufficient to prove that he was telling the truth. Ho said that when once a Gentile had been given over to the avenging angels he was a dead man. They might put him out of tho way at once or might delay a month, according t' circumstances, but the shadow of neatli walked beside tho victim from the moment his name was handed in to the "Angels." In some cases tho victim was imprisoned lor a time, iu order to extort information, or for reasons best known to tho Chnrch. When once the dunteon doors had shut behiud him, no ninn ciine out ulive. In some cases the dead body would bo left on the street, and it would be made to appear that the man had been waylaid, lu other in stances it would be carried out on some highway or flung into the lake. Many of the Gentiles, and more particularly those of wealth and standing, had noth ing to say against the Churh, but in many cases gave it more or less support. Such people had no cause to fear. Other Gentiles wero fierce in their denuncia tions, and sometimes provoked quarrt-ls; but unless they heeded tho contents of a warning letter their tongues were soon silenced. Ono day in 1867 a man named William Foster Bnckley, a resident of Birming ham, England, arrived at Salt Lake in quest of his sister, a girl of nineteen, who ran away from home and joined a party of Mormon converts ready to sail for America. Ou her arrival at Salt Lake she married a Mormon named J. Y. Thomas, living about fourteen miles from the city. She was his fourth wile aud was by no means contented with her lot. She ran away from him two or three times, aud was once punished by being shut up iu the cellar for two weeks and fed on bread and water. No one knew of Buckley's presence in the West until he hod reached Salt Lake and begun making inquiries about his sister. He found out where she was and rode out to the house, and, when ho learned from her own lips how she was situated, his hot English blood fired up to the boiling point. He returned to the city to secure uu interview with the Prophet At Buch interview ho was plainly given to under stand that his sister must remain where she was, and that Salt Lake City would not be a safe place for him after twenty four hours more. Buckley purchased two horses, ad ditional fire-arms, aud at eleven o'clock at night set out for the ranch, his object bciag to rescue his sister from the house aud ride away with her. Spies had been watching all his movements. When he left the city three avenging angels, one of whom was Case, rode alter him. In mentioning this affair, Case said : "He fought like a tiger. As soon as he knew we were after him he dismounted, let hia horsee go, took cover behind the rocks, aud we did not get the drop on him till one of our angels had been killed and another wounded. We left hia corpse in the road and it was srenerallv believed that he had been killed by robbers or Indians, r Buckley's sister kuew enough of Mor- nionism to suspect who Had murdered lier brother, and the tragedy preyed upou her mind till she became a lunatic and one day destroyed her own life. In tho summer of i860 one of the wives of a Mormon, named Johnson, a ranchman, fled from his home on horse back, leaviDg tho place early in the morning. Word waa sent to the city, and Cose and five other " angels " were detailed to overtake the fugitive and bring her back. The woman had made considerable trouble for tho Church one way and another, and it was the inten tion to put her out of the way alter sue had been recaptured. The "angels" found her just at dark in the camp of four hunters, where she had taken refnee about noon. A demond was made for her, but the borderers refused to give her tip, having promised her that she should be taken to one of the forts in Colorado. Arguments and threats were of no avail, and the avengers drew off and began an attack on the hunters. They soon discovered, however, that they had more than they could handle. Two of them were killed and a third wounded, and when they drew off and despatched a messenger for reinforce ments the hunters broke camp and made a safe escape. Hotel Rents In New lork. Fully a score of hotel failures have occurred in New York since the panic, writes a New York correspondent. Among the principal hotels which have changed hands from this cause are the St. James, the Astor House, the New York, tho Grand Union, the Winchester and the Coleman. Tho Rossmore may bo added, with the explanotion thot the lessee, Mr. Leland, surrendered it to the owner because he could not make it pay, not in consequence of actual failure, for ho has not failed. Tho transfer of the Metropolitan and the Rossmore took place on the same day. In almost every instance of hotel failure within the time named the chief cause has been exhorbi- tant rent. Managers have tried to push ou under leases made at war figures, and many have finally had to succumb. Tho rents 6till paid by tho principal hotels are decidedly steep. The Fifth Avenue Hotel property, including tho six stores fronting on Broadway, brings an annual rental of 8200,000. The rent of the hotel proper is about 8150,000. Tho rent of the stately Windsor, which had just been brought up to a paying point when the owner, Mr. Daly, wandered off to a desolate spot near Cavalry cemetery, and committed suicide, is $125,000. Next to this iu steepness waa the rent of the Metropolitan before tho late reduction, namely, $110,000. The proprietors of the St. Nicholas have been paying $80, 000, but I understand the figure has lately been cut down somewhat. Mr. Breslin pays $40,000 for the handsome Gilsey. The Lelands pay the same for the Sturtevant, which, though not so stylish in its structure, is considerably larger than the Gilsey, and the Hoffman, about the same size as the Gilsey, also rents for 40,000. The New York nnd tho St. Denis are each fcaS.OOO, and half a dozen others, including the Coleman, Albemarle, St. Cloud, Grand Central and Continental, range from $20,000 to $30,000. A Wild Pigeon Boost In Missouri. Timid aud harmless animals become forinidible aud even terrible when con gregated iu great numbers. They take no notice whatever ot man, mid m their j congregated capacity become his foe. A herd of bnflulo on the plains is ft terror in its march ; a drove of rats in North ern Europe attacks all living things that come iu its way, aud evt u a flock of pigeons, if big enough, becomes a great nuisance, if not a danger. A pigeon roost is a big thing, and they have a big pigeon roost on the Auglaize river near Dodson'a camp-ground, Cuiuden county, Missouri. It is an annual roost, and disturbs the quiet of tho people of the section. The newspaper man finds it difficult to edit and print his paper in a pigeon rooBt. Millions of pigeons cover the trees and sometimes break them down. There is a frightful confusion of noises iu this pigeon pandemonium the crashing of limbs, the roaring of multi tudinous pigeons, and the cracking of shot guns sweeping the birds down by hundreds and thousands, all night long. Nobody can sleep in such an uproar any niore'than they could amid the thunders of a "raging battle. Besides this, there is a darkening of tho air by tho birds iu their flight, which makes continual cloudy weather. But the peo ple of this pigeon roost are making the best of the situation. The pigeon has become a leading article of commerce iu the country. Last year over 100,000 Eonnds of pigeons were shipped from toutland, and the pigeon yieh. this year promises to be as good. But every tiling else stops iu the pigeon-roosting season except the newspapers. S'f. Lituh Dem ocrat. cw York Fashion;.. The princesse dress, with waist aud i skirt in one, is the popular style for wedding dresses. Newer than this is tho empress dress with the brocaded back and train, having side gores added to tho waist that extend upward to the neck, while tho plain satin or gros graiu front is made to represent a vest and apron dranerv. The black silk house dresses are iu the new empress style, partly of brocade or of embossed velvet, or else satin. If they are entirely of silk they ore made dressy by having plastrons or vests and sleeves of jet or of clair de tune beads. Embroidered gloves are o 'ered, but the refined choice is for plain, untrimmed gloves without ornamental stitching and with the long wrists that make the hands look slender. Those fastened by three or four buttous are most used for the street. Old-gold-colored gloves are the dressy choice for wearing with black and dark dresses. Undressed kid gloves are more fashionable than at any previous season. Bonnets are chosen with reference to each dress, but there is more latitude aud less strict matching of bonnet and dress than formerly. Coronet bonnets are suddenly' re stored 10 lavor. xne coronet is very high in the middle, very plain and very close on the aides. The jet aud clair tie itno-coronets with a drooping fringe on the edge a,re very handvsome for black Itcui of Interest. The young Prince Napoleon resemblea his father, in the ends of his mustache. A man in Hartford, Ky., has a watch three hundred years old that is still a good timepiece. A woman in New York recently drop ped dead on hearing of the arrest of her son for burglary. Von Moltke says that it is not possible to form any just estimate of the German army, because it has -not been beaten yet. It has been discovered that the higher np you go tho further yon can see down into a body of water. Victims of the lost steamboat explosion will please write out their observations. The way we see now to pet rich, is To follow the style in vogue, which is Peculate with propriety, Till you're bounced from society There's where the only real hitch is. A newspaper thus heads the report of a fire : " Feast of the Fire Fiend The Forked-Tongued Demon Licks with its Lurid Breath a Lumber Pile 1 Are the Scenes of Boston and Chicago to be Re peated ? Loss, $150." A farmer's wife iu Jay, Vermont, nwhile ago became displeased with the hired man of the place, and while her husband was away discharged him and did all tho household and farm work her self, digging fifty bushels of potatoes in a day. A New York jeweler, from whom a stranger ordered $800 worth of watches . in tho name of a well-known man in Stamford, Conn., took the goods to Stamford instead of sending them, be cause he feared a swindle. He found his suspicious verified, and felt so good to think he had not been cheated that he got drunk and was robbed of his $800 package by a thief. As near as we can ascertain, there are in the States of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia 80,000 more females than mates in a total nativo population of 3,000,000, and in New England a like overplus of 20, 000 in a native white population of 2,500,000. These facts indicate that we shall, perhaps, by the time we write 1900, have a two per cent, surplus of fe males as an aggregate of the whole pop ulation (in 50,000,000, 1,000,000). Cin cinnatiComrnercial There have been fifty-three steamers aud seven hundred men engaged in porgy fishing on the Maine coast this season, but fewer fish than usual have boon caught, as the fish have been smaller and hove escaped through the net meshes. The largest school seen was fivo miles long and a mile wide, and was estimated to contain millions of bar rels, but the largest single catch was fourteen hundred barrels. There are sixteen porgy oil-factories in the State, each employing from twenty-five to sixty men, and involving a capital of over one million dollars. Words of Wisdom. In being angry we punish ourselves.' The only way to make a friend is to I e one. Meu are like words ; wheu not prop erly placed, they lose their value. Let no ono descend so low as to con sider money to be the chief good. "Men ore never so ridiculous by the qualities they possess as by those they affect to possess. " Live on what yon have ; live if you can on less ; do not borrow, either for vanity or pleasure ; the vanity will end in shame and the pleasure iu regret" Universal love is a glove without fin gers, which fits all hands alike, aud uoue closely ; but true affection is like a glove with fingers which fits one hand only and sets close to thot one. The reo-son why great meu meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity would seem to bo this : Tho friends of 0 great roan were made by his fortunes his enemies by himself ; and revenge is a much moro punctual paymaster inau gratitude. Every man stamps his value on him self. The price we challenge for our selves is given us. There does not live ou earth a man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself, compared with him.- Man is made greut or little by his own will. Tho Sequel to an Elopement. A fine-looking, middle-aged lady of Philadelphia recently called upon the overseer of the poor at Newark, N. J., and told the following story : "Eight years ago my daughter eloped with a inarried man named Giese, aud her whereabouts I was unable to aacertain until a few days ago, when I was in formed she died iu the poorhouse of this city." Inquiry was mode, which resulted iu finding that the young lady had died a year ago at tho hospital, and at the time of her death Giese was an iu mate of t e city prison on a charge o.' drunkenness. Further, that she had two children. The eldest chdd was found at the orphan asylum supported by the German residents of that city; the other was found iu the possession of a woman, who had had tho child since it was six months old (it is now two years of age), and implored the overseer to permit her to retain the baby, as she had become much attached to it Notwithstanding her teara and exhortations the little girl for such it was waa torn from her and givn, with the other, into the keeping of the grandmother, who returned to Philadelphia. Slander. Anybody can soil the reputation of an individual however pure and chaste, by . uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe and his friends never hear of. A puff of the idle wind can take a million of the seeds of thistle and do a work of mischief which the husbandman must labor long to undo, the floating particles being too fine to be seen and too light to be stopped. Such are the seeds of slander, so easily sown, so diffi cult to be gathered up, and yet so per ni( ious in the fruit Tho slandere knows that many a mind will catch up the plague and become poisoned by his insinuations, without ever aeeking the antidote, aud the mischief U doue
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