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EIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUAHY 1, 1880.
NO. 45.
VOL. IX.
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
1 .fi
The Spider's Lesson.
A tyrant In iny border dwells
In Austrian block and gold;
Wrought all in silver are his oells,
Fine-spun, a thousand iold.
His dwelling has no dingy rool,
Nor diBmal underground;
The sunlight gilds it slender wool
' On fragrant bushes bound.
And at his levee, every morn,
Such brilliants do appear
As ne'or In any court were worn
By Christian monarch dear.
No prison dungeon has this wretch
Where victims, out ot sight,
llis oruel jealousy may fetch
And keep in homeless night.
Vet subtle stratagemB he springs
On harmless passers-by,
Winds his soit silk about their wings.
And hangs thevn np to die.
I came to sweep his work away
With swill, impatient hand;
But here the lesson of the day
He teaches, us I stand.
The tyrant luxuty doth so
Our winged souls entwine,
And binds us lettered in a show,
To mock the lree sunshine.
The subtile web afar I'll leave
'Ol flattering deceit ;
The gorgeous spider shall not weave,
His tetters for my feet.
The eye that views the heavens in lailh,
The hand with justice armed;
Can seo the snare that binds to death,
And scatter it, unharmed.
Julia Ward Howe, in Scribner.
DELICIA.
3 She wns so exquisitely beautiful, it
was actually provoking that there
shouldn't be the lrust romance about
Iter. Waves of pale golden hair rippled
away from her pearly forehead, and
were gathered into a superb knot nt the
h-u'k of her head. Sueh a blue elearucd
in her sweet eyes, sueh a lovely pink
mantled her soft -eheek, Mich a smile
parted her ripe mouth, that, well-bred
as you might be. you could not have re
frained from staring tit her; and then,
thinkingof stmwhprrie--and cream, have
ranged lor a silver spoon with wincii te
it Jjer.
IiuWor all this there wasn't the least
romance .connected with her. Though
hree-and-twenty, Uelicia liad never
had ft lover. She lived in ft quiet farm-
itiseamomrtlie line mountains wuu
father and mother all the year
and. She loved them dearly was
pywiihlhem and her horse, Joan
LlC.
loan was beautiful, high-spirited : and
lelicia, who eared nothing lor dancing
or flirting, and could neither sing nor
nlav.was passionately fond of liotvelmck-
i idimr. There was a spirit of pride and
faring in her which made her a superb
rider, and caused the young men of the
' very bare neighborhood to call her
haughty. The delights of her life were
the pine-scented woods, the winter
landscapes of ermine snow and glitter
ing ice, the urea my sweetness of the
autumn orchards. At twenty-three
Delicia had been content with an ex
istence lived in comparative solitude.
Then came a terrible calamity. Her
father was killed by a runaway horse,
and her mother, frail and unable to en
dure the shock, sank slowly but surely
until, one mockingly bright, beautiful
dav. Delicia found herself entirely alone.
Outsiders then called her cold, for no
one saw her weep, She only trembled
so excessively beside the open graves
that old Aunt Thankful, who had
nursed her de..d mother, was obliged to
support her to keep her from falling.
Otherwise she was composed, only her
tweet eyes had a look in them pitiful to
see.
A change had come over Delicia's
serene life; the dear home-love was
, gone, and the girl's content had gone.
With a native courage and reserve pe
culiar to her she made no complaint ;
she asked Aunt Thankful rather wist
fully to stay and keep house for her, and
then turned to her books and horBe and
maiden meditations. But Delicia's
dreams were troubled now. Life's grief
, had touched her; she knew that sorrow
was in the world ; she feared the future.
The stransre. sad summerpassed. One
fine November day. Bob, the hired man,
V--d Jonn of Arc prancing to the door,
j V tiie side-saddle on her back-.
I . "I have to go to the village, miss, to
' , buy the new milch cow. I'll not be
hack till noon. You'll not mind letting
Joan stand with the saddle on a little
' , till I come?"
" No." said Delicia, absently.
lV4" -'tier Tieautiful oval cheek was 'white
, ' neas quite unmistakable in her eyes as
she turned Joan's head toward the Liilr-
.-.road. -
Yet who, to have seen her beautiful,
spirited figure loping along the uplands,
i- would have divined the rare heart of
5 "j' perhaps, understand herself, and
did not know she had asked her own
I ' mnn If 4 ... r - i n l : c . 1 r
,,.7., i uo nil my me tuoiier
1 r . ' vi no j Kroat and good ever ask mo
WDB uu..v.,filovcdwifep If not. 1
shall perish OA jlu face of the
; You must have jessed rarely to have
guessed how deeply ,an the 8lfn watoM
cf that idyllio Inc. you would t
y - have guessed it from anything in her
perfect proud face as 6he turned it to
ward a passing carriage. The occupants
were a Mase-looking man of thirty, per.
haps, and a very young and pretty girj.
, . A single glance told the story that
I ' the young girl was loving acd unhappy:
. that the man, for some reason, found
' her desirahle of possession.
'-.tie naa nuia b ack eves that repelled
Delitfia., yet the sight of the two seated
. j leeungoi sontuaeana desolation which
, riot long ago was utterly unknown to
The carriage glittered by, and Joan
loped softly along the woody road,
j-OUndleaa with a tlili.l- .!
Adles. " " F'"D
iio" made a circuit, and came back to
ho.-Vf?.1. Un"ual sounds attracted
Veani,A crasu n violent
view. uulBt upon ucr
W,"5 car,,"e Roneovernu em
bankment ancTwas a perfect wreck Tt the
horse, lay prostraw-gne of them killed?
r i
the other struggling desperately, but
unable to rise ; and prone beneatn tne I
broken vehicle was stretched tne sense- i
less body of the dark, handsome man.
Over him bent the givl, screaming no
longer, but sobbing violently.
Delicia slipped from her horse, and
was at her side some moments before
she realized her presence.
"Wallace! Wallace! For heaven's
sake, speak to me I You cannot you
cannot be dead? Oh, dear Wallace-
see, it is little Altai Only speak to me!"
Then, with a despairing cry, the young
girl fell upon the pulseless breast.
men, starting to ner ieei to iook
about for help apparently, she saw
Delicia.
"Oh, she gasped, snatching at her
rm. "Look at him! see. is he deadP
The carriage fell (upon liim, while I I
am not hurt at all. Oh, heaven, what
shall I do?"
The white, still face told Delicia that
the man at her feet would never breathe
airain.
Hearing wneeis, sue sprang dock into i
the road, and encountered old David
Green and his son, the keepers of the
village hotel.
Su nmoned to view the scene, they
disentangled the senseless body, placed
it in the carriage, and turned to Delicia
for further directions.
" Get a doctor immediately that you
reach the village, Mr. Green. I will
take this young lady home with me, and
bring her back to the hotel as soon as I
can put Joan to the phaeton. Come
with me, my poor child I will take
care of you, to the petite, white-faced
girl; and throwing her riding-skirt
more closely over her arm, she led Joan
by a short-cut through the fields, back
to Wheatlands.
By the way she tr'.ed to question her
companion ; but the girl, almost trans
ported with grief, made such incoherent
replies tliat she could only learn that
she had been riding since tlu middle of
the previous night, thr.t they were on
their way to Conway, that they intend
ed lo be married there.
"Were you were you," said Delicia,
gently, in involuntary amaze, " running .
away from your friends ?"
Alta nodded.
" From my brother, Guy Vannevar.
Hadid not like Mr. Munioe. Yes, we
were to be married against his will,
and now oh. Wallace, Wallace!"
Throwing Joan's bridle over the gate
post, Delicia led the trembling girl to
the door. It was locked.
The key hung in the secret place
known only to the family, for Aunt
Thankf J I hud at last executed a prom
ise to vidit a sick neighbor some quar
ter of a mile distant. Bob had not yet
returned, for it wanted still an hour till
noon.
To Delicia's consternation, the un
happy girl no sooner entered the warm
parlor than she fainted.
With the strength of excitement, she ,
lifted her in her arms and bore her into
an inner room, where, placing her upon '
abed, she unfastened her dress, bathed
her temples and chafed her hands.
At, length Alta Vennevar again drew
her breath.
Passing through the hall to procure a
restorative, Delicia saw a man just in
the act of vaulting upon Joan. It was
not Bob, though the saddle had been
removed and lay upon the ground; it
was a man in a ragged coat, evidently
a tramp.
With a flash in her blue eyes, Delicia
stepped back, and, snatching a silver
mounted revolver from a slielf, threw
wide the hall-door and tired.
The bridle fell from the man's right
hand, and Joan three steps beyond the
gate stopped.
To Delicia's surprise, the man in
stantly dismounted, and, turning quickly
toward her, lifted his hat.
" I'am effectually stopped, young lady :
but, believe me, I did not intend to steal
your horse, nnd certainly left an equiva
lent, though now in sorry condition."
Bewildered still more by the courteous
words and cultured tone, Delicia turned
in the direction the stranger pointed
with his left hand, and saw within the
yard a dusty buggy and panting horse.
" I am trying to overtake my young
sister, who has eloped with a scoundrel."
said the man, who was both young and
handsome, "and my horse broke down
hopelessly just before I reached your
door. Otherwise, in less than an hour I
should have probably overtaken my
sister before slie was married and her
life ruined. So near the object of my
long and desperate drive, I could not be
balked of its object for want of a horse.
I knocked three times at your door, in
tending to beg or hire yours, which I
saw, fresh, standing at the gate, but for
some reason I could summon no living
being. Knowing that my horse was
more than equal yours in value, thorn h
now almost killed by hard driving. I re
solved to take him, and. after overtak
ing the man who is running away from
me, to instantly restore your property to
you; but" with a little bitter laugh
'"you have effectually prevented that. I
think I am bleeding to death."
His voice closed faintly; the blood
was spurting from his wrist, lie sank
upon the step at her feet.
Delicia's cheek grew white, for she
knew the danger of that terrible bleed
ing. Unless it were stopped, the man
would in a few moments be dead.
Springing to the side of the now unre
sponsive stranger, who seemed unable
to utter another word, she snatched her
handkerchief from her pocket, and
tying it about the wounded arm, in
serted a stick picked from the ground,
thus making an effectual ligature, and,
to tho abatement of her terror, saw the
frightful jets of blood subside.
The stranger's white face, the deluge
of red blood, tho sudden relief from
spurring terror, turned Delicia faint.
Then she struggled hard against a ter
rible reeling sensation, and held her
own.
She thought wishfully of the glass of
cordial upon the hall table, but her feet
refused to stir.
Suddenly steps sounded at the gate.
To her inexpressible joy and thankful
ness, Aunt Thankful and Bob appeared.
Delicia explained to the former,
briefly, though her voice sounded far
away to herself.
" Wounded-hurt bleeding awfully !
Bob, ride lor a doctor fast as you can
go!" cried the old nurse, instantly in
her element.
The wounded man was making visi
ble efforts to keep from swooning, but
when Aunt Thankful had administered
a cordial and bathed his temples in eold
water, he rose and walked weakly into
the house, where, at her solicitations.
In) stretched himself upon a sofa, and
then unexpectedly fainted.
" I don't in the least understand who
this man is," remarked Aunt Thankful,
steadily applying restoratives, "but
such ragged coat and fin ihht I
never saw together before. Wanted to
hire horse, did heP What did you
shoot him for P Of all strange actions
ii
The driving of the doctor's buggy
into the yard stopped her remarks,
when Delicia returned to Alta Vanne
var to find her in a wandering delirium.
Three strange days were devoted to
nursing the invalids. A burning fever
made theyoung girl unconscious.
Aunt Thankful's charge was con
scious, but very weak and silent. In
deed, he seemed to himself to be in a
dream half full of delights, but pervaded
by a great trouble which he could
scarcely name.
The radiantly lovely face of Delicia,
the rustle of her drees, the sound of her
footsteps pervaded his consciousness
like a blessing, while his desperate quest
and misfortune were only half-realized
by him in the bodily weakness and in
action of brain caused by excessive loss
of blood.
" How lone have I been here P"
Delicia sat. hv him. having taken
Aunt Thankful's place for alow mo
ments, and started from a momentary
absence of thought to find Guy Van
nevar 8 eyes fixed piercingly upon her.
"This is the fourth day. Are yon
better ?"
" I am not sick, only in a sort of dream
which I cannot wake myself from."
" You are very weak."
" It was you I saw when I came here,
wasn't it P"
"It was I who shot you," replied
Delicia, blushing.
"I I remember. Oh, my sister
Alta!" trying to rise upon his elbow.
" Lie down, plense. You must not
exert yourself. I have something to
tell vou." said Delicia.
" f have been here four davs. vou sav.
Good God! what will become of her?"
" Drink this coffee and try to be quiet.
Alta is sate."
"How can you know?"
" I have her in my care. Wallace
Munroe is dead accidently killed."
- " And they were not married P''
" No."
"Thank God!"
And then he asked :
" Are you sure of this?"
" Entirely sure."
He could talk no longer, but was visi
bly better in a lew hours.
The next day, pale, wasted, but
strong, in a simple earnestness, he said,
quietly, to JJehcia :
"How wonderfully beautiful you
are!"
Something in his eyes kindled hers.
and for the first time in her life Delicia
felt within her pure breast the warmth
and sweetness ot Jove.
Half alarmed by her emotions and the
growing power of the beautiful eyes
bent upon her, she rose from her place
oesiae mm.
" You can see Alta to-day, you know,
if she is better. I will go and-see."
Alta Vanndvar was better in body,
but suffering in mind.
She looked lik8 a living wraith in
one of Delicia's long white wrappers,
ano turnen irom ner orotuei-s kiss and
sat down in Delicia's lap like a tired
child.
"Oh, if I could die! I know you love
me, Guy; hut you did not love Wallace.
And he is dead. Oh, Delicia, you
understand you are a woman. I loved
him !"
Guy Vannevar looked down at the
two figures, buried in the great easy
chair, the serene woman folding the
suiicring child to her bosom, and a look
inexpressible filled his soft dark eves
And Delicia, glancing up, saw it nnd
knew it was lor her..
I cannot tell you how in a few days
these two grew together; but when
Guy Vannevar had told her of his po
sition as a gentleman and the son of a
gentleman, and discarded his disguise.
which had facilitated his pursuit of
Wallace Monroe, the atmosphere of
mystery and suspicion was entirely dis
pelled, and as weeks and months brought
their developments and occurrences,
Delicia realized that the prayer of her
secret heart was granted one great and
good loved her, and had asked her to be
his dearly beloved wile.
All had come to her love, romance.
marriage and happiness; but to-day
'scarcely less beautiful than of yore, e
will tell you that few women add to
their history the experience of having
siiotuieir uusoanas, which is uers.
Household Perils.
Under this head the Boston Journal of
Cheinwtry names several dangerous sub'
stances which find their way into house
holds. There are two or three volatile
liquids used in families which are par
ticularly dangerous, ana must be em
ployed, if at all, with special care. Ben
zine, ether, and strong ammonia consti
tute this class of agents. The two first
named liquids are employed in cleansing
gloves ana other wearing apparel, and
in removing oil stains from carpet j. cur-
lidns, etc. The liquids are highly vola
tile, and Hash into vapor so soon as the
cork ot t lie vial containing: them is re
uioved. Their vapors are very combusti
ble, and will inllame at long distances
nom ignited candles or gas flames, and
consequently they should never be used
in the .evening when the house is
lighted. Explosions of a very danger
ous nature will octyir if the vapor of
these liquids is permitted to escape into a
room in considerable quantity. In view
of the great hazard ol handling; these
liquids, cautious homekeeperi will hot
allow them to be brought into their
dwellings, and this course is conmend
able. As regards Ammonia, or water of am
monia, it is a very powerful agent, es
pecially the stronger kinds sold by drug
gisls. An incident in its use has recently
come under our notice, in which a young
lady lost her jife from taking a few
drops through mistake. . Breathing the
gas under certain circumstances causes
serious harm to the lungs and mem
branes of the mouth and nose. It is an
agent much used at the present time for
cleansing purposes, ana it is unobjec
tionable if proper care is used in its em
ployment. The vials holding it should
be kept apart from others containing
medicines, etc., and rubber stoppers to
the vials should be used .
Oxalio acid is considerably employed
in families for cleaning brass and copper
utensils. This substance is highly poi
sonous, and must be kept and used with
great caution. In crystalline structure
it closely resembles sulphate ol mag
nesia or Epsom sfclts, and therefore fre
quent mistakes are made and lives lost.
Every agent which goes into families
among inexperienced persons should be
kept in a safe place, and labeled prop
erly and used with care.
To couch and at the same time be enter
tu '. ni ng js Impossible. Dr. Bull 's Cough Syi U.
w ill reach your sum. fries 25 Mats' a bettle.
1879.
Important Events of the World I)n-IB
the Past Year.
f ANUABT. 1. Resumption of sie pay.
monts in the United States.... 3. Nina
men killed and thirty-three wounded by
the bursting cf a gun on the British man-of-war
Thunderer in the Mediterranean.'
....3. Intensely oold weather throughout
the United Stales. Alonzo Garcelon
(Democrat), elected governor of Maine
by the State Senate.... 4. Destruction ol
the Chicago postofllce by die. Execution
of Juan Moncasi In Madrid for attempted
assassination of King Alfonso, failure
of the Cornish bank, of Trtro, England,
lor 5,000,100 .... fi. GrcA republican
victory at the elections lor French sena
tors .... 7. The New York legislature
meets in the new enpitol at Albany..., 9.
Forty Cheyenne Indian prisoners at Fort
Robinson, Neb., killed while trying to
escape . . . 10, Twenty persons -Willed by a
railroad collision in Russia ....11. Two hun
dred Russian ollloors and soldiers killed by
train breaking through a bridge in Turkey.
Intense excitement created is Germany by
Bismarck's bill limiting freedom of debate
in Gorman parliament. ....II. The Pope's
long circular against sociiliein, com
munism, eto.. is published. I.. 14. Fifty,
eight miners kiiied by an elplosion in a
Welsh colliery 20. Threttened orisis
in France averted by passive ot a vote
ol confidence in the government. Several
United States Senators eleied ' . . . . 22.
Severely cold weather and much destitntion
reported Irom England .... 27. Beginning of
investigation into the cipher d'spatches by
Poller committee.... 30. Resxnation c
President McMnhoa and election ol Jules
Urevy as president ol' Fiance,... 81. M.
Gambetta elected president of the French
chamber ol deputies. '
FEBRUARY. 3. Enciting debate in ex
ecutive session ot the United Slates 6enate
on the New York nominations .... 4.
News reoeived of extraordiniry precau
tions taken by European ocuntries to
guard against the spread of Uie plague
ravaging Russia .... 5. Beginning of cipher
dispatohes investigation in New York by Pot
ter commit tec.... 8. Mr. Tildenteetifles bo
lore Potter oommittee in New Ysrk. Heavy
strikes begun in England. Ruisians begin
evacuation ot Turkish lemtorj and defini
tive treaty ot peace between tha two coun
tries signed ....11. Fatal lan( slides in
Kansas City, Mo., and AUentown, Pa . . . ,
12. Opening ot German parliament.... 13.
Opening ol British parliament. Kine China
men killed by an explosion ol nre-dnmp in
Calilornia .... 14. St. Valentine's day .... 15.
Bill lor restricting Chinese ewnigratiou
passed by the United States Seiate.... 18.
Three persons killed and abott twenty -live
severely injured by a Uiiu falling
through a rotten bridge near Se Inja, Ala ....
21. Details ol plague horrors in Kussia re
oeived.... 22. Seventeen lives bst by an
explosion in Stockton, Cal. British steam
si lip Zanzibar, with complement of thirty
six officers and crew, given np lor lost alter
being out from New York forty-two days.
... .35. Reports received of disastrous storms
in France, Spain and Italy. j-
MARCH. 1. President Hayes Vetoes the
Chinese immigration bill .... 2. Great fire in
Reno, Nev....3. Reports ot Potter com
mittee published .... 4. The Forty.Jfdh Con.
gress adjourns and the Presdecc idstiex u
proclamation lor extra session ot Forty
sixth Congress.... 5. Close of the Vander
bilt will case in New York.... 9. Six
persons killed at a fire in East St. Louis, 111
Beginning ol international six days' walking
match inNew York. ...12. The to wu ol Szegu
din, Hungary, destroyed by a flood. Twelve
persons injured by the full ol a gallery dur
ing a walking match in New York.... 13.
Marriage of Prince Arthur, Qaeen Victoiia'b
third son, to f lincess lxmist Margaret, ot
Prussia. Arrival ol Bayaid Tavlor's re.
mains in New York.... 15. Howell wins
international walking match in New York,
....18. Opening ol special session ot Forty
sixin voii);ress....iu. rony-seven lives
lost by the tounderingol a French iron-clad
oft coast ot France.... 20. Several Now
Orleans banks suspend payments 24
Rev. T. DeWitt 1'uluinge's trial lor deceit
and lalsebood begun bslore the Brooklyn
rresuyiery.
APRIL. 2. Eleotion in Bhotle Island 5.
Close ol debate on army bill and its psseagit
iu me uouse. lauiDnuge aeleats Oxlord in
annual boat race on the Thames....?
Spring elootions in Miclninin, etc .... 14.
Attempt to assassinate the Czar ot Russia
in bt. Petersburg. Disastrous tornado
at CollinsviUe, Nev....l7. Syndicate ol
Now York and Boston bunkers' bid lor
$200,(100,000 lour per tent, bonds ac
cepted by Secretary Sherman .... 18. Fatal
tornado in South Carolina. Martini law do.
clared in six populous Russian districts
20. One-hull ol Eureku, Nev., destroved bv
fire. ...24. Generul Dix's funeral in New
York. Emperor ot Austria's silver wedding
celobratn l in Vienna .... 26. Brown makes
542 miles in six days' chamiuonrhip pedes
triun mutch in London.... 29. President
Hayes vetoes army Hjipioprikiion bill. One
thousand houses, comprising town ot Oren
burg, Iviissm, destroyed by tiro.
MAY. 7. Calilornia votes in lavoroladontin;
new constitution.... 8. Rev. Dr. i'almuee'a
trial belore a Brooklyn Presbytery ends in his
acquittal . . . . li. 1 no rope s creates egHt
new eardii-als. Veto ol the "military in
terference" bill by the President. .. .16.
Six executions in different parts ol the (Ini.
ted States. . . .20. The legislative uppropria.
tion bill passes United States Senate.... 24
Participation ol Brooklyn's 13th regiment in
Queen Victoria's sixtieth birthday festivities
at Ji out real.... 20. catholic cathedral in
No w i ork dedicated .... 20. Knd ol war be.
tween England and Alghanistan officially
announced .... ZM. iNews received ot a ter
nfio naval bat'le between Chilian and
Peruvian vessels. The President vetoes the
legislative appioprialion bill. Several per
sons Killed or miured at a hotel lire in
Hagerstown, Md International congress
in Paris adopts a plan to build a ship canal
across tne xsinmus 01 uanen . . . . 30. Jjocor
ntion day. About fifty persons lose their
lives ty a tornado in Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska.
JUNE. 1. Great eruption ot Mt. El na report
ed....2. Great strike ol iron workers in
and about Pittsburgh, Pa. ...3. Secretary
ol War McCrary nominated by President
Hayes to suoceed Judge Dillon as judge ol
the e'ghth circuit .... 9. Reports reoeived ol
great destruction of property in Italy by
bursting ol dikes and inundation ot river
Po. Cessation ol eruption ot Mt. Etna re.
ported.... 11. Mysterious murder ol Mrs
Hull in New York city. Emperor William's
g'dden wedding celebrated in Berlin .... 12.
Etbven persons drowned by a waterspout
in tne mace 1UUS....10. uani&n defeats
Elliott in championship rowing match at
Newcastle, England. Beginning ot six days'
international walkinx mau-.li in London
21. Weston wins the walking match in
London, scoring 550 miles ... . 23. The Presi
dent signs the army appropriation bill and
vetoes the iudioial expenses appropriation
bill. Cox, Mrs. Hull's murderer, arrested
in Boston .... 20. I he ruieoi ve ot ifigy pt au
dictates in lavor ot bis son.... 27. Harvard
deleats Yale in annual boat race at Now
London, Conn.... 3 J. federal marshal ep
propriation bill vetoed by the President,
JULY. 1. Extra session ot the Forty-sixth
Cougress closed.... 2. Fatal storm in Wis
consin and Minnesota. ...4. Seven lives
lost by au accident to a steamer on Lake
tjuuuiainond, Mass. Large lire in Am.
buret, Mass.... a. James Gordon Bennett
yacht Joannette aailg from San Francisoo
on exploring expedition in search of the
North Polo.... 10. Eight persons killed by
an explosion 01 itiant powder In wine work
at Bodie, Cal. ' Yellow lever panic in Mem
phis.... 12. Funeral ot Franoii Prion lm.
perial at Chiselhnrst, England. Eight lives
lost by wreck ol steamer State ot Virginia
off tho ooaat ol Norm Sootia . ... 16. Many
lives lost in New England during a. ter
rific storm .... 18. Eight persons drowned by
capsizing of a yacht in SU Lawrence river,
Canada. News received of a great Zulu de
feat in South Airioa by Lord Chelmsford,
and virtual end ot the Zulu war. ....26.
Destructive storm in western Pennsyl
vania.... 28. A congressional committee
begins at Chicago an examination into the
causes olthe labor depression. ...81. Five
persons drowned by the oapsizing of an
exoursion yacht at Clayton, N. Y
AUGUST. 2. Disastrous storm in England
....4. Kentucky State election. Filty per
sons killed dnring storm in Denmark. Town
ol Volcano, W. Va., destroyed by fire....
7. Election on question of debt compromise
in Tennessee. Financial panic in Montreal.
Serajevo, capital ot Bosnia, almost totally
burned down.... 9. Yellow fever declared
an epidemio in Memphis .... 12. Austrian
ministry resign .... 15. British parliament
prorogued. James MoHenry, English finan
cial agent, tails in London for 5,000,000.
Fatal riot of ship laborers in Quebec. Sev
eral persons killed at the destruction by fire
ot a summer hotel at Locust Grove, near
Coney Island .... 18. Tremendous storm
along the Atlantic cost . . .23. Great excite
ment oreated in San Francisoo by shooting
ot I. 8. Kalloch, workingmen's candidate lor'
mayor, by Charles De Young, sr., proprietor
Chronicle ne wspaper . . . . SO. A monument
to General Custer unveiled at West Point.
SEPTEMBER 3. Calilornia Stat election.
Massacre of British embassy at Cabul .... 5.
Several persons killed or injured by boi er
explosion on steamer Alaska, Lake Erie
....8. State election in Maine.... II. Tam
many bolts from Democratic State Conven
tion at Syracuse.... 18. News reoeived of
the capture ot Cetewayo, Zulu king, by the
British .... 20. General Grant arrives in
San Franoisoo alter two years' absenoe
abroad. International walking match for
Astley belt begun in New York .... 22. Par
ticluars received of great fire at Kiev, Rus
sia.... 23. Alliance formed between Ger
many and Austria.... 26. Partial destruction
ol Deadwood, Dakota, by fire .... 27. Rowell
wins the walking match in New York ....
28. Prof. Wise and companion ascend in
balloon Pathfinder, at St. Louis, and never
heard Irom again .... 28. Bloody battle be
tween United States troops and Ute Indians
in Colorado.
OCTOBER. 2. Monument to Andre erected
on the spot where he was banged, at Tap
pan, N, Y. About fifteen persons killed
and many more wounded by tall ot a grand
stand at a loir in Adrian, Mich .... 4. Be
ginning ol pedestrian match lor O'Leary
belt in New York. General Merritt's l'oice
relieves Captain Payne's troops, beleaguered
by Utes, in Colorado.... 8. Capture of fa
mous Peruvian iron-clad Huasoar by Chil
ian vessels after a desperate naval fight ....
10. Filleen persons killed and many
wounded by railroad collision at Jackson,
Mich.. . . . 11. Murphy wins the walking
match for the O'Leary belt.... 12. British
troops enter Cabul. . . . 14. State elections in
Ohio and Iowa . ..15. Disastrous floods in
Spain.... 16. Dr. Le Moyne cremated at
Washington, Pa. Uanlan and Courtney
make a fizzle ot their boat race on Chautau
qua Lake.... 18. Loss ot Spanish steamer
Nuevo Pajaro da' Oceano in Bahama 3troits,
West Indies, by flro, and torty ot her passen-
'I gers and ore w perish, . . . 19. Formation ol
new 1. urkiso ministry .... zo. x wenty -seven
British troops and many A tgh.v.iS' killed (by
blowing Bp ot a magazine in Cabul.. ..21,
Terrible'distress in Hungary on account ol
bad crops reported . ... 25. Yellow lever epi
demic in Memphis declared at an end.
NOVEMBER. 2. Five men kiUed by explo-
sion ol fire t'anip in a oolliery near Soranton,
Ph. ...4. Elections in a number ol States.
.... 5. Obsequies ol General Hooker in New
York, and ot Senator Chandler in Detroit.
7. Steamer Champion sunk by the ship
Lady Ootavia, near Cupe Heulopen, und
thirty lives lost. ...8. Three lives lost and
damage exceeding $100,000 done by break
ing ol a train through the iron bridge ovei
the Missouri at St. Charles, Mo. Several
persons killed by the latl of a cracker fuo-
toryin Kunsus City, Mo.... 10. A party ol
filty white men Irom New Mexico, attacked
by Indians in Mexico and thirty-two killed.
....11. Fatal cyclone in Crawlord county.
Arkansas ... .12. Reception to General Grant
in Chicago. Five persons killed at a New
York tenement-house fire.... 17. About
thirty Chinamen killed by an explosion in a
Calilornia railroad tunnel .... 18. Nine lives
lost by the sinking ol a portion ol a town 011
Lake Ontario. . . . 19. General Thomas' statue
unveiled in Washington. Great excitement
in Ireland on aocount ot the arrest ol sev
eral persons for seditious utterance. ...26.
Great saleol 250,000 shares Now Yoik Cen
tral railroad stock by W. H. Vandcrbilt to
a syndicate of Imakers tor $3 1,000,000. . ..
27. Thanksgiving day.... 28. Marriugo at
Madrid ol King Allonso to Maria Christine,
Austrian archduchess.
DECICMBKR. 1. Opening ol the regular ses
sion ol Forty-sixth Congress.... 2. Attempt
to kill the Czar ol Russia while on his way
to Moscow .... 3. Bouquet to Oliver Wendell
Holmes in Boston in honor ol his seventieth
bi.thday . ... 8. Opening ol the international
daily tail iu New York.... 9. United States
Senate confirms Secretary of War McCmry
to be United States circuit judge.... 10.
Ex-Senator Ramsey's appointment as suc
cessor to Secretary ot War McCrary eon
firmed by tho Senate. National agricultural
society formed in Now York.. ..12. News
received of great floods in Transylvania
and Hungary. Destruction by fire ol Red
Rock, Pa 15. Twelvo miners killed and
eight injured by an explosion in a salt mine
in Wurtemburg, Geimany .. . . 16. Great
welcome to General Grant iu Philadelphia
.... 19. Dotuils received ot heavy battle
between Chilians and allied lorces of Peru
and Bolivia.
Do Animals Itesist Temptation.
Temptation frequently begets in the
dog, cat and other animals the same
kind of mental or moral agitation, and
the same sort of result, as in man. Some
times we can see in the dog, for instance
the whole play ol the animal's mind
the battle between its virtuous and
vicious propensities, its promptings to
the right and its endeavors to stick bv
the right its longing for tho wrong
lor tue tin bit, wu it'll it knows would be
imnronf V to steal anil the final trinmnh
either of virtue ortemptation. The poor
animal, knowing or feeling the weak
ness of the flesh, sometimes has the
strength, the force of character, the good
snse, to avoid temptation altogether.
But dogs, like men, are apt to have the
most trying temptations thrust unex
pectedly upon them, and then comes the
tug of war of the appetities and passions
the moral turmoil that may make
shipwreck of or that may strengthen
virtue. Sometimes, then, by the dog, as
by the man, temptation is successfully
resisted after uerhaDS a series of nro-
tracted end painful moral struggles that
have been very apparent to the onlooker.
Unfortunately, however, eaually in dog
and man, the resistance of temptation is
less common by far than non-resistance
or non-success in resistance, the result
of which is various forms or degrees of
wrong doing. Popular mewce AlotUMy.
Mrs. Hilton, ot Renich, Mo., has be
come the mother of twins rivaling the
celebrated Siamese pair, each of the
hca'thy little eirls bavin? a heid and
feet of her own, but possessing a com
mon heart and lungs, r.nd being joined
by a rti-shy band extending from- tba
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tuiim vuiii- tu iuv anei'B.
NECROLOGY.
Prominent
Death During
the Tear
1S179.
JANUARY. 1. Judge Charles T. Sherman,
brother ol Secrrtaiy and Gentrol Sherman;
Cleveland; Ohio; 67. ...2. Caleb Cushing,
prominent American lawyer and politician ;
Newburgnort, Mass.; 79.... 4. Juan Mon
casi, would-be assassin of Spanish king;
executed in Madrid; 22.... 6. Morton Mo
Michael, ex-mayor ol Philadelphia and pub
lisher ol the JVorlA American', Philadelphia;
62;. ...8. Julian Hartridge, Congressman
Irom Georgia; Washington, D. C. ; 46....
10. Gustave Schleicher, Congressman from
Texas; Washington; 66;.... 12. Commo
dore John Guest, U. 8. navy; Porthsraouth,
N.H.; 67. ...20. John Blair Soribner, head
of well-known publishing house ; New
York; 28. ...21. George S. Uilliard, Ameri
can author of note; Long wood, Mass; 67
....27. Dr. Henry R. Linderman, director
United State mint; Washington: 64.
FEBRUARY. 2. Richard Henry Dana, emi
nent American author; Boston, Mass; 93
....3. General George Cadwalader, veteran
ol war with Mexico; Philadelphia, 73....
7. Thomas Lord, well-known New York
millionaire; New York, 66; ....11. Henry
Goodyear, rubber manufacturer; Paris....
. 17. Miss Flandren. weighing 616 pounds;
on exhibition in a New York menagerie; 18
....21. Shore Ali, ameer of Afghanistan;
5;.... 23. Field Marshal Theodore Kmil
Von Itoon, Gorman minister of war; Berlin ;
76.
MARCH. 8. William Howitt, well-known
Knglish author; Rome, Italy; 87.... 6.
Kiihu Burritt, " the learned blacksmith;"
New Britain, Conn.; 69. ...9. Rev. John
Weiss, noted lecturtr and essayist; Boston,
Mass.; 61.... 16. Major-General T. W.
Sherman, United 8tates army; Newport,
R. I.; 68.. ..17. Ex-Unitod States Senator
George Goldlhwaite; Montgomery, Ala.;
: 60. ...26. John M. Elliott, ohief Justice
Kentucky court of appeals ; Frankfort, Ky. ;
69 29. H. Y. Riddle, member ot i5lh
Congress , Lebanon, Tenn. ; 66.
APRIL. 3. Judge James A. Stewart, of the
Maryland court ot appeals; Cambridge,
Md.; 71. ...4. Madam Paltrson-Konapaite,
wile of the hrolher ol tho first Napoleon;
Baltimore, Md. ; 94. ...6. Pre! Henry Wil
liam Dove, celebrated meteorologist and
writer; Berlin, Germany; 76,... 12. Lieu-tcnant-Gcnoral
Richard Taylor, Confederal
army ; New York ; 63 .... 2 1. Major-General
John A. Dix, ex-Governor, ex-United
States Senator, etc. ; New York; 81.... 26.
- Bishop Edward R. Ames, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church ; Baltimore, Md. : 73....
30. Rush Clark, Congressman from Iowa;
Washington; . Clinton L. Cobb, ex-Congressman;
Elizabeth City, N.C.; 36.
MAY. 1. Mrs. Sarah J. B. Hale, lor more
than fifty years editor ol Gotey't Litdy't
Book; Philadelphia; 90.... 6. Dr. banc
Butt, M. P. and leader ot the Irish Home
Rulers; Dublin; 63. ...16. Jacob Staemp
tli, well known Swing politician and mem
ber ol the Geneva Court ol Aibitration on
Alabama claims; Beme, Switzerland; 69.
.... 17. Re.ir Admiral Sylvanus W. Gonlon,
on retired list United States navy; Blots,
Franco. Judge Asa Packer, president
Iv.'l.igh Valley railroad and richest man in
Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; 72 24.
William Lloyd Garrison, relcbra'ed imli-
slavery agitator; New York; 75.... 31
Kben C. Iugersoll, ex-member ot Congress
lrora Illinois and brother of Bob Iugersoll;
Washington; 48
.'UKt-1. Prince Louis Napoleon Bona
purte, son of Napoleon HI. and Kugunie;
South Africa; 23. Major-General James
S.iields, veteran of Mexican war, and U. d.
Senator from three Slates; Otlumwa, la.:
C9....3. Baron Lionel Nathan Do Roths
child, head ot lamous Loudon banking
house; London; 71. ...4. James Woodiuff,
proj'ictor Woodruff scientific! expedition
around the world; New York; 39. ...10.
Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, Command
ant United States Naval Aoadomy; Anna
polis, Ind.; 67... .26. Albert Weber, lead
ing New Yoik pianoforte maker; New
York; 49.
JULY. 11. William Allen, ex-Governor ol
Ohio; Chillicothe, Ohio-, 73.... 18. Major
General William F. Rarry, commander ot
Fort Mcllenry; Baltimore, Md.; 61....
28. Baron Frederick Von Gorolt, privy
councilor lo the Kmporor ol Germany and
ex-minister to the United Stales; Bonn,
Germany; HO.... 29. Bland llallaid, dis
trict fudge ot tho United States Court ol
Kentucky; Louisville, Ky. ; 60.
AUGUST. Charles Fcchter, lnmous actor,
KiclilaiKl Centre, la.; 61. lntanta Maria
del Pilar, siMerol the Spanish king; Spain;
18.... 26. Hon. John C. Tun Eyck, ex
United Slates Senator from New Jersey;
Mount Holly, N. J.; 65.. ..27. Sir Row
land Hill, originator ol the cheap postage
system ; England; 84.... 30. General J. B.
Hood, Coiiloitornte nriny, New Orleans; 48.
SEPTEMBER. 7. Win. M. Hunt, eminent
American aitist; IhIo ol Shoals, Mo.; 66
.... Count Amadoe de Noe, known as
" Cham," the celebrated Fionoh caricatur
ist; Paris; 60 .... 14. .Suleiman Pacha,
prominent Turkish general; Bagdad; 39
....16 Bumhaidt Cotta, eminent German
geoloii-t; Germany; 86 .... 18. Daniel
Drew, well known New York financier;
Ntw York; 82 .... 20. Rev. Joseph P.
Thompson, noted American divine; Berlin,
Gei many; 60.... 30. Francis Gillette, ex-
Umted Slat Senator from Connecticut;
Hm t lord. Conn. : 72.
OCTOB Kit. 13. Henry C. Csrey, celobroted
American political economist; l'tulailol
phia; 86.... 14. Dr. F. Julius Le Mnyno,
In ner cl cremation in the Unitei States;
Washington, Pa.; 81....1'. Carl Kukhar
composer; Berlin.. .. 17. William R. Whit
tinuham, D. P., LL.D., Protestant Episco
pal bishop ol Maryland; Oiange, N. J.; 74
....20. Heir Von Bulow, German diplo
mat; Berlin; 61 .... 31. Major General
Joseph Hooker, dirtingiiished oflicer ol tho
rcuerul army; Garden City, Long It!and ;
04.
NOVEMBER. I. Hon. Zachariuh Chandler,
United Stales Senator irom Michigan;
Chicago, 111. ; 66. ...8. Margaret L Eaton,
widow cl President Jackson secretary ol
war ; Washington ; 83 .... 10. Richard Sohe I,
a prominent Wall street financier; New
York; 69. ...11. Rear Admiral Augustus
II. Kilty, United States navy; Baltimore;
73.... 16. Colonel Frederick Von Werder,
a veteran of Waterloo and Moscow; Balti
more; 100. ...21. Peter Goelet, eccentric
New York millionaire; New York; 80.
22. Mrs. Charles Dickens, widow of the
novelist; London .... 23. Countess de Mon
tijo, mother ol ox-Empress Eugenie;
Madrid. Sniiiii; 79.
DECEMBER. 1. Major-General Jefferson
C. Davis, United States army; Chicago,
III.; 6W...6. Hon. Win tin op W.Ketcham,
fudge of tho U. S. distriot court lor the
western district ot Pennsylvania: Pitts.
burgh, Pa.; 69. William John Scott Bent-
wick, tilth Duke ol Portland; England;
70.... 8. Hon. A. MorrUon Lay, Congress
man Irom Missouri; Washington; 43
17. Ca'cratt, the notorious English hang-
man: London.
The South Carolina and Georgia al
manac for 1704, a copy of which has
fallen into the hands of the Charleston
(S, C.) A'iwj, contains a table in which
the populations of the chief cities of the
United htai.es are set down as follows
Philadelphia, 42,520; New Yolk, 30
000: Charleston. 20,000; Boston, 14,000
Baltimore, 13,503; Newport, 6,000. At
that time the entire population of the
country was less than 4,000,000.
Mr. John B. Clay U the only child of
Henry (Jlay who is uow living. He has
a comfortable home at Lexington. Kv
owning 200 of the paternal acre and
many ucuutuui hones,
To-Morrow.
Oh, thon to-morrow! Mystery!
Oh, day that ever runs belore!
What has thy hidden hand in store
For mine, to-morrow, and for me 7
Oh, thou to-morrow! what hast thou
In store to mate mo bear the now T
Oh, day in which we shall lorget
The tangled troubles ol to-day !
Oil, day that laughs at duns, at debts!
Oh, day of promises to pay !
Oh, shelter from all present storm!
' Oh, day in wbioh we shall roiorm!
Oh, safest, best day for reform!
Convenient day of promises!
Hold back the shadow ol the storm,
Oh, blest to-morrow! .Chiefest friend,
Let not thy mystery be less,
But lend us blindfold to tie end.
Joaquin Miller.
JTSMS OF INTEREST. .
The newsboys of New Orleans have a
Christian association.
Sweet potatoes are raised in Los An
gelos county, Cal.,' weighing twenty-ix
pounds each.
Canuibals don't like to eat a coward,
because the bravest are the tenderest.
Saturday Night.
An ounce of keep your mouth shut is
better than a pound of explanations after
you have said it. Free Press.
There are five daily papers published
at or in the immediate vicinty of Dead
wood, the Black Hills business center.
Strange as it may seem, people some
times get into hot water when there is
not a particle in the house. Rome
Sentinel.
Baron Nathan Rothschild, of Vienna,
pays his cook $2,500 a year, and spends
sixty dollars a day in wages to his thirty
other servants.
Species of the cactus plant, fifty feet
high, that grow up like acigar, and bear
delicious fruit have been discovered in
Arizona Territory.
Madison, Ind., has a pig that runs on
the commons with the cows, and draws
nourishment from them as they lie
chewing their cuds.
Young housewile, " What miserable
little eggs again! You really must tell
them, Jane, to let the hens sit on them
a little longer!" Ottawa Republican.
There are 13,000,000 milch cows in t he
United States, 8,961,221 in Germany,
4,513,705 in France, 3,708,766 in Great
Britain, and 1,350,576 in Sweden.
He looked as wise as an owl, did ho,
His tricks were well adjusted,
He declined to advertise, you. see,
And in a year he busted.
Hold Mail.
The sum of $180,000 was paid out at
Key West during tho year ending Octo
ber 31, for sponge. There are seventy
three vessels in the trade, manned by
250 men.
The Canadian postal authorities have
requested tho postmaster-general to take
measures to prevent the forwarding of
all publications sty lea Police liazette '
to the dominion, and such publications,
addressed to Cttnada, are declared un-
mailable.
A monument to Samuel Nelson, the
eminent jurist, being pioposed by the
people of Cooperslown, the Freeman's
Journal of that place, says: 'Heajonc
irom the time of Samuel, the first cir
cuit judge among the Jews, till the
present era, sat upon tne bench lor a
term of fifty years."''
What the Anti-Vaccinationists Allege.
It is charged in these statements: 1.
That several terrible diseases, such 11s
syphilis, eancer, consumption and
scrofulous diseases generally are widely
scat'.ered and communicated by vacci
nation. One vaccinator of twelve
years' experience is made to say, "If I
lian tue desire to describe one-tmra ot
the victims ruined by vaccination, the
blood would stand still in your veins."
Another, " I have seen hundreds of chil
dren killed by it." A medical journal
is quoted as saying that consumption
bus widely spread sinco tue introduc
tion of vaccination; which is very likely
also true as regards lawn-mowers and
pedestrian matches. A physician to the
london Cancer hospital declares that
many of the casi s of cancer treated at
that institution originated with vaoci
nalion! A physician testifies before a
uarliamentarY committee that eleven
out of thirteen children whom he had
vaccinated became syphilitic. Another
declares that a large proportion of ap
parently inherited sypliilis is really im
parted through vaccination. A largo
number of cases of various kinds arc
cited with full and harrowing details,
some of which have been subjects of
discussion in medical circles during the
past twelve or fourteen years. 2.
is charged that vaccination does
not protect its subjects from small-pox.
It is pronounced " not only an illusion
but a curse to humanity;" " the great-
est. mistake and delusion in the science
of medicine;" " a fanciful illusion iu the
mind of the discoverer, devoid of scicn-
Li lie foundation." It states that, out or
22,000 cases of smallpox treated in live
London hospitals iu tivo years, 17,000
had been vaccinated ; and, furthermore,
that since compulpory vaccination had
been established, the death rate from
smallpox had more than doubled. Such,
in brief, according to these very valua
ble statements, havo been t he results of
vaccination in England, and it is in con
trast with these statements that the re
sults of vaccination as practiced in the
city 01 New 1 ork are here presented.
ltpular Science Monthly.
An Absent-Minded Senator.
Ex-Senator Goldthwaite, of Alabama
was noted for his extreme absent-mindedness,
and ho was occasionally seen '
running about the Senate trying to get out
ana not able to una the door, lie would
have half the page boys in the Senate
uiuaiiiic 101 ins iimon-npti, wuicu wouiu
be all the while tit mly clasped in his
uanu. lie was mui u giving tu walking
up and down the lobby, plunged in deep
thought, often smoking a flagrant
Havana, and entirely ohlivious of all
things around him. Often some cheeky
page of the Senate would walk up and
a-k the Senator for a light. Mr. Goldth
waite would mechanically hand over Iris
cigar, the boy would take a light, put
the choice weed in his precious mouth,
and hand over his old stump to the old
gentleman, who would continue his
etro'.l in blissful ignorance. It is related
on good authority that, in one of his fits
i t abstraction, lie wtlked into the Sen
ate elevator, dropped a nickel into the
hole back of the mirror, and c almly re.
MUesfd to be let cu at 'A Bliett.-"-Washington
LiU.tr t