33k Jcrwt gcpuUtea. IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY W It. DUNN. OFFICE IN ROBINSON & BORNEB'B BUHDIKO ELM 8TEEET, TIONESTA, PA. Iiatos of Advci t. One Square (1 inch,) one insertion OnoHijuare " one month -One Hanaro " three months OneHiiarn " one year - Two Squares, one year - -QuarterCol. " - C Half " " -One " ' fl O - H HI 10 0 15 t0 - 3(1 00 - f0 CO 100 CO M TKItMS, $2.M A YKAU. No Subscription received for a ahorter period than three months. Vn Tespondenco solicitor from nil part r tin- country. No uotico will bo taken of anonymous communications. Legal notices at established rales. . Marriage and death notices, gratis. All bills for yearlv advertisements col lected quarterly, temporary advertise, ments must be paid for in advance. Job work, Cash on Delivery. VOL. X. NO. 45. TIONESTA, PA., FEB. 13, 1878. $2 PER ANNUM. Gray Hairs. ' It can not be 1 Hold up the light i Closor the other way ; I Yos, child, your laughing eyes' guess was right, My hair la turning gray. I Among thoHo tresses, long my pride, ' A thread of silvery shren Has dared audacioiiFly to Lido Their rippUng waves between. Ah me ! when youth and childhood seom Scarce to have have passed away, 'Tls sad to startlo from one's dream And find ono's hair is gray. I know the fire burns In my heart Or flashes from my eye - As Cercoly as it used to start In days so long gono by. . 1 kaow I feel, I love, I hate, As keenly as of yore I had not doomed it was so late - Chill age stood at tho doo Lifo's hours seem more than ever full And Joy crowns every day, Yet o'er their current comes a lull My hair is turning gray. You offer comfort, darling say Tho silver lies alone ; Compauionlcss it will not stay Ere many months have flown. Oray hairsou think a circlet bright To crown a regal head ; One UKcd to praiso their raven light In halcyon evoniugs tl d. Hut ah ! that voice is silent now, That form is laid away, The lips are cloned that urad to tow Long ere my hair was gray. Well, lot it come Ihe silver sign . I live again in thee j Thy tresses are as surely mine And still more fair to ee, For morning's gold is glinting back, And morning's purple lie Al ng my darling's suuny track, Rolleo ed iu her eye. What matter, since her young life grows More brilliant every day ? Her mother grieves not, tho' be knows ner hair is turning gray. Ah well ! the ol juds havo often rifts Thtir masses dark between ; As suddenly the topmost lifts A silver ray U seen. It may be God draws back tho clouds That bar it from my view. And I cau bail its path of light Which m irks my upward way, And so give thanks because this night My hair is turning gray. ANDREWS' RAID. A TIiniLLING NAHHATIVK OF THE WAlt. In March of 1F62 the. ci nfederate nrroy of ihe West wns concentrated at Corinth, Miss., under Beauregard. army receive I its supplier from the rich Georgia aud Carolina fields, and its re enforcements from extensive drill camps in these States. These troops nnd sup plies were forwarded over a single line of railroad the Western and Atlantic running from Atlanta, G-, to Chatta nooga, Tenn. , which had been, not in aptly called " the backbone of the con federacy. ' Tho niovt ments, present and productive, of the fedornl armies rendered it voiy impoitant that Beaure gard should be cut off from tho camps and granaries iu his rear. But as this railroad that was his channel of com munication ran through the very heart of the confederate country, ond was guarded by numberless soldiers ou all sides, it wns felt to be impossible to isolate tho wily commander. Just at this time a-iaan named J. J. Andrews, a Keutuckian, and thoroughly devoted to the Union cause., sought an interview with Gen. Mitchell and offered with a detail of twenty men to penetrate the enemy's country in disguise, capture an engine and bum the bridges, of tho Western and Atlantic roatV Th project was consideredimpossible; bntAudrews persisted that he could accomplish it, and at length he was empowered to make the attempt. It was agreed that if he succeeded he was to be paid $50,000. He selected as his lieutenaut, Wm. Camp bell, a Kentnckmn, and was .furnished with a detail of twenty men from tho Second, Twenty-first aud Thirty-third Ohio regiments. Only one man was taken from each company. Ou the Gth of Apsil, at four o'clock, tho meu.i iu the disguise of citizens, left thtir campH to rendezvous at Sbelbyville, the federal camp being at Murfreesboro. At about midnight the twenty-two determined men met iu the woods beyond Shelbyville, and the daring plot was for the first time un folded to the detailed soldiers. The council over, the raiders scattered into squads of two or three and started for Chattanooga, tho northern terminus of the Western and A lan tic road. To reach this they were compelled to march through 133 miles of the enemy's country, with soldiers standing guard over every road. After exciting adven tures, the whole party reached Chatta nooga, and, in company with hundreds of confederates who were hurrying to the front to join Beauregard, boarded the train. They had arranged to ride to Marietta, rest there during the night, and start back toward Chattanooga the next day and bui n the bridges as they came. They reached Marietta, went to the hotel, registered aud turned in for a night's rest. They were in the very heart of the enemy's country, with no possible succor within two hundrel miles, ond were determined on the next day to burn the bridges and des'roy the rails of a road thut was the vital artery of the confederacy, aud that was liter ally lined with soidiers. At four o'clock in the moruing men were awakened and hurried on train. Their geueral scheme involved the seizure of tho truiu by some means or other. The troiu once captured, they were to be pushed ahead, buru the bridges, and destroy the track. The details of this plan were not arranged. Whether the tram should be captured by a trick, or by a direct assault upon the forces commanding it, was not de termined upon. The wholo allair was intrusted to Andrews. His men were to watch him closely, aud obey his slightest sign. The train pulled slowly out of Mari etta, and after an hour or so reached Big Shanty, where it stopped lor break fast. Big Shanty was a drill camp, and about 10,000 soldiers were stationed there. The engineer, conductor, and passengers were in the hotel at break fast. The " xankees " nau gone iu with the rest, aud were quietly eating their breakfast. Suddenly Andrews ap peared at the door of the eating hall and said, in a leisurely way : Well, boys, if you are done, let us go and get our Beats." Immediately his twenty-ono men arose and started out of the hall. Their hearts were bounding wildly within their breasts, and their faces must have paled with resolution, for they knew that the honr of their trial had come. And yet they, walked coolly and tranquilly out of that room, conscious that they must move so leis urely as to avoid suspicion. Yhen they reached the door they found Andrews awaiting them. As they came out he gave each man a hurried whispered word of instruction. Then taking three men with him, ) walked slowly aud apparently aimlessly in the direction of the unguarded engine, in tncmean time one of his band had slipped in be tween the baggage and passenger cars and uncoupled them, leaving only three cars attached to the engine. The other members of the band stood by the open doors of the baggage cars, ready to leap into them at a moment s notice. Sev eral thousand confederate soldiers were standing around in sight, many of them almost touching the cars. As soon as Andrews and his three companions reached the engine, they leaped briskly upon it, he having first given a subtle signal with his hand that whisked the other raiders into the baggage car as if by magic. Then the throttle of Ihe engine was opened, her lever was pulled back to its utmost stretch ; the great iron monster thrilled for a moment, trembled uneasily, then flattened to the track, and went flying away towards the west. Not until the engine was fairly out of sight did the crowd begin. to understand what had been done. When the truth was realized the most frantic uproar arose; the mass of soldiers, citi zens and train hands huddled upon the track iu pitiable confusion; yells of rago swelled into the air, and the sharp 1 1 t n k. cracKio oi comment Drone uie luuuuiuuf. Suddenly two men, hatless and coatless, sped from out of this bewildered crowd, and with pale, determined faces, started in pursuit of the engino. These were the conductor and engineer, Messrs. Fuller and Murphy, who. on foot, amid the sudden and uncontrolled laughter of the crowd, started out to catch the men, who were flying away at the rate of sixty miles an hour with their train. The twenty-two men upon the engiue had an almost impossible task before them. They had to burn the bridges upon their route they had to cut the telegraph wire as they proceeded to pre vent the alarm preceding them they had to meet and pass two of the regular trains of the road they were followed by maddened enemies and evenif they should reach Chattanooga, the terminus of the road, in safety, they would find themselves in a strongly fortified post of the enemy a hundred miles from their own lines and in momentary ex pectation of the sight of their pursuers. And yet they went ahead, bravely and carefully. When out about one mile from the. station (where there was no telegraph operator) they stopped and cut down the wire aud pulled up a rail or two. Remounting thoir engine, they hurried on. When they reached the first station above Big Shanty they told tho tanktender that they were pulling through an extra powder train for Beau regard, and asked for a schedule. Ho gave them one, ana tney ioumi mat they would meet the down passenger train a' few stations above. Having more than enough time to make the schedule, they pulled along leisurely, stopping occasionally to tsar up the track. They had no tools with which to take up the rails, and had to batter them down with hammers. While en gaged at this work they were astounded at hearing a short distance behind them the whistle of an engine in pursuit. With one convulsive effort they tore up the rails they were hammering at and remounted their engine. As they did so they saw the engine manned" by their . . 1 il lAl.-i nursuers rush around the curve. It was stopped by me. torn tracK, anci in the mean time the raiders flew out of sight. They had to stop so frequently, however, to cut the wire that their pur suers kept in eight nearly all the way. The chase was a headlong one. Two men s'ood on the cow catcher of the pur suing engine, to leap off and remove ob structions from the track and to tear up rails from behind the engine and lay them down in front. At length, just as they were nearing the station where they were to meet the down train, the raiders succeeded iu tearing up the track very badly and loading their baggage car with some fifty rails. They then drew in on the siding and waited for tho down train to clear the track. They told the powder train story to the con ductor ef this train. As they pulled out they saw their pur suers reach the broken track and halt their engiue. Two men (the conductor and engineer of the stolen train) jumped the the off and ran townrd the down train. They boarded it and hastily turned it back and pushed wrong end foremost, in pursuit of the flying raiders. Thou there was an open track and a fair race. Through village after village the two trains new like lightning. Having to stop occasion ally to cut the telegraph wires, Andrews saw that it was necessary te force bis pursuers to halt also. Consequently ho knocked the renr end of the last baggage car out, and dropped crosstiea and rails upon the track in front of the pursuing train. At last when he was pushed very close, he uncoupled one ol the cars and left it drifting upon the track, Ihe Confederates halted an instant, coupled it to their train, and hurried on again, pushing it ahead of them. Another car was finally dropped, and at length tue last car vas kindled into a blaze and left upon a high bridge, in tho hope that it might burn the bridge and thus check the pursuers. But it was impossible, with the whirling at such enormous speed, to get the blaze fully started, and it went out before it enkindled the bridge, The pursuing train coupled this car and swept on Chattanooga was now only twenty miles distant, but the foremost engine was in a sad plight. Its brass journals were all melted down; its wood and water were exhausted, and progress was vir tually ended. A hurried council of war was held, and a bold and brilliant plan was determined upon. It was decided to let one of the raiders pull the engine out of sight around a curve, while the others disembarked, tore up the track, and hid in the brush near the road. Then, when the train of the pursuers ar rived, and the forces on it were engaged in repairing the track, the ambushed men would spring upon them, disperse them, and send their train sweeping back down the road to wreck everything behind it, and give the raiders -time to escape. But just as this plan was deter mined upon, the pursuing train rushed in sight, and bore down rapidly on the doomed engine. Seeiug that they would inevitably be run down in a very few moments. Andrews orderedjhis men to take to. the woods and save themselves, and shaking the hands of his comrades, who were huddled upon the tender, leaped from the 'flying engine, and was soon lost in the woods. He was followed by his men, who jumped from one side or the ether aud took to the nearest shelter. We recur to Messrs. Murpiiy aud Fuller, who set upon foot from Big Shanty iu pursuit of the stolen engine. As absurd as that foot-race appeared, it was tho meaus of baflling the scheme of the determined raiders. Murphy and Fuller ran on foot for about three miles as fast as they couiu nurry, uaviug uu definite, plan except to go ahead. After they had gone three miles they came upon a hand-car, which was lying upon the side of the track. It was used to move the road workers about. Futting this car ilpon the track, and impressing a force of negroes they hurried on, push ing it up grade with poles, and letting it fly down grade of its own weight. They made pretty good time with this, and at last reached a station where a side road ran out to a coal mine. An engine ready fired was standing here. They impress ed it, and put it through its best paces until they reached Kingston, where the engine of the Rome railroad (a bran -h of the Western and Atlantic railroad) was awaiting the up train. They seized this and continued their pursuit. With this engine they came insight of the stolen train. They followed it until they came to the place where the track was so badly torn they could not replace it. They theu started on foot again, and loon met the down passenger 'train which they at once turned backward, and pressed the runaways so close that they had to take to the woods. Thus it will be seen that three engines and a haud-ear were used consecutively iu this wild and headlong chase after the raiders. As an evidence of the tremendous speed made in this run, it is said that the down passenger train which was re versed went fifty-two miles in sixty-one minutes, pushing a train ahead of it for several miles, stopping frequently to re move obstructions. Of cone ie the men who leaped from the stolen engine had very little chauee of escape. They were surrounded on every side bv enemies. Within a few hundred yards of where they left their engine two regiments of cavalry were aiifliimriAil. Tfc was muster day at Rincl gold, two miles away, and hundreds ol, farmers, armed aud mounted, were col- lected there. The road was lined with soldiers. The alarm had been sent to Chattanooga by telegraph, aud trains loaded with troops and scouts were hur rying to the, sceue. The day w as dark, cloudy, and' rainy. The ruiders were unacquainted with the country, aud with stars and sun hidden, did not know the south from the north. They plunged into the woods, however, and struck out for the Tennessee river. Iu au hour the whole county was alive with scouts aud hunters. There was not a by path or cross road that was not thoroughly explored. To add to the terrors of the situation, well-trained hounds were put upon the track of the fugitives, aud trailed them down with unerring cer tainty. The hunt, though au exciting, was not a loug oue. Iu twenty four hours from the time they left the engine every member of the baud was cap tured. They were in a pitiable plight when taken. They were drenched to tho skin covered with dirt and filth in tho last stages of exhaustion, an 1 almost starved. The story of their ad ventures in the Georgia forest that night is a wild and thrilliug one. It was a night of lienor. At first the prisoners denied any c im plicitly with the train-wrecking. They claimed to be citizens of Kentucky, dis gusted with Lincoln, and trying to join the confederatearmy. Being confronted, with citizens of Kentucky, however, they were not ablo to carry out this fiction, and they then told a straight story claiming that they were soldiers of the United States army, detoiled to special service, and entitled to be held as prison ers of war. The confederate authorities charged them with being spies, and ordered them to be tried by a court martial. They were given able counsel, Judge Baxter of Tennessee being in charge of their case. Before the trial opened, Andrews, the leader, who was never put upon the same footing with the others, was carried before a court martial and condemned to be hung as a spy. The witnesses against him were tho men from whom he had btolen the train, though his own admissions were held to be sufficient to convict him. A scaffold was prepared for him at Chatta nooga, but the near approach of the federal troops caused his removal to At lanta. Just before his death he made a daring attempt to escape, and succeeded in making his way nearly through the lines. He was finally discovered, naked aud nearly starved, iu a tree, by some little children who were playing in the woods. They reported his presence, and he was speeuily surrounded and cap tured. He was then hanged almost im mediately. His scaffold was erected a short distance outside of Atlanta, about the centre of what is now a cotton held, ne died very bravely, protesting against the manner of his death, and claiming that he was executed in violation of law. He was a magnificent specimen of man hood, and was engaged to be married to a beautiful young Kentucky girl within a few days of the date of his hanging. There were no unusual circumstances attending his execution. He died quick ly, and apparently without much suffer ing. When the trial of the rest of the band had begun, it was discovered that the court martial had determined to make a difference between the men who had been promised a share of the $50,000, to be given at the close of the expedition, and those who were simply detailed for service without knowing the precise nature of the expedition. The prisoners relied upon the fact that the whole twenty men wee detached for this Bervice from the same brigade, and that their raid was hence a military expedi tion, and not the work of spies. They defended their having adopted citizens' dress by citing instances where Mov- gan s raiders having Deen capturea in squadrons in civilians' clothes, were treated by the federals as prisoners of war. The trial was a lengthy, tedious one, and the decision was reserved for some days. One day the men were in their prison playing ' checkers upon the floor and singing quite hierrily, when some one called attention to the fact that a large body of horsemen had halted in front of the jail door. It was noticed that an immense mass of people was collected in the streets near the prison. The door was thrown open and an officer standing in the doorway called for William Campbell of Kentucky, Geo. D. Wilson, Marion A; Ross, Perry G. Shad rack, Samuel SlavenB, Samuel Robin son and John Scott of Ohio. The men aroBe as they were called, except Robin son, who was very in witn a lever, and hail to be raised to nis leet ana sup ported while he stood. The officer con manded the men to follow him, and they left the room with him. The prisoners who were left were in a deplorable state of uncertainty. They did not know whether their comrades had been carried out for exchange or parole or death. No intimation of the decision of the court had been given. At length they re turned, headed by George Wilson, wlo, with a face as pale as death, said : " Boys, .we are to be hung immediately. The guards came in with the men, and tied them hand and foot. During this preparation, the condemned men took a last farewell of their comrades, Wilson, who had been for years an un believer, turned to rittenger, a com railo who was quite religions, and said "Oh, Fittenger, I know that you are right," and theu, turning to his friends, he said : " Boys, when you come to die, try to b better prepared than I am now I" Shadrack, who had been the wit of the party, but a profane aud reckleps man, said : "If I were only prepared to meet mv God, I would be satisfied." He was urged by Pittenger to calm him and think of Heaven, but he re- r-.;:d : " It is too late, now but I'll try, I'll try !" Slavens, who was a man of immense stature, turned towara nis friends, and said : " Oh, boys, tell my wife aiAl children !" and then broke com pletely down, and could say no more. Youug Soott, who was married only three days before he left for the army, never said a word from the time his sentence was announced. His lips were drawn tight across his mouth, aud his hands clasped in front of him. He never spoke a word. Ross is said to have been the firmest of them all. He said : " Boys, if any of you esoape, tell them I died for my country ; that I died like a man, aud do not regret it." Robinson, so ill that he could hardly speak, and could not rttaud, had to be carried from the room. Only about three minutes were consumed in tho preparations. Ihe men were then carried through the front door and placed ia an open cart. The cart was surrounded by a heavy force of cavalry, and au immense throng of sight seers accompanied it. The Dlace selected for the hauuiuir was within the city limits. An .' . . .. .. . euor lii.ms scaftold was erected, it being a notably low one. The scaffold was fur nished with a trap floor, which sank lioiu beneath the feet of the men at the springing of a trigger. After the men had ascended the plank, and the nooses had been adjusted, George Wilsou asked to be allowed to make a statement. Per mission wns granted him, and, standing there, iu the shadow of a violent uenin, with the fatal rope about his neck chok ing his voice down, ho made a speecn that went to the heart of every man that heard it. He Fpoke without a tremor, and with calm and distinct utterance. He said it was not the part of brave men to murmur nt death when they were brought face to face with it, and that he had nothing to say against the decree of the court that had brought him to the scaffold. He decried, however, in the name of his comrades and iu the name of justice, the manner of the death to which they had been brought. It was not such a death as soldiers deserved. After Wilson had concluded, the trap was sprung. The men fell simulta neously, aud the crowd averted their faceB for an instant. When they looked at the scaffold agaiu only five men were hanging. Slavens and Campbell, wno were very large men. had broken the ropes and fallen upon the ground. They were writhing there in great agony, half strangled, and the noose still press ing about their necks. The crowd made a rush toward the prostrate men. The lieutenant in charge of the hanging drew his sword and. standing over the men. drove the crowd back. The rope was epeedilv loosed from the neeks of the victims, and they were assisted into a sittiug posture. They recovered their senses in a moment, and both begged for a drink of water. This was given Mi p.m. And revived them very much, The ropes were then readjusted, and the two men were made to reascend the scaffold. Their comrades were corpses The trap was set again, and the fatal trigger was touched once more. The men fell with a dull, heavy thud, Campbell's neck being apparently bro ken by the fall. Slavens, however, was loomed to stall mrtner torture, nis . -a immense weight, and size were such that his feet touched the ground. His convulsions were terrible. His feet woukl touch the ground and relieve the strangulation, and then his convulsions would renew it. At once a bystander seized a shovel, pushed the ground from under Slavens' feet, and tho brave man's sufferings were Boon at an end. The bodies were buried near the scauold. Of the remaining prisoners none was hauged. By a most daring sally from their prison, eight of the men escaped. They seized the inside guard of the prison, gagged him, took his keys, opened the front door, overpowered the sentinels, aud wrested their arms from them, and after a terrible hand-to-hand combat, fought their way through the yard, and succeeded in pushing througn the federal lines, which were now quite near to them. These men were all of Ohio. Their comrades attempted to escape with them, but were all wounded or driven back before they could get beyond the yard. These men, all of Ohio, were kept in prison for several mouths, aud exchanged in March. The United States government gave very handsome medals to the survivors of this terrible raid, and provided for the fami lies of those who were killed. The first medal was given to Jacob Parrott, a mere boy. Detroit Free Pre. Uncontrollable Tempers. Tho Emperor of Nerva died of a vio lent excess of anger against a Sena tor who had offended him. Valentinian, the first Roman emperor of that name, while reproaching with great passion the deputies from Ojnadi, a people of Germany, burst a blood vessel and sud denly fell lifeless to the ground. "I have"seeu," said Tourtello, a French medical writer, "two women perish, the one in convulsions at the end of six hours, aud fhe other suffocated in two days, from giving themselves up to the transports of fury." Tho celebrated John Hunter fell a victim to a paroxysm of this passion. Mr. Hunter, as is familiar to medical readers, wos a man of extraordinary genius, but the subject of violent anger ; which, irom the de fect of early education, he had not learn ed to control. Suffering during his later years under a complarnt of the heart, his existence was in constant jeopardy from his ungovernable temper, and he has beeu heard to remark that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to anuoy him. J.ugaged one day in an uupleasaut altercatiou with his colleagues iu the board room at St. George's hospital, London, he was by one of them peremptorily contra dicted ; he immediately ceased speak ing, hurried into au adjoining apart ment, and instantly fell dead. When the fit of auger is of long continuance or frequent recurrence, it often lays tho foundation of some most serious aud lasting ulliictions ; thus many cases of palsy, of epilepsy, of convulsion and of madness may be traced to violent auger and ungovernable temper. Dr. Good cites tho case of the unfortunate and insane Charles VI. of France, " who be ing violently inoeused againt the Duke of Bretagua, and burning with a spirit of malice and revenge, could neither eat, drink, nor sleep for mauy days together, aud at length became furiously mad as he was riding ou horseback, drawing his sword and striking promiscuously every oue who approached him. Finally tho insanity became chronio, fixed upon his intellect, and accompanied him to his C'eath. Thiht v Millions Stolen. The money stolen in the United States during the ! past four years beginning at a period a. -...!.. i .n. ..f iu7-i i.i just prior to the panic of 1873 by reason of defalcations, embezzlements, aud breaches of trust on the part of city and county officials, bank officers, executors of estates, etc., foots up at over $30,000- Items of Interest. New York florist exhibits a grecu A rose. Texns editors clamor for the re-estab lishment of the whipping-post for de- liuquent subscribers. ' A recent poem has the following line i. A tear danced in her eye." That tear must have been at the eyeball. Strawberries fade with the goutle spring, - - The ice cream season pannes ; . But after all stern winter bring, The buckwheat cakeB and lasses. . : Mort-gage is a Latin word, and means "death-grip." This is worth thinking" of when ono wants to get hold oi"9tuf , house. Never take the bull bi the horns, young man, but take him bi the tale, then you kan let go when yon want to. Joth Billing. When a man observes to his loqua cious wife : "With all thy faults I love thee still," the probabilities are that that is just the time Bhe won't keep still. " Liquor started it, liquor kept it up, and liquor ends it," said Thorp, who was hung at Auburn, N. Y., recently. Here's a whole temperance sermon in eleven words. The model husband has been found ia Albany. He don't permit his wife to do more than half the work. She puts up the canned fruit in summer, and he puts it down in winter, A little girl iu Reading, Pa., who was hit with a snowball by a boy, promptly tripped the offending youth up and rubbed his face vigorously in the snow, and an admiring bystander, at the close, gave her a silver half dollar. It is when a dry goods clerk of ninety seven pounds weight attempts to help irom a wagon a lumiei n ui Eounds weight, that the reporter seats imself contentedly on the curbstone, aud waits for the catastrophe. Home Sentinel. As my wife and I at the window one day Stood wa'chiog a man with a monkey. . A cart cam1) by witi " a brah of a boy," Who was dr.ving a stent lit' la donley. To my w.fe tben 1 spo'io, by wy of a jone, "There's a relation of yours in that carriage.' To which she rtpliad, as the donkey she spied, "Ah, vds, a r.Ution by marriage." . The production of gold in the United States, anterior to lsoa, looted up iu round numbers $530,000,000, of which period the greatest product ion, for one year was $(15,000,000, in 1853. From 1858 to IHlit the aggregato prouuctiou was 8807,700,000, making the total yield by the country, including 1875, 1,332, 000,000. New York State has reduced her debt in the past year $12,000,000, having he sinking funds with which to pay off that amount when it fell due. Her debt has steadily fallen from $52,000,000 in 18G6 to $10,000,000 now, and will be entirely swept off within a few years. In the same time the debt of Massa chusetts has risen from $19,000,000 to $35,500,000. Sprlny field Ma.) Jie imblican. Wm. Dooley, an amateur detective in b 'arch of two cattle thieves, found them at church at White Sulphur, Ky., whereupon, pistol in hand, ho informed preacher aud congregation that they were all under arrest. While everybody looked astonished, he picked out his men, marched them out of the building at the muzzle of his weapon, and, turn- ia: on the step, shouted to the minister that he could go on with the benedic tion. A burning chimney, when the soot has been lighted by a fire in the fire place, can be e xtinguished by shutting all the doors in the room so as to pre vent any enrreut of air up the chimney, then, by throwing a few handfuls of common fine salt upon the tire in the grate or ou the hearth, the lire in the chimney will be immediately extin guished. The philosophy of this is that iu the process of burning the salt mu riatic acid is evolved, which is a prompt extinguisher of fires. THE CHlLDllES. Ah ! what would the world be to us If tha childifcn were no more? We should dread tho desert behind us Worse than the dark before. What the leaves are to tho forent, With light aud air for food, l'.re thtir swet and tendur Juices Have beeu hardened into wood That, to the woild, are childroi ; Through them it feels the glow Of a brighter and sunnier climate 1 han reaches the trunks below. Ijtmgftllwn. The communists of the animal world are the ants, bees and such creatures. They live in communities, iu which all possessions are in common, aud all work for the general good. The reason of this is supposed to We that the majority of the members are uon-sexual, and con tlv can have no stronger attrac tion for one individual than another. At the same time they have implanted in them an intense working instinct. It is obvious, theu, that in the absence of a similar neuter order among mankind, auy attempt to imitate ant Boeiety or communism iu human associationii is futile and unnatural. While the newspapers of the East are describing the deeds of men wh wrestle with boars, who dance for twelve con secutive hours, and who perform other feats of skill and endurance, those of tho West chronicle the exploits of a more practical nature. Here . is oue Waedam of Louisberg. Ky., who has husked oue hundred and five bushels of corn in seven hours ; .i" who has killed two hundrel aud seven teen mountain deer ; and a Pacifio red way engineer who hasn't missed a ti ; silica the road was opened with 1 cord wood choppers and the ru ciib hcis vet to be heard from
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