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THE CONSTITUTION THI C5I0N AND TBS ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
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VOL. XXIX.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., JULY 21. 1S75.
NO. 29,
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BY BlTABI) TAVLOR.
"It vu onr wedding day
A month ago," dear heart, I hear Ton say.
If months, or Tears, or ages since have passed,
I know not ; I have ceased to question Time.
I ouly know that once there pealed a chime
Of joyous bells, and then I held yon fast.
And all stood back, and none my right denied.
And forth we walked ; the world was free and
fide "
Ofore us. Since that day
I count my life ; the Past is washed away.
It was no dream, that tow ;
It was the Toice that woke me from a dream,
A bappy dream, I think ; bat I am waking now,
And drink the apieixlor of a sun supreme
lliat turns the mist of former years to gold.
Within these arms I bold
The fleeting promise, chased so long in Tain ;
Ah. weary bird! thou wilt not fly again ;
Thy wings are clipied, thou canst no more de-
part.
Thy nest is buililed in my heart !
I was the crescent ; thou.
The silver phantom of the perfect sphere,
Held in its bosom ; in one glory now
Our lives united shine, and many a year
Not the sweet moon of bridal only we
One lustre, ever at the full, shall be :
One pure and rounded light, one planet whole,
ne life developed, one completed soul ?
Fur I in thee, and thou in me,
I'uite our cloven halves of destiny.
iodkuew his chosen time.
He bade me slowly ripen to my prime.
And from my houghs withheld the promised
fruit,
Till storm and sun gave vigor to the shoot.
Secure. O Love ! secure
Thy blessing is : I hare thee day and uii;ht ;
Thou art become my blood, my life, my light ;
il's mercy thou, and therefore shalt endure.
A Pawn-ttroker's Incident.
As a pawn-broker in a lxipuloiis sul-
iii li of iiiiln, 1 haw hail ihi m-hiu to
! painful. and sometimes not unplcasing
phases of society. Just to give an idea
of what orra-iionallv cone's under tin"
noti.t- of )x-rsons in my profession, I
shall descrilx- a lit lie incident ami its
coiiscoil.-nces. One evening I stcpix-d
!t the iloor for .1 litlle fresh air.an.lt.
look alx.ut me for a moment. While I
v, as gazing nit ami lou n the road, 1 saw
a tidily-dre-sed young person step up to
our side-door. She walked like a ladv
and let me tell you that ill nine eases out
of ten it's the w alk, and thedrcss, which
distinguishes the ladv from tin; servant-
girl and first she looked alxut, ami
then she seemed to make up her mind in
a Hurried sort of way, ami in a moment
re was standing at our counter, hold
ing out a glittering seal in a little trem
bling hand invered with a worn kill
glove.
My assistant, Isaacs, w as stepping for
ward to take the seal, when 1 came ill
and iiiteiMiseil. The xxir young tiling
w as so nervous and shy, and altogether
x unused to this work, that I felt, for
her as if she had Ix-en my own daughter
almost. She couldn't have Ixt-n more
than eighteen years old; txi frail anil
gentle a creature.
"If you please, w ill you tell me," sin
said timidly, in a very sweet, low voice,
trembling with nervousness, "what, is
the value of this seal Y"
"W ell. Miss," taking tin? seal into my
hand and hx.king at it it was an old
fashioned seal, such as country gentle
man used to wear, with a coal-of-arins
cut umiii it "that dcx-nls ii u whether
vi'il want to pledge it, or to sell it out
right." "I am married, sir," ami she said the
words proudly, and w it la dignity, though
Mill so shy and seeming ready U .burst
out crying; "and my husband is very
ill and uml "
Ami then the tears wouldn't Ikv kept
hack anv longer, and she soblx-d as if
tier r little In-art would break.
"There, there, my dear," I said to her;
don't cry ; it will all come right in time;"
and tried to i-niufort her as well as I
could in my own rough and ready way.
"I w ill h-nil you ma'am," I said to her
at last, 4 I sovereign tixu this sc.-. I ; and
if you w ish to sell it, perhas I may lie
aide to sell it for you to advantage."
And so I jrave Iter a muiii : it was
more than the thing was worth as a
pledge; and slie tripH-d away with a
lighter heart, ami many thanks to mc,
and I thought no more of the matter at
the time
The very next day, the day liefore
hristmas, there came into our plait, of
business a very eiit-ntric gentleman,
w ho had called upon us pretty often be
fore, not for the sake of pawning any
thing, though lie was generally dressed
-hahhy enough, foo. jtut he was a col
lector one of those men who arc mad
iiniii old china and curiosities of all
sorts.
"Anything in my way to-day, Mr.
Davis?" he said, in his iiiick energetic
manner, with a jolly smile iihiu his
fait, and putting .low u the cigarette he
was smoking iimii the edge of the
counter.
The Kev. Mr. Ilroadnian is a collector
of gems and rings and seals, anil in fai t
of any stones that have heads or figures
engraved iixn them, and I had been in
the habit of putting aside for him what
ever in this way passed through our
hands, for he gave us a Ix-ttur price than
we should get for them at the duarterly
sales.
"The fact is, Davis," he used to say to
tin-, "these things arc invaluable. Many
f them are as Ix-autiful, on a small i
scale, as the old (ireek sculptures, and
some of theui even by the same artists,
and they are made no longer, you see,
fur in this buy nineteenth, century of
ours time ami brains are too precious to
l- sient on these lalx.rious trillcs."
Now, although I had no stones of the
kind he wanted just then, it entered into
in v head that I would tell him alx.ut the
seal w hich had come into my ixisscssiou
lite evening liefore.
1 told him the story somewhat as I
have just told it to you. lie listened
attentively to all I said. When Iliad
done, he looked at the seal, and said :
-1 observe that it lias the heraldic
emblem of a baronet."
lie then congratulated me Uxin the
way in which I had acted. He asked,
too. for this young lady's address, w hich
-he had given me quite eorrei-t,atiil then
he left the shop without another word.
You must give me leave to tell the rest
of the story in my own way, although it
may In- a very different from that
which the reverend personage employed
in relating it to me afterward.
It seemed that it was a runaway
match. A country baronet's sou who
had fallen in love with the clergyman's
daughter in the village where his father
lived, and they had run away together,
and got married. Tlien they came up
to Iomlon, these two mor young things,
for neither his father nor hers either,
for the matter of that, would have any
thing to say to the match he full of
ho-cs of getting on in the literary ami
artistic line; and she, j-oor creature,
full of trust in him.
The project of living by literature did
not turn out what was expected. The
young fellow, without experien.f or!
friends, spent much time going alxmt
from one publisher to another au! send
ing his writings to the editors of the
various magazines which, I need not
say, were all "returned with thanks."
And then he fell ill; typhus, I fancy,
brought on by insutlicieiit nourishment
and had drainage and disaimointed
hniies. The registrar-general doesn't
give a return of these cases in any li
inai i am aware of. liut we see some
thing of them in our line of. bnsi ness
nevertlM-less.
It was just at this time that Mr.
Ti road man found out Mrs. Vincent ; for
that was the name of the young lady
who came to mr shop with the gold seai.
Cambridge terrace is not very far from
the Angel at Islington, and" there was
little back street of small respectable
nouses, inhabited by junior clerks, with
here and there a lodging house, in one
of which Mr. anil Mrs. Vincent lived.
They were rather shy at first of a
stranger, and a little proud and haughty
ix-rhaps. People who have sit-n better
days, and are dowu Uxn their luck, art-
apt to lie so. I5ut the parson, with his
pleasant ways and cheery voice, soon
made it all right; and in a jilfy, he and
Mr. Vim-ent were talking about col
lege, for they hail fxrth Ix-en to the same
university. And there was soon even a
smile too a wan smile enough uimui
the oor invalid's sharp-cut, thin face,
with the hollow, far-away eyes, which
looki-d at you as if out of a cavern. lie
was the wreck of a line young fellow,
too; of one who had been used to his
hunting ami shooting, and all the fine
country sxrts which make broad
chested, strong-limlK-d country people
the envy of us poor, thin, pale town
folk. Mr. Brnadman came directly to nie
when he left them. I did not "live far
off, and he thought that I might lend
them a neighlxir's help. "1 avis," said
he, "that xxr fellow- is dying; 1 can see
death in his eyes."
"What is lie a-dyingof?" I replied.
II'- looked at me steadfastly a moment,
and I could see a moisture in his eye, as
he said, slowly and solemnly : "Of star
vation, Davis of actual want of fond."
"A gentleman starving, in London, in
Islington, a baronet's son, too! why,
it's incredible."
"Xot at all," said Mr. Broadtnan;
these are the very people w ho do die of
starvation in londou, and in great
cities. Xot the xxir, who know- w here
the workhouse is, and who can get at
the relieving ollicer, if the w orst comes
to worst: but the well Ixirn, who have
fallen into destitute poverty, and w ho
carry pride with them, and dive into a
back alley like some w ild animal into a
hole, t die alone. Mr. Vimt-nt wants
w ine and jellies, and all sorts of gixxl
things, if help hasn't come bx late. Xo,
no, my friend," he continued, putting
back my hand, for I was ready to give
my money in a projx-r cause. "Xo, no;
I have left them all they want at present
Iavis. ltut I'll tell you w hat you can
do; you can, if you like to play thegixxl
Samaritan, go ami see them, and cheer
them up a hit. Mrs. Vim-ent hasn't
forgotten your kindness to her, I can
assure you, and 1 think her husband
would like to thank you too, ami it
would rouse him up a bit, jsTliaps."
And then Mr. Itroadnian told me,
shortly, something of what those two
pixir things had gone through she,
loving and trusting him so; and he,
half mad he had brought her to this
pa-. and could do nothing for her.
Mr. Itroadnian wrote that very day to
the baronet; a proud, hard man, I'm
told. 15ut the letter he wrote back was
soft enough, and melting ton-ad; it was
so full of human nature, you see the
father's heart sw elling up at the thought
of getting bark his son; and bursting
through the thick crust of pride which
had prevent.il him from making the
first advances. And the jnirson says to
me :
"W--11, Mr. Davis," lie said, "there
are many jieople kept asunder only for
want of soinelxxly to go 1st ween them
you st, and make pea-e."
And I said; partly to myself:
"Why shouldn't Christianity itself lx?
such a general peacemaker as that V
"Ay," repli.il Mr. ISroadman, "if
people only lx-lieved in it prox-rly."
That very day we got the baronet's
letter, I was on my way, in the after
noon, to Cambridge Terrai-e, to pay my
res)xfls to Mrs. Vimt-nt and I'd had
sent a few bottles of good old port w ine
from my own wine-merchant at least
as good as can lx- got for money or love.
When, w lieu I got near the ibxir, 1 saw
an old gentleman walking upaiid down,
a little distiirtx-d, apparently, in his
mind at finding him. lt in such a iput-r
l.x ality, and as if looking for something
or sotnelxxiy. A short, rosy-facul xr
sou he was, clean shaved as a pin, and
very neat and old-fashioned in his
dress; and with that sort of an air
alxut him which marks an Kuglish
country gentleman, wherever he may
lie. Well, we sxn got into talk, for I'd
spotted the baronet in a moment, and he
w as anxious to find out something alxtut
his son, as soon as he heard I knew a
little of the young couple.
"And you do not think sir, that my
that Mr. Vincent is dangerously ill?"
said the old baronet; and there was a
soli in his v.Tiit- as he sjxike, and his
hand trembled as he laid it ujxm mine.
"Here is the house, sir," I said, "and
yon w ill lx able to judge for yourself."
We went in. At least the baronet
went into the nxitn, trembling in every
limb w illi the excitement of seeing his
son. Iut w lieu he set eyes on him the
xxir old man was so startled that he
could scarcely sxak. His son saw him
and tri.il to rise, but fell back feebly
into his chair. "Dear father," lie mur
mured, stretching out a thin, trembling
hand, "forgive."
liut the father was on his knees by
the chair, in a moment, clasping his
son's head in his arms, and fondling him
as he had done when the man was a
baby.
"What have I to forgive? You must
forgive ine for Ix-ing so hard, my dear
lxy, and get lx-ttcr soon; Wilford, my
son, my son !"
"I t.H) had come into tin- r.xim ; I could
not help it. I w as so interested and ex
cited, ltut I saw that in the young
man's face which made my heart sink in
my !xsom like lead.
The young wife saw it, too, and gave
one, two, three sharp screams, as if a
knife had Ix-en thrust into her side.
Mr. liroadtnan saw it, ami quietly
kneeling dow n, coniinende.l to .Jod as
well as he could, for sobbing the soul
of His servant departing this life.
And I well, why should I be ashamed
to confess it? I "knelt down too, and
crinl like a child; for the young mau
had dinl in his father's arms, at the
moment of reconciliation.
A Daabs'T Trl- to Keaek
The most difficult thing to reach is a
woman's ixx'ket. This is ej.ecially the
case if the dress is hung up in a enplxiard
and the man is in a hurry.
We think we are safe in saying that
he always is in a hurry on such occa
sions. The owner of the dress is in the
sitting arikim, serenely cngmssed in a
book.
Having told him that the article he is
in quest of is in her dress axx-ket in the
cupboard, she has discharged her whole
duty in the matter, and can afford to feel
serene. He goes at the task with a dim
consciousness that he has Ix-en there be
fore, but says nothing.
On ojx-niiig the cupboard door, and
finding himself confronted with a num
ber of dresses all turned inside out, and
presenting a most formi.lable front, he
hastens back to ask " Inch dress ?" and
being told the brow n one, and also asked
if she had so inanv dresses that there
need lx; any great effort to find the right
one, he returns to the cupboard with
alacrity, and soon ha his hands ou the
brown dress.
It is inside out like the rest ; a fact he
does not notice, however, until he has
made several ineffectual attempts to get
ins nana in lu
Then he turns it round very carefully,
and passes over the xx-k'-t several times
without ix-ing aware of it.
A nervous movement of his hands,
and an appearam-e of inspiration on his
toreliead are ix-rceptible.
He now dives one hand in at the back.
and fit-Hug round, tindsa place ami pro
ceeds to explore it, when ho discovers
that he is following up the inside of a
lining. The nervousness increases, also
the perspiration.
He twitches the dress on the hook
and suildetily the (xx-k.-t. plump and ex-
asperatiug, mines to view.
There is the jxicket in plain view
not onir the inside, but the outside
ami ail he has to do is to put his hand
right in the msi.ie ami take out the arti
cle. That is all. He can't help but
smile to think how near he was to get
ting mad.
Then he puts his hand round to the
other side. He does not feel the oix-n-
ing. He pushes a little farther now
he has got it; he shoves the hand down.
ami is very much surprised to see it a-
ix-ar oimmjsim; ins Knees, jie lias maue
a mistake.
He tries again ; lie feels the entrance
and glides down it onlv to npiiear again
as In-fore. This makes him open his
eves ami straighten his face.
lie fit-Is of the outside of the ixn-ket.
pinches it curiously, lifts it up, shakes
it, and after jx-ering closely about the
rxts of it, he s:ivs, "By gracious !" and
he commences again.
He ihx-s it calmly this time, lx-eause
liurrving onlv makes matters worse. He
haulstip breadth after breadth, goes over
tliem carefully gets Ins hand lirst into a
lining, then into the air again (where it
iilwavs surprises him when it aitearsl.
and finally into a Mx-ket,and is alxmt to
cry out in triumph, when he discovers
that it is the ixx-ket of another dress.
He is wild now; thecuplxtard air al
most still'-s him; he is so nervous he
can hardly contain himself? and I lie
xx-ket looks at him so exa-x-r;ft1ngly
that he cannot help hut "plug" it w ith
his clenched list,"aud immediately dix-s
it. Iteing somew hat relieved by this
performance he has a chance to look
alxmt him, and sees that he has put his
foot through a hand-lxix and into the
crow n of his wife's Unmet ; has broken
the brim of his summer hat, which was
hanging in the euplxMiriLaud tore alxmt
a vard of bugle trimming from a new
icket.
As all this trouble is due directly to
his wife's infatuation in hanging up her
dress inside out, he immediately starts
after her and iuiKtiiously urges her to
the cuptxiard, excitedly and aliuot pro
fanely intimating his doubts of there
Ix-ing a pocket in the dress anyway.
J he cause of the unhappy disaster
quietly inserts her hand inside the rolx-,
and .lireitly brings it forth with the
sought forarticle in itsi lasp. lie dtx-su's
know w hy, hut this makes him w ilder
than anything else. Aih'm;-w Ana.
Snjiuc f t he-I'oo-Tslw.
I dreamed last night that I had three
friends. How crazy we are in our sleep.
Sim-e my eyes Ixt-ame dim, and I do
not read any more I find myself grow
ing daily in w isdom.
We knew a man who did not like to
have his name in the new spapcrs. r I
have not seen him since lie was a hoy. I
think he is dead.
When I was young I had thoughts of
marrying, w hen I began to look for a
w it'c w hum all women would sx-ak well
of; but I never found her. I have
wasted tny time.
There w as a place set aart ill heaven
for gixxl wives who could judge a wicked
thing as harshly when a man did it as
w hen a w oman did it. liut it lias never
lieen K--upiiil, I believe.
1 ftxilishly applinl myself to the stndy
of the law s. It is fortunate that I gave
tin- study up for I should have Ix-en
sorry to lose all sense of jii-lii-.
I am told that our breath poisons the
air and that the tnt-s have to keep it
pure by sucking the nisou out. It
seems to me that a great, many ix-opie
an put into the world for nothing but
to make hard work for the trees. 1 do
not understand it.
There is an aw fill catastrophe that I
am in dread of. I am afraid that we
shall some day learn to re.nl one all
ot hers thoughts. That w ill lx- the end
of society, and of marriage, and we shall
have to iive alone after that.
I should like to see a world peopled
w ith men alone, just to see what kind of
creatures they would become, but I
never exix-ct to. There could not lx but
one man in it at a time. He would have
eaten all the rest.
I should like, too, to si a world -jieo-pled
with women alone, but I never
shall I would not dare go near it. '
I have some ambition to be a ixrfect
man but not till after I am dead and in
another state of existence, for it is a sad
thing to have no character among one's
fellows.
1 w ish I had ingenuity enough to steal
without being caught, because it is
pleasant to acquire reputation and re-six.-ct
in the w orld.
The Darheaa' Watrb.
When Qu.t-n Victoria wasahotit thirty
years younger than she is now, she was
inclined to lx! very exact in the way of
business, and moreesix-cialiv in the wav
of promptness to apniiuted times and
places. Seven years a queen ; four years
a wife; and three years a mother,.-lie felt
proliably a more weighty dignity rest
ing iixu her than she has felt since.
Ami vet, im crust of dignity or royal
station could CAer entirely shut out her
innate gtxxlncss of heart. At the time
of which we six-ak, the Duchi-ss ol
Sutherland held the olliit" of mistress of
the rolx of the British queen, and on
public occasions her position was very
near her royal -rson, ami d.t-med of
great importance. A day and an hour
had Ix-e n appointed for a" certain public
ceremony in w hich the queen was to
take part. The hour had arrived, and
of all the court thf duchess alone was
alisent, and her alisenee retarded thede
Kirture. The queen gave vent more
than once to her impatic m-e, and at
length, just as she was alxmt to enter
the carriage without her first lady of
lionor, the ducliess, in breathless baste,
made her apix-arance, stammering some
faint words of excuse. "My dear duch
ess" said the queen, smiling, "l lliuiK
you must have a bad watvh. " And as
she thus spoke she nnl.xised from her
neck the chain of a magnificent watch
she herself wore, and passed it around
the neck of Lady Sutherland. Though
given as a present, the lesson conveyed
w ith it made a deep impression. The
proud duchess changed color, and a tear
which she could not repress, fell Uxm
her cheek. On the west day she tended
her resignation, but it was not accepted.
It is said that ever afterwards she was,
if anything more punctual than the
queen herself.
railhfal nmf Deatk.
BY F.LLEX C. MOWBRAY.
"Zxt rHf, Fniuk, for hrmfii't ml-!
Can von hol.lou a few minutes longer i
" uh tt."
The words were shot out, rather than
littered, as the speaker suddenly sauk
upon his knees, anil reaching down
grasped a firmer hold of the roix? uxn
which dcixMided the lives of a score
whose blanched faces were upturned a-
pealmglv. 1 he face that hxiked down
w as rigid as stone, and almost as color
less; the bared arms absolutely frightful
in their tension, ilie sinews stoixl out
like whiji-cords; hands, arms, head and
shoulders were as motionless, as rigid as
the iron frame w hich held this picture
out to the terrified crowd below.
The great iron pillar settled, and
swayed; the eves Ix-low exiianded w ith
terror. The pillar dnpxt at least half
an inch, and those beneath it measured
their existence by a hair's breadth J A
simultaneous groan arose. The fa.-e
alxive grew a shade paler; the teeth
were shown a trifle plainer; but no
sound issued from the lips!
A craven spirit crouched out of sheer
dread; the studding post suddenly re
lieved of Ins pressure, snapM-il tiki a
iiitx-sleni : in an instant the lower end
of the massive pillar crashed through the
frail framework tx-iieath it, and ttiree
human lives were blotted out utterly:
two miserable wretches were w rithing
in mortal agony beneath the irresistible.
crushing weight of the frame-work that
pinned tliem fast to the earth. Still five
Others were held fast among the timlx-rs
w here they w riggled helplessly as nits
in a trap.
Hie cry of horror that rose iiixin the
calm morning air carried dismay to the
hearts of the villagers. Dixjrs were flung
ojx-u in blind haste; men, women and
children, in resixinse to the cry, congre
gated swiftly, only to raise their weak
bands aloft, while others Ix-at the air
helplessly and broke out in solis.
Out of all this disorder and frantic
terror arose the voice of a single woman,
tense with feeling:
Are there no men here to help save
the lives of those in jeopardy? Bring
posts! fetch hoards! anything that w ill
give them a chance to escape from be
neath the cracking timlx-r."
And instantly meu, anil women, loo,
brought together, as if by magic, odd
jxtsts, girders, hoards and iron nxls.
Siiiiultaintiiisly, those w ho were helit-
ing and those who were hx.king on
weakly began to encourage those who
w ere in the death trap, w it h hopeful and
comforting words. For those w ho were
already dead there was time only for a i
sob that was more like a gasp; the ptxjr
wretches that quivered 111 the long-
drawn death agony were init-ssantly
commended to their merciful .Maker.
If anv among all those present gave i
moment's thought to the criminal neglt
genre w hich brought death to the d.xir
of five families, it was unuttcred. When
all was over, and a coroner's jury placed
the responsibility upon the proprietors
of the new factory, platitudes vented
ni -on the murderous gntil of mom-v
w hich causiil the ait-ideut were pleuti
fill.
"Frank !" said a woman's voice the
same whose words stirred up, and w hose
presence sustained the workers, "Hob is
held fast. you cm only huhl oh a fetr
niiiiw'.'ji or rrnHtls lominr. 1 he rest are
nil free that is, all that ever w ill be."
Then the eager, lioix-fu! faces of the
workers Ixdow were upturned again aji-ix-aliiiglv
to the window. But only for
a moment, the sight that met their
ize sent a shiver throughout the group.
What w ith the sudden jar, and the
strain ujkiii the single remaining rope,
w hich was attached to the upix-r ixirtiou
of the iron window frame, the last,
whieli towered nearly half its height
nlxive the new brick work, was slow Iv
but surely giving way. It required but
a glance to see that the yielding brick
work around it would lx- torn out hv the
.weight of the cast iron pillar. The
marvel was that one pair of arms how
ever well braced their ow ner might Ik-,
hail managed thus far to hold the pillar
in its upright xsitioii.
But the hands that grasix-d the block
mil tackle line stiiuil to lx endowed
with snix-rnatiiral ixwer. As the awe-
stricken crowd gazed up at him, the
voice of Frank Kennedy responded to
his sister in hard, level tones, his eye
meanwhile taking in the crowd at a
single sw eep.
"iet Bob free. I can t hold out much
onger. something or other must give
HOoll."
I'pon hearing which, the work of free
ing I5ob Kennedy was resumed frantic
ally at the risk of death to the workers.
Men worked with the frenzy of despair,
not to free one brother alone, but to save
the lives of both. Could Bob lx? freed,
there remained a chance for Frank. It
was ten chances to one, but by exerting
a (xiwerful effort, if the worst came, he
might spring clear of the falling wall.
Work tor your lives!" shouted
Frank, suddenly.
Such as looked up at liim then saw
tlie blood trickling from his lower lip
down iiH9ii his beard. Several drojis fell
iiKn his bare arm. The veins over his
temples swelled and knotted; his eyes,
like his face, txk on a stony expression ;
the blixxl receded from ch.t-k and lip,
and the features suddenly Ix-cameas dis
tinct and sharp in iheirset expression as
though they hail Ixt-n cast in bronze.
"All right! Sj.riHif for tpmr lifi; t'raul!
Jum'.' Why don't yon jump !"
Bob's frantic cry, wrenched from him
by the quick sense of the appalling
danger which threatened his brother,
came too late. Those who were watch
ing Frank, breathlessly olwcrved a sw ift
change in his countenance. A -red Hush
stretched up over his temples, the set
eyes wavered, the arms relaxed, anv at
that moment the massive pillar sw ung
outward with a crash, dragging down
with it the heavy iron window frame.
There was a cloud of dust, the snapping
and grinding together of timlx-r ami
iron, in the midst of the horrible hush
tliatli lluix.u the villagers. When the
dust cleared away, the form of Frank
Kennedy was- found lying half covered
with the debris of the fallen brick and
mortar.
"Six lives lost for want of a ladder
and a trifle of common sense," said the
coroner's jury.
"Death in this instance ensued from
the bursting of a hkxxl vessel," gravely
said the physicians w ho examined Frank
Kminedy's remains.
"Faithful unto death !" said the vil
lagers, with nnl voice.
A Few Farts About hwirldra.
A recently reiorted table of vital sta
tistics of the Irish jxxiple offers some
curious facts concerning the prevalence
of suicides there, and some interesting
comparisons may be made between these
and our American record. For the ten
years closing 171, the total suicides
were in Ireland 7!'l. Xo decade but
that w hich included the year 1S4S, has
ever known such a large number, and
for the last year of the record the rate
was as 1 to every 6,t42 of population.
This shows a mnch greater tendency to
suicide than we in this country mani
fest. Here by the '70 census "the sui
cides that year were as one to every
28,700, or only about one-quarter so
many, relatively considered, as in Ire
land.
A singular change, however, has
develojxd. there in the temperaments of
the meu and women, lbirty years ago
the decennial census showed that of
every hundred suicides fifty-nine, that
is considerably more than half, were of
women. Since then the women have
been growing more contented w ith life;
or men correspondingly more dissatis
fied, for the lust revision shows that.
out of every hundred, only thirtv-six
are women. From being three-tilths of
the suicides the gentler sex has subsi
ded to undertaking only alx.ul oiie-llnril
of the business.
In America the last report shows that
two out of nine, or even less than one-
third, of the suicides, were females.
Taste seems to run in the same channels
in both countries, and it may be char
acteristic of the sexes all through civ
ilization ; men prefer to hang them
selves, women prefer to work with poi
sons. This is the casein Ireland; and
in this country the gr atest number of
male suicides were by hanging, and of
female by poison. And, w hat is quite
remarkable, among the two sexes the
desire for these two methods was in al
most exactly the same ratio. Among
the men who killed themselves, five out
of every eighteen oMd it by hanging;
among the women who killed them
selves, five ourof every nineteen did it
by jKiison. 'Mtis 'is certainly suflicient
information for founding the theory
that man's bravery equals woman's ti
midity; for hanging is external and
elaborate and requires a fixeJ purpose,
w hile poisoning is. internal and does its
own work so sxm as the preparation is
Svvallowed. Another notion might lx
that people use metluxls not strange to
tiicm. Women, all their lives cooking
and addicted to the preparation of tea
and other decoctions, take naturally to
such a device; while men, ait-ustoiiied
to handle ro)x-s, razors, and pistols, are
more prone to use those on the occa
sion, the evil tendency is sanl to be
increasing rapidly and such being the
case it is well to know the general law
of its metluxls. That the men exceed
so much the women is singular evidence
of the exceeding patience of the latter
in their many trials. Hartord i.inunut.
The "Mevea Star.'
Eailrin the clays of our childhiwxl
we learn one important fact that there
is a "man iu the nioou ;'' anil straight
way we proceed to ask our mother a
number of pointed questions alxmt the
matter. She satisfies our vouthlul curi
osity by telling us that lie was placed
there lout; aco, tor stealing a head of
cabbage, and there he has ever since
been kept at hard lanor pulling
brush," or collecting branches of trees.
as they are trimmed off by the axeman,
preparatory to burning theiu out of the
way. And when we look at the moon,
ami see a dark figure npou iu disc,
somewhat resembling, iu outline, the
shape of a man, and near it au addi
tional dark spot, which mit-lit or might
not he a pile of boughs, we go a great
deal further than our mothers we be
lieve the story; and, having believed
it, we secretly resolve, in our minds,
never to commit a tln tt, lest a similar
fate should be ours. And thus the silly
fable at once becomes an important
engine in forging and forming the
character of the man.
The Indian mothers have a story
somewhat like that of the "man in the
moon," which they teil their children
as our mothers tell the story to us, with
this difference, however, they believe
the story themselves, while our mothers
do not. Here it is :
Very long aj; seven little Ixiys took
it upon their heads to have a feast
after the manner of their fathers and
they went to their mothers, praying tor
permission, their .mothers refused
them ; after which they decided to
ijttj uiiuiiii uvn. i.aiu nif( Riiiiniu, an
they had seen their fathers do on mo
mentous occasions. While they were
thus engaged, they weie suddenly
caught up by some invisible power, and
carried oil' tino' the uir. Their mothers
heard their cries, and came forth from
tliejr lodges, only to see them mount
higher and higher, until they took their
place among the stars in the sky, to
dance on forever and ever.
When the Indian mother tells this
story, she points out the wven stars of
the l'leiades ; and the embryo wanior
trembles to think w hat an awful fate
might In-tall the youth, who was so
thoughtless as to disobey his mother.
Sotes for tli uttiief.
1'laited waists return to favor with
the light materials used for summer.
The novelty iu jewelry consists of ex
quisite cameo sets cut in couch-shells.
For summer morning dress iu the
country there are neck-lies of Scotch
gingham, blue, gray, pink or brown.
There are no women in the world,
says Jenny June, who contrive to dress
fashionably upon so little money as
Americans.
The pretty, soft neck-ties now in ue
are sometimes made to serve a double
purpose by twisting as a scarf around
the crown of a hat.
The small pin-head checks of black
and white, known as shepherd's plaids
are the compromise settled upon by
ladks of quiet tastes who object to
plaids.
Sleeveless jackets are made of long
puffs of organdy muslin, ?ix- in to
follow the outlines of the figure and
separated by rows of Valenciennes in
sertion. White tissue veils are among the
latest importation. Tlicfce are of a soft
creamy white silk tissue, and are shown
both plain and striped iu narrow baya
dere lines.
Xew corsets are made with straps on
braces passing over the shoulders in
order to have all the weight ol" the
clothing suspended from the shoulders
instead of the hips.
The Depth of American I.akes.
There is mystery
alxmt the American
lakes. Ijike Krie is only fit! or 70 feet
deep; hut lake Ontario, w hich is T.ixi
feet deep, is 'SM feet Ix-low the tide-level
of the ocean, or as low- as most parts of
the Gulf of St. Ijtwrence; and the
bottom of Iike Huron, Michigan ami
Siix-rior. although the surfa.t- is much
higher, are all from their vast depths on
a level with the Ixittomof Outarin. Xow
as the discharge through the river De
troit, after allowing for the probable
lx.rtion carried off hv the cvaixiraliou.
does not apear by any means equal to
the quantity of water which the three
niiix-r lakes receive, it has tx-en con
jectured that a subterranean river may
run from J.ake Suix-nor, bv the Huron.
to Lake Ontario. This itinjit-ture is not
impossible, ami accounts for the singular
fact that salmon and herring are caught
in all the lakes communicating with the
st. Jjiw rence, but no other, as the
Falls of Xiagara must have alw ays ex-
ist.ii, it would puzzle tne narnraiist to
say how these lisli got into the unix-r 1
hike without aoine mihr-rrnettii river?
more over, any periodical obstruction of
the river would furnish a not linprolia
ble solution of the mysterious flux and
reflux of the lakes.
rareeaaUha; the tad at Epidemic.
-a
In the year 1WC Dr. Farr foretold the
impending decline of the cattle plague
in England, from a discussion of the
weekly list of eases. The number of
w eekly cases was still increasing at the
time, but he noticed a decrease in the
rate of weekly increase, and as the con
tinuance of this would sxn bring the
number of attacKS to a maximum, he
concluded that the turning point was
near. Dr. Kva.is has lately been inves
tigating the behavior of cholera and
scarlet fever in London, forttoe purpose
of ascertaining whether this method of
prognostication was not capable of more
extensive use, and what were the best
weeks in the course of an epidemic for
forming an opinion. He constructed
charts of the weekly reports of these
diseases, and found that there were
several coincidences between these
charts and the calculated progress of
the diseases. But he was not able to
determine w hat was the best period for
basing calculations upon. The rale of'
increase was found to vary very much
in the earlier and later stages of an epi
demic, and he could only say that the
rate varied most irregularly in the ear
lier weeks, and that therefore the later
weeks offered the best grounds for pre
dictions. This result is disappointing,
as it shows that the significant period ot
an epidemic is con lined to tolerably strict
limits, and if these are exceeded at
either end by even one week, consider
able inaccuracies iu the results may
follow. KsK-cially is it unfortunate
that the early weeks of an epidemic do
not permit of sate prophetical calcula
tions. Gaxahj.
Met and ltrj K.ilblns
If any one in tln-se days w ill exercise
iu the open air, so that each day he will
(x-rspire moderately, and if he will wear
linn under garments, or none at all, and
sleep in a cold room, the functions of
the skin will sutler little or no impedi
ment, if water is withheld for mouths.
Indeed, bathing is not the only way in
w hich its healthful action can be main
tained by those living under the condi
tions at present existing. Dry friction
over the w hole surface of the b.Hly, once
a day or once iu two days, is often of
more service than the apjdieation of
water. The reply of the centenarian to
the inquiry to what habit of life he
attributed his g.xxl health and extreme
longevity, that he lx-lieved it due to
"rubbing himself all over w ith a cob
every night, is significant of an import
ant truth. If invalids and H-rstms of
low vitality would use dry friction anil
Ir. Franklin's "air bath"' every day for
a considerable per'uxl, we are eomi.leu:
they would often lx?"greatly benefitted.
Cleanliness is next to g.xlliness, no
-doubt, and a proper and judicious use
Of water i to 1x3 commended ; but human
ix-ings are not amphibious. Nature
indicates that the functions of the skin
should be kept in order mainly by mus
cular exercise, by exciting natural per
spiration by lalxir; and delicious as is
the bath and healthful, under proper
regulations, it is no substitute for that
exercise of the body, w ithout which all
the function..- tx-eomc abnormal. ',;
(arc for Daughters.
Would yon show yourself really good
to your daughters I Then lie generons
to them in a truer sense than that of
heaping trinkets on their necks. Train
them for indencn Jence first, and t!.en
lalxir to give it to them. Let tliem as
soon as ever they are grovu have some
little money, or means ot making
money, to be their own, and teach them
how to deal with it, without needing
every moment somebody to help them.
Calculate what you give them or w ill
Ix'qm-ath to them, not, as is usually
done, ou the chances of their making a
rich marriage, but on the nrobabilitv of
! their remaining sinTc, and according
I to the scale of living to w hich von have
licelv hate necessaries
after, in iik "g contrast to tl.ci;
West-lit home. A live ill, ii!; ilicm ti
help themselves. Fit tin-ill to t.e all o
to add to their own means rather than
to lie forever pinching and economizing
till their minds are narrowed ami their
hearts are sick. Give all the cultuie
you can to every power which thcy
lnay possess. If tliev rhould remain
among the million of the unmarried,
they will bless voa in your grave, and
say of you. what cannot be said of
many a doting parent by his surviving
chiiii: "My father ca'-ed that I should
le happy fl-r Lis ih-ftb. ir well as
while I Aa iiis pet and his toy."
EiiicWhIi Itailroful Accidents.
In England la-t year 1.17" pcr-nns
were killnl and 4,-itiS were injured by
railroads, including, we presume, all
the employes ami passengers, and pos
sibly some of tlio traaips ou Hie track.
This is nearly five times as many as the
linilnnnl Gazette'' figures charge upon
the American railroad service for the
same year; our mileage also is four
times thar of England although the
numix-r of miles run by trains is not so
disproportionate. The proixirtiou ot
pa-scngers killed in England in 1.7
was alxuit 1 to ."i.OKI.OOo, or the same
as in Massachusetts in l".t, but in this
State in TC! only 1 passenger was killed
to IJ.unn.noO transported. The pmxir
tioii in this country has ljceu steadily
diminishing: in England it has lx-en
rising w ith frightful rapidity. In 1SC4
only 12 paseiigi-rs were killed: in 1S0S,
fl!i;' in IS70, fil : in 1S71, i'-S. This indi
cates that the English railroad apparatus
is being put to a strain w hich it can
stand no longer with safety to the pub
lic. English rolling stiw k is certainly
inferior to American iu stability. The
English model sacriti-es strength to
lightness, and is very dcf.t live in other
respects.
A Dnndy at the (allow s.
The first Earl of Holland was a great
dindy, who played a prominent and
not altogether repntal-le part in the
history of his lune. lie was a favorite
at the courts of James I. and Charles
I., but when the civil war broke out.
he at first sided with the pailiameut
against the king. In an unlucky hour
he went over to the royalist: side, took
up arms agniust the comrunnweaith,
was defeated, made prisoner, ;ut to
trial, and duly sentenced to lose his
head. He apM-ared upon the scaffold
in a white satin vest and cap, trimmed
with silver lace. His costly garments
were the lawful peiqni-itcs of the ex
ecutioner, to whom the carl said, as
lie approached the block. "Here, my
friend, let my Ixxlv and clothes alone.
There is ten pounds for thee : this is
better than my clothes, I am sure. And
when yon take np my head, do not
take off my cap." Then, laying his head
npon the block, he added, stay, while
I I give the sign." After a bnet' prayer
! he stretched out his hand, saying, "Xow,
now:' the word bad bardly lett his
lips when the axe fell, and the l ead
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Veaiai.
Someone asked a man who was counted
a great genius, to define genius, and he
said,"(ieiiius is industry. ' Things never
come about of themselves. The man who
w riles a great txxik never wrote it in s
day or a w eek. The man who has worked
out a great invention did not combine
wheel and piston in an hour or a month ;
but it was industry of inquiry, the indus
try of application. Industry is the first
law of success.
Tones' col cis.
The Little People. The first breeze
raised in Eden was a hnrry Cain.
The best Sunday-School scholar in
Dubuque is George Thomas Renshaw
Pettigrew. His parents thongbl he
might never make a name for himself,
and so they sat up two nights and
made a name for bim.
A little gir! reading the history of
England with her mother, and coming
to the statement that Henry I. never
laughed alter the death of his son,
looked up and said, "What did he do
w hen he was tickled I"
"You iu the post-office t" said a fa
ttier to his son. "Xice party you'd be
in the DoMt-otlice. What could yon do
in the ot-o;tice except to stand in the
door-way with your mouth open for
folks to wet postage stamp on your
ton ine I"
"If I was a horse now," mused a big
boy as he struggled up Griswold street
yesterday. "I'd be stabled, robbed
down and fed ; bnt I'm a Doy and I've
got to go home, clean off snow, bring
in the wood, tote water and rock the
durned old baby for an hour or two.
"Ma," said an intelligent, thoughtful
hov,"I don't think Solomon was so rich
as i hey say he was." "Why, my dear.
what could have put that into your
hcadT n tivthe Bible says he slept with
his fathers, and 1 think if be had been
so very rich he would have had a bed
of his own.''
"Herbert," said a perplexed mother.
whv is it that you are not a better
mv V "Well." said the little fellow.
soberly looking up into her face with
his honest nine eyes. 1 suppose tne
real reason is that I dou't want to be."
We think the child gave the real reason
why a'.l of us, big as well as little, are
not better than we are.
In a certain scluxd in Maine, recently,
the teacher announced that on a given
afternoon the girls might bring sewing
materials to receive instructions in nee
dlework, bur, when they came with them
the larger boys came, too. with Bhav
ing benches and drawing knives, re
questing that they might practice lioop
sli.iving at the same time. That was
the Ixst day of the new wrlukle.
Tlie Farmer Parrot. Oae beautiful
spring, a farmer, after working busily
lor several weeks, succeeded in plan
ting one of the largest fields in corn:
but the neighboring crows committed
sad liav.x- with it. The farmer, how
ever, not being willing that the germs
of a future crop should lie destroyed
by either fair or foul means, deter
mined to drive the bold marauders to
their nests. Accordingly, he loaded
his rusty gun.wi'.h the intention of giv
ing them upon their next visit a warm
reception.
Now, the farmer had a parrot, as talk
ative ami mischievous as those birds
usually are ; and, being very tame it
was allowed its freedom to come and
go at pleasure, "l'retty Poll" being a
lover of company, without much car
ing whether good or bad, hopped over
all obstructions, and was soon engaged
in the farmer-like occupation of rummy
corn.
1 he farmer with his gun sallied forth.
Keaching his cornfield, he saw at a
glance (though he overlooked the par
rot) the state of affairs. Levelling his
gnu, he tired, and with the report was
heard the death-scream of three crows,
and an agonizing scream- from poor
Poll.
On looking among the murdered
crows, great was the farmer's surprise
to see stretched upon the ground his
mischievous parrot, with feathers saUy
rnriled and a broken leg.
"You foolish bird," cried the farmer,
"this comes of keeping bad company."
Ou carrying it to the house, the chil
dren. seeing its wounded leg.exclaimed:
"What did it, paptt what hurt our
pretty Poll I"
"Bad company bad company !" an
swered the parrot iu a soloiun voice.
"Av, that it was," said the farmer.
"Poll was with those wicked crows
wl e.i 1 ii ; J, and ivc -iv. d i s!n. i.it. u
d. l lor t'l.-.u. 1J- uem!er the parrot's
fat-, children, and beware of bad com
pany.'' With tiiese winds the farmer
turned round and, with tlfe aid of his
w ile, bandaged the broken leg, and in
a few weeks the parrat was as lively
as ever, bat never forgot its adven
ture in. the corn field, and if ever the
farmer's childrene ngaged in play with
quarrelsome companions, it invariably
.lini.r.i.l .liam U'lMl ltd fTV Kojl
company bad
ek!ti.
company !" krUtiam
Mij IKy.l have a dog, and bis name
is Don. He is nine years old. His
master is in Boston, and I call Don my
dog, Ix-caust- I like to have him here.
He is a black-and-white dog, and mea
sures six feet in lcugth, and about two
feet iu height.
When I go errands, Don takes the
basket or pail, and trots away to the
store; and sometimes I have to pall
hint, or he will go the wrong way.
lie is a lazy old fellow, and he likes
to sleep almost all the time, except
when he is asked if he wants to go any
where ; and then he frisks around, and
seems as if he hail never been asleep.
When he wants a drink, he goes
around Ut the store-room door, and
asks for it by l.x.king np in our faces:
and I dare say he would say, if he could
speak, "Please give me a drink T"
I have a litlle brother, and he sits on
my dog a good deal. And I have a
cousin of whom the dog is very fond
and when she is at the table, he will
put his paw on her lap, and want her
to take it.
My little baby-brother tumbles over
t'ie dog, ami sits on him : and some
times when I am tired, I lie down and
take a nan w ith my head on Don's back.
He likes to have me do it, and he
always keeps watch while I am asleep.
A Saijitrinn Tnmt. Some years ago,
as we are told, a trout was kept in a
large water-vat at the San Francisco
water-works. It was the custom of
visitors to teed the fish with pieces of
bread ami meat, which it would readily
take from their fingers. ine of the
clerks, with less humanity than love of
fun, one day attached a book to a piece
of meat, caught the trout and pulled it
out of the water, but imm.tliately pat
it back again. From that day forward
the trout would never take anything
from the hand of that clerk, although
it would readily feed from the hands
of any other person while the clerk
stoixl by. This is a fact.
Oae evening about seven o'clock, a
ter the shower retired toward the east,
a splendid rainbow appeared. It was
unusually brilliant, and many specta
tors at.xxt to look at it. A little six-year-old
fellow asked a gentleman near
him hat it was made of. "It is made
of candy." said the gentleman. . "By
gosh, I gness it must be candy, but it's
a mighty big stick." remarked the chil
dish inquirer. Kxcluxn'je.
rabaalthjr Faada.
A recent article on food remindt us
that though a singular accident there is
nothing aft the fixxl ordrink line actually
healthful. Tomat.xt produce cancers,
water distends the bowels, bread sours
the stomach, cake destroys its tone, rice
depletes the bhxxj, fish shrinks the
muscles, fresh meat produces bilious
ness, and salt meat skin diseases. And
so you can go through the entire list
without finding, according to medical
authorities, a single article but what is
in some degree hurtful. It is unfortunate,
but it is t.H) late now to help it. Danburf
Ar.'v.
NEWS IN BRUT
Conductors on Chattanooga rail
roads are paid seventy-five cents a day.
There are 73.S49 farms la Virginia,
of which 45,028 are under one hundred
acres.
The widow of the late Prof. Benja
min Silliman has just died at w
Haven.
Southern papers state that the gen
eral crop prospects in that section were
never better.
Mr. Pullman Is making arrange
ments to introduce his palace cars on
the Italian railroads.
It is said that the Apple ton's have
offered General Sherman 160,000 for the
copyright of his book.
"Mr Variegated Narrative" is the
latest name for the distinguished Sioux
chieftain, Spotted Tail.
A half interest in the Xew Pacific
Hotel, San Francisco, is said to have
been sold for $1,750,000.
Boston's taxation, this year, will be
four hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars less than last year.
The total number of hogs packed
during the last twenty-five years Is, in
round numbers, 74,000,000.
ITon. Asa Packer has been ap
pointed chairmen of the centennial
standing committee on finance.
The number of volumes taken out
of the Public Library during the past
year exceeds 750,000. Bottom Journal.
The citizens of California are to
vote next September whether they shall
have a Constitutional Convention.
It is claimed that there is mora
actual work in railroad building now in
progress in Indiana than in any other
State.
An aggrieve. 1 individual wanted
$HlO,ll00dainages from the Denver (Col.)
Tribune, and the jury invited him to pay
the cost.
George Francis Train has been
nominated for the Presidency by the
National Temperance organization at
Chicago.
T. W. Park of Bennington, Vt., U
said to be oue of the wealthiest men In
the country. Ills property is valued at
$17,000,000.
The Director of Mints thinks. In
view of the recent fall in silver, that It
will soon be in circulation in place of
fractional currency.
Ir. Von Bulow the celebrated pian
ist who will arrive in this country In
October, is annoum-ed to make his first
appearance iu Boston.
One of the Plymouth Church back
ers, Mr. Henry W. Sage, has determined
to leave I5rx.klyn and take up hU resi
dence at Ithaca. X. Y.
" A. T. Stewart says that the best way
to make man honest is to watch him.
The custom house officers will please
keep an eye on Mr. Stawaft..
The Connecticut House of Repre
sentatives indulged in the joke of refer
ring a petition for women Suffrage to
the Committee on Insurance.
The dominion government has sent
a remonstrants to Washington, against
the practice of detaining for examina
tion sealed cars entering the States at
Island Pond from Canada.
A libel suit for $10,000 brought by
Stephen Grant against the Portland
(Me.) Press was decided in favor of the
defendant. The Press asserted that
Grant was the biggest liar in the State.
There is no danger of Boyton's suc
cess damaging the ocean steamship busi
ness. One of his rubber suits costs
nearly as much as a cabin-passagn, and
the latter has some decided adv iritages
for long distances.
An agent of the Treasury Depart
ment has reported that the offices at
several small ports of entry are simply
sinecures, and it is believed that Secre
tary Bristow will abolish them, as
authorized by law.
Secretary Bristow Is pushing the
whiskey fraud investigations in the West
and is ttmfident he can secure the con
viction of members of the whiskey ring
out there. A gixxi many additional
seizures will be made.
They are catching pickerel weigh
ing from eighteen to twenty pounds in
the lakes at Madison, Wis. The sport
at Menasha is reported the best of any
known this season, thus far; and at Pee
waukee, bass are simply ravenous.
Mr. Reuben Springer, the public
spirited Cincinnatian who recently do
nated $125,000 to that city for the pur
pose of building a music hall, has now
increased his donation with $50,000
more. Cincinnati is rejoicing over the
fact.
On the 1st of July the new postal
law regarding money order is to go
into effect. Sow the tariff is five cents
for orders under $10. The new charges
will be ten cents for all orders under $10
and fifteen cents for all orders from $30
to $50.
J. B. Johnson and Thomas Coyle of
Chester, P., have made arrangements
for a swimming match for a thousand
dollars a side in July next, the course
to be from Chester on the Delaware
Kiver to Philadelphia, a distance of six
teen miles.
A new line of steamers to run be
tween Baltimore and Kio de Janeiro has
been established, one vessel to leave
each port monthly. It is expected that
by this means the coffee trade of Balti
more will be largely increased, as well
as its shipments of dour.
Charles C. Fuller, president, and
John T. Mowry, treasurer of the Cham
plain paper company, Norwich, Ct.,
have alscondel, leaving outstandingoh
ligations to the estimated amount of
seventy thousand dollars, the greater
part of which is lx-lieved to be in forged
notes.
Eleven States and Territories are
still out of the pale of Centennialism.
Dakota, lelaware,District of Columbia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New
Hauiisbire. Xew Mexico, Utah, Ver
mont and West Virginia, have not yet
manifested a cent's worth of interest In
the Philadelphia big show.
Vice-President Wilson has been
convincing the Xew York Tribune that
his health is pretty fair by climbing the
flights of stairs which led to the edito
rial sanctum instead of waiting for the
elevator. He is peculiarly anxious just
now that there should be no doubt as to
his ability to come up higher.
The safe, supposed to contain about
$fj0,000 in gold, of the United State
man-of-war Cumberland, sunk by the
rebel ram Virginia In Hampton Roads,
March 9, 1862, has been recovered by In
dividual effort. But ft is estimated that
more than $100,000 have been lost by
differeut parties in trying to recover this
treasure.
The most singularly named man In
Xew York is Walter R. T. Jones the
midtUe initials standing for Restored
Twice. His par" first had a sun
called Walter win die.. Another boy
was born to then, and christoaa r
the first, with an addition, Walter Re
stored. He died, anJ a third male child
was bom and received the name he now
bears, Walter Restored Twice J one.
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