B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THB UHI05 AND THB IHFORCKMEST OF THB LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL XXX-
M IFFLI NTO WN, J UN I ATA COUNTY, PENNA., SEPTEMBER 21. 1S7C.
NO. 38.
MARGY BROWN.
lUnir r.ron! MarR Brown!
CeUl pray, your wondrous smiling ;
nere xwm-iliiug so beguiling
II1ToariiUt1'tIlnwbiUD8
ill my precious time away ;
..a i niiMt not. cannot stay.
,k? la darker getting.
ffhd my ou' 14
ind it seem, th to declare
Boweof Mursy lirown! Beware !
JUrgy down: Mar;ry Prown !
l not touch me with your finger ;
ponotletitseutlyliniicr
k Br hand, aud do not hinder
jliM-hiri: can I leave yon o?
5m the daIi'lit now u dying,
Ind th elufioirs thick are lying
l nJtrwth the elm tree, vieing
With tii hJe of yonr dark hail?
Beware, old Mursy Brown ! Beware!
JUrfT Brown ! 3Irgy Brown !
S rou not the darkness crawling ?
Hear too uot a soft voice falling ?
Bui'. It my mother calling,
CaLing for her laggard eon -,
Send me from yon, pretty one:
Tarn way that brown eye shiuiug
Hit it in nrr soul entwining
Cndefined and undefiuing
ii0T t onf-ht that I most not share
Beware, eweet Mars? Brown ! Beware!
jUr7 Brown ! Marsy Brown !
Who K he who linden! yonder ?
On what mission does be ponder?
When I part from you I wonder,
Bargy. will he come to yon ?
poes he lore you, Margy, too ?
Sweiheart '. it was only jesting.
Xhii bit hat-te from you waa pressing.
I will rtay. my love confessing,
rfuii my heart, it says, ' Beware!
Some one ee tliat ehe is fair
Tale cue of Margy Brown ; Take care !
Bertha's Mercy.
Mrs. t. Symington's magnificent
unainc-room flooded with liglit from
z'.toerins chandeliers, furniture of soft
ji.-i?sy plush, the color of the Heart ol a
nse;" soft sounds of a fountain splash
in the conservatory, and sweet de
vious perfume exhaling from aisles
Jrireau J exotics and tropical pine.
That was the scene that wild January
n'ilit when the storm beat without,
ulcold an J misery and want stalked.a
jrim triumvirate; when little Bertha
Agincourt nestled further down among
if plumy cushions of the easy-chair
4ehJ found wheeled in fror.t of the
.brery open tire burning so redly be-
hi the polished silver bars.
A grave-faced girl, shy, blushing and
urnlest, with womanly eyes of tender
iti, that mirrowed her pure sweet
i...:lits as faithfully as a lakelet does
jSssi.iiig sunlight. A quiet, loneiy
::tk creature, only sixteen, who had
vise from a dear, happy home among
v England hiils to take up the
nnlen of life with brave hands, though
Unkind all unused to the warfare,
i:Ji stunt heart, for all there were
jiies when it overflowed through the
I ft, frank eyes.
iie hid only been a week at the St.
jniii.gtons only a week away from
ir widowed mother and the plain lit-
liome that was insufficient to give
.-r living longer; only a week, and
lng enough to learn the luxury of
:MT and elegance; not long enough
skaow how miserably inferior she
ta.- held to lx', w ith her sweet, gentle
the result of innate nobleness,
the "urge, florid, fashionable daugh
rruftlie house of St. Symington
Juiiiata St. Svtnin-'ton. with ner coal-
jukLair streaming down over her
jfiiiit -ilk dress, and her jewels glit-
urig with almost barbaric splendor as
It sill into the drawing room that
5'irmy January night, followed by the
-rt.r, k?s intrusive parent.
Juauita's shiiuuieriug trail was
piiig over the Muquet carpet, and
vs-'l its pleasant rustle suddenly as
wsiw B-rtlia nestling, all unobserv
's'.j, in the sacred precincts of the
?ii' plush chair.
Hainma ! diil you ever? The idea
coming in here! Tell her at
tcewhat she is to do, with you?"
Mr?. St. Srniington shrugged her
ituMers ju-t a little deprecatingly.
"En'ily, 1 haven't the heart to Juan
' I can't see what harm there is, if
child want"
Jtmma shot her mother a glance
:r a her Mack eyes.
"Nonsense, mam ma! If you can't
Uit liarir., I can. If you won't tell
-rtoleavr, I w ill.
Uke a hawk aln.ut to pounce on a
! "tttijte, Juanira failed across the room
'Hoiked down at the pretty bowed
j'! of the girl, as I-rtha sat leaning
' her elh.jw looking into the mass of
"Hi Ao'iiuourt, you seem to be ig
"'fnit of tLe fact that tliis apartment
5 t intended for the servanU. Be
?1 a to retire to the school-room,
!,jw proper plaee, w here it is umler
"""iyou will pass your evenings in
"future. Oh! lr. Kedmond, good
""g: How delighted we are to see
Juanita turned coldlv away
,r,ith mortified girl to greet the
Um gentleman wlio had been ad-
W"1 X niornent tu.far
it .
u "Owed a.l t.vit- -Tiiaulta's ex-
"a land
ftheswe-t, sliame-fl ushed face of
.'"wfiohad arisen from the easy
-:sir.
You eonipniiend, Miss Agincoun?"
u,Hlta'g inineriona vnirw irtlv ar-
Ktlie flying fIH)tstep, and a con-
, ' unintelligible answer came in a
w "urried tiitiirno oa Tt,.rttk (lifln
Sttth impudence ! the next thing I
a cook and lnainma's waiting
r'11 ue coining in when they're
j. " Kedmond, have Jlvou li-ara
Milkmaia-g Marriage Song?' "
. " while tin.
!nS over the keys of the piano, and
. . ftrouir voice rose in t
aic. chorus of th tmlliid. and Guv
-oond listened gravely, little Bertha
Hvuiug on tlie noor or ner own
ld rno, : :, x.t
break.
1 U DATA,, e-. t . T.
'Brt s uere, never: x n "
fj-maid or a kitchen ffirl before
I'll stay here and be insulted by Juau
Ha St, Symington insulted because I
went into the drawiDg-room! If I'm
not good enough to sit in there, am 1
fit to teach little Waldbery his letters ?"
Poor, innocent, ignorant child ! she
had yet to learn that this was a very
qtreer world:
'A young lady, Rose?"
Dr. Guy Redmond looked up from a
ponderous volume of medical lore he
was studying his grave thoughtful
face showing its strength and beauty
as the full glare of the light fell on it.
"A young lady, sure, Mr. Guy.
Leastways, a lady, anyhow, young or
old. She's all so bundled up you can't
scarcely see her."
Dr. Kedmond arose as the colored
servant disappeared, aud went into his
office where a sweet, low voice ad
dressed him as he closed tlie door.
"You are Dr. Redmond ?"
He bowed and took his customary
seat.
"I am troubled about my throat, Dr.
Redmond, and as my living depends
upon my voice, I am more than anx
ious to know if I am seriously threat
ened." lie listened, as if half familiar with
her tone, her face, then the momentary
personal Interest merged into custom
ary professional solicitude.
"You re a singer, then? Tell me
the symptoms, please."
"Oh, no, I can not sing, but I use my
voice almost as much as if I were. I
am a teacher I used to be a nursery
governess in Mrs. St. Symiugton's
family, and I came to you because 1
once saw you there."
A sudden remembrance rushed over
him : now he knew the cause of that
sad, momentary, half recognition. And
tills was tlie pretty, startled little girl,
whose blue eyes and sweet drooping
mouth had haunted him for mouths
after he had seen and pitied her in her
confusion, that January night a year
agone almost.
Involuntarily Dr. Redmond smiled.
"I remember Miss Agincourt. And
now you are teaching?"
She smiled in answer to his courteous
friendly way.
"Teaching aud very hoarse at times
with a continuous aching sensation in
my throat and a tendency to cough."
Her accurate description of her symp
toms at once turned the current of con
versation; and when, twenty minutes
later. Bertha Agincourt left tlie office
with a tiny package of powders in her
muff it was with a new strange light
shining in her eyes.
"How good he is ! He seems like a
friend I have always known."
Guy Redmond's brown eyes watched
the slight, graceful figure past the
window.
'Poor child ! in aix month ehe will
not speak above a whisper for all future
time! I wonder what she will do?"
Gradually the acquaintance, at first
purelv professional, rijiened into per
sonal friendship; then into warmer In
terest, until on the day when Bertha
lieird her fate from Dr. Redmond's
kind, pitiful lips they had grown to be
very near to each other.
'This huskiness permanent! never
speak again! O, Dr. Redmond, don't
tell me that!" she wailed forth her
complaint so piteously, as she listened
w ilh blanching cheeks and quivering
lips.
"lou know mat l nave uoue an mai
lies iu human ower to do, Bertha.
You know it hurts me to see you take
it so to heart, child, and yet I am not
sorry."
He was looking carefully at ner.
"Xot sorry! Xot sorry that I am
w orse than useless until I can learn
another way of earning my bread ! Oh,
Dr. Redmond, I thought I thought
He had both her rebellious hands in
his now, and was half-smiling in her
tearful face.
"You thought what, Bertha I know
you never have thooght what I have
what I am thinking now wiiai a uari-
.. Ka f,i.
lllg little wile you arc "
e ! You will be, wont you dear ?
His wooing was quiet, but so intense
that its very solemnity startled her.
His wife she his wife! The raptu
rous tears welled to her eyes.
"Oh, Dr. Redmond !"
"ever but Guy in the future Bertha
Kiss me darliusr. and tell me you do not
regret giving up your school to teach
me how to be a better man ! Little
Bertha, I will make you very happy, lr
I may! May I?"
And her breath almost hushed with
ecstacy, the lonely, brave little girl ac
cepted. The heaven of happiness she
dreamed of, she had never dared think
would be her own ! .
"You will go down to dinner, then,
to-day, dear? If you knew how much
better you were looking, and how
rtrt to and Ora are clamoring for you."
Dr. Redmond caressed the delicate
.i,fc of his wife as she leaned against,
tlie lined cushions of the easy chair-
pretty, fair as five years ago, wuen sue
fia.l married ll.IU.
She smiled as if in indulgence of his
tenderness,
"I wonder whether the children or
nana is roost anxious I should go down ?
Confess, now, Guy, you begin to oe
jealous of this little stranger's monop-
nlw of mv time.
. . i.o TinV nalm of a wee
ftlie lumucu m. j I .
kk 1,-Sn.r cradled in a low-canopied
crib at her side, and spoke in a low,
hushed whisper, that had grown to be
.. .ml melodious to her hus
band's ears-that other people thought
. j ..if ol .miction, wnue mey t.--
dered how well Mrs. Redmond bore it.
The doctor leaned over -
u: Kir then tlie motlier,
lllBwvj,. it,,w
I do not think even young Guy
Agincourt could make me J-"
t?. t d want vou down stairs to-day.
Among other reasons, it is time you
nurseryma d, wno came m j
fn,J't seen her once, and lam
u,u a.. j t been for cousin
w name-would have neen
9t
-Annie is always good, nd I II go
down, dear, if you think it best, m!
make the poor woman comfortable,
although I really think you ought to
have seen her."
Doctor Redmond shrugged his broad,
fine shoulders.
"If you knew how busy I've been,
and how miserably hidden tlie . lady
keeps herself, you'd not think so".
Then Bertha, we'll see you at 2 the
pretty house-mother as usual."
It was 1 when Mrs. Redmond went
down stairs, the very ideal of a dainty,
high bred lady, In her elegant Invalid
costume, and surrouuded ou every side
by all the luxuries mouey or taste could
provide. .
Bertie and Ora, her little daughters,
eame flying to meet her as she entered
the uursery, on a visit preparatory to
dinner.
A tall, plainly-dressed woman arose
to cheek their exuberant delight.
"Children don't giod heavens ! are
you Mrs. Redmond?''
Bertha smiled and bowed. "I am
Mrs. Redmond, Mrs. Greyson. If you
know me you have the advantage,
although although" she paused, and
the color flew to her pale cheeks "it
can not possibly be that yon are Miss
St. Symington?"
"Yes, Juanita St. Symington, w ho
drove you out of her mother's parlor
because you were nobody but a nursery
governess! Mrs. Redmond this
She almost gasped the words in her
painful suspense and bitter remem
brance. .. .
Bertha laid her fair, white hand on
the plain sleeve of tlie woman.
"Try to forget whatever happened
ur pleasant. Remember that this is
truly your home, Mrs. Greyson, where
you will be received and treated as an
equal, by myself, husband and guests.
And now are you ready for dinner?
the bell will ring very soon."
So, like coals of fire, was Bertha's
mercy her sweet, tender womanliness
on Juanita St. Symington's head while
among the bitterest drops in Mrs. Grey
son's cup Is the belief that by her own
hand she made all the happiness of Mrs.
Redmond's life a happiness she had
often hoped for herself, but that, with
many other good things, had been de
nied her since tlie day when Fate took
Fortune in hand and banished her from
the home where Bertha Agincourt's
destiny began to shape its course.
Porrelala aad. Potter jr.
The manufacture of notterv was one
of the earliest of the arts practiced by
man. irom the Lake dwellings of
Switzerland and the sepulchres of
Northern Europe, many of which be
longed to the stone age, rude specimens
of pottery have been produced, and the
potter's wheel was knowu to the Egyp
tians 2,500 years before Christ. Chinese
authors fix an equally ancient date as
the period when pottery was invented
in China, but a long interval separated
this discovery from the first manufac
ture of porcelain proper, which is con
sidered to have commenced under the
Han dynasty (200 B. C 87 A. D.) But
like the art of printing in China, the
progress of the manufacture of porce
lain was slow, and, like painting also,
it may be said to have first flourished
under the Tans dvnastv. (A. D. 61S
(107.) Each period was marked by the
production of a distinct kind of porce
lain, and among the descriptions most
hiirhlv esteemed in China, is one. the
product of a somewhat later date, which
is described as being "blue as the sky,
shiuin? as a looking-glass, thin as
paper, and giving a sound like a musical
stone." That those vases were of this
color was due to an order ol the reign
ing Emperor, who directed that the
porcelain for the palace should be
made "blue as the sky after rain, when
seen between the eloin!." During the
succeeding dynasties the manufacture
was iiicreasinclv developed, and at the
present day there are no fewer than
fifty places at which there are porcelain
factories, the chief of which is at Keng-te-chin,
in the province of King-se. The
word "porcelain" is Euroean possi
bly Italian and is supposed to have
been derived from the similarity of the
glazed surlace to that of the cow rie
shell (porctlana) w hich itself took its
name from its form (por-rlla, a little
pig.) The little Chinese bottles, wlncli
were stated by Rosscllini and others to
have been found in undisturbed Egyp
tian tombs dating from not less than
1.800 vears B. C, were beyond dispute
manufactured subsequently to the
eighth ceuturv of our era; and some
pieces which bear the date of the eleventh
century are reproductions oi tne last
century.
ftaperstltloa akaf Friday.
i ht.ro are mar.v who are very suter-
Btitlons reeardinjr Friday, but the fol
lowing facta compiled by an exchange
must eniivince anv one that his super
stition against Friday as an unlucky
day, is an error.
It was on Friday, tne JJ ot August,
uo) tiint Columbus sailed from the
harbor of Falos, for the new world. It
was on Friday, the 12th or Octoner,
w h first saw land after sixty-five
tut" t
days of navigation. It was on i riday,
the Hth of January, h.m, maw
started on his return to announce the
result of his search. It was on Friday,
the 15th of March, 14'J2, thai ne uis-
K,iiwl in Andalusia. It was on
Fridav that he discovered the American
J - T-"!.l l.f
continent. It was on xnuay l..
Henry VII. gave John Cabot his dis
patch from the voyage which resulted
,. f v- A ni urir
In the discover "
rt rrl.lar. September 6th, 1505, Men-
dez founded St. Augustine. On Friday
November 10th, 1620, the Mayflower
ioomharked a few emigrants on
American soil at Trovincetown. and on
Friday, December 22d, 1620, that the
passengers finally landed at Plymouth
Rock. It was 0.1 Friday, February
22d 1732, that George Washington was
i I it was on Friday, June 16th,
1773," the battle of Bunker Hill was
fought, and on triday, ucwoer in,
- i,.r the surrender of Saratoga
took' place, the event which decided
France to give ner aiu w mc cviumeo.
.to.- ...nn of Arnold was discovered
a lie
on Friday. Yorktown surrendered on
Friday, nd on Friday that Richard
Henry Lee read the Declaration of Inde
pendence to the . onunenuu voiigrcM.
rarlsaa Belle.
Ancient coins, the delight of the con
noisseur, and the antiquary, are prized
as well by the diligent historian for the
light they throw on very much of the
unrecorded past. Even, so a bundle of
old deeds and documents serve to Illus
trate in a great measure the burinese
rules and habits of the several genera
tions iu which tney are drawn. One of
our most respected citizens placed in
my hands some time ago, a number of
deeds, bills of sale, quit claims, etc.,
pertaining to the progenitors of the pres
ent inhabitants ol Newark, and varying
iu their dates from 80 to over 160 years
ago. So far from being dry and unin
teresting, I found the perusal of many
of those quaint old papers so instructive
as to the manner in w hich some things
were done in the olden time, that 1
venture to present a few brief extracts.
Some of the oldest of these deeds were
executed in the reign of (jiieeu Anne,
and one concludes as follows: "In
witness whereof, we have hereto sett
our hands and affixed our seals this ISth
day of December, in the year of our
Lord, Annoque Domini one thousand
seven hundred and twelve, and in the
eleventh year of the reign of our Sover
eign Lady ANNE, by the grace of God,
over Great Britain, France and Ireland
Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c"
The wife of the gentleman who execu
ted this deed, was obliged to make her
mark, and it is noticeable that others
among the early settlers of Newark,' not
a large number however, used the sign
of the cross (a good enough emblem
snrelv) to signify their Inability to
write their own names. One deed of 85
years ago conveys to a Mr. Caleb
Wheeler, Jr., for forty pounds good
and lawful money, a nigger boy named
Dick, aged about 11 or 12 years.
Another paper endorsed "A hill of
iit for Tom," is of as late a date as
1S11. This for the sum of three hun
dred dollars, puts a certain individual,
his heirs, executors, etc., In full posses
sion of a nigger man known as Tom.
Tom must have been a bright active
fellow, and doubtless felt a pardonable
degree of pride in reallizing his high
commercial value. He brobably stuck
up his nose at those miserable niggers
w ho were sold for merely a hundred or
a hundred and fifty dollars, and gave
tnem to understand that they must
know their places, and not to presume
to approach his lofty plane of Ethiopian
society. Had he been a contemporary
with "Frank," he would have snubbed
him most effectually, be it known to all
"Christian people," that a Mr. Hezekiah
Johnson, in the year 1750, sold his nig
ger man named "Frank." for the paltry
sum often shillings, lawful currency.
Now, as niggers were sold with the
clothes in which they stood, we might
suppose that the purchaser made
money, even bad ha Immediately given
"Frank" his manumission papers, tak
ing care, however, in the first place to
bring the slave's external man down to
the fashion of the Adamic period; that
is, very much as mankind dressed in
Eden prior to the fall. But what are
we to think of a human chattel being
sold for ten shillings; what conclusions
are we to arrive at ? Was he like some
biting, kicking, balking quadruped of a
horse, not worth his fodder? or we
will charitably conclude that "Frank"
was ixesibly a birthday-present to a
friend, and the ten shilling might have
been introduced merely as a legal con
sideration money.
Another old document purports on its
hack to be a cUime from Mr. David Og-
Icn. This was given In the year 17:15
and in tlie eleventh year of our Sover
eign Lord George, by the grace of God,
ol Great Britain, France, Ireland, htng
Defender of the Faith, Ac.
A deed drawn in the reign of our
Sovereign Lady Anne, Queen, Defender
of the Faith; being over 160 years old
opens w ilh a greeting "to all Christian
People," enjoining upon such or them
"to whom these presents shall come"
to know w hat a certain Mr. Troat did.
in the way of deeding away proerty.
The legal gentleman who drew up this
deed (probably long since deceased) de
lighted in a redundancy of letters. He
was evidently a friend of the alphabet,
for he gives us chaiues for chains, heires
for heirs, assignes for assigns; and, so
pertinaciously does he keep this up
that he even profanely gives us a 'damn'
for an Innocent and useful dam. I his
very iioorly comports with the pious
apiwal to all "Christian People" in the
outset. But it Is w ell perhaps to acquit
this good gentleman of all intentional
profanitv. He unquestionably desired
to give a good length to his legal docu
ment, that he might thereby with a lair
show of reason proportionally swell his
charge of pounds, shillings, and pence
for services rendered.
In the year of our Lord 1783, Mr. Ne
hernia Wade in a purely Republican
deed, without mention ofKing or Queen,
fells for one hundred aud fifty pounds
his nigger girl named Bess, aud her
two children Die and Cato.
A deed was executed by James Ward
in the reign of George the second, and
in the year 1737, is witnessed by
Abraham Kitchel and Aaron Burr. The
last named minister was of course the
esteemed pastor of the First Presbyteri
an Church in this city, and father of
the scheming unprincipled politician of
the some nature, who was once Vice
President of the United States. After
reading Dr. Stearns' glowing eulogy of
the Rev. Aaron Burr, in his history of
the First Church, the accidental discov
ery of the autograph of the latter, in
an old time-worn deed executed 138
ago, was to my mind a matter of con
siderable interest. The mere name of
Aaron Burr is sgggestive of a thousand
historical recollections. While the fa
ther and pastor, as is well known, was
distinguished for his piety and varied
accomplishments, tlie son was notorious
for his profligacies and selfish ambition.
"A bill of Ktil for Harry," so endorsed
is the last paper to which I shall at
present refer, lie was sold by two in
dividuals (one rejoicing in the good
name of "Freeman") in the year 1785,
for one hundred and ten pounds, York
money. That a Free-man should sell a
human being asa slave, seems like
doing but little honor to his own name,
We might justly inquire why not make
the poor darky a free-man too, instead
of telling him to Mr. Wheeler; but
doubtless Mr. Freeman and his co-partner
in the ownership of Harry bad a
ready argument at their tongue end
to show that the niggers deserved all
they" got and more too, for the unseem
ly conduct of their great progenitor
Ham, at the time his father the patri
arch Noah, got somewhat the worse for
liquor.
The .tew eat I'aahlaaaale Baart la Ea
Klaad.
A very curious sport is gaining ground
in this country. The use of cormorants
for fishing purposes has been practiced
for centuries by the Chinese, who care
fully train these birds to deliver their
prey uuinjured to their master, Instead
of appropriating it to their own use ; and
from China and other Oriental coun
tries it has been brought to England.
Cormorant-fishing recalls, in a measure.
the old days of falconry, with the ex
ception that, while tlie feats of the
trained hawks and falcons were per
formed in mid-air, the performances of
the "6ea-crow," as the French call it,
takes place in the water. With a ring
placed round their necks to prevent them
from swallowing their booty, though
well-trained birds will dispense with
this restraint, the cormorants plunge at
a given signal into the water, and hard
ly ever fail to bring up a finny prize.
Their broad-webbed feet and their thin,
keel-shaped body admirably adapt them
for swimming and diving ;and they will
often use their short, stiff wings as an
additional means of: propulsion. So
sw ift are they, and so sudden their de
scent, that the nimblest fish can not es
cape them. If they seize their prey
otherwise than by the head they ascend
to the surface, and. quickly jerking It
into the air, will adroitly catch it as it
falls headforemost. The appearance of a
number of cormorants thus engaged,
and regularly bringing their booty to
their owner s hand, Is a very pleasing
sight. Thus employed they will con
tinue fishing, with but litttle Intermis
sion, and with the occasional encour
agement of a handful of the smaller fry,
for several hours together. Otters in
deed can be trained to act in a similar
manner; and, if this mode of fishing is
likely to become at all general, it will
necessitate a new reading of certain acts
of Parliament. Under the salmon fish
ery acts, for Instance, a duty is payable
on "instruments" used for the capture
of salmon, and it may become a question
for the lawyers whether "cormorant"
can properly be called an "instrument"
if engaged in pursuit of salmon, while
it is only an "aquatic totipalmate bird"
at other times. There are, at any rate,
few kinds of sport which are not open
to objections from which cormorant fish
ing is free. Cormorants must have fish
to eat, and it is no more cruel to let them
M thwMelvea in the presence of ad
miring spectators than to catch the fish
first of all in a net. It is even superior
to the ancient falconry, since the winged
prey of the hawks is a more sensitive
animal than the finny prey of the cor
morant, and the fish do not probably
feel any pain in their ignominious de
scent, head foremost, into the capacious
beak of their captor.
Iadepeudeat Jaaraallsm.
A Detroit youth, of fourteen, sold fif
ty pounds of old iron and a piece of lead
pipe, a few days ago, and received
enough money to carry out his long
cherished idea of establishing a weekly
newspaper which should represent the
interests of every section of Michigan.
He was willing to commence low down
and work up, and he established an of
fice in the cellar of his father's house,
purchased tw o quarts of "pi," hired his
si.-ter as an apprentice, and work w as
begun on his first number.
The hoy had an idea that an indepen
dent journal would pay best, and his
first edition, which consisted of seven
copies of a sheet about as large as an
envelope, was devoted to items of a per
sonal nature.
It was rather a family sheet, also,
seven of the eight item in it being hits
at his father and mother, and the lone
one was a bit of ail vice to his school
teacher.
While he was out hunting up adver
tisements and soliciting subscribers his
father laid the type away to shoot cats
with, and when the editor and proprie
tor returned he was given a woodshed
interview and then wedded to the han
dle of a lawn mower.
He was yesterday "hollering" over
the alley fence to one of his friends that
he couldn't be crushed out nor fright
ened off the track by no bloodthirsty
mob, but the prospect for a new paper
is dubious.
The l line la EasllnB. Hehoola.
The London 1'elegrapk, referring to
some recent canes in the Indon Police
Courts, says : "It would be desirable
to know whether schoolmasters and
schoolmistresses are to tie permitted
any longer to slash with canes the
hands of little school children. There
may be some members of the London
School Board who have read Sir Charles
Bell's "Bridgewater Treatise on the
Hand," aud, in such a case, they may
have learned that the member in ques
tion is an exquisitely delicate and com
plex piece ot human mechanism, which
may be thrown out of gear by a very
slight abrasion. If, nevertheless, the
cane wielded by powerful adults on the
limbs of weak children is to be consid
ered legal, it is manifestly a gross
mockery and perversion of justice, and
a waste of public time, that Magis
trates should be called upon to investi
gate the complaints made by the
Farents of boys who have been caned,
(stands to reason that a thin cane
cuts a boy. that a thick cane bruises
him, and that in either case his body
must be w healed, and he must undergo
a certain amount of torture. It is per
fectly idle to talk of moderate and
'excessive' chastisement. A couple of
stripes will send a nervous child into
hysterica, whereas a strong and obtuse
boy would nnderaro a couple of dozen
without flinching. If the law is to up
hold the cane, let the law prescribe the
number of blows. The London School
Board seems to be fond of experiment
alizing; and it would perhaps be desira
ble that the Legislature should assist
them in trying the experiment of con
ducting their schools wholly without
corporal punishment."
A wild horse, bearing tlie dead
body of a man securely strapped to its
back, dashed into Waco Texas, a few
days ago.
Art CrltKlaaa.
A well-known artist has for the last
four or five months been throwing his
whole soul into a landscape which is
now on exhibition in a Chestnut street
window. ' It is called a fine painting
by art critics, yet what are art critics
in number to the great public, no two
of whom see or criticise alike? There
was a crowd around the picture yester
day, and a bootblack took a square look
at the painting and said:
"Purty good river he painted, but it
runs up hill. Wonder If that artist
didn't ever go fishing?"
There was a pause, and an elderly
gentleman with spectacles on remarked :
"What strikes me is that all those
six cows should be switching their
tails the same way and at the same
time."
The crowd looked closer and it was
the general opinion that the artist
should have switched over some of those
tails.
"It's very nice," said a young man
with a sore eye, "but look at that log
house from a builder's point of view.
Why, it is so far out of plumb that it
will fall over and hurt some one before
night, and that chimney wouldn't draw
If there were forty fires below."
There was a long period of silence as
each one of the crowd lined the walls
with his eye. Then an old woman
cautiously remarked :
"No matter about the bouse or the
cows or th river it's a nice picture.
I got two chromos that I paid a dollar
apiece for, and I dou't believe they are
a bit better than this !"
There was a woman at her side with
a head of cabbage in a basket, and she
put in :
"If I can find a nice smooth board
anywhere I'll have my husband make
three or four pictures like that!"
There was another long silence, and
then a sedate man, whose garments
were fast going to Time's hospital for
old clothes, elbowed the boys back with
a great show of authority, and re
marked :
"You folks don't know anything
about art. You had better go and crit
icise a lamp-post or a street sign.
There the painter has used up three
yards of factory muslin, a whole day's
time, and more'n two shillings' worth
of paint, and you ignoramuses come
around here and go to abusing his
picture !"
A Tradllloa rsaratoca Lake.
. There is an Indian superstition at
tached to this lake which probably bad
its source in its remarkable loneliness
and tranquility. The Mohawks be
lieved that its stillness was sacred to
the Great Spirit, and that if a human
voice uttered a sound upou its waters,
the canoe of the offender would instant
ly sink. A story Is told of an Englishwo
man, in the early days of the first set
tlers, who had occasion to cross this lake
with a party of Indians, who, before
embarking warned her most impres
sively of the spell. It was a silent,
breathless day, and the canoe shot over
the surface of the lake like an arrow.
About a half a mile from the shore, near
the centre of the lake, the woman, wish
ing to convince tlie Indians of the erro
neousness of their superstition, uttered
a loud cry. The countenances of the
Indians fell instantly to the deepest
gloom. After a minute's pause, how
ever, they redoubled their exertions,
and in frowning silence drove the liglit
bark swiftly over the waters. They
reached the shore In safety, and drew
up the canoe, w hen the woman rallied
the chief on his credulity. "The Great
Spirit is merciful," answered I he scorn
ful Mohawk; "he knows that a white
woman cannot hold her tongue!" Har
per's Slitynziut.
M. Phaalom Feaa.
Aproos of the stories of haunted
houses and ghostly doings, to which
the prevailing spiritualistic mania has
given rise, a corresjiondent gives the
following, vouching lor its truth :
There is a gentleman who visits our
city once every three years, whoexcites
a great deal of interest on account of
some peculiar circumstances which al
ways attend him. His personal appear
ance is striking rather tall, with head
firmly set on broad shoulders, iron gray
hair, brushed off from a full, w hite for
head, well-cut features, and eyes dark,
with a strange inward expression. He
takes rooms at one of our first class ho
tels, and remains three days.
The first is spent in giving directions
for a banquet to be served iu his private
apiKtrtments, and he is particular to
the minutest detail. The second day he
superintends everything, and his face
wears an anxious look. At about four
o'clock he retires to his dressing-room,
after giving a last injunction to the ser
vants to be in attendance at the appoin
ted time.
The hour approaches; the table is re
splendent with silver, crystal and flow
ers; the servant stands expectantly
waiting, yet no guests have arrived.
At length the doors of the inner room
open, and the strange gentleman enters
his face flushed and head bent, as if
listening to some remark addressed to
him. With polite gestures he Indicates
seats to numerous guests, and at last
seats himself at the head of the table.
With a motion to the astonished servant
he signifies bis wish to have the covers
removed and the different course served
All is profound silence, and yet the
host appears to be engaged in earnest
conversation, frequently bowing and
smiling toward different parts of the
table. At length the wine is poured,
every glass is filled; and as this is done
the host rises, holding his glass high
above his head. Instantly every chair
is filled with lovely women and courtly
men, sparkling eyes look love to eyes
that speak again, and rosy lips seem
ready to part with rippling laughter.
Soon the ladles disappear through the
door float, as it were, out of sight
and the gentlemen remain. Conversa
tion seems to be renewed, when sudden
ly the gaze all is riveted upon two young
men who appear to be very angry.
They both rise excitedly, one draws a
dagger, uplifts his arm. and with de
scending motion buries it in the bosom
of a beautiful girl who has rushed in
and thrown herself la front of the in
tended victim. Jewels gleam on her
polished throat and amid the shining
gold of her hair, while her life blood,
like a crimson thread, slowly trickles
over the snowy whiteness of her dress.
Every face is filled with a look of
horror, and with a cry of agony the
host falls back in his chair insensible,
and as he alls the guests fade away
and vanish into air.
Nearly all of the servants have long
since fled with fright, but a few, allow
ing their curiosity to overcome their
fear have remained to the end. They
now summon assistance, and the strange
man is carried to bis bed. For a long
time all means of resuscitating him
fail, but at length, with a deep sigh,
he opens his eyes and moans, "Oh, it is
all over-" Then he falls into a deep
slumber, and so remains until the after
noon of tlie third day, when he makes
his appearance at the office, calm and
collected, calls for his bill, pays it
without the least demur, orders a car
riage, and is driven to the Grand Cen
tral depot, and there we lose sight of
him until three years roll over our
heads, when we feel sure he will visit
us again.
There are many stranger tilings hap
pen than ever appear in print, and this
probably would have become one of
them had not the public become excited
over the Eddy mysteries and fairly
roused our scientific men to investigate
the indefinable something that steals
up stairs after us every-day people,
and lays its cold hand upon us in our
sleep.
The circumstances here related can
be corroborated by a number of people
if necessary. Dr. , who has been
a witness of them, has a theory which
may be a right one after all, chimerical
as it may seem at first. In this case he
thinks the gentleman has in reality gone
tli rough just such a scene as has been
described, and that probably the young
lady was his daughter. The dreadful
shock her loss produced acted in a pe
culiar way upon his brain. It must
take three years for some unknown
force to work within him to the point
when he feels compelled, perhaps as a
sort of relief to repeat as far as possible
the event. When the wine appears his
inner force must be reaching to culmi
nation, and the vision so intensly vivid
in the mind, is projected into or upon
the atmosphere, like a reflection in the
glass, so that it becomes visible to all
who may be present. When he falls
the force is expended, and the phantas
magoria disappears. The prolonged in
sensibility followed by a deep sleep is
an effort of nature to repair exhaustion
and restore equilibrium.
The largest Raaaa la tala t'anatrjr.
The surveying party sent out to sur
vey tlie Okefenokee Swamp report that
it measures one hundred and forty-two
miles in circumference, aud with the
sinuosities, one hundred and eighty
miles around. This va.-t formation, thir
ty miles long and twenty-seveu miles
wide, is the largest swamp in the Uni
ted States. It lies in the southeastern
part of Georgia, but partly in North
Florida. Here is the Suwanee river,
made famous by the old negro nielody
of "Old Folks at Home." It traverses
a large section of upper Florida, is bor
dered with valuable cypress and other
timber, and empties into the Gulf at a
point about eighteen miles north of Ce
dar Keys. Okefenokee Swamp was, for
generations, a refuge for runaway
slaves. Indians have lived there until
recently, cultivating gardens; and in
the depths of the jungles and forests are
thousands of hears and a great many
Florida "tigers" the cougar, or Amer
ican panther. One curious experience
of the surveying party was to rind them
selves at one time, while in the midst
of a great swamp, suffering for w ater.
The discovery of a large number of
mounds, "probably built by a race of
men existing before the Indians," is al
so reported. Several skeletons were
taken from them, but some crumbled as
soon as exposed to the air.
Aaeleat aad Madera Xola.
There is an element in the prose fic
tion of the last century which places it
in strong contrast with the novel of the
present lime. We are now inclined to
regard the novelist as before all things
an artist. His work is judged by tiie
laws proper to imaginative literature,
and success or failure is reckoned by
reference to a staudard which would
have been scarcely understood by the
w riters or by the public of an earlier
time. On one point in particular
modern critics are wont to be unfail
ingly severe. The novelist is not per
mitted to be a teacher of morals. Pardon
may be granted for other faults of style
or knowledge, but the fault of attempted
instruction is deemed unpardonable,
and the writer who now undertakes to
deliver saee counsel on the rewards of
virtue or the perils of vice is at once
and confidently judged to be ignorant
of the first principles of his crai'u
This modern view of the requirements
of fiction is curiously opposed to the
practice of the writers of the last cen
tury. There, at least, we find no doubt
in the mind of the author as to the
propriety of instrncting his readers.
The novel was understood to be the
vehicle for discursive comment upon
manners and morals, ami the element
in fiction now held to be supreme occu
pied then only a subordinate place. The
gift of characterization, since discovered
to be the one enduring element in those
cumbrous works of Action, was held at
the time to be subject to the power.of
the essayist; the individual personages
of the history slowly emerged from a
world of wise and witty comment offered
independently by the author; and when
we strive to reach the motive of one of
these earlier novels, it is impossible not
to feel that by the novelist himself the
facts of the story were regarded mainly
as useful machinery by the aid of which
be might deliver himself of a store of
pregnant criticisms upon meu aud man
ners. The fortune and fate of the hero
formed no doubt an object of interest
to him; and we may note everywhere
iu the literature of the eighteenth cen
tury the signs of a new pleasure in
being able to describe and imitate the
minutest facts of real life and to trans
fer them into the mimic world of fiction ;
but all this side of his labor was evi
dently deemed of less dignity and con
sideration than the functions of a moral
instructor. London Saturday Sniew.
KIWS D! BRIE?.
There are one hundred and twenty
Chinese students in Hartford.
A colored woman has been ap
pointed postmaster at Terry, Missis
sippi. .tsMOr -
A bed of ochre of pure quality and
ereat value has just been discovered at
Kussell, Mass.
The tide of emigration for Texas
and Kansas shows a very marked in
crease over last year.
When a Wisconsin man dies with
out heirs, bis property goes to the
school fund of the State.
A. S. Abell, proprietor of the Bal
timore Sun, is seventy years old, and is
said to possess $10,000,000.
Twenty-nine States will chose their
Congressmen on the 7th of November
next, the remainder at various periods.
Prof. John Wise is a philosophical
man. He says that lightning rods are
of no more good than so many pine
sticks.
Smallpox is becoming scarce in
England. The last annual report gave
only 600 cases for the whole of Eng
land and n ales.
John Fitz has just been arrested in
Owensboro', Ky., and taken to Mis
souri on a charge of murder committed
eighteen years ago.
The amount of fractional currencr
outstanding at the time the act provid
ing tor its redemption in stiver took ef
fect was 10,000,000.
The C. C. C. which stands for
Champion Centenuial Cucumber, is in
swanton, t. Jt is five feet two inches
long and still growing.
A Milwaukeean moves that the
hickory tree be made an emblem of the
United States, as the oak is of England
aud the laurel of Greece.
The Author of "St. Elmo" is the
only American writer of fiction to
whom a publisher will pay $15,000 for
a novel ou receipt ot the manuscript.
Dom Pedro desires to Induce Rus
sians to settle in Brazil instead of this
country. He offers 160 acres of land
and the certainty of one year's subsist
ence. Alfred Johnson, commander ami
crew of the dory Centennial which
has just crossed the ocean, was 57 days
at sea. He landed at Abercastle Pem
brokeshire. A Holyoke, (Mass.) boy, whose
spine has been weakened by illness,
runs on all fours like a dog. His health
is good, and he hops over the ground at
a lively rate.
In the show window of a Chicago
pawn-shop is exhibited a magnificent
diamond set, said to have been thn
proerty of the Empress Eugenie. It
is held at $25,000.
Dion Boucicault is about to restore
at his own cost, the dilapidated build
ings of the grammar school in which
Oliver Cromwell was educated. The
estimated expense is JL!)00.
Penikese Island, which John An
derson gave to Prof. Agassis for a sum
mer school in natural history, now re
verts to Mr. Anderson, who proposes
to make it his summer residence.
Manchester, N. n., claims to be
the only manufacturing city of New
England where the mills have been
operated without interruption on full
time and w ithout reduction in wages.
In Ireland only 68,758 persons out
of 5,4U0,4:5own any laud at all, and of
these only 32,614 have more than an
acre, the remainder owning among
hem au only i),Wo acres, chiefly house
property.
Sir Julius Benedict, of London, U
now seventy-two years of age. He
has sent out to the world nearly 8,000
pupils, and has conducted, at the very
least, 100,000 concerts In his career of
fifty years.
Among the postoffices established
in Pennsylvania the past week were
three of the following names: Autumn
'.eaves' and "Haidee, in Wayne
County, and "Bouquet," in Westmore
land County.
One thousand Young Men's Chris
tian Associations are known to be in
existence on this continent, and tabu
lated reiMrts of eight hundred and
twenty one of these are published in
their Vear Book lor 1S76.
The Engiih school boards have es
tablished savings banks to teach the
children providence, ami the banks
have now upward ot ss.nuu oeionging
to the children. Of this sum $6,000 be
longs to London school children.
A South Carolina man has been
keeping statistics of the duels fought or
arranged for in the state since the war,
and he savs that threK-fourts ol them
were about women, and that most of
the contestants bore the title of major.
The managers of the Botanical
Gardens at Manchester, England, have
latelv leeii agitated about the question
of oiening the gardens to the public on
Sun. lays. It has at last oeen settled in
the affirmative bv a vote of 1S5 to 65.
At a recent meeting of representa
tives of the various unions of New
York, the secretary of the organization
who ha all the means of knowing, re
ported that the members of unions had
dwindled from 73,000, in 1&52, to about
lo,000 ill 13,6.
Iii Newark, N. J., the other night.
burglars broke into a store where hats
are manufactured. They carelessly
Ironped a match into a lot of chemicals
and a tremendous explosion followed.
1 he thieves escaped, but they were ter
ribly frightened.
The bankers of Peru seem to have
a very hard time. The Government
failed to sell its guano last year, anu
the bankers were forced to advance
about $1,000,000, and were promised
that they should be reimbursed out of
the proceeds ol the nrst sale.
A strong effort is being made to se
cure the division of California into two
States. The proposed division is on
the line ot Santa cruz county, giving
fourteen countries in the South for the
new State, with 30,000 voters and a
hundred millions taxable property.
The hair of a woman, nearly 90
years of age, who died oa Martha's
Vineyard, was wholly woven in with
false hair which had not been removed
for over 30 years, and was held in place
by 180 pins. One article of her dress
was held together by 308 pins, though
her bureaus contained 98 new dress
patterns of all kinds and qualities'
anme of them bought 64 vears ago. aud
one elegant brocade silk could be traced
back 200 years.
Mr. C. L. Wilder, of Lancaster,
Mass., claims to have the largest tree
in Massachusetts on his estate. It is
in a perfect state of preservation, not
having a dead leaf or branch, and .Its
limbs hang in arches of symmetrical
beauty. The owner of the tree says be
measured it five years ago and it was
twenty-three feet in circumferance. A
recent measurement finds the trunk to
Ko iuntr.thm and one half feet in
circumferance at a distance of three
feet from the ground.