J liiiwt raft , 11.,' lill, Will A' nrr VY Yv Ml B. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTITUTIOI-THE UHOl-AID THE EIFOSOE1CEIT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8. 1882. NO. 9. WU1 it he over to-day or to-morrow? Will It last tor a ttek, or a month or a year Taia tranoe that is Mitker a Joy nor a sorrow. This wilting that la But hope nor a fear? While I am waiting th. end draw near. It will come before I am dead aorae day ; Shall I feel, I wonder, when it ia here ? It coming Menu like got tig away. Ia It only that watching haa made me weary. And that being weary haa made me dream? Bat in dreamt the world ia not ao dreary. And In dreanu thingi arc not aa they seem. And indeed I am not tired yet, I have etrength to wait what ia yet to aee. What the h-Mir I know I will not lorgrt. The end of the watch that ia aet lor me. Ia It the end that haa ma4e me atrong, Lett I ear when it couiea It come too late ! Then till it cam. I should dad it long; 1 hare forgotten for what I wait. Then why are my though: bound up to thia By a bond that I neither feel nor aee. While the world goea by In ba.e or bit ! 1M I think that the world keep watch with nte f Yet th end will come and the end will go. And leave no trace in the empty air; When It t over none will know. And I hardly think that I ahall care. Mr KKMOJC. "When I forsook the college walls of W .some year ago, I was possessed wf-of-" Ot immeUKo knowledge?" "Xo such thing, my friend." Learning lore old as musty?" "Nothing of tha kind, I do assure you. "Acquaintance, thorough, vast, vari ed, with men and things?" "Far from it. If anything, rather the reverse of all this." "8 hades of the Campus! You lut joke, my dear fellow. Posseted and of what, pray?" "Of a demon!" My friend interested me; his story was making me curious; but I exhib ited a calm exterior, and unperturbed countenance. He was dealing in enig mas; I would show him the virtue of laconics. I simply said: "Indeed!" "Yes," said he, "I was possessed of it eontinnally. It haunted me all tb tiigiit and all the day. I strove witti it, but puissant effort and superhuman ex ertion were alike puerile and ineffi cient." 1 smiled a little, pertly to encour age my friend, and partly to cover the growing interest I felt in bis story, (I consider that no person ought ever to get excited.) "Proceed! ' said L "The demon, I said, was desire! That desire: to encounter a ceqnette; to humble her haughty spirit, and sulxlue her obdurate heart!" I nodded three times. Each nod was given with deliberation. I eyed him at tentively as he continued: 'Look at that person; not tall, to be sure, but well knit, full of grace, and Adonis like." As he said this, he rose from his chair, and, drawing his coat tight about him, stood erect and turned quite around. 4 'And those eyes! note them large, dark, lnmLaous. Jut imagine how tltey shone and sparkled on that night on the occasion!" I imagined. "I was the heir of my rich, bachelor uncle; aud scarcely had I entered upon the (KMisessioD of the wealth his demise had lett for my sole enjoyment, aud had time to arrange some business matter in the little village which was honored by his name, before the in telligence was conveyed to me that one of the u-ofct beautiful girls, yet one ot the most arrant and fickle of coquettes, was a resident of the white house just across the way. "I can't begiu to tell you how this news di lighted me. I was superlative ly elated edified. "She appeared to be the theme of every tongue. No one spoke of the society of the town without giving her uaine the preference oi first mention. Her beauty, her voice, her tloquence. her education and nceoniplislimenls, her standing, aud, above all, her desperate flirtations, her audacious conquests, L-er cruelty, her " "Stop a moment take breath," said I, interrupting what was like to be an endless chain of substantives.- According to rumor," said my friend, "no such tyrant was ever before seen. No man ever approached her but he went away with a deadly arrow cleaving to his side, and she laughing at his anguish. "This was quite enough. I desired ti know no more. It was bliss to me eostatio bliss. It sank down into the well of my heart, aud then, gushing up, it meandered through every vein, nerve, fibre, muscle. It permeated my whole being. I felt nice! "Then I drew myself up, every fea ture beaming with the one thought vast, illimitable it seemed and swore, by the ashes of my sires and my de mised bachelor uncle, and by tbat guar dian genius which nover deserted me in any emergency, that I would teach this haughty and cruel tyrant what it Is to maltreat my sex what it is to flout my kind what it is to make hermits and misanthropes of my fellow men, and what, consequently, it is to cheat the census roll of its legitimate increase. "The night of the fete came. I drew on my low, patent leathers, over a pair of in macul-ta silk stockings, shook am brosial fiagrtuoe into my snowy kerchief, and w as off to meet aud sub due the all -dangerous 'siren. "Aa I passed along the way 1 thought of nothing save the coquette, and the triumph 1 had in anticipation I argued to myself! " A itarcel of illiterate country dunces have been swelling her triumpna with a list of unmeaning aud dishonora ble ctleptives, and hence her fame, Doubllss she is some li tie, smooth faced airs. some pert, forward miss, full of and and smelling of boarding school od b read and butter. frond ot a bright complexion and a little money' nil hv tintterv an-l the want of ttumratition- s- crt store that would be eclipsed, burned up, in the blaze of a city soiree. "And you resolved to have revenge for the wrongs doue her victims; to at tack her and teach her a lesson!" "Right. And as I rang the bell at my friend's door, I murmured: 'Rural belles onght not to be too confident too saucy.' A few moments more found me sit ting by a sweet modest girl, to whom, in the confusion of a crowd much more numerous and dazzling than I had ex pected, some one had introduced me in so hurried a manner as to leave each one in ignorance of the other's name. "I looked at her she was a Venus! '1 danced with her she was a sylph! "I heard her sing she was an angel! "Absolutely, the village coquette was quite forgot; she had utterly . pas sed from my mind in the seducing love liness, the simple, modest grace, the exquisite air of elegance and propriety which ny charming acqnaintauce ex hibited. "At length I remembered. I took my gaze from her countenance and looxeu aronna lor the object of my lormer curiosity. A superbly dressed girl was dancing near us, all feathers, flounces, jewels, blazing, rustling. laughi ig aloud, smiling on this gun tleman. whispering to that oje, suffer ing a third to hold her hand, and a fourth to tie her shoe. " 'This is her,' said I to myself. This ia the terror of our country swains. What mistaken ideas of beauty! Ah! what course, uncultivated taste. Rut 'tis plain they have never seeu piuturea and statuary. They have never read poetry. They are iguorantof true beauty. "Then 1 withdrew my gaze. My eyes again rested on the face of my unarming friend. Xo decorations were there, no tinsel, no gaudy, vulgar solicitations for the crowd's attention; but rather a studied reserve, a classic simplicity, a natural grace and refine ment of soul had taught her those true elements of beauty which painters spenu their lives in learning. Her rich hair was parted with a severe absence of omamett on a head by far the most chastely beautiful in the room. Her radiant eyes beamed with a tender feel ing which made the heart tremble; and the eubdued and thoughtful expression visible in her countenance resembled the melancholy smile of an autumnal morning which fulls upon th still earth through a silver mist. t once as pleasing as happiness and s sad as sorrow. A creature so beautiful ' I had never seen before. From that moment, I, ux. believed in broken hearts. Hero was Shakspeare's 'Juliet,' but where the 'Eomio?' "The thought made me turn as if a revelation divine bad dawned upon my sonL "A moment aferward I was callea to the dince, and asked the pleasure of a alts with hbr. There was a sweet smile on her plump, rosy lips, as she replied: I uaye relusea tnree aireauy. i said I was engaged. "Our eyes met If love ever flashed in a dance. I had kindled in the bosom of this angelic creature a flame like that which was every moment uurning more ardently in niii-e. 'Our eyes met again, wouueriui, wonderful orbs, to be the source of such delight! to be the windows through which so much heavenly uiiss can ue poured in upon the soul! "I took her baud as it nestifcu oosiiy niton her knee. It was small and white and soft like nothing else in nature. Not to press it slightly was as impossi ble as for the thirsty pilgrim not to drink. The pressure was returned! a flood of rapture roiled along my nerves. Surely some heavenly power led my steps over enchanted ground. x.very look was language. Every motion de lightevery touch eloquence, hap piness love! 'You will not refuse rue!' "I saia this in a tone soft and low I drew her gently, as zephyrs kiss the half open flowers. And even as they, with bashful reluctance, unfold their leaves and blush to meet the light, so this modest creature yielded to my im pulse, and I led her through a dance that seemed a dream, only it was too delicious. The opportunity was not neslected. I whispered in her ear, I grew bold and saucy, and her fine eyes flashed up to mine with a perfect satis faction, which told me my conquest was complete. "The dance was over. An engage ment with a friend hurried me away. 'I will see you again, soon, I whis pered, as I left her side, I strode along tne noor line an emperor, and in the height ot my tri umph encountered the gentleman who had given me so flaming an account of the village coquette. Well, my boy, I exclaimed, with great suavity of manner, I have thus far neglected to be introduced to your wonderful coquette, but I think I could meet her without dauger.' "Meet her! with a look of surprise, 'meet her! Why, fellow, you have been bending over her, entranced, an hour by my chronometer. A dozen people have been watching you,' "The truth flashed upon me. 1 was seized with fear and trembling. 1 look ed around nie. Twenty gnnning faces were bent upon me with the malice of fiends. Look here, said my friend, awhile afterward. 'You came here to teach a lesson. As the object of that lesson has not profited by it, learn one yourself. "He guided me to another apartment. There, before my eyes, sitting beside, and gayly chatting with another fellow handsome, like myseit was ine coquette. 'He s from the city, sa u my friend. Then all the rascals around laughed. He's just out of college, said another. Theu they all laughed again. "I heard the gentleman ask her o dance. 'I Lave refused six,' said she, with the same sweet smile she had given me. 'Bat you will deuce with me? "And off they went, sure enough. All the evening until I left they were to gether. They were one and inseparable so they seemed. "The next day I learned they were engaged. "A week later, and they were mar ried." mmwmmmmmmmwmmmm Thrani Capal. From Germany 11 is leuned that a curi ous historical document concerning a Pan ama canal exists in the archives of Ven ezuela, (which, by the way, is not a "city," as some of the Continental pa pers sav it is), bearing the date of 1780. A canal project, this document records, was broached in the reign of Phillip II, but Flemish engineers S-irveyed the terri tory and declared ttat the obstacles to the undertaking were insurmountable. Na tive Governors, continues this record, "thereupon pointed out to the King the enormous comine-cial disadvantages likely to arise to Spain ftom such an undertak ing, in consequence whereof 'Phillip II issued a rescript which threatened with death any person alluding by word or writing to the pro led. Snatched Troa Standing idly, almost listlessly, by the postern gate that marked the en trance to her father's broad demesne Owendoleu Riorden looked down the broad avenue that skirted the aucestral acres of her sire with a wistful, plead ing expression ia her County Antrim features that told more plainly than words, more eloquently than a three sheet poster, of the hopes and fears that were harassing her young Archer avenue ouL "Will he come?" she said softly to herself, blushing even as she spoke. "Is the fruition of my hopes to be a glad ooe or must I again throw the black pall of disappointment oyer my cherished plans? Heaven forefeud that I should for the third time drain to its dregs the bitter cup that a cruel fate has twice held to my lips lips that were dry and parched for the kissed of one whom I ahall ever love and who will not see my mad passion for him. Do not drive me too far, Menelans McGuire, or you will rue the day when Superin tendent Holmes gave you an Archer avenue car to drive. As she did so the rustle of a patrician polonaise was heard and a fair-haired maiden of nineteen summers and a wet spring came around theeoruer with her starboard tacks aboard. Girofle Mahaffy was the daughter of purse-proud aristocrat who owned milk route, and she was not slow to make use of the social position to which, as the heiress of over $309, a tinic-serv ing world had raised her. She had met Meuelaua MoOuire at a fete clunipetre, given iu horn r of Aphrodite Johnson's eighteenth birthday, and fallen desper ately iu love with him, although aware that he had plighted his troth to Gwen dolen. She had sought by every art known to a woman to lure him from his rightful love. The girls did not speak, and as Girofle passed the Riordan goat. Inch was eating a discarded hoop- skirt, a haughty smile flitted over her face. '-Goat's milk is healthy" she said, in low, scornful tones. Gwendolen heard the words and faced the speaker, "Yes, Girofle Mahaffy," she said, speak ing slowly and calmly, although in turning she had pinched her corn. ' we are poor, out 1 notice that we are in vited to all the wakes and christenings. When it comes to going with the haut- ton we capture the confec'ionery, aud don't you forget it." Suddenly Mendaus McGuire. he -horn they both loved an well, came around the corner. Girofle started to ward him, a smile on her face, but be heeded Ler noi. Stepping quickly to Gwendolen's side he tooK her hand in his. while a wave of color rushed oyer his face and an infinite lock of tenderness came into his bright eyes. "Can you forgive my neglect, dar ling?" he sail; "can you take me again to your heart?' A great, passionate throb of intense joy filled Gwendolen's heart. Lookin g up to Menelsus with tear-stained eye she said in broken tones: "Can I forgive you, my own? Well, I should ingle." Attack oa mm Idol. An attack has be en made upon the idol or Juggernaut, at Pooroe, tho most sacred shrine in India, by a party of fa natics. The rioters, who numbered twelve men and three women, and were almost in a state of nudity, succeeding in entering the temple and tried to force their way into the inner recesses. Al though upwards of one thousand pilg rims were present, they were not ex pelled without a severe struggle, in the course of which one intruder was tram pled to death. The rest were arrested, and have been sentenced to three months imprisonment. The inquiry showed that they belonged to a set of dissenters lately founded in the Sumlbulpore dis trict, and known as Eumbhupatias,from the faet that iU follower wear ropes of bark round their waists. They allege that their religion was revealed to sixty four persons in 1834, by a God incar nate, whom they style Alckhswamy that is, the Lord whose attributes cannot be described in writing. They believe in the existence of the three hundred million doities, but do not res pect their images, saying that it is im possible to represent a supreme being whom one has never seen. They are subdivided into three classes, two of which renounce the world and make no distinction of caste, while the third leads a family life. Their habits are said to be very filthy,, and, like some European sec s, they take no medicine iu illness, but rely solely on divine help. Their attack on Pooroe temple was prompted by the belief that if the Jug gernaut was bnrned it would convince the Hindoos of the futility of their re ligion, and the whole world would then embrace the truth. Bla-M Napoleon was not the first person to declare his preference for men with big noses. A century before his birth the author of Nauga Vcnale, in response to his own question, pronounced "the biggest nose the best nose," instancing the case of the Roman emperors. Xuma's nose was half a foot long, and earned for him the honorable surname of Pom pilius. According to Plutarch, Lyeur- gua atnd Solon ran to nose, and ao did all the Roman kings except Tarquinius Superbua. and he was dethroned. Ho mer's nose was several inches long. Rig noses," says Vigneul Marville, "are held in honor everywhere in the world, exeept among the Chinese and Tartars. Titus Livius, Ovid, Camoens, and St Charles Raromeo may be num bered among men of enviable nasal de velopment. Henri Hi's brother Fran cis duke f Alenooa, had his nose fairly cleft in two by the ravages of small pox a Th Brink. I a fact which inspired the epigram, when in 1583 he made a perfidious attempt on the friendly city of Antwerp. Cyrano de Rergerae had so huge a cose tbat be went about perpetually with his hand on his sword prepared to punish those who stared at him. Mine, de Genlis had model nose at leant she thought it to be such judging from her frequent allu sions to it in her "memoirs," and from the scolding she gave artist who repre sented it as aquiline. "Is that," she said "the little nez retrousse celebrated in prose and verse?" and she went on to describe it in dutail as most delicate, the prettiest nose in the world, with a lump on it, like noses of that sort. She thus anticipated Tennyson's heroine with her nose tip-tilted like the petals of a flower. Among the ugly people mentioned in history may be mentioned Margar.t, Countess of Tyrol, nicknamed "Sack's Mouth;" La Tremovulle, Mme. tie Sevig ne's friend, who. when he turned his back on one person to pay attention to another was said by the first to have paid her a compliment; Mme. de Scuderi, De LiL'e, Fiorina, Gibbon, Grimuud de la Reyuiere, Mirabeau and Dauton. Vau venargues found himself such a picture of horror after recovering from a case of small pox that he refused to appear in society, but going into seclusion, made the world his debtor for his books. Hil ssnoerg, tue I russian naturalist, was distinguished by the natives of Madagas car with the surname of "Tho Fright," Becker having, doniod the existance of the devil, was adjudged by La Mouncie as a fit subject to complete his good work and free humanity from all its ter rors by surp reusing his own portrait. Scarron's account of bis phenomenal ug liness is too familiar to need mention. "Boyal Gorge" Canyoa. A traveler says, on our way to Gunni son from Pueblo the Denver and Rio Grand railroad enters a canyon at Canon City, which soon closes in. This is the Royal Gorge" of the Arkansas. It is a canon through which never white man (nor Indian either for that matter) had passed previous to the inception of the railroad. I passed up this oanon at n;ght a bright moonlight night and from the rear platform of the sleeper drank in the grandeur of the scenery and the wierdness lent it by fair Luna. As I remarked,the hills approached each other as we leave Canon City becoming higher and higher and more precipitous until they approach within fifty to one hundred feet leaving a bare passage for the Arkansas usually a very sleepy, slug gish stream, but here a raging torrent not deep, but so swift as to defy man or beast to breast its currant, and the in hospitable cliffs, at places twenty-five hundred to three thousand feet high, offering no foothold from base to pin nacle for even the mountain Fheep.much loss man. t'p this magnificent gorge our little train found its way, while we the spectators, or rather passengers, were lost in wondor or admiration at the awfulness of the scenery, hardly having thought as to the engineering difficulties overcome that enabled us to enjoy it. Think of about eight miles of essential ly vertical and parallel cliffs sometimes not fifty feet apart over two thousand feet high. WiM Bone In Australia. The few horses which, escaping now and then from the paddocks of colonsist on the edge of the settled districts of Australia, have made themselves at home in the freedom and abundant pastures of the interior, have multiplied to such an extent that, notwithstanding the numbers captured or shot every year, it is estimated that there are something like one hundred thousand of them in the two most populous colonies Victo ria and New South Wales or roaming the plains immediately contiguous to their borders. To European ears tho proposal to have a day's horse-shooting sounds inexpressibly barbarous; but the Australian farmers near the interior re gard the troops of wild horses which may often be seen trespassing on their inclosed lands as vermin. The.y do not possess any of the qualities which often make tho wild horses of the. South Ame rican plains valuable, and besides de stroying vegetation which might be made to support more valuable life, they not infrequently tempt the settler's hor ses to join them aad adopt a vagabond life. Worse than this, they are suspeo- ted of communicating disease to settled districts. To meet the difficulty of dea ling with the increasing hordes of wild horses the Chief Inspector of stock in Xew South Wales proposes that they should be classed as noxious animals, under the Pastures and Stock Protection Act. ProMllina Boat. Germany lavs claim to having been the scene of the first successful attempt tonsa steam Dower for propelling a boat One of her newspapers recently ascribed this honor to the physiologist Pspin, a professor at Marburg Univer sity early in the last century. It says that in September, 1707, he went from Cassel to Munden on a paddle wheel boat propelled by steam, and on his ar rival at Munden endeavored, unsuccess fully, to get permission to steam down the Weser for the purpose of crcssing the German ocean to England. Ho hoped in England to get the aid of the Government in applying his invention to ocean navigation. But his request w refused by the Electoral College "for reasons which they did not feel called upon to explain." He then attempted to force his passage into the Weser, but is overtaken by tho Munden skippers, who, before the disconsolate Professor's eyes, destroyed uio boat, xt is saia that he never quite recovered from this misfortune. Three years later ho died. Indla-Rnaber GaUi.rlnJC. When the hunter has found a rubber tree, he first clears away a space from the roots, and then moves on in search of others, returning to oommt nee oper ations as soon as he has marked all the trees in the vicinity. He first of all digs a hole in the ground herd by, and then cut in the tree a Y- shaped inci ion, with a machete, as high as he can reach. The milk is caught as it exudes and flows into the hole. As soon aa the flow from the cuts has ceased the tree is cut down, and the trunk rais ed from tho ground by means of an im proved trestle. After placing large leaves to catch the sap, gashes are cut through the entire length, and the milk carefully collected. When it first exudes the sap is of the lateness and consistence of cream, but it turns black on exposure to the air. When the hole ia filled with rubber, it is coagulated by adding hard soap or the root of the meclivaean, which has a moet rapid action, and prevents the es cape of the water that is always present in the fresh sap, When coagulated suf ficiently, the rubber is earned on the backs of the hunters by bark thengs to the banks of the river and floated down on rafts. The annual destruction of rubber trees in Columbia is very great, and the industry must soon disappear altogeth er, unless the government puts in force a law that already exists, which compels the hunters to tap the trees without cutting them down. If this iaw were carried out there would be a good open ing for commercial enterprise, for rub ber trees will grow from eight to ten in ches in diameter in three or four years from seed. The trees require but little attention, and begin to yield returns sooner than anyotber. Those that yield the great est aaiouut of rubber flourish on the banks of the Simu aud Aula to Rivers. The value of the crude India-rubber im ported into the states annually is about $10,000,000. Florida Fanaon Sauna -a. A traveler in Florida lately wrote; every lake I saw in South Florida large enough had its family of alligators. Xear tha settlements where they are frequently shot at they disappear at the approach of man. They visit each other from lake to lake. When a man, wo man or chLd overtakes one in the woods the beast runs to the nearest water. If hemmed in, he stops, swells and blows like a mad buIL They handle their tails right lively in resisting an enemy or flipping a hog or dog into their great mouths, I remember asking what they at. "Anything from a pine kno down," was the answer, as if a pine knot was their highest food. When their stomachs are opened they are found to contain pine knots aud black mud from the bottoms of the lakes. They eat, however, many of the best fish and the largest turtles of the lakes. The Flon dians do not think the "gators" dan gerous. Roys go into the lakes swim ming where the alligator lives and are not disturbed. One twelve feet long is considered grown. Down in the Kia simce river they grow to an enormous s'ze, haying been seen eighteen feet long. Those that are not accustomed to man, I am told, are dangerous. I heard of a young man that was bitten while swimming in the Kissimee and soon died. .Their teeth occupy a promi nent place in Floi ida jewelry. Some people eat their tails. Just before a lain they are heard to bell jw somewhat like a young calf. At night they fre quently make a great splashing in the water. Sold lato Slavery. As a landmark of a time lncffaceably en graved upon the memcries of the older class, we came across a relic in the shape ot an eld negro whose hfe and history miRht well be woven into a tale as thril ling with romance and adventure as was ever bom in the fertile brain of a Dumas. Old Cyrus is a remarkable specimen of that genus homo, bowed with the weight of an hundred and ten years, with eye sight dimmed acd mind beclouded, he still bears traces of that muscle and manhood go noticeable in the first Africans brought to this country. Cy is perhaps the last hy ing Afncan-born freedmao in this section, and up to two years unce.at the remarkable age of 108, retained his mental faculties to an astonishing decrer. Nearly a century ago, at the age of six teen, he was brought over by a siave-trader with a large n amber of others, all of whom have long since been gathered to their fathers, while this old msn had lived on and on, past his day and generation, a lingering landmark of an epoch of our peo ple bow historic A talk with the old fel low is highly entertaining and amusing. Of course due allowasce must be made for his somewhat tropical imagination. Old C'y claims that his capture by the traders was a case of the basest perfidy and kid napping on record. He belonged to the Fulays, s powerful interior tribe of the Litxrian couoioy, and was no less a per sonage than the son of King Bonis Fulab. The facts of his seizure as told by himself. are briefly these: He was sent by bis father with a namber of captives from a hostile tribe, with his agents, to sell tbem to the traders. The sale having been duly effected to the satisfaction of all parties, Pnoce Boms Fulah (now old Cy) with bis retinue were invited to a fets on shipboard, it was the old game. When the Prince and his attendant awoke from the effects of the Kew England rum, they found them selves leagues from their loved land, sod what was worse, trta'td with no mora con sideration than the very slaves they had sold. For seventy-eight long . years old Cy bore the yoke of si -very to be freed in his second childood. The old man's lines. however, have fallen ia places, and in the helplessness of old sge, be is well cared for. and nothing is lacking to ease his way to the grave. Any bright day be might be seen sunning himself in front of bis comfortable cabin. Ii diana last year raised 6,987,049 pounds of tobacco, valued at S3.95w.9S4. Tho cultivation ia confined to tho south- on counties. Tho Last Day of Fra Uiavoio. Michael Pezza ot ltn in J'errs ai havoro is well known to the world under his nick name of fra DUvolo. Brother DeviL and bis early exploits have been the theme of many a romance and of one of the most popular of modern operas. How be min ed notoriety as a bandit ; how, in 1799, when Napoleon established the Partheno pean Republic in Naples, be supported the exiled Bourbons; and how he entered the city in company with Cardinal 'Ruffo. is recorded in every history ot that time. But of his career little bas been known, save the fact that be perished in 1806. The circumstances connected with this event have recently been brought to light, and are briefly ss follows: During the siege of Gaeta the English and Sicilians despatched numerous emis-1 sanes to raise a revolt in the Neapolitan provinces. Amongst those who were in- trusted with these mutinous commands was Fra Diavolo, now a colonel, who bad followed the Bourbon Court to Sicily. With other leaders of '99 he set sail from Palermo for Calabria under the escort of a British ship, June 39, 1S06. LandiDg at Amantea he committed some depredations, took a few prisoners, and on hearing that Gaeta bad surrendered to the French he stopped for a time at Capri. Uavicg re turned at the beginning of August, to the Gulf of Policastro, and having been beaten in several encounters he determined to re-embark. So, with nine companions. be secretly stole away from the remainder of the band and hastened towards lhe sea. Hut at Torre Annunziata .be wa unable to procure a boat. A man was therefore sent to Naples with money to get one acd bring It to PoKtano. After waiting three days, as neither the man nor craft appeared, foiling that tbey should be discovered, i ra JJiavolo and his fol - lowers went over the mountain towards Bbnli. Having psf sed Salerno they went down into the plain and were resting in a valley at Jlontecervino, when they were discovered by a boy, wno gazed with ad. miration at theii arniF. Falling in wi h some sportsmen a little later, be told them tbat he bad teen some men with better weapons than theirs. The sportsmen imagined that they might be deserters, and went to attack them, but they soon found out their mistake, and were driven off after a inert encounter, in which Fra Diavola was slightly injured in the breast. The brigands then took refuge in the mountains of Eboli, but unluckily one of them named Adelizzi was recognized by goat herders in the employ of a family near'y related to some gentleman whose brother bad been a victim of Adelizzi's. Tbat night, the 2Sth of October, at dusk, these gentlemen, their relatives and others, came to the cabin where the brigands were biding. Adelizzi was captured and cruel y nut to death, and Fra Diavolo, who bad not been recognized, was conducted by a Jew and a man named Gaetano to a hut near the Snow G-nges on Mount Sant 'Erams. The next day the country patrol arrested a luspicious stranger, who promised to disciose to them a treasure if they would spare his life. H j then led him up among the bills, where two banners, given to Fra Diavolo when he set out from eicuy, by the king were bidden. At once the police were on the alert, having heard that the famous brigand was in the neighborhood. .Meanwhile Gaetano and the Jew cared for Fra Diavolo, bringing him food and medicine for his wound, lie, in return, promised them greal riches and military honors it they succeeded in effecting his escape to Sicily. But Gaetano, who for certain misdeeds was outlawed by the government, thought be might purcha-e pardon by handing the brigand over to the police. Accordingly on October 81 be came to the hut with this intention. There he found the Jew had already arrived, had cut off Fra Diavolo' moustache, and had taken other precautions to prevent his recognization. Gaetano took the Jew aside and disclosed his purpose; the latter refused to consent to the betrayal, and ben their discussion brought them to blows, Fra Diavolo, suspecting something, escaped. Gaetano set out in pursuit, and called out the people to assist him, but was uca'ile to find the refugee. Fra Diavolo, in his disguise, seemed a poor vagrant beggar, and followed during that night the road to Salerno. Having reached the outskirts of the town, he changed his direo'ion, and on the 1st of November he set cut for Naples. On the wsy he met a peasant woman who was goirg to Baron issi, and, believing that be would not be discovered, he struck up an acquaintance with her. But wben they had leached this town and were near the drug shop of a certain young Mateo Ba ronne, the latter began to chaff the woman on her new founa companion. She re plied that she had fallen it with him on the way but that she did not know bun. lhe druggist replied, jokingly: Tben be must be Fra Diavolo." To this the man said: "I am Fra Melon." "Fra Diavolo or Fra Malora, halt!' answered Baronne, who was an under officer in the provincial guard, and who now took tbe stranger into bis shop. Tbe curious citizens quickly assembled. Baronne, anxious to claim the 2,000 ducats reward effered for the capture of tbe brigand chief, collected a guard and led him p.isouer to Salerno. Fra Diavolo still denied his in- dentity; but Major Genoino, who had just received tbe two banners and report ot Gaetano, found the wound on the prisoner's breast and was no longer in doubt. Word was sent to N&ples and the Elboli ot the arrest, and on the 8th Fra Diavolo was taken to the capita!. Two days later te was hurriedly tried by sn especial tribunal and sentenced to be hanged. On Monday.November 11, 1806, he met bis doom in the market piace,short- ly after dinner, dying impenitent. 11 is body was left on the gallows twenty-four hours, aud then buried in the Church of the Incuraolea. Troaaor u a Tr Heart. In the southern part of Alamance coun ty, in Newlins township. North Carolina, about ten days ago Joe Woody contracted ith a colored man, .phraim Alston, to bave some rails split. Near a school house Woody had allowed the pupils to cut a tree and use the top for firewood. Eph raim went to work upon the butt cut of this tree, splitting it into rails. When it had been quartered the next thing was to heart each atction.Si practical rail splitters understand. Ia doing the latter act be struck a regular bonanza, and twenty-six pieces of guttering gold coin leU out, worth ten dollars or more each. These coins were concealed in an inch ard a quarter auger hole, over which the tree had grown, in thickness about four inches. Ou the outside no traces of the hole could be seen. From tho growth of tho tree since the boring of the hole it is supposed tbat the coins were put there not later than 1 SIX In diameter the tree war about two feet, and it is not likely that the concealment dates a far back as revo lutionary times. The concealer of this treasure is supposed to have died suddenly without over revealing his secret. ' Henry Sullivan lives, as many other miners do, entirely alone, in a little log cabin at tbe head of Buckeye gulch. Col orado. Among the tools and articles in his humble place of abode was a large steel trap, such as is usel in catching bears and heavy game. Its shape when open was oval, but when tbe spring was touched two sets of cruel teeth sprang to gether, closing on whatever happens to be in range, be it man or beast. The trap had not been used for a long time and stood open in a corner of the place. Yes terday tiorning it occurred to Sullivan tbat tbe trap migbt do some damage in tbat conditiou, and accordingly he pulled it out to the middle ot tbe Hour to close it up. In its long penod of disuse the spring became rusty and the working per lions of it stuck together, refusing to operate. Sullivan labored with it for quite a time, and then becoming angry picked up a hatcbet and began to hammer at it. Still tbe jaws refused to shut, and without thinking of the consequences be thrust his tool against tbe lever and struck it again. At that instant there was a clash, and the teeth sprang shut, pinning him just above tbe ankle. Tbe springs were of tbe most powerful make, and there was no unloosing tbem when they had once caught. Sullivan in bis agony, felt his very bones crack under the death-like grip, aud half fainted as he sunk to the door. Then, nervine himself for a des perate effort, he wrenched at the stout iron with both bands, but without loosen ing it tbe fraction of an inch. Half an hour of pain and terror followed, and new idea occurred to him. Tbe trap was fastened at the base with heavy screws. bolted at either side. A wrench lay with in reach, and grasping it with tbe strength of desperation be succeeded at last in un fastening tbe bolts. Tbe steel bars drop ped apart and he was free, it is needless to enlarge upon bis journ ey or a nu'e and a naif up tbe gulch to the nearest bouse and bow be was finally carried to this city. His injuries are of such a nature that be may possibly yet sutler the amputation ot his loot. Fladla; the bUpj. An amusing and at tbe same time some what mysterious little game for young folks is that know as "Finding tbe King. Suppose the boy who understands the game is Tom and that all the company of a dozen or more know nothing of the se cret. Tom calls for the ring, and itdoesn't matter wceiher tue nog is plain gold or fancy, horn or brass, just so it can be placed upon any of the fingers belonging to those who take part in the game. The ring is given to a player iu such a way that Tom shall not know wbo has it, the play ers being ranged in a row, however to tbat the persons sitting on Tom's right shall be designated aa No 1. Then Tom demands that some one shall multiply the number of the person having the ring by 2; that S shall be added to tbe product, and tbat the whole shall be mutiphed by 4. Then to the sum thus obtained Tom asks tbat 9 be added if tue ring is on tbe left band, or 8 if it is on tbe right band. Continuing, multiply what results by 10, add the num ber of tbe finger and then add 2. Tom must remind the boy who is figuring 'or him thai tho thumb counts as a finger, for instanoe tbe index finger on the right band is No. 2. Then Tom, having been told the total, subtracts H2 stom it and finds the answer in the remainder, bet us sup pose tbat the person wbo has the ring is a girl; that she is sitting in the ninth chair from the head of tbe company, and that this No. 9 puts the ring oa the fourth fin ger o' the right hand. Tbe calculation is as follows: Girl's number 9 multiplied by 2 18 S sdded to the 18 21 The 21 multiplied by 5 105 8 sdded for the right band 113 The 113 multiplied by 10 1130 Thenumflerofthefinger4addei... 1134 To the 1134 the 2 added 1136 Subtract 222 914 Tom reading from the right hand figures finds that tbe ring ia oa finger 4, hand 1 (or right), person 9 or on the fourth finger of the right hand of the person sitting in the ninth chair. A Million Dollar Taanol. Feather river and its tributaries in Cali fornia have added many millions to the world's volume of gold coin, and wherever the beds of the streams have been mined, or in places where mining operations are now being carried on, tee returns have been and are very generous. It is now proposed to get at these riches in a system atic way, and to overcome the existing ob stacles by engineering science, and a com pany bas been formed to turn the waters vi the fork of tbe Feather river, known as Big Bend, a little above Whisky Bar, by meant of a tunnel, into a tributary of tbo west branch. The tunnel begins nearly ha f a mile above Whisky Bar, at a place where the river is deeply incaved between the banks and whtre tbe stream has very little fall. It is propose! to establish the bottom of the tunnel four feet below tho lowest por tion of the s ream, in order to g.ve the impetus to tbe waters, taking a greater velocity than they bad in the stream. This Big Bend 1 uuoel will he 11,600 feet long, 251 fewt wide, 21 i feet high and the ex- cavati'as will cost about $4 per cubic yard. At the entrance of the tunnel will l a permanent dam across and up to the level of the bed of tbe stream. Oa this can be erected a dam on tbe Bayot plan, as used in the Cher and Loire rivers, that can be thrown down and erected again in a short time or a temporary construc tion can be built each jear. ilr. Barry, the engineer in charge makes two estimates of cost one for loo,037 cubic yards t it, which with machinery compressor?, tools, buildings, roads, wires, sluice-Rates, ventilatiug bore holes, engi neering expenses, etc , amounts to $000,- 000; the other, with the same expenses, except that 207,230 cubic yards are to be excavated, amounts to $ 1, 000. 000. Some of tbe water may be utilized for irrigating purposes. Mr. Barry savs that experienced miners who bave been in the neighborhood since 1850 estimate the value of the gold in the river bed around Big Bend at from 50,000,OuC to S130.000.0o0. Moontals Climbing. Mountain climbing In winter ia becom ing mere and more frequent ia Switzer land, and esn be prosecuted within reason able limits without seriouf danger or dis comfort. On January the 22d, two gen tlemen from .Lucerne made tho ascent of Mount Pilatus, and on the same day the Righi was ascended by more than ooe hun dred persons, wbo found tbe temperature surprisingly mi'd. At two u clock ia tbe afternoon t- e mercury marked 63 degrees in the sun at Kigbi Sffd, and 44 degi eea ia the shade. DRIEK Applejack yields the government a revenue of about $50,000 a year. The Southern States report this year's wheat crop in fine condition. In 1811 Aoutfnlsm wa- visited by 102 American vessels; in 1880 by only 10. " J Boston paid 38.000 tj hear Ptri the first night, and Cincinnati will pay 910.UOU. Colombia College has a fund of (.800.00i), or nearlv $1,000,000 more than that of Harvard. Moses Taylor, the richest merchant in Xew York, savs he made hi 310, 000,000 "by politeness." In Egypt there are hospitals for superannuated cats, while human suffer ing scarcely elicits a case. M. Coquelin, the elder, the great French comedian, has just received the Portugese order of St. James. Nearly 3,000 tons of wrapping paper were ru.ule in one mouth, rty fifty one mills, in the L'uited States. Buffalo Dones are industriously col lected in Texas uow. They sell at the railway stations for $12 a ton. Paul Tulane. a Xew Orleans mil lionaire, proposes to trive SI. 000 ImkI Ia the public schools of that citv. It is extieeted th;it this year a "Test er crowd of pilgrims than usual will be gathered in lUme during Lent. J. Vi. Henley, the oldest raernW of the British House of Commons, is 88; James Dickson, the youngest, in 23. At Richmond, Va., a lady called upon a notary List week au.t'took the oath as director ol a bank in Texas. A- earthquake iu 1810 erased a large area of land near the delta of the Indus to lecouie a large inland sea, ' Because of threatened trouble with Indians, the Canadian mounted police force is to le increased from 300 to 500 men. The Trnekee Lnmlter Company used 7,000.000 feet of lumlier for boxes in 1881. In 1880 they only used 3.000 -000. 5Ir. Longfellow's seveut v-fifth birth. day is to b celebrated at Portion L on February 27, by the M ime Historical Society. A colossal pine which was litelv no- rooted by an inundation iu Oulais. Fin land, was found to have 102!) rings. There are thirty Eiryptiau oWliska scattered over Europe, liome has eleven, ionr or wnicu are higher than the one in Xew York. A black walnnt gTovc, which a Wis consin farmer planted about twenty years ago on some waste hind, recently . 1 1 t 1. 1. 1 Bum lur c i The elevated roads iu Xew York now operate 5,25b trains pr r di.y, run ning only one minute apart during the busiest hours. Silver was hrst coined in Rome in the year of the city 484. five years be fore the first Pnnio war. Gold eoin was first struck in 546. Along the miiin road from Sacra mento to the snmmit pass of Sierra Ne vada the annual rainfall iucreases at the rate of one inch for every hundred feet latitude. A good yield of cranberries at Cane Cod is a huudred barrels per acr . Sin gle rods have yielded over a barrel.at the rste of uearly two hundred barrels per acre. Count Walderse. the successor of Yon Moltke as head ofthe German army has an American wife The Countess was once Miss Mary E. Lee, of New lork. Mr. Henry Lansdell, an Engfish traveller, savs that, in no other country has he found so great an eagerness for the Scriptures and good books as ia Kussia. Five copper mines iu Arizona nio- duced 8,100,000 pounds of copper last year, including nearly 5,000,000 pounds Dy me copper yueen Alining Com- lany. The Canadian Government is with drawing its twonty cent pieces from cir culation, they being unpopular. The Deputy Receiver General at Toronto recently sent $10,000 worth of them to Ottawa. Madame Christine Xillsson's favor ite amusement is shooting. She has been staying at a country house belong ing to (Jueeu Isabella, where she shot a puaiitity of pheasants iu the royal pre serves. Mre than three hunderd designs for the proposed monument to Victor Emmanuel are now on exhibition in Rome, many of which are said to be nt terly impracticable iu the r nature. They include models in wood or plaster well as drawiiigs in charcoal or aquarelle. -There is not a single vessel under construction iu any of the shipyards on the St. Charles, tjuebec, this season. It is almost the first time within the mem ory of the oldest inhabitant that Buch a thing has happened. When a Russian Peasant seeks work in the Capital, his wife and daughters are required by law to remain at home on the land. So that in St. Petersburg! there are 90,000 more males than females. Mr. EJmon S. Conner, although re tired from the stage and in his seventy third year, occiaionally npiears with a company near his home, in Xew Jersey. His Richelieu is still powerful. lhe loss to England by the hut three years' bad harvests is estimated at from a hundred to a hundred and fifty million dollars a year. The Lelande Prize of Paris, award ed Professor Mwift, of the Warner Ob servatory at Rochester, is $100 iu gold or a medal of that value. Professor Hall and Alvin Clark, Jr., are the only other Americans who have won it. The numlier of post cards despatch ed in Germany during the year 1880 was 123,000,000. In the Post Office Museum at Berlin there are exhibited 418 different kinds of post cards. The yield of the Richmond Com pany, Eureka, Xev.. in Dore barm of silver for the year 18S1, was $1,172,- 000. Thia does not include the lead turned out at the company's refinery. Professor Nordenskjohl intends to make another Arctic expedition next summer, chiefly to prove the possibility of regular commuuication for commer cial purposes with the coast ot Siberia. The new five-cent Garfield postage stamp will be ready for issue on Mareh 1. lark brown has been selected as tho color best calculated to bring out tho fine engraving of the work. The five, cent stamp is almost entirely used ia foreiglnoorrespondence. NEWS it j 9. V
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