an m IB? u B. F. SCHWEIER, the coi8Tmrnoi the mnoi utd the estoeoemeit op the lavs. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1SS3. NO. 7. 1 TBE V Kf K KVAK1. rarn "rl't walls, P'aln, .MietciTTfquarpfntTounJ; : spa1''' nan :w Fwvea, T V""' L"r:!: rounU- rss "f nr "' of dr''' Turytrwl the miuu ways of life, s -jjns-ioiL- h :.l in sternest leash, .Wl hear: that k:ww n..t strife. Til T.TB Fr 111 '";" Z hOU"f ""T 'areO, 'wit iWHijriits a sol-rr as their sjieech, Tt, we!e pra r. t9 sngless praise, Xw MTtihr.r e.lers prea-.a. Tysi qa. '.orii of days that rainf, c4 srart change 10 this it-inne; ( T afr !,:vSS t Hey took iKti .rnr:i.'iit the rore. jig a flie r,','B 'cr ",e Pr"vps bJJ rtiu! ti " hwanl robin's step, ,EJ B th autunm air " With merry mutiny. ff. vfB ;;-e proves of lial an.l pr-ay wtnltt-l autumn lie. Nature ileeks itie smI Bp--' t u.ixlery. AT:F.KtB!K TGAGKUY. Bss ri'-fe' engaged !" said Mr. Ihcictt "Wcil, really now." jjj Dnckett sat st Itis little round .ji.le- in the c.w I sluulow of tlie vines, jwtlfastkg oa buttered toast, and dl fragrant as Arabian gales. He bad this theory about the gravita tg power of the t or!d ; but lie liked $t as well to hear alnnit the latest jjerd between Mrs. Squire Allen and ier fitter, the i a: son's w ife. A bw'uiK some old baboon !" said r:trvA!iv Dexter, when she caught jt.Duckt.-tt lo"i;iug in Pt the -windaw acCfT. to seo wlitther the till young a: lr tLe cLinincj-picet w-;is Henry iieorWalicr Fitzwilliiim. 'A most itiulligviit person !" mdJ Mr. liiutincnis, UcuMr. Ducket t coufi fc2j kformeJ Lim that he had waaearj, KLind the stable door, an rave fLrkti'a Ktween Betsey, the saii, &Ed Artcaius, the hired man. "I Juu.t believe in hll t'tis kissing ini hngsii-g.'" said Mr. Duckett. Mad I tlioniiLt in-rhaiis yon would Sit to know." Sotliattie jmblic opinion of Stan ile was f retty equally divided on the rn'jeotof old Mr. Duekett. fir Lal lieeii uj nea! ly all tight, with iklfaccjie, ikiug for a new comet, cJooDirr.ci.t'y was l-reikfastmg rather afcr tiea us-u-ii, with Mrs. Hopkins, Li liiJ-Lily, i uitmg on him, in her fc.stcap aatl uiiron. "Yes," Eaid Mrs. Hopkins, as bhe tagLt ia a in-Mi fried egg on a piece tart, "it's nally true tLis time to Si TaTsiev. 'AbJ they do say that Dolly Button ifrmcious enough to kill her, for every aabiows tha Puysley has been-play- Irteyearv, and hiis only thrown her otr low because Miss Tidgeon's old iLcle lias lelt ht r three tLousand dol ic, mi a Kit of silver tpoos." Ham '." said Mr. Dnckett. between 3 sips of coffoe. "Very titraordmary." 'Taongh for Ky part," said Mrs. jpiu.s, "I never could bee what there we abiut AlpbiiLso Taysley to take the liay of the girls. 'Bat I should not wonder if DoLy fcttoD sutd him for breach of promise Mr. Dtk-kett was very niuch interes- V-iinall tals. EehiJ eevn MUs Pideon once a ij, pale, Kau f eluule in Fiectacles, of Miiet.nr-ancl-tliirtv sauliss Bticmers : &1 be knew that Alphonso TaysleJ f the cleik iu she viliaae stote, a sort f "tny L iUu'ri i" on a small scale. Aid Mi t'v bo'Iv Duttcn oiten came Btuk-lp Mrs. Hopkins with herchnrn ag, pr-.-;-. rviL;, and honst hold saturn i of l:i;.t nature a rosy, pmk- tittcW young ilamel with a dimple uerc!iin, a uiischii vnus gleam nnder !w p-ar!j- ht-hes, and a mortal fear of iudgtr's telescope, which, in her wiittiiiJ, the could not altogether dis "te from a camera. "MLsS Ti.tfrr.n cv(.iirfii r-iiflted . Daekett, as he p usht d his plate to M.le. "lieu 'licr. K lionn f. rtl: oldest and 'tliMt of us a'.l - eh, Mrs Hopkins? ' La, tir." said the handladv. "there "ttauv r.Hin vi.n i.lirr.Mii't have joarpu-k atid ehut.be of the finest ladies "tlie Urd !' "Do Von knriir nf anr iiri-f f v oirl that J 1 - c w-aa t.ke pity on un nsrlv old bachlor tt me?' "Plenty of tk m, sir '." siad Mrs. "ITien," B11id iJr. Duekett, suddenly gii g the tubject, "pack my bag. B"Ukius, if von please. ianigoiugTip into the woods to the course f the geoltgical 5Utliat underlie this locality." "Dear "l sliall le o;ie two tLivs," said the lit !i Merr J e.i, Mr. And i,c,n t.ie sat,e WM gOUet she down to nt.r iicnst)10ij niending 1 'tally do miss that dear old gentle tin ., . . "uea ne 's gone," she said. "S rattier l,.;r.l t 1 lft iriUirai was two dais l.rore Mr. Dnckett . e he bouueed into t'.e sittiug-rcom taanatr wlik-h Mm. Hoiikius after- remarked "nearly frightened her Ut of - . J year's Rrowth." Hopkins " lie cri..d "where is the .table's house?" fiopk" li,able' Bir." related Mrs. '"Bontl.B ,.t i, xr;n tiie retlbnck cottage with the can yon possibly want with the const - Woman," hissed Mr. Dnckett, be tween nis set teeth, "there has been a terrible tragedy ! "It mrtxt be investigated I" Sir ?" said Mrs. Hojjkins, more be wildered than ever. is it possioio luai you haven't heard ? he said. "Heard what ?" "Of the murder T "Bless and save us, bir she said, jumpnig op. "What are you talking alout ?" ne looked intently at her. noniun. saiu tte " have von tven Miss Pidgoon lately V "Well, now that yon mention it, I nave not, said Mrs. Hopkins, wonder ing gr. atiy. "But I'm told she's cone to Lowell. a visitm . He uttered a groan. "liook at this 1" he acid "a piece of crumphd paper which I found beside a orooK, a lew miles from heie. "Evidently a portion of the guilty correspondence. "You will perceive that it is not the caugrapbyof a cultured person." And Mrs. Hopkins read, on a torn and stained piece of note-pope' the following words " poor phebepidgeonispoysoned. "Dollie Dntton done did it with Rtt poyson, don't Tel an ny one, she is ber- nea ont under tne wuow Area. All the rest was torn aw a v. but Mrs. Hopkins had already read more than enough. "It ain't possible 1" said she turning very pale. "That letter would be evidence iuauv court of law," said Mr. Duckett. "I am going for theconstable at once!" Dolly Dutton. sitting singing at her work, by the window of the Dutton farmhouse, was nearly frightened to death by the clasp of the constable's hand, all of a sudden, on her shoulder. "You are my prisoner," said the con stable. "But don't be skeart !" "What for ?" cried Dolly, trembling all over. "Fer murder !" "Is the man crazy ?" said Dolly. Whose murder ?" "Miss ridgeon's," said the constable; "and the qnieter and quicker you come along with me, the better it will be for you. "But I never dreamed of such a thing I" cried Dolly. "That's all talk," said the constable. "That's what they all say." "I am innocent," pleaded Dolly, hys terica llv. "That's for the judge and jury to de cide," he saitL There was a great crowd that after noon around "the old wiiow Trea, a well known gnarled veteran, on the edge of a meiry little rivulet. All the spades aud picks in the neighborhood were in requisition. "Dolly, the implied murderess, was at Mrs. Hopkins' house, under a strong guard, until they could take her to the neighboring jail, and Alphonso Fay- sley, at Mr. Dnckett's suggestion, had been arrested as an accomplice. ' VTiy don't they tell me on what evi dence they have dared to arrest me ?" said poor Dolly. "Thein weren't my orders," answered the constable, who, iu truth and in fact, was as much in the dark as Dolly her self. But the spades and the picks, after nit-ch diligent labor, produced no com mensurate effect. "I'm blessed if I believe there s any thing there 1" said the biggest of the excavators ; and at the same moment, there was a murmur through the little crowd, and a woman pressed her way through, and Mias Fhebe Fidgeon her self t-tood in the front rank. What on earth are you all doing ? said she. "Simons told me that-1 was murdered. "If it really is the case, I don't know it myself yet." The dicgers dropped their imple ments ; the undertaker's wagon begau to back down the road as quietly as possible ; the crowd stood open-mouthed. "Then," said Mr. Duckett, "how uo you account for this h tter ?'' Just then a tiuy little hand plucked at his sleeve. "It's my letter," said Squire Allen's little hired boy. "I wrote it to Billy Bliss. "It's about my pet pigem my Phebe's dove. Dolly Dutton kept it at her house for me. aud it got poisoned with some of the stuff she got for rats." "Then," gasped Mr. Duckett, "why didn't we End it, then ? "Cause I took it up yesterday, said the boy, whimpering, "aud buried it in our own back-yard, so 1 cotua ioos at its crave." There is nothing so qmcKiy ram the tide of public feehng. "It's all Daddy Dutketfs owl pie i i,it..d an irreverent young man. "I hope lie s satisnea wim -"j So 1U1 Dutton was itleased, with m.n-T ..v.Wies : Alphonso Faysley was ...:.wi 4W. h netd no longer consider UUUUCu himself under arrest; Miss Pidgeon went hone, to rind her house in posses- r l,Btf.-dozen artists ot ill usiruieu ,rs : and Mr. Dnckett disappeared. x-t mvKforHin&lv. however. He paid his bill at Mr. Hopkins', cathered together his scientific lmple- anil left town. And the inhabitants of Standale have never seen him since. Eggs are $1.50 a dozen in the Baker Kvery One Cau tirafc. Our first successful grafting was done at the age of nine years. "At home" we had an old orchard that seemed to be past its period of useful ness, and what apples it did bear were of iuferior sorts. It was a question whether to cut down the trees, or try aud rejuvenate them by the application of an abundance of manure, well stirred into the st.il, and by grafting the old limbs with new and superior varieties of ftuit It was concluded to see w hat virture there was in manure and cions. and this gave us an opportunity to watch the process of grafting. Before the job was finished wo had learned the att of cutting a cion, making a cloft, applying the wax, eta. Later in the season it was a source of much gratification to see the young graft we had put in. growing along with those set by a master-hand. This remiu:sceuce of youth is given as a proof that grafting is not a monopoly of gifted minds, or an art that can only be acquired by the few. With the ordinary amount of "gumpti .u" to begin with, followed by careful teaching for only a short lime, almost any one can graft successfully. Grafting is simply planting a cuttiug of one vari ty in the wood of another, instead of in the soil. It is essential that the grow ng layer of the cion and stock come in close contact, and be so held until they grow togethef. Xow is the time to get the cions. They may bo bought at most nurseries, and great care should be taken to get only the be t varieties. H cut at home, be eqn dly careful to get them of the right kind, cutting onlv twigs of lat season's g-owtb." Each sort should be cut separately and tied in bundle, labelled, and afterwards put in lioxes with damp sawdust or moss, and kept in a cooi place nntiLused. A fine saw, two good knives, one strong and heavy, the other smaller, with a keen edge; a hard-wood wedre, six inches long aud half an inch thick, and a small mallet are the implt ments used in grafting. The wax may be easily made by melting together, beeswax 6 oz , rosin and tallow 4 oz. each, over a moderate fire, stirring gradually until all is melted. Bolls of waxed cloth may be formed from old cotton stuff made thin by wear, and torn into btrqw two inches wide. Wind the strips npou a stick and dip them into the melted wax; when the cloth is thoroughly penetrated by the wax, remove, let drip, and put away lrom dust reai!y for use. Grafting should be dov e as soon as the buds be gin to swell. Having determined upon the place for the graft, saw off the branch, smooth the cut surface and make a cleft with t'je knife snd mallet Cut the cion from the twig, leaving two or three buds upon the piece, and sharpen the lower end into a wedge. Ooen the cleft with the knife and place the cin in carefully so that the lower bud comes at the top of the cleft. The inner bark, or growing layer, of the cicn and the stock should touch as much as possible. If the grafted branch is small, a single cion is enough, other wise, put in one on each side. Unroll enongh waxed cloth to cover the wound of both stock and cions, and press it on carefully and closely. The quick ap- plication of this protection ts only a matter of practice. It is well for be ginners to start worthless limbs before doing regular grafting in the orchard. If possible find some one in the neigh borhood familiar with the process and learn the art from hmi. The gmeral principles may be obtained from printed directions, but the success of the work will dei end upon the knack, and that is only acquiied in the orchard. A Muwr of Silver Spark. A tall, broad-shouldered, gray-bearded man from Montana, while viewing the sights alwut Chicago, strolled into one of the theatres on State street the other evening and took a seat near the stage. During the performance he became deeply interested in one of the group who were disporting on the stage. The dark eyes of the siren completely cap tured the heart of the rugged miner and he lost no time in gaining au luirotiuc thn lair enslaver. He made an enguenieut to meet her at the rehearsal next day. The miner was punctual in keeping his appointment, uuu "i. patiently until tue artbst had finished her rehearsal. He then brusquely in vited her to take a walk and she, uoth ine loth, consented. This promenade & ... .i . ....tt .i.to nna ill was prooauiy tue muai iuy""'" which the actress ever engaged, for her companion led ner into uij store and without much ceremoug began purchasing such articles as ne seemeu to think she needed. Fine hosiery and underwear, a richly-trimmed cloak and a handsome collar were among the pur chases which the mau from Montana made for the object of his aflection. On the following day another w alk along the leading street was taken oy me yau, and as the snow was laiimg me g' ous mrn took his companion to a store and bought her a gossamer cioa . pair of rubbers belore uiey ieii me i H then requested the woman to accom pany him to the depot. Arriving there the miner pestoweu iju and said, with a smile: You til ikk l m a iuuijj nuiuw, don't yon? Well, now, in ieu -!, Vtl 1. 1 ve taKeu a iauey w ivu, t rAu'il marry me and co to Montana imi too a SatK) sealskin sacque. Of course you needn't go if you don't want to. It will make no euueiemc u. n for von if vou don't" The favorite of the footiight turned her had hurriedly reviewed the situation and replied: ..r .tnii't think I will accept yonr All riflht; good-py, exciaimeo mc miner, as he hurried into the train, and thus they parted. On arriving at the Theatre that even hut the actress was informed that "i-.. waa there for hr. It was ...n in contain s "love ot a hat, which she had admired when out walk ; with the miner, and a handsome morocco pocket-book well filled gold piece and bank notes. with Fmr ffnt Kx peri finer.. A true representative of a class of men now fast becomiug extinct the old nun ttr", trappers and prospector of the far West, the men wLo spent their live in advance of the wave of civilization, who explored the country, ff nglit the Indians, autl. as he says, "made it safe for the soldiers tt ?o there'' was st the Otrard House, 1'hilailelpMa, recently. His pame is J. il. Kirkpatrick. Ale is a stout, robust, well-preserved man of fi!t-fiye. with a kindly face, a mild but bright blue eye, a pleasant voice and ready speecn. He bad enrne to Philadelphia to confer with capitalists aout the sale of some mines which be owns in Ari zona, in which Territory he now makes his hon.e, after forty years of wandering up and down and into every corner ot the vast stretch of country between tue Mibsist-ippi and the Pacific Ocean, tie was but fifteen years old when he left his home in Ohio, lie drifted about the fron tier for a while, and when the Mexican war broke out entered the sruiy as a flfer. saw service in Mexico, and early in 1S.VJ followed the Argonauts iu California. Since then bis lite has been one Ion - ro mance. "Indians are hke children," said Mr. Kirkpatrick, iu recounting his adventures to a reportt r. "If yoa gain their conr dence you cm do what you please with tuem. 1 nev made a promise to an ID' dian that I did not keep, and i:-: that wav 1 made plenty of friends among the tribes. They like bravery, too, and will not hurt a man who shows no fear when over powered. When the Indians get you in a corner, if you staud up and bare your breast and till them to shoot, they will never do it. I have had to do lhst twice in my life, and to speak from experience; but 1 never knew thrm to kill a prisoner who defied them. "Tight seraptsi I have been in a pood many, but I think tte worst 1 ever struck was at Port Orford, Oregon, on the lOtii of June, 1651. That was the time, as I tell my f Mentis, whe n my hair bean to dropout." Here he lilted a huge som brero and showed a wide expanse of glis tericg scalp, well fringed with grizzly brown. "1'here were tiue men. all told, in our party, and we had come down in the steamer from Portland to start a settle ment there and open a road to the new placer mines in Oregon and Northern Cal ifornia. The steamer's officers promised to stop on their way back, on a certain day, and see how we were getting on; but when the vessel reached can t rancisco shs was seiz'.-d for debt and tied up, and we came precious near bu-ing annihilated for counting on htr. Ve had only been at Port Orford a few days and had no time to put up a stockade when the Indians found us and a baud of nighty or ninety of them pitched into us waiie we were at wtrk. They bad no guns, luckily for us, but the arrows dew hke hail and some of them came with almost the force of a musket ball. Three of our men fell dead at the first fire. The rest of us managed to get under some kind of cover, and 1 placed myself beside a six-pound mount un howitzer that we bad brought atonic and stationed at the head of a ravine up which the iBdians had to come. We had two pounds ot powder in the gun aid a lot of pig-lead cut cp into siuS. 1 lighted a piece of tarred rope and wailed for the Indians to get clese up. Meanwhile, as I had to be exposed to their fire, one of the men cot piece of inch-and-a-half board and held it up in front of me as a shield aud in about a minute that board was stuck full of arrows, some if which went in so far that their lo:nts showed on the other side. 1 thought our time had come, sure, but 1 determined to take as many Indians as possible along to the happy hunting irrounds, and so held my tire till the loren'o?t was within ten feet of the gun. Iben 1 let her go, and before they could get over then; surprise the six of us were among them with our Knives and six-shooters. In about a minute ana a half from that time not a live Indian was to be seen, but when we 'cleaned up' we lound twenty-three dead ones. Well, after that the Indians were afraid too come too close, but they laid a recu- lar siege to our place and we found we d have to get out of it. The steamer was to be back in fifteen days from that time and we told the Indians by means of the sign language that we would leave in fifteen days, tic they waited. The time came. but no steamer, and tne Indians came at us again. This time there must have been three or four hundred of them ana the boys made up their minds we we were iroing to be wiied out. Things did look pretty desperate. There we were, ail alone iu the woods, not another white man within a hundred and fifty miles of us, and only half a dozen of us to tight three or four hundred redskins. When 1 saw lust we were nseiy to nave more trouble I wrote an account of our fight on a blank leaf of a book, winding up with the statement that we were sur rounded by hostile Indians and would probably all be killed, and this I buried at the foot a stump, which I shaved down on one side, atd wrote on the fresh sur face, in red chalk, the words: 'Look be neath.' " Things kept looking worse and worse all that day, but the Indians didn't care to face the howitz-x again by daylight and they let us alone until evening. Then I said to the boys: 2'ow, look here, we've got to Rtt out ot this. If you will follow n-e 1 11 Use you out rutin turouga tne woods. 1 never missed my Dearicga jet and I reckon I can take you to Portland overland.' So we slipped away that night and I guided the party to the Luipqua nver, where we separated 1 went on to Portland alone, aud tue nrst men l mil there were Phil Kearney and Major Aw ing, the man who went to Egypt as Gen eral Lonng. 'By graciout!' t.onng ex claimed, tnere's. Kirkpatrick!' and they rushed across the street to sba&e hands with me. Pive minutes afterward the whole tiwn was in an uproar, and I found that the news of our death had got there before I bad. The captain of the steamer had told another vessel, coming north, to look out for us, and she had stopped at fort Orford the day after we left Her mended found my record and earned It to Poitland, and when I got there a vessel with a hunired men on board was just about to start to look out for us." Air. Kirkpatrick is full of reminiscences of the brave old Indian-neuters ot the past, foremost of whom be places Kit Caison, whom he considers one of the noblest men that ever lived. He met Carson frequently during the time between 1650 and 1S59 aud they struck cp a strong friendship. "Carson," he said, "was a very modest man and never liked to talk about himseif, but he told me a great many ot lus adventures, at one time and another, as we sat by our camp-fire in the evenings." "Then there was Joe Meek, he con tinued, "the finest-looking man lever saw. He was about six feet one inch high and splendidly proportioned, die was the first white man that ever crossed the Rocky Mountains in '.'e winter. He did that in !S47, when he earned the news of the Cayeuse outbreak in Oregon and the Whit ney massacre overland to Washington. Meek was the originator of the Hiuyatcu tus,' which you have often heard of, no doubt. His friends at the trading-posts in Missouri used to joke with him a good ileal when be came in with his loads of furs, and Joe resolved to eet even with thetn, . so, next time he came in, he tout a wonder I ul story of a strange, fierce sui ts!, half grizzly, balf human, which he had captured and brought with him, but he would let nobody see it until a certain day, when he proposed to bold a public exhibition. He rented an old log church for the purpose, and w hen the time came it was filled with people at two bits a bead. Joe bad a curtain fixed up, behind which the audience could bear a great growlmg and rattling of chains, aud his first per formance was to open all the door, and windows, telling the people that the guy- ascutus was such a strong and terrible beast he could not guarantee that its chains would bold it, thereiore he thought it best to provide for their escone at any moment. This done, he went behind the curtain, smeared his face and dabbled bis it it with blond, which he had ready in a bucket, while his assistant ttegan furious growling and howl'ng. Sudden ly Joe tiew out from behind the curtain. the very picture of fright, and shouted. 'Save yourselves! The guyascutis has broKen loose. Of couise the audience tumbled out, without waiting to bear more, while Joe made hi escape, but he told tne five years after that he did not dare go back to that town for fear he would be shot on sight. 117 r f I'alermo. Anything more beautiful it is impossible to imagine than the entrance to the lovely Bay of Palermo, guarded on the one side by the massive Monte Pellegnno, and on the other by Monte Navarino; while the city, bathed in perpetual sunshine, and laved by the calm waters of the Meditcr ranean, lies at the mouth of the neb. and fertile plain, the Concw d Oro (Shell of Gold); co named, we conclude, from the golden fruit which bulks so largely in the exports of Palermo, whose plain is simply a thicket of many square miles of orange and lemon gardens, stretching up to an en circling amphitheatre of bills, some of which tower to the height of 5,000 feet altogether completing a picture from whieh any artist might well have drawn as a sub ject for "The Plains of Heaven.'' For in valids I'alermo is rapidly becoming a favorite Winter resort the temperature between night and day being subject to less variation there than in almost any other known place. The city itself is beautifully clean. The hotels are comfort able and well managed, if a little expen sive from twelve to twenty francs per day The many changes of race and na tion that have dominated in Sicily, have stamped its people with strange and strik ing variety. Handsome Moorish facts living Murillos meeting you at every come.-, specially handsome in the case of youtiv, boys and children abounding side by f.C with the solter .Norman type of b.ue eyes and blonde bair ; while now and then the straight nose ana eyebrow of the Greek tell of the strong bold each race has I maintained. We should, however, be dis-1 po.-ed to think tbe Eistern element the most indelible We were struck by the numbers of well-dressed young m-n loung ing about in street and cafe with a lamen tably idle, listless air ; but an ingenious yomlrtbrew light upon the subject by re minding us that Palermo is the seat of a university ! IbeOnental live ot show is strongly markca by the number of ele ghcl equipages that grace the fashionable drive between the town and La Favori'e, a royal Bourbon palace at the base of Monte Pcllegrino, and built in the ratter unclas sical form of a Chinese Pagoda. Unlike the solid ideas of the Proverbial Scot, who no sooner gets bis head anove water than be makes for land, the flist ambition of a Palermian. on feeling himself begin to float, is ta sport a carriage ; bis second to own a box at tbe theatre; his third, to have a dinner other than berbs that is, salad and niaccarom; and his fourth, to own a private and particular burying- ground. A New ftmlillns; Material. The name of "terra cotta lumlicr" has sn odd sound, and tbe thing which it rep resents is a building material as peculiar as its name. It is a kind of brick as :n- combustahle as any other, but so soft that it can be sawed and worked with edge tools as readily as pine boards and nails can be driven iuto it and will hold as well as in wood. It has moreover a tenacity and resistance to compressing strains greater than that of oak lumber, or so its makers assert. It is made from a kind of surface clay found in abundance in New Jersey and elsewhere, it is as cheap as brick, and has many other advantages as a fire-proof building material. Tue clay is fine-pul-venzed with its own bulk ot sawdust, moistened and presjel into blocks of vari ous sizes, not exceeding four feet in length. These arc dned and burned, in which process the sawdust is consumed, leaving a tougb, light, porous brick, about bail tbe weight of ordinary building bricK. The blocks are then shaped and dressed with saws and other tools, as lumber is, and are then ready for use. It is not bard enough to resist wear in floors, and if used for that purpose must be covered with tiles, boards, or otherwise; but for partitions. ceilings, fireplaces, and a great variety of other work, it is admirably adapted. The invention i protected by a patent and tbe company wbicb owns it is now turning out 25 tons daily, equal to 10,100 feet board measure, add has an active demand for Its entire product. Several builders in New York, convinced of its value, are now employing it in the cons' ruction of some of the most substantial and costly tuildiogs ia progress in that city. Tne Law of fubllc Bales. In a sale by auction there are three parties, viz: The owner ot tne property to be sold, the auctioneer, and a portion of the public. The articles must be sold without reserve, and unless the vendor reserves one bid he cannot bid himself or have the auctioneer or any one else bid for him. There are case on record where a bid was not reserved, and the vendor had a bidder who bought it in, and afterwards suit was brought acaii:st the vendor by the highest old der for the article aud it was decided that he. the plaintiff, was the hignest outside bidder entitled to the article against the vendor. So, also, if any article is stmck off to a person, and it ia afterwards ascertained that the vendor or auctioneer practiced fraud, by bid ing himself, or bad puffers, it was held both by the courts of England, and so repeatedly decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, that the purchas er conld not be held, but the purchaser, as soon as he discovers the fraud prac ticed on him, must return or tender the article to the vendor. California Mi'llonalres in rw York. Tne immigration of Californian mill ionaires to New York is a notable feature in the social life of this country during the past few years. Mr. Keenj led off; then came Mr. D. O. Mills, and now Messrs. Staidord and Crocker have fol lowed Btlit, and Nob Hill is deserted. This is not to be wondered at. San FraucLsco is a wonderiul city, and lor its size has made a power of noise in the world, but, like it sinutirly created auriferous sister, Melbourne, it is scarce ly the place to spend an income of 2,500,000 a year. The Australian magnates, with very tare exceptions. still go "home." There is Sir Samnei Wilson, renting Axrd Beaconsfield's Jiughhenden, aiid occupying in town the splendid corner house in Grosvenor Square, built by the late Earl of CraW' ford. Millionaires (still more Mrs. and Misses Mi lionaire ) want some one to vie with. Imbued with a spirit of emu latiou, they sigh for fresh fields to con quer. As for Mrs. Mackav. she does not seem to be ceuteut with anything out of sight of the Are de Tnomphe, while the hospitalities of "Jones of Nevada" find liberal expression in the capital. Already new places in Filth avenue are presaged. The palatial splendors of a Vaudcrbiit are alleged to Give sleepless nights to a Mills, whiie Mr. Stanlord, accustomed to the ample elbow room of Nob Hill, complains ttiat the cabt-eff manbion he occupies for (he winter of the arbiter of New York Cen tral a most comfortable abode which we suspect tbe former occupant and his wue ottentimes, amid their new-found spendor, look back upon with regret, is "quite too awfully cramped aud narrow, and so, pe-rbaps, a Stanford bouse (built, we fouaiy hope, by an architect who will know how to make it an ornament to the town, which, sadly needs such ornament) may unse be fere loiifr. The two cities whieh are in the future likely to gain most by the development of tbe West are .New lork and Washington. These bid fair to become the great win tering centres of the wealthiest iu the country. anhmgton cannot offer the theatneul advantages of New York, but is unsurpassed in this country in the human materials for an agreeable din ner party. Abe elements there are so varied diplomats, statesmen, eminent lawyers, soldiers, sailors, civil service men, "In New York," Charles Astor Bristed than whom none knew better what good company i used to say, "they run after a lion because a hou is more or less of a rarity; we don't run afier them at U ashing. ton because we are so used to them," and he made his winter home there. New Yorker though he was, because the society was so uni que and interesting. IVoftlen Coatume. The most fashionable cloths for wool en costumes are not shaggy, but smootli nnished, and very handsome; in short, a lady's broadcloth. They ard made in cout suits, with real or simulated vest; and also iu closely trimmed skirts anil basques, some double-breasted, some with and some without vents. Some are f rugged, or enriched with braiding in military style; but the finest forms preler the plain, perfectly fitting coat, or oasque, uutrunmed save by the rich facing of satin which is occasionally visible; the stitching and the buttons, which latter are often as oruameutal as jewels. One of the great reasons for the superionty of the plain costume is that it is nioro capable of individualiza tion than the machine trimmed ones While machinery has brought the art of decoration in certain ways to great apparent periecfion, it turns hun dreds out ad alike, aud tuen no matter how handsome they may be, they soon become commou aud lose their value. We see this constantly repeated iu ele gant fabrics, whose only fault is that the ornamentation is capable of being infinitely repeated. The embroidered cashmeres, and the later braided suits of cloth are Cases in point. Doubtless the price at whieh they are introduced, and held, whi.'e stdl comparatively new, are very high; but tha reduction of halt, whieh has taken place in some instances, cannot be altogether duo to the pre mium put upon novelty; but must owe its extent largely to the multiplication of models of tne same design. Ihere is someihiug, too, in the bold ness and striking character of tho new braided designs which accounts for their occupation of a lower grade than that for which they were originally designed a pronounced character, which is distinctive when there ia only one of it; but is considered to show lack of refinement when it is often repeated. We owe something to the new cloths, however, for their fine dark shades in color; and, whether plum or decorated, they are most useful and valuable, from the serviceable and hygienic points of view: and it is to be hoped will be pre served to us with but Utile modification, so far as fabric is concerned. A pure wool dress is worth a dozen silk in cold weather, so far as practical and sanitary value is concerned. Ilutltliuw Mlea in farlj. Some of the Parb-ian journals have been discussing the prices of building sites in the larger capitals of turope and America. One of them complained that the price was larger in Pans than elsewhere, but others have shown lhal the ftct ia precise ly the other way. Tue pessimist saeet Li told, for example that in 1880 the price per superficial metre in IxraJon, in a quarter corresponding to that of the Paris Bouise, was 40o0f., and in another quar ter, somewhat like that of the Kue de Bae or the Hue Daupniue, it was 32O0f. At Vienna, on the new boulevards whxn abut ou the Prater, the present selling value of tbe metre runs from 2500 to 2700 and EtfOof. At Brhn building sites are turee times dearer than in Paris, whde at New York, San Franc.sc: and Chicago tbe prices are C0O to 400jf. psr metre. Il is to be noted that all these cities have a smaller population than Paris, so that Parisians have nothing to complain of in this matter. inhibition at antwe.p. The international exhibition at Ant werp, which is to be heli this year, promises to be a very considerable affair. Holland has awakened from the lethargy with which the project was at first regarded, and great preparations are being already made for the reception of the many thousands of expected visi tors. A thousand Dutch firms have already entered their names as exhibitors, and demand 8000 square yards oi space. Belgium surpasses this figure, tier many is sending; a large number of exhibits, including those of the house of Krnpp. England is said to be fairly represented Bultl Train Robber. The attempt to rob tbe Central Pa cific train at MoLtello. Nevada, ou the 22d of January, was one of tbe boldest venturos ever made and was not a fail ure because the plans of the robbers miacarned. Ou the contrary, ther ar rangements for carrying ont their bold scheme were completed. The great mistake which they made was in tack- hug a train which earned one of the bravest men in the world. With a less brave and determined man to deal with the attempt would have proved snccss fnl, for the attack was vigorous and persistent and continued almot-t without intermission for three Lours, until the bafiled villains withdrew from the scene, leaving the heroic Boss wounded, but victorious. To him alone is due the credit of having saved the express car and the entire train. A reporter called on Mr. Boss at bis residence in Ogden and was given the full details of the attack and defense. He has been in the employ of WelL, Fargo Jt Co. over sixteen years and this is the third unsuccessful attempt which has been made to rob the treasure under his charce. Eleven years ago. whde holding his shot-gun on the treas ure coach of the Montana Line, he was held up by a band of road agents, but lolled several and got away from the rest of the crowd. This last attempt has seldom been equaled anywhere for the bravery and persistense of the rob bers and the stubbornness of the de fense. Mr. Ross stated that the point selec ted by the robbers for their operations was one the loneliest places ou the line of the desert, the centre of a section sixty miles in length, w here ti.eve is no night telegraph btation. The San Fran cisco and Ogden express trains pass at l.xio o clock A. M. at lecoma, teu mi lus east of Montello. "We lett Toano, west of Montello, on time, our traiu be ing in charge of Conductor Cassiu. 1 checked the way-bills received at that station, laid down and went to sleep. The next til. Eg w hich I .was aware of was a rap on the car doer, as if an agent had called, and, supposing the train was at lecoma. I got np and looked out, when a man tainted a gun at me aud "aid : Hop ont, we are going through you.' "A jumped buck and pulled the door to and hooked it. They then went over to tiie opposite sido and said : "Open np the doors and jump out. We are going to rob the train.' J replied : 'Just wait till I cet my boots on.' "Never mind your boots. H ip right out here and we will get throuirh with you and then yon can get your boots on.' "Again the men outside said : "Open up, or we will burn you out and murder you.' "A then got in position and shot through the sido of the car. Nothing was done for a fsw minutes nntn one of the robbers asked. Ain't you going to open up the door and come ont '" i told them I was not coming out. Another demand was made for me to 'hop out, I made co reply to that. They then stationed one man at each corner of the car between me and the baggage car, and five shots were fired simultaneously from different quarters, aud ranging towards tha centre of th car. These were the shoU that track me one on a finger, one ou the hip aud one just below the breast, near the watcu pocket. They then got np on the cud of the car to to uncouple the train, whereupon I tiretl two shots through the end of the car. At this time they heard No. 2, the west-bound express train, coming. They backed our train up and went on the side truc.i, and sent two men down tha road to meet No. 2. When it came up I heard Conductor Clemen', ask Cxs-tin. 'What are you doiug here ? I want to speak to you.' The robbers aimed their gnus at Clement's he-ad and told him to pull out, and he did." Abe nearest telegraph station was thirty miles. The robbers then coni- peikd the breakmen to uncouple the express, move it forward and forced the engineer to run ahead and back down to wreck tbe express car, which was attempted three times wi'hout success, the holes in the doors being guarded by the stubborn messenger. Several attempts to burn the car were uusuc cessuil, owing to the scarcity of- wood, and; alter renewed attempts to kill him through the doors, they mounted their horses and rode away. Millions from Nothing. "Well, look at tbe Mift family in New York" said Gath. " Here is D. O. Mdls, orth, 1 expect, $30,000,000, ami a very prudent and care ul man in every thing he ooea. lie Kept a L'tue grocery some where up tbe Hudson river. He bad a cousin, Joe Mills, who was opening oysters iu Fulton Market, and it you watch Joe to this lay you will see bim draw but coat cuff across his nnee, a habit be acquired when he was in tbe market with but oyster-kntle in that hand. 'Then look at Commcdxc Garrison. He was a Djtoh boy, brought up in tbe Highlands ot tbe Hudson River. He be came a kind ot a common workman on vessels and fiually on steamers, and so worked bis way along to be the purser and captain. Then California was annexed and bloomed into gold and Garrison be came tbe rival ot Vander nit.'' "Well, what was Jim Keene or the first beard of him l"' "He was a milkman in one of the early towns of California, driving hn milk wagon into the place aud serving bis customers with milk. Keene, however, does not does Dot holt the position be did here a few years ago. it is said be has bad great losses and has even had to mortgage his Newport residence." boot nnd Shoe Hanlu.. Dunns the first 19 months of 18s2 this country exported 330,8'JO pairs of boots and snoen, valued at 5424,hd-, a agaiLS 200,7 td pairs, valued at 'J'J7, lor a hke period of ISsl. We also exixirted ot sole ana upper leather, 5., 701.301 , against $0, 157,76 for 10 nit nth s of 1881, although in "morocco and other" fine leather our exports show some falling off, having lieea only $427,- 190 for 10 mouths of 1882, and 5J:, 41)0 for the corresponding time in 18S1. The imports of raw rubber and gntt pen ha to the 1st of November last were 19,387,125 pounds, valued at 13.061, 887, against 14.753,979 jajnntls, valued at 8,215,970, fo a like period in 1SH1. In our imports iu hides and skin., tbe principal article which our tanners look at the imports for 10 months of 18.2 were valued at 822,210,920, agamst 24, 213,409 for a like period iu IstSl. NEWS IN EH1FJ. Over 3iK),000 names are on the rolls of the Pension Otliee. The Afghan are full e.f Li- torical associations and tribal ties. Tat wild ducks are sold at 2 ceut apiece at Lake Charles, Li. At Lumpkin, Ga., sweet potatoes sell for only 25 cents a busiieL Butter is scarce at SI a pound in some of the Montana mining towns, An Indian's widow is expected tj keep in mourning for twenty moons. At Marshfield., wood is 2 a cord ; at Wiuniieg it is quoted at S14 a cord. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Clinrcu has more than 1C0, 000 members. Six students at the L'niversitv of Leipsio committed suicide during the last term. - Greensboro. N. C. c rave-robbers ask 10 for every corjve in tolerably good condition. It takes 15 to buv one hundred pounds of flour in the Baker mininrr district of Montana. Mrs. Langtry spent much time in Chicago at roller-skating, a pastime of which she is very fond. Among the perfumes greatly used in Londou society are white rose," fran gipanni and ihlaug ihlang. New York and Brooklyn have 3", 000 people who earn their living be ween sundown aud suarisj. Last year Great Britain niade nearly 2,700.000 tons of puddle. 1 iron, and im ported 90,000 tons besides. Nine new cotton factories, with an aggregated capital of 1,725,5 )0, have just been chartered iu South Carolimv. Whde butter is only 10 cents a pound in Marshfield, Mi., the dealers ask 75 cents a pound for it at Butte, Montana. The mother of President Garfield spends several hours every day reading tne puonsuett works of her illustrious sou. The Bev. Dr. A. P. Baird. of Svra- ense, N. Y., is to succeed the liev. Dr. Hitchcock in the Amencau church iu Paris. Messrs. Moody and S.mkev int.n.l holding a series cf meetings in Loudon next fall, beginning at about the 1st of October. In Genoa a mounted tablet has lieen placed ou the house iu which, a cen tury ago, 01 October 27, 1782, Pagnuiiu wws born. Mr. Gladstone's popular axe is not regarded in aid qnaiters as the very best i: strument of exercise for him to use in his old age. The Bav. W. H. Mil'oum ia still telling before country lyceurus his in teresting story ot "What a Blind Man Saw in E -inland. ' Mr. James B issell L.owe!i is to have the honor of uuveiikig the bust of Fielding, which is t be erected iu the novelist a native country. There wore twenty-four storms Sundays hist ve er. The average thirin.' Ihe past fifteen years has been lip stormy Sundays a yetir. The Britishers who recently bought 27,000 acres of Florida land of the I);sa ton Comjauy have taken 32.IWO acres u.ore, paying ju.oO aa aere. Yokohama merchants hav-3 sent to New York 2l),(JO0,0o0 sdk worm eg,'s for gratuitous distnbutiou among Ameri cans interested in silk culture. The bell used at Wcllesley College, Massachusetts, is from au ancient Bud dhist temple, in Japan, and was pre sented by Mr. J. L. Graves, of IJoitou. The institutions iu New York sul ject to the bank department of tiio State represent nearly 700,000,000 1:1 their resources, and probably over 2 -000,000 depositors. During the year just closed ia Eng land there were reported 28 mining e. ploiions, 15 of which were fatal, the number of deaths reaching 211, exactly the average for the past 32 years. Teachers in the pnMic schools of Franco are very seldom paid more than 5 a week, aud as the expense for sal aries is now a little over 15,OOJ,000 the Minister of Public Instructions re luses to add to this amount aud so in crease taxation. The crojw of Texas for last season are estimated at 1.400,000 bales ft cot ton and 150,000,000 bushels or corn. Texas now stands first on the li-d of Sonthern States in the production of cotton and corn. Of all the men-of-war iu Europe Italy has the most heavily iron-plated and possessed with the most formidable gnus. Aue "JJniiiu aud the "Daudo- io have armor tweuty-twoiuches thick, and they each carry 100-ton guns. Ojv. Ordway, eif Dakota, says in his Message to the Legislature that the population of the Territory has doublet! in two years; and now readies 300.000. aud that the amount of t.ix ible proper ty is s-jj.wj.uuu. The City of Montreal has made claim for taxes ou a church ou the ground that a fair wis lately hel l iu the bndtung for protit, whereas, tj be exempt from taxation, buildings must be used exclusively for divine purposes. The Secretary of War has been di ected to spend 15,000 iu erecting a monument ac the birth-place of Gune-ral Gouvernenr K. Warreu at Cold Spring, near West Point, N. Y'., provided tne ground, a rectangular place on tiie Pai rot estate, shall be given to the Govern ment for that parposo. Czar Alexander III makes a hobby of police and military uniforms. He has changed the costnino of the St. Peters burg police three times since his acces sion, aud careinl y exa Lines the minutest details of all new styles someimea tak ing hours to decide upon the pattern of of a button. Tbe annual report of the New York Castom House shows that the tonnage receipt fir 1782 were l,31'J,045, divi ded among 6327 sailing vessels and 951 steam vessels. Of tue former, 2161 were British. 1904 American, 611 Nor wegian, 339 Germau and 2 il Italian. Of the lutter, 643 were Bntisa, 1U2 American, 47 German aud 7 Italian. Official returns still show that wolves exist in large numbers in France. Last ye tr the number that were kdled by persona who received the State awards amounted to 1225. The amount annually voted for these awards and for other expenses attendant on the State campaign against the beasts is 30,000. m If '.Vl r. t-r 1 -4 - r-i'.v M ;-'!-fH-3 i 1 .1 . h:'' .1, "Si: your pardon, sir, what district, Montana. z.
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