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eiiT 1 IV. J. VAXES, KllITOB AXD PrOPRI Terms of iibnenption $2. 00, m advance. KTOR. CHARLOTTE, JST. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1879. TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME---N li Bl BER 1369. Til E Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BY .Vir.MAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor rKitM9 TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. SubncriptwriH mutt be paid in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable ntes, or in accordance with contract. Obituary notices of over five lines in length will b charged for at advertising rates. E I K P. OSBORNE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Special attention given to Collections. Loans negotiated on Mortgage and other securities. 3P Office over Harty's China Store, Trade"St.. near Court House. August 0. 1878 Gin Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, j f us on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS. Chemicals, Patent Medicines, ramny Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye btulis, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined o sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1875. J. P. McCornbs, M. D., tr..ia l.ia irifVinnal services to the citizens of harlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both right and day, promptly attended to. Oitice in Hrown's building, up stairs, opposite the harlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 187:3. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C All calls promptly answered day and night Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. It Mvers'. Jan. 18, 178. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15, 1878. Doctor D. STUART LYON, Charlotte, N. C. Okkice : Corner Trade and Poplar Streets (Of fice of the late Dr. C. J. Fox ) Residence with Rev. Theo. Whitfield, I). D. Calls from City and country will receive prompt attention. Nov. 1, 1878. Cm. T. M. PITTMAN, Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Prompt attention to all professional business. Practices in the State and Federal Courts. Collec tions will receive his personal attention. Refers by permission to Commercial National Bank, Charlotte, N. C. 3 Office over Dr. Smith's Drug Store. Sept. 13. 1878 Cm Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. ALLEN, Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street,! Charlotte, N. C, PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, XW Repairing of Jewelry, Watches and Clocks done at short notice and moderate prices. April 17, 1878. y D. M. RIGLER Charlotte, N. C. "Dealer in Confectioneries, Fruits, Canned Goods, trackers, Bread, Cakes, Pickles, &c. 5gT Cakes baked to order at short notice. Jan. 1, 1877. B. N. SMITH, Dealer in Groceries and Family Provisions of all sorts, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Consignments of Produce solicited, and prompt returns made. Families can find anything at my Store in the Groeery line to eat, including fresh meats. Jan. 1, 1877. CENTRAL HOTEL, Charlotte, N. C, Located on one Corner of the Public Square. Re cent internal improvements have been made for accommodation of guests. Hates $3, $2.50 and $2 per day, according to lo cation of Rooms. II. C. ECCLES. July 5, 1878. tf Proprietor. LEWIN W. BARRINGER, Son of the late Hon. D. M. Barringer of N. C.,) Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 43G Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prompt attention to all legal business. Best rifiri noes given as to legal and financial responsi bility. Commissioner for North Carolina. References. Chief Justice W. N. II. Smith ; Raleigh National Bank ; 1st National Bank, Char lotte; Merchants and Farmers National Bank. March 15, 1S7S ly-pd J. Mclaughlin & co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, &c, College Street, Charlotte, N. C, Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. t2T" Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. AUCTION HOUSE. D. G. MAXWELL. C. F. HARRISON. MAXWELL & HARRISON, Auction and Commission Merchants. Buy and sell on consignment all kinds of Merchan dise and Country Produce. Will give strict per sonal attention to all business entrusted to our care. tW Four doors above Charlotte Hotel. Nov. 8, 1878 tf We no ice that resolutions have le n introduced in the Legislature for the removal of the political disabilities of Ex Gov. W. W. Ilolden. While we aiv po litically as much opposed t Mr Ilolden as any man can well be, we do say that there should be found ii"Ugh of the spirit of for giveness f.r past offences to cause the pas-sag- of suitable resolutions removing his political disabilities. We hope our frn-i.d in the Legi-Iature will unite in the prepara tion and passage of measures reli. vin hi in of bands. (ioldsboro Mail, il mocratic. The n Solutions ought to pass. Mortgagees' Sale. Pursuant to a Mortgage made to the undersigned by Jam s Night and Rnod Night his wife, on the 15th of January, 1878, and registt-ml in Book 20, page 157, we will sell at public auction for cash, at ihe Court House in Charlotte, on Thursday the 27th day of February, 1879, a HOUSE and LOT in the City of Charlotte, situated in Ward No 2, fronting 40 feet on Second Street and running back 70 feet, adjoining Armstead Mayo and others, being the late residence of Jim Night and conveyed to him bv Prank Alexander. F. S. DeWOLFE, J. R. HOLLAND, Jan. 24, 1879 5w Mortgagees. NOTICE. By virtue of a Mortgage executed to Sawyer, Wallace & Co. by J. E. Stenhouse, bearing date August 28ih, 1876, for a Tract of LAND lying in Mecklenburg county, mar Davidson College, con taining about 208 Acres, the undersigned will sell on Saturday the 22d of February, 1879, the said Tract of Land at the Court House door in Charlotte, N. C, for the purpose of satisfying the debts due under said Mortgage. Terms, Cash. SAWYER, WALLACE & CO., per Shipp & Bailey, Attorneys. Jan, 24, 1879 5w Attention Farmers ! Call at Kyle & Hammond's Hardware House and examine thtir "Dexter Corn Shellers" and "Feed Cutters" the latest and best out. Also, new style adjustable Iron Foot Plow Stocks, a great improve ment on those sold in this market last season. We have a heavy 3tock of Steel Plows, Clevises, Single Trees, Steel and Iron Harrow Teeth. Heel Screws, Grass Rods, &c, which we can and will sell to the Farmers at prices lower than they can possibly afford to make them. Nov. 1, 1878. KYLE & HAMMOND. A REQUEST! An Earnest Appeal!! To those who are indebted to us by Note or Ac count to come up and settle at once. We have been very indulgent to our friends who are behind in their payments, and as "short settlements make long friends," we are compelled now to make this earnest appeal to all who owe us to come up and pay tip. If it is impossible for you to pay all, don't stay away on that account, but come and s e us and we may be able to arrange the matter satisfac tory. Don't forget this is the first of January, 1879. BARRINGER & TROTTER. Jan. 3, 1879. Plows ! Plows ! ! The celebrated Oliver Chilled Plow ; the Gale Plow ; the Meihle Plow ; the Tate Plow (reversible), for hillside and for subsoiling. A large stock of Steel Plows. liege's Feed Cutters. I expect to keep a full stock of plements. Agricultural Im- My stock of Plows cannot be beaten br any one. I have the best in the world, and will sell them at low prices. Call and examine them before pur chasing elsewhere. WALTER BitEM, Agent. Jan. 3. 1879. Family Groceries. I have now in store a full supply of Groceries and family supplies. Just received, Fresh Goshen Butter and New Buckwheat Flour. I have also a small Store for rent. S. M. IIO WELL. Jan. 31, 1879. Shuttles and Needles. Now is jour time to buv the genuine Stewart Singer Sewing Machine, with all the attachments complete, for $30. Shuttles, Needles, Oil, &c, for all kinds of Ma chines for sale. Old Machines repaired or exchanged. Address BRADSHAW & CO., General Agents, Charlotte, N. C. Sept. 27, 1878. . A. GASTON, DEALER IK Stoves, Tin-Ware And House f urnisiiing n m Goods, CHARLOTTE, N c He keeps the largest stock of Stoves and Tin- Ware ever offered in this market. $100 reward will be paid to any party that ever sold a larger or heavier Stove than the "Barley Sheaf." I have sold the "Barley Sheaf " for eleven years. Call at my Store under Central Hotel building. and examine my stock. Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware manufactured lo order, and all Repairing promptly executed. A. A. GASTON. Feb. 1, 1878. E. J. HALE & SON, Publishers, Booksellers & Stationers, 17 Murray Street, New York, Iuvite orders for Books of their own publication ; and for all other School, Miscellaneous and Stan dard Books, and for al! kinds of Staple Stationery. Writing Papers Cap, Letter, Note and other sizes. Blank Books, of all grades. Envelopes, of all sizes and colors and qualities. School Siates, best quali ty, all sizes. Slate and Lead Pencils, Pens, Inks, Mucilage, &c, &c. Those who favor us with their orders, by mail or in person, may rely upon having them filled prompt ly, and at prices which we believe to be quite as low as can be had in this market. E. J. HALE & SON, Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers, March 29, 1878. 17 Murray St., New York. Window Glass and Paints. fcCQQ BOXES WINDOW GLASS, all sizes UJJ at prices lower than have been known in this city for the past ten years. A Full stock of all kinds of PAINTS and OILS. For sale by Oct. 11, 1878. J. H. McADEN. Cream Cheese. 100 Boxes selected Cream Cheese on consignment and must be closed out, at Jan. 31,1879. R. 31. MILLER & SONS'. Dimensions of Heaven. Some curious figures about Paradise. And he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs. 1 he length, and breadtu, ana the height or it are equal. Rev. xxi ; 16. Twelve thousand furlongs, 7,920,000 feet, wh-ch being cub. d, 596,793,088,000,000, 000,000 cubic fWt. Half f this we will re serve for the throne of God and the Court of lit aven, and half the balance for streets, leawng a remainder of 124, 198,2 72,000,000,' 000,000 cubic feet. Divide this by 4,096, the cubic! f-et in a room sixteen feet squa-e and thre will be 30,321,843,750, 000,000 rooms. We will now suppose that the world al ways did and always will contain 990,000, 000 inhabitant!, and that a general ion lasts for 38 years, making in all 2,970,000,000 every century, and that the world will stand 100,000 years, or 1,000 centuries, making in all 2,970,000,000,000 inhabitants. Then suppose there were one hundred worlds equal to this in number of inhabit ants and duration of years, making a total of 297,000,000,000,000 persons, and there would be more than a hundred rooms six teen feet square for each person. Biblical writer. - The Habit of Prayer. Some bad boys tried to persuade a good little boy to play truant. "No, no; I can not," said he. "Why? now why?" they asked. "Why?" answered the little boy, "'cause it I do, I shall have to pray it all out to God on my mother's knees to-night." "Oh, well," they said, "in that case you had better not go." You see w hat a bridle the habit of prayer puts on a little child. Prayer acknowledges God's goodness, God's authority, God's right to us. It is remembering God. The reason we sin so is because we forget Him. Nobody an bring daily to mind His ador able character, what He wants us to be, and what He wants us to do, and go on do ing wronij, for prayer, like a chain let down from Heaven, with one end in our hand, twitches us from evil and drawrs us toward lit aven. Oh, wh u golden moments are those when a pious mother gathers her little ones about her, and teaches ihem, not to "say their pra ers," but to open their little hearts in patience and trust and love to the Redeemer who die I lor them. Then is the time, in earliest infancy, for the Spirit of Christ to enter in and mould their souls into His like ness. Mothers, see to i thai IHs print be there first. Christian Commonwealth. I2T An art criiic, going into a gallery in a state of mild inebriation, to criticise some pictures, sees himself in a glass, and, taking out his note-book, writes as follows: "First room, head of a drunkard, no signa- tures: ha great deal of character : red remarkably truthful. Must be a portrait from lite ; think I've seen that face somewhere." Fruit Trees Ready for Delivery. Those who have not yet taken Fruit Trees (or dered) will please apply at J. II. Henderson's Store. Choice Trees furnished for Spring delivery at low rates. Apply as above. T. W. SPARROW. Feb. 14, 1879. 2m Important to Ladies. Just received a lot of new ABDOMINAL COR SETS. Give them a trial and you will be pleased. Also, a new lot of Dress Buttons, black and white Satin, Monogram Ruffling for Skirt Protectors, Colored Piques and Plaid Nainsooks. The best Seamless Kid Glove in the market. Also, a large lot of Kids in Street and Opera shades. A full line of Dress Trimmings always on hand. Give me a call. T. L SEIGLE, Opposite Charlotte Hotel, Tryon Street, Jan. 31, 187y. Charlotte, N. C. Blacksmiths' Tools. We have a complete stock of Blacksmiths' Tools of the best quality and at prices that will put them within the reach of every Farmer. Nov. 1, 1878. KYLE & HAMMOND. Oils! Oils!! Linseed, Strait's, Machine, Lard, Sperm, Kero sene and other Oils in quantities to suit customers, at bottom prices. Jan 31, 1879. L. R. WRISTON & CO. J. C. Burroughs Invites farmers to call and see his Iron Corn Shellers. Jan. 17. 1879. COPYRIGHTED. Entered according to act of Congress, Dec. 14th, 1878, by Wilson & Burwell, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. HARRIS EMPIRE COMPOST. TO FARMERS. We would call the attention of farmers to the fact that we sell, and have now on band, the Chemicals for making Harris' Empire Compost, Which has been tried in this section for a number of years, and many farmers will testify to its value, and their entire satisfaction in using it. For Cotton it has no superior, and is the cheapest article ever offered, and parties purchasing it can rely upon getting something free from adulteration and in all respects reliable. For price of ingredients, apply to WILSON & BURWELL, Sole Proprietors, Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 17, 1879. NORTH CAROLINA Home Insurance Company, Organized in 1868, Has paid over $175,000 in losses. Insures all kinds of insurable property against loss or damage by fire upon the most reasonable terms. All losses prompt ly adjusted and paid. Build up home enterprises and thereby benefit vourselves Jno. G. Williams, President; W. H. Crow, Vice-President ; W. S. Primrose, Secretary. TH0S. II. HAUGHTON, General Agent, Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 31, 1879. 6m. A ThriUins 'Incident of Russian History. Of the late Czar Nicholas, 'A Russian iinuiv tens in tne iMorin American J Re view, a striking tory. A young student, a relative of the writer, had. with a few friends, formed a literary society, in which trie works 01 contemporary political econo mists, publicists and philosophers were 1 1 1 i 1 mi i 1 reaa ana oeoatea. ine secret ponce ae- nunod thin society as a revolutionary or ganization and the young student was im prisoned and condemned to Siberia. All possible influence was brought to bear upon the Czar, but in vain, and at last the young man s mother, meeting the Czar one day in the Summer Garden, knelt and implored her son s pardon, asserting his innocence. The Czar seemed touched, and promised to Kive the youth a personal interview. The latter was brniiorht. t.r hift MsnpRt.v t,hf no v t day, and thcCxar, forcing him to hU kuaesJJJ conversation before the image of the Saviour, exclaimed: "Can you swear before the Almighty God that neither you nor your associates had any criminal design against ray life? Can you swear that you believe in the holiness and eternity of the Russian autocracy ?" The surprised prisoner answered : "I can swear to your Majesty that neither I nor any of my friends had the remotest idea against your safety. As to the autocratic form of government, I cannot conscientious ly swear that I believe in its eternity. The history of other countries teaches us that the time must come, even in Russia, when the people itself will take part in its gov ernment." The Czar tenderly embraced the student, and giving him a ring drawn from the imperial finger, said : "This is a token of respect from your Czar. You have been sincere and truthful to me, and there is nothing I hate so much as a lie." He then approached the writing table where lay the student's sentence of exile, and with one stroke ol the pen signed the paper! 'I pity you from the bottom of my heart," he said ; "you are an honest man, and an honest man, true to his convictions, is more dangerous to autocracy than an unprinci pled rascal. 1 herefore I must punish you, though never was this duty more painful to me than now. God bless you, my son, and judge me merciful if I should appear to be in the wrong. Ihen once more embracing the student, he dismissed him to Siberia. Woman's Progress. Lucy Stone says that, although women have not secured the ballot, they have in her lime vastly improved their condition. She remembers when a woman was thought competent to teach only the small children in the Summer schools, when her pay was a dollar a week, and she was expected to board around. Now women are professors in colleges with good salaries. In 4 States they vote on all school matters. Teaching, sewing and keeping house were the only oc cupations regarded as suitable for women. Now the census records seventy-one occu pations that are open to women. No wo man was a public speaker out of the Quaker Church. Now all platforms are iree to them. The lyceum offers to the woman lecturer the same open field that it does to a man. The pulpit and the bar are both occupied by woman. The woman physi cian did not exist. Now they have a suc cessful practice in every large city and many of the smaller towns. There was not a college in the world that admitted wo men. Now there are not only distinctly colleges for women, but a large number that welcome women to all their advan tages. It is not many years since a mar ried woman could own nothing that she 1 ail earned ; could not make a will 01 anything she possessed ; could not sue or be sued ; could not carry on business; had no lawful right to her children, and could not even be their guardian ; nor had she the right to her own person. Now, in most of the States, all this is changed or very much modified. While the opening of all respectable avenues for female employment is right and proper, no respect should be shown women who engage in public lecturing or manipulating politics in any shape or form. Give the dear creatures plenty of babies to nurse and private employment, and they will al ways do well. An Evening at Home. We visited once in a larue family where it was the duty of each sister 111 turn to provide the evenincr's occupation ; and there was a pleasant rivalry between them as to whose evening should be the most en joyable. The brothers entered fully into the spirit of the p imple home entertainments, and were as loath to be obliged to spend an evening away from home as their sisters and parents were sorry to have them ab sent. .very one spoke of this lamily as an uncommonly united one, for every member showed such a strong attachment for the home, to which each one contributed so much pleasure. Ladxfs Journal. i 1 How Franklin avas Cubed. Some body has brought out the following inter estinir reminiscence: "When Benjamin Franklin was a lad he began to study philosophy, and soon became fond of apply- g technical names to common objects. One evening when he had mentioned to his father that he had swallowed some acephal ous mollusks, the old man was much alarm ed, and suddenly seizing him, called loudly for help. Mrs Franklin came with warm water, and the hired man rushed in with the garden pump. They forced half a gal lon down Benjamin's throat, then held him by the heels over the edge ot the porch and shook him, while the old man said : If we don't get them things out of Benny he will be pizened sure." When they were out, and Benjamin explained that the arti cles referred to were oysters, his father fondled him for an hour with a trunk strap for scaring the family. Ever afterwards Franklin's language was marvelously sim ple and explicit." The Mormon Women. Brigham Young's daughter intervieteed. ihe Washington .rost was recently viMt- -d by two Mormon women in the. interest of polygamy. The younger visitor, who is ov no means oaa looking, was ine wiuow of a mail named Williams,. and; his second wife while in the flesh, and ia the thirtieth or fortieth child of Brigham Young she didn't know which. The elderly lady was Mrs kmeline B. Wells, the wife pf Daniel II. Wells, a Mormon pounder and expound er of note, and the editor of the Woman's Exponent, of Salt . Lake City. They were interviewed as follows: "How long have you been a Mormon wile?" said the premium interlocutor of the Post, who had been summoned by tele phone while the ladies were engaged in de- "'N early twenty-five year.-." "And all that time have lived in reason able peace and quiet !" "Never had a quarrel during the whole time." "With husband or associate wives?" "With neither." "What do you call the other wives of your husband ?" "We call each 'sister.'" "And what do the children call them ?" "They calll their own mother 'mother' and the other wives 'aunt.' " "Your husband was one of the high dig nitaries, was he not ?" "Yes, in President Young's time he was councillor to the President, commander of the militia of the Territory, Mayor of Salt Lake City and one of the apoftles." "How long have you been in Utah ?" "With the first settlement. I went from Nauvoo to Kanesville, and from there to Salt Lake, and there I intend to die if a roof is leftover me to die under. If you people drive us out of Utah there will be nothing left but ashes. Nobody shall en joy the fruits of our hard labor and priva tions lor over a quarter 01 a century 11 we can prevent it. "Is that the sentiment ot all the juor mons male as well as female?" "1 think it is. We all feel that we would be justified in such a course." "Do you mean by that that you will defy the law of 1862 as construed by the Su preme Court." "Oh, no. We expect to abide by the law, however unjust. Still, we cannot undo what has been done. Y e are wives and mothers. Our families have endured for years. To attempt lo enforce that law in its retro-active 8en?e would be to break up our homes, illegitimatize our children and waste our substance. Bad, demgning and avaricious men will urge the Govern ment on to such a course in the name of morality and religion, merely to enter into and enioy the fruits of our hard labor. It is that that we do not intend to stand." "Then what do you want?" "First, we ask for a repeal of the law of 1862. Failing in that, wre ask for amnesty for all violations of that law since 1862. We also want such legislation as will legiti- maiize our children oeyoua ail question, keep our names from being dishonored, and preserve unbroken the relationship of fami lies as they now exist." "Then in that case would polygamous practice be abandoned in Utah ?" "1 suppose so. Here and there there might be fanatics or enthusiasts who would insist on breaking the law from what they might term their religious convictions ; but, like the violators of law elsewhere, they would have to stand the penalty. They might get around it as you do 111 more refined and moral countries call their extra wives their mistresses." "Have you been sent here to urge action on Congress ?" "No. We knew nothing about the Su preme Court's decision when we left home, but we have remained at the request of our people to endeavor to have something done. Ihe condition of our co-religionists is a t f 1 a very peculiar one. 11 tne law is eniorcea half of the men in the Territory could be put in jail, and the women and children would starve." "Isn't that an incident of all religious wars?" Not necessarily. We believed we were doing right, and that under the Constitu tion polygamy was as legal as we consid ered it moral. The Congress passed a law as, and now the Supreme Court sustains the law. We do not believe we have done wrong ; nor do we believe our children are illegitimate, but the law says differently. We ask, therefore, to be pro tected from absolute ruin." "And how do you succeed ?" "Well, we find strong friends everywhere. Senators and Members whom we expected the least from have shown themselves ready to listen, quick to understand and disposed to act. Mrs Spencer has helped us amaz ingly. She has been with us almost con stantly, and I have great hopes that a law will be pased before Congress adjourns that will give us the required relief." "And you are one of Brigham Young's daughters ?" said the remorseless inter viewer, turning to the other caller a lady who might be eighteen or twenty-eight years of age. "Yes, sir," quite pleasantly ; "I am one of his youngest children." "But you don't know which ?" "I do not. We never go by numbers." "Did your father leave you much pro perty ?" "He left me my share. We all were treated precisely alike. He left my mother a good home and me a house and a certain interest in property, the same as overy other child." "Your husband is dead ?" "Yes, sir." "How many wives had he ?" "Two. I was his second." "Did he leave yon anything ?" "Yes ; he left tne a nW - house, and one equally good to ; hist other, wife. I rent mine and lire with my mother." "How long .have you been a wij0w ?" "Nearly, three' years." , ?" 'AiMl fl' you bfliev'e In pdlygamy ?" "I certainly do., , I, .married the man of ray choice; be was kind, to me, and our home was happy." ,. r , But yon only, had, one-)ialf of him." "That ,is a good dal: more than most women have of their husbands, if the truth was knriwri.'f, , j ,u. ? . . . lf About Wilis. Blackstone informs us that testaments are of .very high: antiquity. Records of such documents, have been discovered dated from the remotest period of mau'a civilized exis tence. Indeed, it has been stated by one writer thet Noah made his will in writing, withesBefit in accordance with law under his seal, and that in virtue of this document the world was subdivided among his child ren. Among the Greeks, Solon was the first to introduce testamentary dispositions, and in Rome they were unknown until the Twelve Tables were accepted as the basis of their law and custom. . This mode of de vising property was in force in England prior to the conquest ; but the military ten ures subsequently in vogue forbade such a method of alienating estates. It is related of a citizen of our own country that he was o enamored of republican, institutions, he desired by will that : his . body should be flayed, and the skin thus . taken from him tanned. Of the toughened integument two drums were to be made ; and he further be queathed a sum of money, to be paid an nually to a person who was to proceed to the top ol Bunker Hill on every Fourth of J uly, and there beat a tattoo on one of these drums. Probably the most fantastically contrived instrument to utilize the body of the testator is recorded by Dr. Forbes Wins- low. A frenchman, disappointed in love, determined to commit suicide. Previous to carrying his design into effect, he wrote a letter to the lady who had jilted him. In another document he noted his last wishes, which he desired should be scrupulously adhered to. His corpse was to be taken. boiled down, and the fat extracted. Out of this a candle was to be made, and present ed to the subject of his misplaced affections, in order that she might read his communi cation by the light provided from his own body. Gamblers Locked in an Air-Tight Vault. Among the det-perate devices resorted to by the Chicago faro bank proprietors to evade the vigorous raids of the police, a favorite one is to lock up the inmates in fire proof vaults, which are supplied with ven tilation holes for this purpose. Recently, George Hankin's place was raided and seven teen players were bundled into the vault, the door locked and the police admitted. Hankin and a colored servant remaining outside. Instead of going away, as usual, on finding the room deserted, the officers. who were up to the dodcre. sat down and waited. Noticing the ventilating holes, they stuffed paper into them, and again sat down and waited. In about an hour the air in the vault became so vitiated that the prisoners became desperate, and from the inside came faint cries: "Let us out, we are nearly dead." Even then the proprietor re fused, for a time, to liberate them, and when he did, the seventeen inmates rushed out in a state bordering on sutlocation. One old man was nearly dead, and all were terribly exhausted. The confinement of seventeen men in an air-tight vault only seventeen feet square was a dangerous experiment, which faro bank patrons will hardly consent to try again, and its disastrous result will be ot value in aiding the police in their efforts to suppress gambling. Four Miles of Faith. A gentleman who had just patented a new religion deemed it necessary to quicken and confirm the faith of his proselytes by whooping them np a few miracles, and ac cordingly announced that he would fly over a ravine 6,000 feet deep and four miles across. ! A vast multitude assembled upon the ap pointed day, and them he thus addressed : "Dearly beloved brethren, in order that I should perform the miracle which will now be presented tor your intelligent apprecia tion, it is absolutely necessary that it should be supported by your faith as well as ray own. ihis is an occasion where I cannot run my faith alone. Do you, therefore, be lieve that by miraculous 1 agencies I can fly over this yawning abyss?" "We do so say we all of us." "Then, dearly beloved brethren, there is no need of my flying across and wasting a miracle. hi 1 The fanatic who told his neighbors that the world was certainly coming to an end this month, has not yet ventured to ex plain how it was that he came to rent his farm for a year ahead' of that timeand what's more, to demand his rent in advance besides. Americans of No Account. A Chinese couple were married by a Sacramento Jus tice, who informed them that, according to section 500,000 of the Code, it was necessary that the bride should be immediately kiss ed, either by her husband or. somebody else. The bridegroom said it was contrary to Chinese propriety for a husband to kiss his wife before folk, but if the Justice would exclude the Chinese, spectators, he would obey the law in the presence of the Ameri cans, whom he regarded as of no account. His suggestion was followed,' and he kissed his wife. J - X We pity the man who spends his evenings, six out of the seven, gossipping in the stores or bar-rooms, and is compelled to spend the seventh with his family at home because there is no other place open.' '
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