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VOLUME VII.
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C J,
NESDAY,' J ASU AKY : .19,' 1870.;
In the latest and neatest atylas, and at the
krwsst prtoss. Orders by mail wU4 rsoaive
NUMBER 31.
'Administrators' Notices.
.'!r r t
"' L-J"! -. - ' ' :
Wirauaw CaBM, '
Tarms Caase,
: e i-.'i ' !: i-i:V:,-7,:'!i" ' - ' ' "
!
! Rat I. Plana .
w
Elizabeth City Olrectory.
Dn. JAS. Jt. BUTT, Physician. Attends to
offioe protico. Cor. Ilaia and fsaiinf
feireeta. : .
" KT V- & a - POOL, Attorneys at Lw.
' VV Offloe,.Min Stract. j
Dp.-B.-H. MoljrrOSH, Physioian." Oflloe,
BoadStreot. . : '
(TXT L- RKED Attorney at t,vw, Mwitoo,
. T T -Boanofco Island, Drs Oqnpty. N. O.
JAME& L. BALL. Attorney and Oonnsolor
' Taw. Offloa, aaet side Eoad Street,
- three doora from Main. . .
TQ. ETHEMDOB A BIIO., Drue's, Chemf-
oala. Paint, Oils, eto. Soniiieast oornec
-goad and Main Btreetw. J
DR. JA.ME3 N. BUTT, Drags, . Qhemicals,
Paints, Oils, etc- Sontiiwast oornar
fearing and Road Straete. . -
T
T. BTJTTEB, Book and Job Printer. Gaio-
. j-vn a-i a a.
uriieH iiooo, afiaun otrCw.
P W. MELICK. Books, BUHonenr. Peri
e odicala and Furnitqre. Water Street.
P1LEM0N JOHN. Notary Pablio. OSoe in
TR. R. 0. JENKINS, Physician. Office on
Main Fftreet. .
milE ALBEMARLE BtNKINO HOUSE,
. i - few doors west of the Nobth Carolinian
Buildinp. - . ,
TAMES- L. 8MITHS0N, Praotieal House
Jainter. Road Street, ijpar Main. '
'"i LBEMAItLE HOUSE, T. Ti. Pkndleto!;
.IX. proprietor. Corner of Main and Boad
Btropig. . , - ' .- '
WT W" :BR0WN- Qroceras. Liquor, etc,
, )V aluo Bowling Alley, Main titreet, near
the Market.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY,
ELIZABETH CITY.
, : .'' . .
Chatter Election on the flrnt Monday of May.
- Meetiug of the Board. of, Couimiasioneri,
afternoon of the first Monday of each, month.
. Mayor J. S. Wilcox. '
Commituiotiers Dr. P. John, Jabx z Pritch
ett, T. R. Cobb, Whitmel Lane and Henry
Davis. . I 1
i TreafurF-Hngh,Cale. , .
MtorrteT O w. Orandy. .
Clrk Wm. KrauiiB. j
Countable J. H. Miokillj
Te'stmaster W. A. Price.
' CHURCHES.
. Methodist, Baptist, ' Episcopal, and Ziom
(Colored). Serrices in each every Sabbath.
. LODGES.
AcnoRix Lodoe No. 14, 1. 0. of 0. P.
Meeta every Thursday evening. .
Taloia Kcampm bnt No. 8, 1 Oj O. P. .
Meets on the second and fourth Tuesday in
each month.
Grand United Obdbb or O, P. Meet altsr-
hats Thursday nights.
' ' -, MASONIC j
Eitbeka . LOdok meets, on every Monday
tight. ... ..
PASQUOTANK COUNTT.
i PheriflSjTolin T. Trice.
Clm k Superior Court Miles Commander.
Treamirer Thomas M .ades.
llojisiet of Deeds Thomas P. Wiloot.
. Surveyor Kader Perry-. " -
CumiiiiHcioijers D". P. John, George W.
JilrotUerH, A. .'F. Stafford, Emanuel Davis and
li. 15. ' J'lhusork ' ' ,
Attoniey W. F. Pool. ' "
I "lleprceeutative W. J. Mnryen.
' SUPERIOR COURT: -
Tenth Monday after thn first Monday In
, BUrcU and October. County seat, Elizabeth
C.ty. . .
PXRST COUGRESSION AL DISTRICT
Cpnip:-'ed of the Connties of Pasqnotank.
rnrqiiirnnM. Camdftti.Cnrrit.nrk, DaEe. Tvrrelt,
Hvde. H,yttrfovt, Wa4'i''g'-oii. Bertie. Ilfli-t-ford,
Cho wan, Martin, .Gates, Pitt audPamhco
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
In ooraposod of theCounties of Pasquotank,
Cnrrutjcit, Camdn. PerqaimauB, Chowan,
O.iten, Tyrrell, Hvde, Dlire.
Judae Hon. Mills L. Erne, of Oatesville.
!. Solicitor J. P. Whedbee. of Elizabeth Ci'.v.
Proiesspnar&. Business Cards,
,'c.c pooi
W. F. OO S
c. a & W. F. POOL, .
Attorn at Law,
s Elizabeth City, N . C.
Practice in all the C irts of the First Judi
cial District Collections made in auy part of
the State. ' Prompt attention g ven to cases in
i the Snprame Conrt. - r
, W. CRANDY, JrL,
Attorney at Law
i AH f ,
'general collector;
EUsabeth City, N. C,
- ' t - . . - 4 -
Omce North of Main Street.
THE
Albemarle Bank
" Elizabeth City, N. C.
THORNTON CONROW, President .
" ; . -' R- P. OVERMAN, Cashier,
. . Board of Difecterat
TffOBSTON CONBOW,
l'ALEMON JoHS.
D. (J. LlPPISOOTT,
D. O. Both
W.. F. Mabtin.
C. W. Hoixowxix.
I-
" Deal in Exchange, Sight Drafts. Gold and
Stiver Coin, Government and other SesuriUea.
sto. ...
THE .
Albemarle House,
T. D. PENDLETOK Proprietor,
tlizaboth City, N. C.
Jhi HOTEL Is centrally and pleasantly
jocated, is large, com .odious and, elegantly
up ior tne comfort ana conveuienoe ot
. - guests. - '
; Special attention. la paid to the traveling
Public. Care is taken to supply the table with
tae best the market affords. ,
x terms--82.00 a Pay.
THE ALBEMARLE SALOON.
'This elegant establishment in the Albemarle
H&use, is now under the control of
JOHN DETRICK;
Of Norfolk, who ; reposes to keep a firet-clasa
Lager Beer Saloon;
Keepe New. Ark BparkUng Cider, and D.
Parker's Gates Co. Apple Brandr, and dis
penses the choicest of delicacies in this line,
jbe celebrated BEEArt Thomas Beck A Son
wulbekepU ' andparsOils
J" o& other 'VThiskys" Sesidee any good
JLjiqaeTra, Cigars, or Chewmg or Bntoking
btics a eau rrgm
To tlMtto. 1 i -
. -
They sy that the summer has left ns,
That winter is ooming space,
Tha: November's chill touch Las bereft us
Of all the year's glory and grace ;
Bat somehow I cannot believe them, . , .
While one thing remains to me yet -I
suppose you were born to deceive them, .
Yon little rpring blossom, Lisette.
For the breath of the roses still lingers '
About yon the .whole of the day ;
And the touch of your little pink fingers :
Is softer than zephyrs in May ;
And vonr voice has-the notes of a starling,
AH trickling and tender and clear
But I don't think yen'U guess yet, my darling,-
. What makes it so sweet to my ear.
Perhaps' 'Us because you are merely 1
i A daa liWelTescld ehlld j . ,
Or perhaps 'tis beeaos you are nearly
As tall as a reed, and as wild ; .
Or perhaps tis for oheating the ins amis,
i For making us winter forget
Or perhaps here's the bes of all reaeons
Perhaps 'tis I love yon, Lisette.
' Beuar.
'.
WINE'S "WORK.
" PromiBe me, Charlie I" ' '
She ;yaa leaning playf ally orer the
back of his chair, looking down into bis
face. By " she " I m,ean Mrs. Cole, and
Charlie" was her husband. He had
just settled himself for a quiet after-dinner
cigar. But Mrs. Cole had mis
chieviously snatched it from his hand,
threatening to withhold -it until he gave
her the desired promise.. And now she
laid one hand caressingly on his fore
head, and stealing the other under his
clan she looked archly yet half earnestly
down into the dark deeps of his eyes, as
she. repeated : Promise me, Charlie.
Now do ; that's a dear!" . . , 1 -
Nonsense, Virginia I" - And he tried
to put away her hand. ' "
"Oh, Charlie I " reproachfully.
"Pshaw, do let me go. . You'll choke
me," ha said, half impatiently. -
" And so I will," she cried, merrily,
" if you don't promise me, this .rery
minute, not to drink anything 'stronger
than pure cold water at Uncle Logan's
party to-night." .
t ".Yes; yes, yes! There, now,' I hope
I've promised often enough to satisfy
"Onyoufhondr!"
" Certainly.- Yes, of course
" Oh, sir, I thought I could bring you
to terms. ( - Recollect yon have said on
your honor." ,
And then, while her face grew earnest
inits pleasing expression, she added: "Oh,
Charlie you do not know how anxious I
have felt about this party ever since we
decided to go. fffhey always have such
a gy time at Uncle Logan s. And you
know, dear, though you would not do a
wrong thing yourself, how easy it is for
your companions to make you go too
far,, because you are such a dear good
natured fellow. But now that you have
promised me, I feel quite easy.' And,
dear, don't forget when the young men
begin to get too gay, come up stairs to
me and baby."
And he promised.
" Going out to an evening party at.
Uncle Logan's was no small affair, con
sidering that it was a good five-mile
ride from Gleudale, out into the country,
over rough roads, with Maple river
swollen -by recent rains to be crossed.
For this was in a remote and secluded
part of England, distant from any rail
load, and with no town. near where a
vhiile might be obtained. Besides,
Virginia Gale was a first-rate horse
woman, and feared nothing on iter wn
account. That she was thus rather rash
and foolhardy, will appear from the fact
that she had i-esolved to encumber " her-
nelf with a burden j though of a very in
teresting kind. ,
Lights were glimmering from the win
dows as they rode up to Unclia. Logan's"
gate; and the number of horses and
vehicles already congregated around it
showed that the invited guests of the
Christmas eve party were already begin
ning to drop in. , Aunt Lizzie came put to
tl.ddoor to meefetnem. and took the sleep
ing baba from Virgie's poor, tired arms.
"Remember, Charlie!" she said im
ploringly, lnyiflg her bead ph his shoul
der an rijey were on the point of separa
tiug she, for Aunt Lizzie's comfortable
room above stairs he, for the seciety of
his boon companions.
" Never fear me I" And he went gayly
away. .
Ala ! for the promise made to the
fond, credulous wife', sitting up stairs in
the quiet matronly circle,with her babe
on lier knee. ... In-less, than half an hour
Charles Gale had forgotten his promise,
wife child, everything; and again and
again his glass was tilled, and his voice
raised in riotous chorus with the
loudest. ' ' : ':.
' The night waned and the guests began
to disperse. Virgie sat in the drrssing
room all ready for the ride, holding in
her lap what seemed to be a Lmge bun
dle of shSwli, but hich was in j reality
lit tie Charlie, who lay curled up! in ' his
warm nest fast asleep, with , one little
fat thnmb in' his mouth. i
f". I wonder what makes Charles so
late," she said, af lat, impatiently.
V Aunt Lizzie, will you please send for
him, and say I'm waiting?" '
He came at length. But the first
words ho spoke told her all," She .knew
- once that he was intoxicated, though
to others only a very slight excitement
was all that appeared unusual, about
him.", .. ' ,
Oh ! the shame! She hardly dared
speak to him. All her thought was to
get him away before he betrayed his
condition to other' eyes.
Give me the child." he said.
And as she did so, she felt that' his
arm was unsteady. ,...-
"Oh! I dare not trust the baby
with him," was her thought, but she was
silent. .
She could not bear that those around
should know the. mortifying truth.
"I do wish you would stay all night,
Virgie," spoke "Aunt Lizzie, renewing
her entreaties. "It is so late, and it is
growing colder." '
Virgie thought of the dreary five
mile's' ride with a drunken husband-1',
and then the river. ! She had before re
fused to stay, but now she thought bet
ter of it. . - ' v
" What do you think of it, Charles ?
Hadn't we better stay t" she asked, per
Buasively. I
But liquor bad made him sullen. ; -
' No, we must go home," he said,
surlily.
I She knew it would avail nothing to
argue the matter with him, but onlylead
to a painful exposure, so she commenced
paying her adieux.
By diDt of gentle coaxing she induced
him to give the babe to her before they
started. ' ' f v '
As they rode away, . Uncle Lagan
shouteu out to them:
"Lookout for the river I"
"Virgie's heart was too heaTj for a
reply ; but Charles shouted back with
maudlin cheerfulness : . .
" All right !" '
. As they rode on she saw that he was
mnkincr into a drunken stupor. Oh,
if they were only safe at home, how glad
she would be. And then she thought
of the river yet to be forded ; and every
breath was a prayer. She determined
not to let him have the child when they
came to the crossing, but to trust to her
own arm and' cooraflre to oarry herself
and the babe through. . She hoped he
would not think to ask her for the child,
and was nerving herself for a refusal in
case he should, when they came in sight
of the water. '
The mcKn shone down, . making it al
most as bright as day. Virgie thanked
Heaven or that ! But she shuddered as
the sweep of the waters fell on her ear ;
and she saw it foaming white in the
moonlight, as it swept on in a strong
current. , . , X "
Charles roused himself. "
f Where's the boy t" he asked.
- "Never mind, dear ! he's asleep, and
I don't like to disturb him. I can carry
him over. I'm strong enough for it"
"What is. the woman thinking oft
Ton carry him over, indeed I Give him
to. me,"
" But, Charles, you are not in a con
dition to hold hi"tr I shaU be thankful
if you can guide your hon over awfeJy,
as you are.
" Ha ! Whit do you mean by that I"
She made him no answer. , 1
" Do you take me for a fool f" he said,
roughly and angrily.
" Now, Charles, ' don't do so! You
know your arm is very unsteady, just
now. It is indeed!"
"Ah, I understand you now. So,
madam, I suppose you think I am
drunk?" , .
Again she was silent.
"Give me the child I" he said, fierce
ly. .. - '
"Oh, Charles! For God's sake"
"Give him to me, JLsay! Do you
think ta brave me so?. Give him here
this minute." - j
Resistance; she knew, was useless. It
would only serve to infuriate him, and
what, will' not a drunken man do ? ,
' Uncovering the little sleeping face,
she kissed it once then drawing the
thick- shawl which eaveloped the little
figure, she covered the face again and
gave him into her husband's arms.
V Charles ! For the love of Heaven be
careful." ' ,
, ,"Pontbea fool!" :
' So they plunged in, and she did not
take her eyes from the other two until
they' had neatly reached the opposite
bank.. Then r her horse stepped on a
stone, and, slipping, nearly precipitated
her, into the water. When her attention
was again free they had reached the op
posite bank.
"There - he is!" said Charles, tri
umphantly, as he placed the bundle in
her arms. "What a simpleton you were
to think I could not bring him over
safely." .
I How very light it was ! Good Heaven !
She moved it about in her arms, pressed
it closer, ' and then uttered an awful
shriek. r ..
'My child'! My little child! My
Charlie ! Oh, my child!"
Both turned simultaneously back to
the. water: The quick eye of the mother
was just in time to catch one last brief
glimpse of a little rosy, pitiful, upturn
ed face and then it disappeared down
the current, and the rapid waters flowed
en! ,
In his drunken unconsciousness
Charles had let the sleeping infant slide
out oi the' shawls, and nothing could be
heard above the noise of the waters.
He did not know it until the mother
screamed. . A
There was no help. T&h. ! it was piti
ful, heartbreaking! Poor young
mother! '
The home of the Gales is very still
now. . virgie s pale face seems paler
yet, from contrast with her black drees.
The cradle looks so desolate, standing
always back in one corner of the nur
sery. She never passes it without hav-'
ing her heart wrung anew; and. sue
will sit for hours, folding and unfolding
the little clothes, and her hands linger
lovingly among them. There is a pair
'A tiny worn shoes in the drawer of her
work-table, and a lock of fair, soft baby
hair iu the great Bible.
Does jNewspaper Advertising Pay 1,
To this . often repeated and important
fiuestion the Dayton (Qhio)Z)ay Jour
nal gives the following as an answer :
Some months since a gentleman repre
senting a wealthy housein San Francisco,
California, while traveling ia Missouri, .
fame in possession of a Daily Journql
containing the advertisement of " The
Trade Engine" manufactured by the
Herrmau & Herchelrode 'Manufacturing
Company of this city. The gentleman
became lnttrested carefully preserved
)he paper, and having occasion to visit
Ohio a short time afterward, called at
the office of the above company. He
showed Mr. Herchelrode, the secretary,
the advertisement he had preserved, and
made overtures for the agency of his
house for the engine inCalifornia. His
propositions were accepted and the up
shot is, recently the company shipped
the third car-load of engines to their
agents in San Francisco. Thus, through
t small advertisement, a comparatively
new invention was introduced, and a
trade that promises to be immense, was
secured in the most distant portion of our
country. " It was but by chance that the
gentleman explained how he became ac-
quait ted with the merits of the engine
he, advertised, else he would have re
mained in ignorance of the customer the
tdvert sement had secured him. Adver-
tisement, as a rule, work silently, but
they work surely and effectively.
1 Tough SUry.
Two old plowmen down JUast were
once telling tough stories of their ex
ploits in breaking up new ground.
" Up to Dixmont," said one, " twenty
seven vears aero this snrinor. I was nlow-
ing in stump ground with a team of nine
pair of cattle for Sol. Cunningham; we
were going along, making not very
smootn wore amvg rocks and stumps.
Well, one day.thW point o the plow
struck against a sunk stump four feet
through, split it square across the heart,
and I was following the plow throngh,
when the thought passed throngh my
mind that the pesky stump might snap
together and pinch my toes, so I juBt
gripped the plow handle? nrmswungl
sprung backand catched . the slack of
my pantaloons. , That brought every.
thing up standing. Well, 'I tightened
my hold, and Sim S within, he and Sol
was drivin', they spoke to the cattle, and
we snaked that stump right out by the
roots, and it had awful long ones." "It
must have been strainin' on your sus
penders," , said the other. "My wife
knit thenij'was the reply. - '
. Dm Not Wast It. Old Mrs. Du-
nicKer, -ot X'ran&iyn, ny., said to a
neighbor the other night, while com
fortably sitting in front of the fire, that
she had " allers had a great notion to
learn to Smoke," she did so love the
'aromv bf tobacker." She added:
.' I would hev learned long ago, dear
knows, but I heerd wunst that a man
had his 'tongue paralyzed by smokin',
and that skeered me out Lord - knows
I wouldn't want my tongue paralyzed,
fur I couldn't talk none ef it was.
Reading Novels. Mr. James T.
Fields visited Pomeroy, the boy murder
er, in his jail recent y. and learned from
him that be had been a great reader of
blood-and-thundcr stories. He had read
sixtv dime novels, all about scalping
and other bloody performances, and he
had no doubt these books had put the
liornijje mougnis into ms mina wnicn
led to his murderous acts.
The Cure for Gossip.
'Dr. Holland, in Jscrtbners, gives us
the following: What is the cure for
gossip? Simply, culture.-' There is a
great deal of gossip that has no malig
nity in it : Good-natured people talk
about their neighbors because, and only
because, they have nothing else to talk
about. As we write, there comes to us
the picture of a family, of young ladies.
We have seen them at home, we have
met them in galleries of art, we have
caught glimpses of them going from a
bookstore,' or a library, with a fresh, vol
ume in their hands. When we meet
them, they are full of what they have
seen and. read. They are brimming
with questions. .One topio of conversa
tion is dropped only to give place to
another, in which they are interested.
We have left them, after a . delightful
hour, stimulated and refreshed: and
during the whole hour' not a neighbor's
garment was soiled by so much as a
touch. .They had something to talk!
about. They knew something, and
wanted to know more. They could lis
ten as well as they oould talk. To speak
freely of a neighbor's doings and be
longings would have seemed an imperti
nence to them, and, of course, an improl
priety. They had no temptation to gos
sip, because' the doings of their neigh-j
bors formed a subject very much less
interesting than those which grew out of
their knowledge and their culture.
And this tells the whole story. The
confirmed gossip is always eitheir mali
cious or ignorant. The one variety
needs a change of heart and the other a
change of pasture. , Gossip is always a
personal confession either of malice or
imbecility, and the young should not
only shun it, but by the most thorough
culture relieve themselves from all temp
tation to indulge in it It is a lpw, '
frivolous, and too often a dirty business.
There are country neighborhoods in
which it rages like a pest. Churches
are split in pieces by it. Neighbors
are made enemies by it for life. In
many persons it degenerates into a
chronic disease, which is practically in
curable. Let the vonnc cure it while i
they may. '
Our Winter Solstice. '
' The earth is at perihelion January I,
and at aphelion July 1. At the latter
date the angular motion is least, and, the
earth having completed a revolution on
its axis, the meridian requires less than
four minutes to overtake the sun; so the
day is shorter, the sun is fast of the well
regulated clock; and the differences of
each day will accumulate until .autumn,
when the angular velocity becomes
greater than the average. About the
last of October the accumulated differ
ence is sixteen minutes, twelve seconds;
but, as the earth spins along towards
perihelion, the da becomes longer,
daily, draughts are- made upon this
" bank deposit," as we might call it, and
the culmination of the - sun, and noon
by the clock, ' approach each other.
About the middle of December the sur
plus is all " drawn," and the following
day the sun is slow of the clock. From
those circles of daily motion, submerged
beneath the southeastern horizon, he
emerges more tardily than, the position
of tne spiral would indicate; and the
same cause which retards his rising,
holds him back at his setting; for is not
our sunset the snnrise of antipodes ?
Thus the earliest sunset occurs seven or
eight days befora the sun reaches its
furthest declinatioii south. The differ
ence of time between the sun and clock
continues to accumulate'ufitil ; February
15, when it amounts to fourteen min
utes, twenty -four seconds ; but, after
December 22, the. sun, returns on the
spiral, and each succeeding - day ' that
part of the arc above the horizon be
comes longer.
About January 10" his difference of
declination more than counterbalances
differences of time and the sun begins
to rise earner by the clock.
Poultry at the Centennial.
A delegation of dealers in poultry and
egga, representing the trade in Boston,
New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
elsewhere, have called upon Mr. Welsh
to ask that five acres of ground .be set
apart next year at the exhibition for the
display of chickens, ducks, turkeys,
geese, pigeons and poultry products, the
delegation at the same time requesting
that 5,000 pens should be furnished by
the commissioners for: the accommoda
tion of the poultry show. It is probable
that the request of the ponltrymen will
be granted and that the show will take
place between the fifteenth of May and
the first of July.
If the statistics given in conversation
by one of tho1 committee representing
the poultry trade be authentic, and there
is no reason for doubting, this branch of
American trade is of far greater extent
and value than is commonly known.
The dealings in poultry and eggs last
year in the United States are reported to
nave reached the enormous amount of
$600,000,000, a sum more than half as
large as the total annual imports of this
--the most extravagant country in the
world, and exceeding the value of our.
cotton crop. It is also stated that the
eggs consumed in, not shipped from,
New York city are equal to 88,000,000
per annum. At three -cents apiece for
the eggs, estimating the population of
New York at 1,000,000, this would be
25T eggs for each person every year, a
quantity that seems appalling at first
glance. The statistics of this interest
ing source of food supply, . which will
be forthcoming at our Centennial exhi
bition, will doubtless be a mutter of sur-;
prise even to oir own countrymen. '
r
Diamond Cutting.
- The process of diamond cutting is a
very simple matter to those acquainted
with tho nature of the gem. To cut the
facets, two stones are cemented on two
sticks, and rubbed against each other
until a facet is cut; then the position of
one of the stones is ' changed, and an
other fiat surface is cut. ' The process is
thus continued until the gem is faceted
all over. After the facets are cut, and a
definite form given to the stone, the
diamond is placed in -the hands of the
polisher, who fastens it in solder, and
then holds it against a small steel disk
revolving horizontally with a speed ot
fifteen hundred to three thousand times
a minute. The disk is moistened with
oil mired with diamond-powder, and
one faoet is polished at a time. "Dia-
motid cutting proper is a rapid opera--tion,
but the polishing is Blow and tedii
ou. One cutter can generally furnish
sumcieni worn ior iourpr nve polishers;
. .
Good Resolutions. '
Says an exchange: There ianoend
to the good resolves we could suggest
for New Year's day to politicians to be
honest, to church men to be blameless,
to church neglectors to reform, to
preachers to : preach .better, to men in
power to be gentle and just, to men un
, der it to be respectful and true, to fath
ers to be faithful, to eons to be reverent,
to editors to be temperate, to readers to
be candid, to babblers to be quiet, to
schemers to retire, to companies I 1,-ive
consciences, to congregations to b fair
minded, to churches to be catholic, to
the ; nation to be wise, moderate, and
dignified. Ah ! how how easy it is to
suggest how hard to get the sugges
tions . translated into fact, even in tlui
small sphere of one's own life !
. .
THE MAM WHO LIED. rv " -
A Hamaee Tmlas-9 mm taw Hea wfee Lie
far the Fa mf Betas; H erase.
There is a class of men who lore to sit
around the store of country girocery'of
a winter's evening and exchange lies.
IL Quad, the . wag of. the Detroit Frca
Pre8, hits off this class bathe following
svwy : , -V . ' .
One evening when the winter blasts
moaned sadly across the street corners,
and the captains of , the ferryboats wore
anxious looks, . seven or eight vessel
owners and " laid Trp" Lak . vptsins sat
around a cheerful; base iriier in a
saloon near the- river. - After the usual
mount of growling about fteweather
one of them told a storv. There might
have been an ounce of truth in It, but
the crowd felt oertain that the 'one ounce
was offset by twenty-femr pounds ef the
rsMsfnlaes kind 'S.-of ijnBV . .Therefore" I
a second man tout a storv to peat it, and
then a third man ' . tie' second.
When ther fourth mi ! rted outJ he-
said f ; i . . ;-
. " Gentlemen, I have also seen tougB
times. When I was Bailing the schooner
Fortune forty years ago two of .us were.
swept overboard in a storm on Lake Kne
one black night A hatch covet went
with us, and it so happened that we
both clutched it. If was .not; large
enough Vj support two. I was captain,
he a sailor. I had a family he had none.
I shouted to him to quit his hold, and
when he would not, I ; reached over,
clutched his throat, , and held on till his
fingers loosened, and he went to the bot
tom of the lake I - It was twenty miles
off Point Betsey, and with a shrill, pwild
shriek,' which yet lingers in my ears, the
poor wretch went to hjis death! May
the Lord forgive me !" -. .
i With his chair tilted against 'the wall,
a lanky, : sunfldwerish ohap had been
nodding his head right i and' left, as if
sleeping. As the captain's, narrative
was concluded the Btranger rose- , up and
solemnly said : :......
"I am that man 1" j " '
The crowd looked at him in , astonish
ment, and he continued:
" I landed" on Point Betsey next morn
ing in time for breakfast, and I swore a
soleun oath that I'd liok you for choking
me if I had to live a hundred years to
doit!" .
" You can't be the man,'' replied the
captain, looking suspiciously at - the
fellow's big fists ; " it was forty years
ago. .
" I know it was, and for forty years
I've been aching to lick you but of your
boots!" ' ' :
The captain had lied, but he didn't
wan't to own it, and he sai 1:
" That sailor's name was Dick JRice."
v" Kerect I" bowed tha etranger ;
"that's my name !"
"But he-was taller than you."
"Being - in the water so long that
night I shrunk just a foot!" was the
cool rejoinder.
"Well, I know you can't be the man,"
said the captain.; j r ,
"I am the man, and now I'm going to
maul you to pulp ! No man can choke
me and then brag about it 1".
He sailed in and upset the captain,
but was then Bet upon by the .whole
orow.L Hegot iBto.tb yof Horn wind
and hung there for a time, but presently
he paid off a little, got the wind on his
quarter, and went at it to lick ten times
his weight in old liars. " He was a very
ambitious man, and those who could get
out doors got out, and those - who
couldn't offered him a gallon of whisky
to come to anchor. He furled his sails
on this understanding, and as he set his
glass down for the third drink he wiped
his bleeding ear and remarked:
" When a man tries to sacrifice me in
order to save himself he don't know who
he's. fooling with !"
He was the biggest liar of them all,
but he made the most out of it.
A Curious Incident. .
The Toronto -Globe has the following:
Mr. R. Kelly Anderson, of Farmers
ville, has written the following letter to
the Re v.. Mr. Wood, author of "The
Higher Life of Animals": When my
father removed his family from Halifax,
N. S., to St John's, N. B., we took pas
sage in a schooner trader between these
ports. On a fine afternoon, a gentle
breeze just fanning the sails of my ves-'
sel, my eldest sister being seated on the
quarter deck holding an infant sister in
her arms, a small dog of the terrier breed
belonging to us was observed 'suddenly
to run from the cabin-way toward them,
howling and appearing to be in great j
distress. He seized hold of my sister s
dress and then darted toward the en
trance to the cabin, hurriedly repeating
the action a number of times.' The bX-.
tention of my sister being aroused lry
the extraordinary conduct of the animal,
and exclaiming: "What" does the dog
meant" she at length arose and followed
him. ' As soon as she had reached the
cabin door the npper spar to which the
irmiTign.il -was attached high above fell
with an immense force j on the spot
where a moment before she had been
seated. ' After licking jhis 'mistress'
hands with every emotion of joy, the
animal soon lay quiet at ber feet As no
human being on board had the least sus
picion of danger, had it not been for the
singular and timely demonstration on
the part of 'the dog, one or both of my
sisters would have been crushed. '
. The Religions Aspect.
In view of the recommendation of
President Grant that church property be
taxed, the following table of such pro-,
perty and the statistics of the various
denominations of the United States may
be interesting : . ' .-. '
. CKUIICH OBGAXTZaTIOKS,
An denominations.... .1. ....... 73,459
Boman Catholic....... I........ ,1Jt
Majority of other denominations
CHTJBCH EDOTCXS.
All denominations..'. ............ .
Roman Catholic....-j... .......
63,831
63,083
8,906
Majority of other denominations
CHUBCH BITTISaS.
All denominations. '. . . .
Boman Gatholio
Majority of other denominations
CBTTECH PBOPBBTT. . 1
69,376
21,665,063
1,190,51
20,7i,548
All denominations
Boman Catholic
$354,483,581
69,985,566
Excess of other denominations.. 284,498,015
Cost of the United States Mail Seriiee.
. t . ...
The profit of the department on mail
matter of the first class, including letters
and sealed packages, officially -reported
at $,212,390 for the last fiscal
year, this being the only class of matter
which was not transported at heavy loss.
On second-clafes matter, consisting of
newspapers; magazines and periodicals,
the loss was S6.993.023, and the loss per
pound about twelve and one-half centaJ
being at the rate of four and one-half
cents for each piece of mail matter,
which includes books, pamphlets, en
gravings,' etc. The loss on all miscel
laneous matter was $4413915, or about
nine cents a pound. j.
Paytsq fob it. The supreme court of
Minnesota has affirmed the constitution
ality of the law providing that a State
inebriate asylum shall be built and main
tained at the cost of tho licensed liquor
dealers of the State, and work on the
institution will be begun at onoa, ' -
AT AN EXECUTION-
A Medical View f lw Hei Dtt n the
- " "j., taltw." y.-j '
At the execution of the ftree riegroes
in New jYork city for the, murder of a
peddler; they were raised into the air to-
gether at tho5 . ' m. . After three min
utes Weston's puh fceat at twenty-five ;
at the end of four ' minutes it stood" at
fifteen, a minute after it went down to
twelve : at the end of six minutes his
pulse fluttered up to thirty-two,' and in
a quarter of a minute xaore.it ceased to
beat, t Thompson's pulse,, after "tlirri)
minutes, stood at twenty -one; after four.
minuses, nineteen; nve minutes, six:
teen. At six minutes the .pulse was im
perceptible, ahdl at; the end of ! seven
rniuuteshe-iras dead..' 'AV the 'fefid-of
four minutes- EiKs'.alae best at sevexAjt
twoal.tewBSj
0d to eighty-one and he struggled some
what. - After he'had been hanging seven
minutes nis pulse was hfty-sevsn, teat-
ing intermittently. At the end of eight
minutes; it stood at sixty, and was, flni
tering: After hf had hung, nine min
utes the .pulse was-scarcely roetitible, '
ana in ten minuses one was aead.i, . JXttt
bodies were lowered a, short dwtanoe and
the hearts' were examined, but no pulsa
tion could be discovered,. After banging
twenty-five minutes, Weston's body .was
lowered into the odftW, The -cap5was
raised and Ks feat ureawfere ' found to' be
little distorted. . , The spinal column- had
not l?een dislocated; but dath had been
caused jby strangulatibn, . , Thompson
was lowered next into his ' plaki coffin.
Theofctd had;iuied considerable irrita
tion, of the skin about his neji,'ind in
One or two places abrasionswere noticed.
Hiaeyes presented an appearance 'gen
erally Eke those of Weston Theoa -wbb
no fraetsre or Ualooation' of his'; Bpinal
bones, i: Hi death,, was also . caused by
straguktioiu j i f. ', . cl ".
he medical metff m keen'' Interest hi
the pqitr'ffuyrterrif condition ef Ellis; but
were nnable to inake the arpf al invet
gation -'lhat' IBey desiredl' ; iEatyeu
were injected witt) blood, but not to so.
great an. .ex tenths .those of the others.
There were , two ' inarks. of ; the ;cord -pn
the neck, 'one where ' the noose first
settled, and the other where it was at
length' adjustedrby the struggles bf the
man; : The. pbysicianB belie vesV that-if-
the pneuraQ-gaatric nerve, could have
been examined,pemiiar; changes would
have been prB&nted. If this' nerve e
iniured even shghtlrin a stfrffuial o rot
ation, the patieut's chest is iraaaediatel
convulsed and the! heart's action, via iny
terf ered with.' A Tito high, pulse in Ullis'
case seemedJo indicate, said ' the physi
cian, that thaWJarve' action was not im-:
mpilyVsoied;.T This ld man te
believe that whatav-chiBcfe tfiferel
migh have, been I in -thefnerre , iassne
were' so gradual that, uuderj; , mioro-t
scope, important and interesting results
might have been 'reached, - 'Though it
was deemed to be very Important to
scienoeAbat there should be a careful ex-
aminationpf Elhs' body after death; yet
in compliance with his particular re
quest it was noti permitted, and his
body was bornersrway to be pwperlx in
terrcd. : U
The rthvsiciftnB ' esbecialTv 'remarked t
X W I ' ; i. T tf , i , aj. ' .
the short tipie in which life remaitied in J the secret history of the Tammany ring;
tho bodies) of. these ' three men, One tie will give up the names of all who
medical man said : 'JI. ha va, attended .shared in the plunder, and expose the1
several executions, but when the neck men who worked with him and for him
was not broken I have never seen life ' ia the days of his power, and' who turn
ebb so quit&ly as m these cases.; The j ed'. upon himo.rentlessly after his
time of Weston's and Thompson's .death t downfall This would be a very curious
was almost the same, ,the former living narraiaveand.ther,e are rnahy who now
only six and? one-quarter jfthd . the., latter", live in " brown-stone houses," and who
seven minutes after they We' sAsning'oir. 5 hold leir heod'r m) very high, who
Ellis also died very quickly" after ;the would, go in fear7 and trembling, if they
noose reached its proper tolacei It 'is ' believed "that Tweed rertlly meant to
believed that the shock to the nervous
system anl-the injury inuictcd . tb
thef,
great nerve trunks make a greatTim-J
pression upon the stronghold of life. , It
is believed tbatlife becomes, really un-'
seated by the nervous shock, and. the
person executed is prevented from' re-
suming animation byith'e obnstrietioU bf
the neck that cuts off the circulation of
the blood. and the respiration; "The re
suscitation of persons who have been
under water twelve or fix teeflmuratea"
has been effected, Wit it would probably
have been impossible 4o haye- revived
Weston CT-hompsbn 1 after they 'were
shot into V"air, frven1 if ; they nad been
cut' down promptly. ' ;Many persons ob-
ject to this method of hanging because
the neck is seldom .broken.. But it is
generally conceded, by .'medical . inen
that this mode of death is usually not
only painless, "trot as quick as if the
neuk was bokerL'
An Editor of 1775.
i
In 1775 there" were four newspapers
published in New, York. Rivingten's
Koval Uazeueer was: j the subservient
tool of the British authorities. ! i !The 1
Merctnyr, published by? Hugh Gaine,
was a time-server and trimmer. Ander
son's Conalitulional Oazette was? ,born
and died in 1775. and had no influence
whatever. ,.TM New YorkJewmUA
published by John Holt, was the sturdy
and unpurchasable organ of the Sons of
Liberty.! ' Its editor fled the eity aiter-
the disastrous battle xu Long- Island,
and he was heard of afterward as pub
lishing his paper at one and another of
the towns on the Hudson under jarcuni
stances that would have appalled a less
determined man. In the month of Au
gust, 1777, while at Esopus, he printed
an advertisement, iu "which he proposed
to take any kind of country produce in
the way of trade. '.
Hw prospectus reads, very quaintly :
" And thepriaterj being unable to carry
an his business without the necessaries
of life, is obliged, to affix the follow
ing prices k his wdrk, viz. :. For a quar
ter of news, Twelve pounds of beef,
pork, eal, ocnutton, or four pounds of
buttert or gven pounds of cheese,oT
eighteen pounds of, fine flour, or . half a
bushel of wheat, of' One bushel 6f In
dian corn, or half a cord- of wood, or
300 wt of hay, or other articles oi Conn
try Kfdupes he shall want them, ' in
like proportions, or, . as much money as
will purchase them, at ..the. time; .for
other articles of , printing work, 'the
prices to be in proportion' to that Of the
newspaper. All his Customers, who have
to spare any ; of the above, or other arti
cles of country produce, he hopes will
let him know it, and afford him the nec
essary supplies,, without which his busi
ness here must very soon be discon
tinued."! It is gratifying to be able to
state that the sturdy patriot Survived the
Revolution, and lived to revisit theoity;
of which he had been postmaster in
1775. His patriotic labors aad -auffee-4
ings iustlv entitled him to the following
n;fonk . ' Ann friKnfA Tj- the mp.mhrv !
JI tu "tth -r,f fci'tMn Rtafn a
native oi Virginia, wnopanemiyouey- r'Ja-;. , . u
i aiu Jfi cnmnATM nr. tt ihir.Ti. Deab Madaub : I beg to w ahthe-
. ... i x - r m i . -
tieth of January, -1784,- ia, the rixtj"-
- . , r'. . m. iv.i
iourxn year ox nis age, xu eay uim uw
MtrllAaq that Viia
si;i kj, t'j nofitoaa. f.hot all
u-..h VU, . . . n,iaDrw frV fho. 'hft
rr Mm. urinecessarv:- for" that he
-ZZjt- ef&m i rfir 7 Th
tongue of . slander cannot-sarer
though justice might say more." , Such !
an epitaph, inscribed' over the dust of I
an editor, who had also held a'commfr-
sion as postmasterbpeirs 1 wide field. f
emulatioTto the journalists and' ofrfeials
of these latter day. Sbriimerfor Jam ,
J , - - j ; ; ,j
Maria Davis, charged with bigamy at 1
tha Old Bailev. London, was-released j
because the . first husband, lieragtotally
blind,- was unable to identity ner.
1;f
Tonr First Sweetheart
pTou can never forget her1. She is so
CungantJ innocent and pretty. " She
d such a way of looking at you ever
her book at church. "She alone, of all
the world, did not think yam a boy bf
eighteen, but wondered at your size and
learning, and your faint foreshadowing
or a sandy mustache, and believed you
every inch a man; .When at those stupid
evening' ' pjwtien, where boys and girls
who should have been eating suppers of
bread and milk, and gone to sleep hours
before, - waltsed. and flirted and mado
themselves : aick over oysters and cham pagne,
you were favored with a glance
of her eve, or a whisper : of feer lip, you
ascended toi the Bevunfh ..heaven immediately."-
- When once upon a memorable
eve, ne polked : with young Smith, and
never even Jooked at you. how miserable
Lyou were,, It if- funny' to think ofnow ;
wuu naoigj uinv ior- yoU'Were
awruuy in earnoet. , unoa, at panic,
she4 rwore' a "whitvdress, and had roses
twined in her hair, and 'she' looked so
wteh like a bride you ' fairly trembled.
Sometimes ypu thought, in just ttuch
snowy oosiume, wiin jusi aucc Diossoms
ia her' hair, .she might : stand before the
altar, and ' von. . most blnsaad' of . all
.mortals, might place a gold . ring upon
ue' linger : .ana wnen you were leit
alone with he for a moment, some of
your'thonght& would form themselves
into' words, and though she blushed arid
ran awayr and would not let you kiss
her,' sh0 did not seem to be angry. , And
then, .when you were somewhat vartea a
little while, 'and when you tnet Again she
was walking witlf a gentleman, a large.
hfull jrrown. " whiskered man. of twentv-
gnt or thirty, and sad neithejt word nor
amits Ioryau;i and ; someym-eLT meaning
gossip inf ortoed you soon-afterward that
she -was "engaged "to the tall gentleman
with black .whiskers and" that "it was a
splendid, match it' was terrible news to
you, "thin, ami ent ,you off to some
busy town1 faTfrom -your native place,
where, ' af teVi. a -dod , deal., of youthful
grief, and. many reBohitions to die and
haunt ;her;i jpuireopyeredxyour qoa
Aimity, and began to call love stuff and
nonsense, I You have a rich wife of your
own. now1, fand ' irrawn-unf children av.
f even two or three, toddling grahdohildren
about your hearth yotir -hair is gray,
-and you lock your heart urxin the .ffre-
xtfooxafa-at your counting house when
you go home at night. And you thought
you had forgotten that -little episode of
your nineteenth year, until the other day
you. read her.tdeath.in the. papers.. You
know nfihe was a. stout lady who wore
glasses, and has' died older man she was
in that olden time ; but" your; heart went
back, and you' saw her smiling and
Uushingwith her golden hair about her
face, and yourself a boy Again, dreaming
bf weddhigabes and sings, andyou laid
your, grrfyv plA heatl hpon . your, office
daajt.and wept for the memory or your
nwt love, ,
- - ;! A' fke'ret IHistory." r
The-New York 'limes says : It is now
daid'.'bv oersonS who- rjrofeaa to be well
informed, that Tweed has not made his
flight to a foreign coan try, but is still
within easy, reach of Aev York, and
bf the cmfma acainst hint, and to divulge
curry out the purpose ascribed to mm.
Weknow something of the' men
who acted as the cQnlederates of Tweed;
but it is, Tweed alpno who can give the
necessary prooT of their.1 complicity in
the ring frauds. ' - Most men wotild.have
made a cfeftn Jweast of it long ago, but
kTweed haa held this tonguei The con-
sulratiou-which: he has shown for his
Booniplwea or friends, they have -taken
care not to return. There was a story
in theSim" lately about a "journalist"
whom .Tweed is said to have described
as a man yrhb had once levied Wackrhail
upon him,' and' 'who now. pursues him
ewith' great Low of wtatiu . Is this a
tjouary easf.r!-.ve rather suspect not.
Hovp many fm-wyers are there about whom
Tweed could reveal fatal secrets ? How
many large 'fax' payers gave him tha
behefit of their 'countenance and support
in return for 'having their assessments
(reduced ? Hundreds of persons in New
York city had a great load of fear taken
from, their minds when ' they heard that
Tweed had escaped. Their , one wish
now is that , he may never be heard of
again. . ,. . : ' T '.:..' .
Foolrag 4he Young Hen. . .
-Term was over, the "defiance " coach
was full of 'undergraduates returning to
their respective colleges, the day was
cold, wet and miserable, when a well ap-
Txinteddray drove up. "to the White
Horse Cellar, PiccadiflV. - "Haveyott
room for one inside to Oxfbrdl" asked as
pretty a girl as' you would wish-to see
on a summer's dBy. " What a beauty .!
exclaimed one. "Quite lovely!" said
another.' - " Perfect !" lisped a third
'f Quite- full, : miss," replied the coach
man,' " inside and ont." " Surely you
could make room for one,", persevered
the fair applicant. "Qmte impossible,
miss, without the gentlemen's consent."
"Lots of -room," cried the -insidea.
'f We are not very large; we can manage
to take one more." ., " U the young gen
tlemen consent," said the driver, who
was one of the best tempered fellows on
earth, and as honest as Aristides, " I
have no objection." " We agree," said
the inside quartet " All right," re
sponded the driver. The fare was paid,
and the guard proceeded to open we
door and let down the steps. " Now,
missV if you please, we are behind our
timl." ,. "Come along, . grandfather,
cried the damsel, addressing a most re-
speSbtabledooking. portly elderly gentle
man, " the money is paidVget in, and be
sure yon thank, the young gentlemen,
at the same time suiting the action to
the word, and: with a wicked smile as
sisted her respected grandfather into
the coach. " Here's some .mistake
you'll squeeze us to death," cried the
astonished party. Bat at this moment
" All right " "Sit fast." was heard, and
away rattled the i,'.' Defiance " at its best
, - , ' r 1 1
pace, drowning me voices -oi uue crest
fallen Oxonians. . .
; ' He Would Help. :
Mark Twain being called upon to con
4-
tribute te an album for the Massachu-
I setts infant asylum fair, furnished the
- k !-vtw-w r .
r best Buccefis amla kngrareer of useful-
naod frk tha infant nqvlmirv fair. Knc
. r . ,
WOI
i the earnest . spirit. .Therefore, 1
am
WlTJ
ynMR&w mudo. inousanu cu,ijiib
J who hall agree to contribute two or
Jte childreu tothis erpnse.
I do not make this offer in order that I
mayppeatgaudy or lavish in the eyes
of the world, but only to help a worthy
eausd to 'the best ot . my ability. Tery
temryyonTjq r.. 1 r I ' Mabk Twaix. .
.j i ,.'.! - :J ,P
) According to a careful calculation, the
Seventy years, if we go on using wood
as recklessly- as we now do without tak-
- liBg
raeaures,-to.. renew -the natural
houroea-wf "supply.
TIIE. Ml'RDER OF SABA ALEX
AS DER.
Way a Ulri' was Wrstwa
Hm.4 Hterr.
The murder pf Abel must have, been
intensely interesting at the time because
oi its absolnte novelty : but since then.
and especially of late in New York, the
crime has become so common that no
less it is surrounded by peculiar circum
stances it attracts little attention. Now
we have a murder, says the New York
Herald, not so mysterious as others ro-
oorded, yet strange enough to be one of
those dramas of crime, which the pubho
neve tires of studying.
The circumstantial evidence thus far
points to Pesach Nathan Rubenstein as
the murderer of Sara Alexander, the
young girl who was found with her
throat cut in a cornfield on the outskirts
of Eac New Ydrk.. lltay iasto- immi-
tably make him the object of suspicion.
He was intimate with his cousin. She
nursed him in an illness in April last.
At ' the time of her death she was preg
nant About this "time his " wife and
child are expected to . arrive from
Europe. . He Ras been identified as the
man who rode in the same car with her
on Sunday evening, and the two were
seen walking together when they left
the car toward the place where the body
of the girl was found. One night
Rabensteih rose from his bed and told
his father of a dream he had, in which
Sara came to him and cried : " Papa !
Papa! See me! See me f-' I , have
been 'killed. I have been taken ton
miles; from New York and killed. Come
to me ! " Footprints were found in the
field which correspond to the size and
the shape of his boots, even to a broken
laoe in one of the soles, and some of
he dirt which remains on the boots re
sembles the soil of the field. Upon
these facts a plausible theory pf his
guilt may be constructed. The motive
and the method of the crime may be in
ferred from them. ' And yet Bubenstein
may be innocent He may have seduced
Sara Alexander and have aooompanied
her to the cornfield and still have had
no share in her death. On stronger cir
cumstantial evidence than that we have
collated many an innocent man has been
convicted, condemned and hung.
If Rubenstein did kill the, girl he will
probably confess. He apparently loved
her, and his seems to be the kind of
mind which, from the consciousness of
s .ch guilt, would suffer agonies of ter
ror and remorse. Assuming that he is
guilty, we ; have another example of the
gigantic folly, as well as crime, which
almost always is involved in murder.
He was afraid that his sin would be
known. to his family and his sect;. ho.
was probably disturbed by the re
proaches ' of the young woman and
alarmed at the expected return of his
wife. Life seemed easy and the future
plain if he c uld only get rid of this ex
posure and disgrace, and to, do that he i
must rid himself of the girl. . Her death
would be attributed to others, to one of
those vile gangs of outlaws whioh infest
the suburbs of the city. No one would
suspect him. If Rubenstein is guilty,
it was thus, nd doubt, that he reasoned,
But' whAt etupeuduuH tolly I To escape
from a little shame he rushes into a
horrible crime. Ho kills the girl, and
she is silent to others, but forever elo
quent to him. Iu tho stillness of the
night she calls to him from the field
where she lies, on her bloody bed. Not
only is remorse forbVer on his track, but ',
the Jaw. joins in the hunt. Like most
criminals he is unable to conceal tho
traces of his deed. The dead body'al
waya remains, and starting from that
mute, witness the bloodhounds of the
law unerringly pursue tho fugutive
murderer through all the labyrinths in
which ho vainly hopes to hide. There
is a lesson in this to all who ignorautly
fancy that security from the conse
quences of oko crime can be established
ou the loundatious of another. -
The Fijian Plar je,
Fiuther advices from Fiji couvey still
darker accounts of the plague. - A resi
dent of long standing says : "The
deatii rate ii not yet rnnde m buthe
probability is that 40,000 Fijions died
duriug the-four months' plague.' The
canve popuiaiun or r iji is now huoui
one-third only of what it was when I
landed there twenty-five years ago."
The account given of the magnitude Of
the disaster are less' harrowing than those
of the suffering victims. " Very few
died of measles, the majority dying of
subsequent disease in the form of dysen
tery, congestion of the lungs, etc. Want
of nourishment, or starvation, carried off
thousands." ,
We are told that "all work was sus
pended for two months. You could pass
through whole towns without meeting
any ono in the streets, which were soon
completely covered with grass. Enter
ing a house you would find men, women
and children, all lying down indiscrim
inately, some just attacked, some still in
agony, and some dying.. Some who
were strong enough attempted suicide,
and not always unsucoessiuiiy. w e are
further told that " as the scodrge be
came more permanent some four or five
were buried in one grave, and generally
without religious service. . In some
cases the dead were buried in the earthen
floor of the house. The burials were
hurried, and the probability is that some
were buried alive. In many instances
the husband, wife, and children all died.
In one village all' the women died, and
in another all the men." 4 .
It is not surprising that "some made
fruitless appeals" to their ancient - god.
Some inland tribes, who had only recent
ly embraced Christianity, imagined that
the disease was conveyed- by their; re
ligious teachers, and they dismissed
them and then abandoned their new
religion. ".Among' these some were, for
killing the teachers, but wiser counsels
prevailed. It is said that one bribe
buried alive one teacher's wif r and child
whose husband and father died of the
plague, to stop infection. . j
WEeie They Are
Thft rlisADriearanoe of Wm. M. Tweed
directs attention to his companions who
disappeared when the New York ring
suits! were first commenced.-1 A writer
6ays: Peter B. Sweeny's life has been
of the quiet sort. When in Paris he
spends most of his time at home, and
rarely almost never-i visits that part of
the city frequented by Americans, "the
region around the Grand Hotel. Very
few persons call upon him, and his ac
quaintances are in very small number,
as he seeks no new ones, and the old are
limited to, the stray New Yorkers who
fen aw him in his da vs of power and are
willing to know him now; No -doubt
Sweeny is willing to .entertain anybody
who will endaro his society and pass
over the scandal attached to his name.
Evidently he does not wish to" absent
himself altogether from the world, if one
mil milro a visiting card that was
visible quite recently in ithe window of
an engraver in the Calais lvoyai, ii nore
t.h name Piter B. Sweeny in neatly-en
graved letters. Whether the plan of
roolh'n a the first svlkble with an " i
uvu.Q af -
was the. design of the ex-magnate or .'he
blunder of the engraver I am nnable to
toa i T enn hardlv think it was an en-
graver s blunder, as i saw . tne ara aia
played there among other specimens of
work for more than a month. . , It is not
more than a J week or ten days since it
disappeared from the now-oaee.
Itenu of Iotemt.
: Twenty-one Illinois railroavls are in
the hands of receivers. . '
The late' elections Wafted ' ten MtHsis
sippi editors into ofSoet
An exchange talks of the " gangs ' of
lords " who will be here next year. -
Wives of Congressmen are having
their cards printed." Hon.' So'Sand-So.
The proprietor of hotel at Dunkirk
fell dead the other mornu;g jnpt uftr
charging a traveler three doilam for two
meals and lodging.- ' ' '
TW existence of the United Order of
American Mechanics in no uroxet.' Its'
meetings are regularly adverii--4 in
Eastern noWTOapers. ' '
The St Joseph (Mo.) Herald having
read the adjutaait-genral's ' r jrt,
wishes that the regular i army c m Id
fight as well as it can desert. .
The "difference 'between Trench gr,ut
and English gout is described by a phil
osopher with a bay window on his to to
be that between taste add feeling. "
Under the headfng' "Two Centen
arians Gone," the Queheo' MrmtrJ re ¬
cords . the death of two. j veterans, aged
respectively ninety-flvo and nipe.ty-8ix.
- A Rutlander got a tramp to fire off a
shotgun which, had been loadod iuuvt. t
years, and as a reward for his job ho hu
to pay five dollars for burying tfis
tramn. ' .' ' -y--
Ii. there isanythinxrin the World which'
- -
will make a woman mad, it is to have a
man hang over the, fence and survey the
week's' .washing on" the line, and griu
and grin-' -v.- u.
The kvrret poli4Uod plate ever eiliib-
ited was the. work of, a plate gJitss -oni- "
pany in : England, raeasnring "nim U' u '
feet five, inches long, and ten feet three
inches wide. . . - ,; ' ' -
Oylr 197,000 trees were planted in
Minnesota during the tree-planting sen--
son,; by eohtestsats for certain premiums.
which had peed offered to those planting
the largest nujnber, ;
There are from seventy-five to a hnn-
dred thousand Chinamen id Cidiforuiii.
John fiounsbes anywhere, but seems to
have a slight fancy for the. immediate -
vicinity of gold mines. ; ! i -
The ''Centennial washboard'' lias made .
its appearance in the rural .towus, '" ur.d
the woman are weeping and ringing :
their" hands" to get hoXl of it Lk t
soap theyll be sueeessf ul. , . ' '
In the recent elections , in Nebraska,"
Mrs. Mary S. De Clarq was, the" succsh
ful candidate for superintendent of pub-!
ho schools in Franklin eounty, and Miss '
Alioe A Burdock id Harlem eounty .
The' bay crop of New Hampshire is
estimated at $10,000,000, the corn- cropi
3,000,000 bnshels;. oats 1,500,(K)(); gar-r.
den crops, $1,000,000; butter, fi,nH,000
pounds; milk fold,' 3,000,000 gallons.--
The maddest man in . Wisconsin is
John Leigh,' of fOoonto. He -was a '
candidate for member of Assembly,; and J
being a conscientious man voted for his i
opponent, whb was' elected by jiint one
majority, s - " , -.,
" From what you know of liim, would r
Jou believe him under oath 1" 'That .
eponds on circnmsuinces. Ifhewna Ho '
much intoxioate'd .that he didn't know . ;
what he was saving, T would ; af not," I !
wouldn't." i " . ' , 1
ITie Mareohal de Falief at a siege was
pointing out a place with his finger. . An
he spoko a! musket ball carried off th -.finger.
Instantly tttretchiug another ho
continued Iris discourse, " Gentlemen,,
as I was Haying" J .-'
, A footman .h'arued from JiLr imiflb r
tltat malapropos meant V out. of plaoi.",-'.
Meeting a brother foottnaii who tail
been discharged, he .esclaijned: . Ah !
my dear fellow, I am. sorry for you) yon
are malapropos J " " ' .''.' r -.
" It is a settled pfiucjple, fyour -honor,"
said am eminent lawyer, thnt
causes always produoe oumcU. " 'WEhry ;
always do for the lawyers,'' respoibd,
the judge, " but: Pro sometimes kftjjfvn'
a cause to diiye a .client of nlRhis'
effects. "i. . V t- .. -t
" A nig 4 point for; oaAOists has j iiftj-een'
raised in - MontrenT. , Two mn . were
quarreling on St- Fraaicis fXavIer street
and A knocked B down,, wherenjion a,
horse, alarmed at the struggle, kicked T ..
on the head and' killed hirn. What is A.N
guilty of ? , . ,
A cockney tourist met a HcotTid'
sio going bareioot toward . tiiasow:
' Lassie. 5 said, he, "I should like-to
know if. alt the people in these parts "go
barefoot ?" '. " Part on 'era do, Sml part .
on rem mgrMneir own oumness, . wan ,
the rathersng reply.
Lady to servant: J'Mary, I do not
approve of your entertaining your sweet
heart in the kitchen.". Mary : "Well, :
ma'am, it's very kind o? you to mention .
it ; but he's from the country, youHe,
ma'am, and I m afraid ne's too shy end
orkard in his manners, ma'am, for yon
to like him to come upstairs 1 "
Last spring, the St . Paul Pre offer
ed a year's eabscription as a premium to
the man In" eaefc -county who should
plant the largest , number of trees and
cuttings, not less than 1,000 in numlw
during the season. 'Twenty-two ooun-'
ties out of sixty odd in the State compet
ed for the premium making a total? of
297,663 trees planted in one year, Mar
tin county alone planting 42,000.
One of the results of the .Education
act in London, which is based On, the
American system, is that the attendenco
of scholars has increased from 180,000 to
200,000 ; and this has not been done by -harshness,
for the number of par- ;
ents fined does not exceed 5,000, and up ;
fine has exceeded five shillings. "The
firmness of the London school board '
baa resulted in saying 100,000 childre n
from growing up injgnoraaoe. t
Mme Antoinette Sterling, haying been
invited by Canon Kiogsley to Eversley ;
Vicarage, sang to him his ballad; " The
Three Fishers.". She says: " He had.
never seen rfle before, and when I came
to that part oJtj the song which cxpressen
the suspense of ,the weeping women on ;
the shore, I heard ,hiffl say: 4 Go on ;
that's right' 3t .when the suspense
was over and. the bodies' were lying on
the sands, missing bis precious exclama
tions, I looked np and saw him sitting
with his face in his hands, crying at his
own pathetic story." ; . ."
It seems that : the' tronblt 'which
threaten' destruction. to Liberia origi- -nated
in a little job iu ' which the kite ; :
President of that repubhd was interest-.,
ed. He was mXnoed to 'make an agree
ment giving an English company a raMo
poly of the Liberian trade. The Legis
lature refused to ratify the arrangement,
and thereupon the agents of the com
pany' claimed a rightof traffic and transit
through the territories 'of Iiiberia hide- (
pendent of tha government.' ' Rtjsistaneo
to the claim led to the disastrous warr
fare of which so much has been said.
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A striking instance , of the laxity of
Connecticut divorce laws is' illustrated
by the matrimonial record. bf a woman
in Hartford who haabeen married four
times, all of her husbands beiiig yet ,
alive.' - She changed b- mniden name
for that tti her Jrst hflhaad got a di
vorce and married her second; left him
oh'aboonnt of his attention to a pretty
sewing maontne girl, and; as soon as di
vorced, remarried Np. 1; lived withjnm
a short time, got another divorce, and
has now married, for a fonrth time' a
man who had been divorced from jtwo
wives. ' - ; ' - .' ' . 1
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