BY W. A. LEE AND HUGHWILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 29. 1876. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 51.

aMASONIC JJIRECTOHY..Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M.W. H. PARKER. W.\ M.\'J. C. WOSaiANSKY, Secretary.Meets 2d Monday in every month.

Hesperian ChapterNo.l7,R.A.M.J. F. C. DuPRE. M.\ E.\ H.\ P.*.J. D. CHALMERS, Recorder.Meets 3d Friday night in every month.

BeSaiwe toil No. 16, R. & S. M,J. T. ROBERTSON, T.\ 111.*. M.\JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder.Meets 1st Tuesday night in every month.

DE. JOHN S. THOMPSON,

DENTIST,Offers his professional services to the citizensof Abbeville and the Borroonding country.Office.Over Citizens' Savings Bank,

ABBEVILLE, S. C.

CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON(Have on hand a large stock of

Gulls' UM hi SMAJ VERY LOW PRICES.

A large assortr ent of

.Ladies' and G-ents'

Merino Vests & Smrts, iBOULEVARD SKIRTS, J

Silk Scarfs and Ties. A* »<

GIVE THEil A CALL. . A

The Star Shirfc! " IK x B

Having tried these Bhirta, we can tafely re-commend them for a good fitting and durable pShirt. -

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Collars, Linen and Paper, Jlatest styles, 0

With Cravats and Scarfs to Match.QUARLES & PERRIN.

Cottage Bedsteads!*

Two hundred Bedsteads joat received, war-ranted all hard wood, at prices from $5 00 to$10.00. *v

J. D. CHALMERS.

Boots and Shoes!r -

* *cOar etook of BOOTS and SHOE3 is now

complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH.Call early and get a bargain.

DuPRE, GAMBBELL & CO.

C. E. BRUCE,

Boot and Shoe Maker,^ i * ^

Over Parker & Perrin's Store,ABBEVILLE, 8.

(' : V I X XDeeiree to say that he is folly prepared to meetnil demands the public m&y make in his lino.He keeps constantly on hand a large lot or ibebeat material and employs only the lineal work-men. He keeps a full stock of cuatommadeBoots and Shoes, and guarantees the mostentire satisfaction in every instance.

M. GOLDSMITH. .P. KIND.

GOLDSMITH & KIND,Tn/\TT%iT\nTi« i itt> nr i nTTTiTTrimn

FUUfUMS AJNU IAU11JUSIS. 7 ! : ,

(PHOENIX IRON WORK>),COLUMBIA, S. C.

Manufacturers of Steam Enjrinea of all sizes;Horse powers, Circular and Mu'e.v Saw Mills,Grist and 8ugar Cane Mil's, Flour Mills, Orna-mental House and Store F.onte, Irou Railings,Agricultural Implements, etc. Brass and IronCastings of all kinds made to order on abortnotioe, and on the moet reasonable terma.Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses.

ft -R TJORRELI,

AT HIS OLD 8TANE*'> :

Over Parker & Perrtn'a Drag Store, i

Hu a supply o> Northern Harness Leatherand other material for Making aud RepairingSaddles and Harness. '. V

CARPENTRY."

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The underaigned hereby gma notice that heis prepared to do all kinda of

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He also repairs Cotton Gins, Tbrasbers andFans. 1 full supply of Gm Material alwayson baod. Farmers are requested to bringmeir 1+106 up eariy m me bohuu m uiun uiuc

to h»ve them properly prepared.Also Agent for tho Taylor Cotton Gin, the

Brooks Cotton Press, and all kinds of Rubberand Leather Belting.

D. B. SMITH,,, Abbeville C. II., 8. C.

STEAM

PLANING MILL,Columbia, S. C.

F.W.WING, Proprietor.MANUFACTURER OF

Sash, Blinds, Doors,WINDOW MD '

DOOR FRAMES,. v"* °

MfleMBliiflsHiiiitte,!PILASTERS, jMantelpieces,

fflULJH HMUM.1S,Handrails,

Newels,Balusters.

SGEOLL WOM of all Description.All Work Guaranteed A No. 1.

Which Shall it Be ?[A rich man who had no children proposedhis poor neighbor, who had eeven, to take

me of them, and promised, if the parentsrould oonsent, that he would give them prop-rty enough to make themselves and theirther six children oomfortable for life].Hiich s all it be? Which shall it be ;

looked at John, John looked at me,.nd when I fouDd that I most speak[y voice seemed strangely low and weak :

Tell me again what Robert B&id.nd then I, listening, bent my head.

This is his letter:" I will give

l house and land while yon shall live,t, in return, from out your seven,ne child to me for aye ia given."looked at John's old garments worn;thought of all that he had bornef poverty, and work, and care,iTiich I, though willing, could not share;thought of seven young mouths to feed,f seven little children's need,

And then of this." Come, John," said I,

We ll chocse among them as they liesleep." So, walking hand in hand,ear John and I surveyed our band ;iret to the cradle lightly steppedihere Lilian, the baby, slept.oftly the father stooped to lay[is rongh hand down in a loving way,rhen dream or whisper made her stir,nd huskily he said : " Not her!"

re stooped beside the trundle bed,nd one long raj of lamplight shod.thwart the boyish faces there,a Bleep so beautiful and fair.saw on Jamee' rough, red cheektear nndried. Ere John could speak,Ho'b but a baby, too," said I,.nd kissed him as we hurried by.ale, patient Bobbie's angel facetill in his sleep bore suffering's trace.No, for a thousand crowns not him!"[e whispered, while our eyes were dim.

oor Dick! bad Dick ! our wayward son-

tobulent, restless, idle one.lould he be-spired ? Nay; He who gavelade us befriend him to the grave;inly a mother's heart ooold beatient enough for Bach as he;And bo," eaid John, " I would sot dare'o take him from her bedside prayer."hen stole we softly up above,id knelt by Mary, child of love.Perhaps for her 'twould better bo,"said to John. Quite silently[e lifted np a curl that layeross her cheek in a willful way,nd shook his head : " Nay, love, not thee!"he wliile my Heart beat auaiDiy.

illy one more, oar eldest lad,rusty and truthful, good and glad,a like his father. " No, John, no !cannot, will not, let him go."nd so we wrote in a courteons way,'e could not give one child away ;nd afterward toil lighter seemed,tanking of that of which we dreamed,appy iu truth that net one face'as missed from its accustomed place ;hankful to work for all the seven,rusting the rest to One iu heaven.

Circumstantial Evidence-ai Interesting Account ot the Im-

portance Attached to It in Mur-der Trials.

The murder of Madame Pauw in"ranee, about ten years ago, shows howconspicuous and powerful motive, inhe absence of other conclusive evidence,jmeuxuea puts jusuue Buuuuvuuiiv upuju

auw was a widow with three childreD,'ho had an intimate friend in the Coante la Pommerais. This titled personage'as in need of money, and he had aead for scheming. He planned a frandpon eight insurance companies, andersuaded the poor widow to becomeis instrument in it. Her life was to belsured ; she was then to feign danger-os illness; and, while lying apparentlyl a serious strait, the insurance oom-anies were to be persuaded to ohangele life-policies into annuities. TheDunt advanced the premiums; theolicies were made out, transferable byidorsement. Madame Pauw was thenldnoed to indorse them to him, andLfe to make a will oat in his favor. Theext thing was for the widow to pretend> fall ill, which she did; but, insteadf the policies being transformed into

ae track of the criminal

anilities, the poor lady died 1 It was arave blunder of the count to tell theoctor, when he came in, that Msdame'auw had fallen down stairs; for notnly was this denied by abundant testi-iony, but the post-mortem examina-ion betrayed the preaenoe of poison ashe cause of her death. At onoe there-fter the Count de la Pommerais cameto the possession of the half million

rancs which a crued under the policiesnd the will. Here occurred a singularociUent in the trial. It is clear that, ifhe count had intended the fraud in earn-st when he proposed it to MadameJauw, and really designed to obtain forier an annuity by its means, thus secur-

Dg to himself a life income, he couldlave had no serious motive for killingier. And this was actually his defensegainst the charge of murder. He de-lared, and tried to prov^, that he reallyleant to carry out the fraud, and thatladame Pauw's death was a catastrophend an accident. Thus in trying to clearimself of the grave crime, he coollyonfessed the lesser. lint the proofoutradictory of his case was too clear ;e was convicted and duly executed.It has been said that a very importantaJofnnfiol a*ri_

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ence is that of opportunity. To showrant of opportunity, that is, an alibi,3 an absolute answer to the strongestJdictments, and produces a fatal flawa the chain. Opportunity to commitbe crime must be either proved out-ight or inferred by the most conclusiveresumption. There never was a more

triking case illustrative of this thanbat of the young S ottish girl Made-sine Smith, whose trial at Glasgow mayofiily be remembered by many readers.t may be said that the trial was one ofhe most interesting in British judicialnnals. Madeleine Smith had engagedterself to a young Frenchman named |j'Angelier. It was clearly proved thathe had tired of him, and was anxiouso Gisemangie ucnscn li^m mo wuucu- jion. Bat L'Angelier clang to her, andefused to be rebuffed. There is no

loubt that on several occasions, just>revious to his visits, she had purchased>oison; or that, always after these visits, Ile was seized with severe illness. Onhe seventeenth of March Madeleine re-urned to her house in Glasgow, after a

vimf, to some friends. The nextlay she purchased some arsenic, "torill rats with," as she raid. ThearsenicMJnght, the next thing she did was tovrite to L'Angeiier, inviting him to tea>n the evening of the nineteenth. Helappened to bo out of town, and did not,herefore, ge* the note until it was tooate to accept the invitation. She wrotegain on the twenty-first, urging him toome the next evening, and saying:* I waited and waited for you, but youame not. I shall wait again to-morrowlight, same time and arrangement"[*lu8 note L'Angeiier received. So farhe proof was clear. It was also in evi-ler,ce that h6 started from his lodgings

in exoellent health on the Sunday even*,ing, and that he sauntered in the direc-tion of Madeleine's house; this was atnine o'clock. Twenty minutes later, hecalled on a friend who lived but a shortdistance from her residence. Here theevidence utterly failed, and left a blankfor four hours and a half.At two in the morning, L'Angelier

was found at his own door writhing andspeechless; and in a few hours he wasdead. The autopsy betrayed a largequantity of arsenic in his body. But,between twenty minutes past nine andtwo, no human being could depose tohaving laid eyes on him. Madeleineherself denied that she saw him at allthat night; nor was the slightest proofforthoominc that she did. She was traton trial for the murder of L'Angelier;and, although her desire to get rid ofhim.that is, a motive; her purchase ofarsenic.that is, possession of an instru-ment similar to that which was foundto have been fatal; and her notes ofinvitation.that is, a fact from which a

strong probability of a meeting betweenthem that night was established.werefully proved, the absenoe of all proof ofactual opportunity to commit thedeed availed to save the prisoner's life.She said, in effect: "I was at myhouse, and can prove it; he was «otthere, for I defy you to prove it; there-fore I have an alibi." The Scottishverdict of "not proven" set her free,butdid not clear her of the stain ofdeep suspicion.The storv of the Danish pastor, Soren

Qvist, is one of the most touchinglytragic in judicial records; and onoemoreexemplifies Paul Feval's complaint thatjustice is sometimes too quick to seizeupon appearances, and neglect the sup-position of fabricated evidence. Sorenwas a clergyman of middle age, settledover a small, primitive parish in Jut-land. Pure and irreproachable in char-acter, genial, generous, and devout, hewas cursed with a fiery and ungovern-able temper; yet he was universally re-vered; and varied his pastoral cares, as

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tries, by cultivating a modest farm. Hehad a daughter, gentle and comely. Afarmer in a neighboring village, oneMorten Brans, well off but of bad repu-tation, sought this daughterin marriage,but was rejected both by her and by thepastor.Soon after a brother of his, Niels

Brans, entered the pastor's service as afarm hand. Niels was lazy, impudent,and quarrelsome, and frequent alterca-tions occurred between him and his mas-ter. One day Soren found the man

idling in the garden. A quarrel ensued,when the pastor, his hot temper gettingthe better of him, struck Niels severaltimes with a spade, saying: " I willbeat thee, dog, until thou liest dead atmy feet I" The man then jumped upand ran off into the woods, and was notseen again. The rejected suitor Morten,after his brother had thus mysteriouslydisappeared, boldly charged the pastorwith the crime, and offered to produceconvincing proofs of the fact. Sorenwas therefore arraigned, when the fol-lowing evidence was arrayed againsthim. A man testified that, on the night

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his green dressing gown and white night-cap, digging hard in the garden. It wasalso proved that, search having beenmade in the garden, a body had been un-

earthed, undoubtedly that of Niels, withhis clothes and earrings upon it. Aservant girl testified not only to havingheard Soren repeatedly threaten to killNiels, but to having seen the parson goont into the garden on the fatal eight,in his greefa dressing gown and night-cap. Still stronger evidence was pro-duced to the effect that the parson hadbeen seen, in his green dressing gownand nightcap, carrying a heavy sackfrom the wood near by into the garden.The chain of evidence was apparentlynnmn1oti> arrainiif ftnrori -ftnrl f.hA nrw~tr

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parson now sealed his own fate by de-claring that he believed he had lolledNiels, though nnoonsciously. He statedthat he was wont to walk m his sleep.He had found texts, written sermons andvisited his church in a state of somnam-bulism. He must, therefore, have foundthe man dead in the wood while thus un-conscious, and hare buried him while inthis condition. To be brief, boren wasfound guilty and executed.Twenty years after, Niels Bruns

turned up again, alive and well, grownnow old and Rray. He recoun ed howhis brother Morten (now dead) had con-cocted a plot to fasten the crime of mur-der on the pastor, in revenge for the re-

jection of his suit. A body had beendisinterred and dressed in Niels' clothes;the dressing gown and nightcaphad beenabstracted, used as we have seen, and re-

placed; Morten, dressed in them, hadbrought the corpse in the sack, andburied it in the garden; and then, hisplot carried out, ne had given Niels a

purse and bid him begone, and not to re-

turn, or his life should answer for it.Niels had kept out of the way till Mor-ten's death, and had now returnedwith this terrible tale.

Testing Dispatches in Cipher.The cipher used by the whisky rin£ in

St. Louis, pays the'New York Herald,is very simplo when it is once compre-hended. The actual words of the dis-patoh are written so as to follow theorder prescribed in a set of numberedsquares, and when the words are thus ar-

ranged they are read off according to thenumbers in the squares. Each square con-tains one word, and the set contains twen-ty-four words, in six columns, four deep.The reading begins at the bottom, fourthsquare from the left, ana proceeds, one

square to the left, one back and upward,again to tlie left, and so on, until thetop of the column is reached, when thenext word is two to the right and backtoward the left to the first new word,and then down again. We have arrang-ed a set of squares as described in our

dispatches, and also applied it to thedispatch signed " O. E. Bahcock."Every reader can pick it out for himself.General Babcock's dispatch seems to bearranged in two separate squares, andthe deciphering accordingly begins inthe proper square of the upper set. Thefollowing is a set of squares:

11 1 1 9

a 12 C 5 11 11

X « < 2 13 11

18 16 , 1 15 17

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what answerhour hinthim fnlly

proteot anavery houseIf tocan and

prevent' report.

Knew he was Honest,During rainy weather a gentleman

stepped into a tobacconist's in London,and asked him for the loan of an um-

brella. He was promptly accommo-dated. " You're an obliging man," ob-served a oustcmer, after the strangerhad stepped out. " Yes, but that's a

mighty honest fellow," said the tobac-conist. ''An honoster or more generousman you won't find in a day's travel.He has got a number of umbrellas ofme, but he always brings back a betterone in return. He changes 'em some-how, but how I don't know, and I don'tcare. I see he's honest, and that's all 1care about it,"

THE CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS*The Statu* of Operation*! on the Gt«antf

Self-Rerfiterinc Tornatllea.The Centen-nial Guard.

The exposition grounds oontain fourhundred and twenty acres and are near-

ly triangular in shape, beingbounded onthe north byBelmont drive, on the eastby Lanedowne drive, and on the Bcuth-west by Elm avenue. The total numberof Centennial buildings now completed,with those in course of construction andothers not yet begun, is about one hun-dred, and the total area covered by theexhibition buildings proper.that is, notincluding restaurants or other buildingsnot intended to contain exhibits.will beabout seventy-fiye acres, whiih is nearlydouble the space covered by the build-ings at the Vienna exposition. The lat-ter covered 88.8 acres, excluding inolosedcourts ; those of Paris, in 1867, coveredthirty-one acres ; London, 1862, 25.6acres ; Paris, 1855, 22.1 acres, and Lon-don, 1851, 23.9 acres. The board fencebounding the grounds is 16,000 feet inlength, and contains thirteea entrances,representing the thirteen original States.These entrances or gates will be orna-mented and fitted up for the sale oftickets, and will have self-registeringturnstiles, by which the exact number ofvisitors to the exposition can be easilyascertained. In a bird'seye view thebuildings are Been to compose three dis-tinct groups, one in each corner of thetriangle. In the first are the followingbuildings, sc nearly completed that thedetails of the interior ornamentation yetto be finished are not worth mentioning:Main exposition building, art gallery or

memorial hall, judges' pavilion, Cen-tennial photographic association pavil-ion, office of the Centennial commissionand the restaurant Ludreau. Those wellforward in construction or upon whichwork is just beginning are the Centennialnational bank, Vienna bakery, photo-graphic gallery, wagon and carriagemanufactory, Japanese bazaar, extensionto the art gallery, dairymen's associationbuildings, Brazilian imperial pavilion,German government building, and thatof Clark & Co. The grounds will bedotted everywhere with soda water pavil-ions. The second group contains thefollowing buildings, all completed:Machinery hall, United States govern-ment building, Uliited States laboratory,United States hospital, office of the Cen-tennial board of finance and the threebuildings of the British government.ThrwA b»p11 forward in construction are.the Pennsylvania railroad companies,Centennial depot, shoe and leather build-ing, three machine shops (annexes ofmachinery hall); the 0. T. A. fountain,tourist's ticket office, NewYork pavilion,the nailless, spikeless, bamboo dwellingfor the representatives of his majesty theemperor of Japan, and the pavilions ofConnecticut and Massachusetts. Thoseupon which work either has begun, or

will shortly begin, are : Fuller, Warren&Co.'s buildibg, Liberty stove works,Gillender & Son's glassware manufac-tory, West Point oadets encampment,Loisseau's pressed fuel building, TroisFreres Proence&ux restaurant, news-

paper buildings, United States signalservice pavilion, opamsu goveiLiucmbuilding and the State pavilions of Penn-sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-gan, Wiscousin, New Hampshire andDelaware. The buildings in the thirdand last group, which may be said to befinished, are horticultural hall, women'spavilion, women's schoolhouse, South-ern restaurant, Lauber's restaurant andtho American restanranfc. Agriculturalhall, the largest in the group, wonld beready for exhibits now had it not metwith a misfortune shortly after the be-ginning of its erection, in having theframework of one of its wings blowndown by the wind. It will however, beentirely completed before the middle ofMarch. The buildings in this group,the erection of which will soon begin,ora fVio navilinnn of Tfnnftflfl and NewJersey, the American brewer's buildingand the New England loghouse, in whichthe methods of conducting the old-timeand the modern kitchens will be placedin contrast. A strong force of specialpolice are stationed on the grounds, butthe organization of the regular Centen-nial guard will probably not be effectedbefore the end of April..PhiladelphiaTimet. I

In the Sick Room.A waut of sympathy on the part of a

nurse is like a perpetual cold bath to a

Eatient. This is not a very common ]lunder. But the opposite is so com-

mon, that it may sometimes become a1

question in the patient's mind whether 1

he would not prefer absolute coldness. !To be continually dodging around thebed, and pouncing upon every object !that is.not at right angles, smoothingout the sheet, and dabbing at the pil-lows, and saying a dozen times an honr:" How do you feel now ?" " Don't youwant something to eat?" "Can I doanything for you?" "Let me batheyour head I".is enough to drive a sickman wild. He feels that he would liketo ask you to go away and hold yourtongue; but he knows that all this fidget-ing is prompted by affection, so heholds his tongue instead, and bears itall with what measure of patience na-ture has bestowed upon him. In pointof fact, the sick person is generally veryready to tell his wants. His food anddrink and physic are the momentousmatters of the day to him, and will notbe forgotten. He is likely to tell youwhen he feels better. He is euro to tellyou when he feels wors9.Worse than all these things is the

solemn faoe in a sick room. It is hardfor a troubled heart to put on a cheerfulcountenance, and it is no wonder thatnurses so often fail in this. But wehave known persons who thoaght that a

cheerful face and a bright smile in a

sick room were indications of a hardheart..bcribner.

Four Innocent Men.Four innocent men have just been

pardoned out of the Oregon Stateprison after spending three years thereon life sentences. In 1872 a stage was

stopped in a lonely place by four maskedmen, who took from it gold dust worth$4,200. The nearest house was the resi-

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ward wrongfully convicted. Footprintswere found leading from the place ofthe robbery to that house, and it wasalso ascertained that the men had beenout late on the night of the crime. Therewas no other indication of their guilt;but the public sentiment was verystrong against robbers, and no more

convincing faots were demanded. Amob visited the house, caught one ofthe men, and scared him with threats ofhanging into saying that he and theothers were guilty. The false confessionwould not have Baved his life, but the ar-rival of an officcr did, and then he de-clared the untruthfulness of his state-ment. The four were tried and hurried-ly convicted, and sentenced for life, al-though the driver of the stage swora toan opinion that they were not the rob-bers, for which testimony he narrowlyescaped being lynched as an accomplice.Becently the real criminnls were de-tected.

Gave It Up..Dumas was smoking a

oigar, twenty years ago; the room waa

blue, and a doctor was lecturing to theyoung fellows on the evils of tlio exces-sive use of tobacco. Dumas laid theunsmoked half flridd, and has not litanother since. 1

A YOUNG LORD IN LIMBO.The Favorite of Buffalo Society Brought

Grlef.Portlcnlara of the Cue.

For something over a month, says tBuffalo Courier, a young llnglishmsnamed Hugh Courtney, aged twenlthree, supposed to be one of the descerants of a titledfamily "across the wate]he haying represented himself as tson of the Earl of Devonshire, has becutting quite a swell in fashionable o

cles hereabouts. To all appearanceswas well supplied with filthy lucre; 1attire was "loud," of the veiy lat<fashionable cut and decidedly EnglifHe changed his clothes several timetday, was petted and courted in sociecircles, for "a lord, you know," isnovelty here and his acquaintance notbe slighted. He was believed to be tsoul of honor, of course. His intenaristocratic feelings, upon his first 8

pearance, led hftn to decline being itroduced to sode of our first familn" because they sbld leather," but subtquent deliberations caused him to chanhis mind. He boarded at the TiHouse, called for the best the houafforded, drank oostly wines, smoki. in VCJLpCliOl YD tl^fUD AU 1UUV LUMU^vv. -

extravagant tastes and habits to the fuest extent. Bat alas for the nncertaities of human enjoyment I One nigfound him the inmate of a prison ce

charged with defrauding theproprietof the Tifft House of $325, the amouof his hotel bill contracted during 1]stay here. The particulars of the casas learned by our reporter, are, in bu

stance, that Courtney left England thrimonths ago for San Francisco, where,;in Buffalo, he made himsell' conspicous and popular smong the bon ton,little more than a month ago he canhere and took up his quarters at tlTifft House. He represented to DTathill that his funds had run short, bihe would soon receive a remittance frohis father, the earl, and would make gocall liabilities incurred. This was we

enough for the time being, but the sanexcuse was presented each time he r

ceived his bill, nntil it became Ustereotyped for human endurance, ar

a warrant sworn out for his arrest, <

the charge above named, was placed ithe hands of officers, who waited up<Mr. Courtney at the hotel and ma(known their business, which, naturalenough, put him in quite a flurry. Hactions and talk were more like those <

an overgrown and inexperienced bethan a man.Requesting a few minutes' time he a<

dressed a piteous appeal to a well kno*lady and gentleman, and handing it tomessenger instructed him to oollect hifee from the party to whom it was acdressed, as he was possessed of on]Beyen cents. The note was as follows:Dear and Miss I ai

locked up for not paying my bill at thhotel. Will you be kind enough U con:

and make it all right ? It is for not pa^ing my bill. I am in a dreadful state (

mind, and, my dear Miss , please dpersuade the to do something, <I shall have to lay here all night.

H. Coubtney.P. 8..If you could see me it woul

be all right.Mr. Courtney was then oon^eyed 1

the Btation and looked up. Shortly a

ter liis incarceration the messenger boentered the Btation and said the comminication was returned with a refusal tpay his fee. A reporter, on learning c

the occurrence, paid a visit to the priioner in his cell and found him feelinvery badly. He expressed the opiniothat this was a " blarsted country, wheia man must live on money, while at 'om<you know, I could live on me owname." He remarked: " I'm very e:

travagant, very extravagant, you knoTLike to spend lots of money and havejolly gool time, you know." He didnappear to be having a very good timjust then, though. He wa3 very anxiotthat his name should not appear iprint, and refused point blank to gfrany information beyond the statemer1-V.n* T.ia nonrla TPOVA Wflftlfhv flTld HvfiLn the south of England, and that; hbad money enough -when he came heito home had he started immediatelDn his journey. He had no business c

professional calling; hehad served somtime as an officer in tho British servicand had been traveling for plearanHe intimated that a "little onpleasaniuess " had occurred in the family pricto his departure from home and atributed his riisfortune entirely to th"failure of papa, you know," to mairemittances in response to drafts he hamade upon him. He is hopeful th*some of l;he wealthy acquaintances haaa made here will come forward anissist him in his dilemma until word cabe Eont to hi3 parents.

An Earnest Model.Some carious details are given in foi

iign journals respecting afamous mdd<who posed for the " Atalanta " of Prtlier and the young girl in Gerome'"Cock-Fight," now in the gallery c

Luxembourg. When Bhe first went tParis she was a young and illiteratpeasant, but she managed to edacatiierself. "Wliile posing for the "Atelanta " she ceased one day to come at thiccustomed hour, so Pradier went isearch of her, and found her, as hthought, lying dead. An attack of braiFever had struck her down, and in a fe1iays she died, to all appearance. Bethis seeming death was only the rigiditof an intense attack of catalepsy, an

she was really conscious of all that wa

passing around her. Pradier concludehe would takf a cast of the corpse. Thmodeling of the feet and hands gave th

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poor girl no uneasiness, out uer wm

at the thought of the suffocating weighof the plaster on face and chest enableher to break the fetters of the letharg]To the amazement of the artist, the sujposed corpse bounded from the bed, an

seizing a mass of the half-liquid plaste:she dashed it full in Pradier s face. Ttviolent exertion did her good, and siwas saved. But somehow she wordnever forgive Pradier. She would n<

enter his studio, and he was forced iget another model to complete h"Atalanta." *

How a Cricket Saved a Ship,In Southey's " History of Brazil" 1

tells how Cabeza de Vaca was in s greiship going to South America with Hmen and thirty horses ; and after th£had crossed the equator, the command*discovered there were only three caslof water left. Ha gave orders to malthe nearest land, and for three days thesailed for the coast. A poor sick soldiiwho had left Cadiz with them, broug]a grillo, or ground cricket, with Innthinking its oheerfnl voice would amui

him on the long, dreary voyage. Bito his great disappointment, the littinseot was perfectly quiet the whole wa;The fourth morning after the ship hachanged her course, the (Ticket, whicknew what she was about, set up hishrillest note. The soldier at once gaTa warning to the officersin charge of tlvessel, and they soon saw high, jaggerocks just ahead of them. The wafchad been careless, and the great ship ja few moments would have been dasheto pieoes on the ledges, if this purcreature had not scented the land, at

told them of their danger. Then thecruised along for some days; and tlcricket sang for them every night, juas cheerily as if she had been in far c

Spain, till they got to their desiimport, the island of Oatalioa.

F1BM STOCK.

Some Very Interertln® FlfUN ud 8ta-llrtlofc

The number of farm ani'maln is notkeeping pace with the increase of popu-lation, swine having decreased eight percent, during the past year, sheep havingbarely held their own, while horses haveincreasBd only three cent, and oowsabout one and a half per cent. The

Erices of horses and mules of all agesave generally decreased, although local

causes have in some sections kept themfirm, and in a few States increased them.Thu decline is sharpest in the EasternStates for horses, and in the WesternStates for males.* The rates for milch oows are not sub-tained in the Eastern States, eicept inConnecticnt and Massachusetts. Theaverage is the same as that of last yearin New York, a decline being percepti-ble in the remaining Middle States.There is an increasing demand in Mary-land and Virginia, States well suited todairying, and prices have advancedsomewhat. In the Oaiolinas and Georgiathe rates sympathize with the prevailingdownward tendency. Prom Floridawestward along the gulf ooast, and inArkansas and Tennessee, prices are

higher, the greatest proportionate in-crease being in Texas. In every State

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oi tne great intenor vaueya were is an

increase, exoept in Nebraska, whereprices ruled very high last year. Onthe Pacific coast the high California rateof last year is not fully sustained. Acomparison with last year is made in therates of the following States :

1171 UTS.

New York.Virginia...Georgia...TexasOhioWisconsin.Misaonri..Oregon....

$37.6022.7717.0215.7282.6526.7520.8621.75

$87.5022.9418.8518 8380.4226.3719.5021.65

The class including all cattle exoeptcows exhibits no very sweeping changes.The abundance or scarcity of suppliesfor winter use causes local changes. Inthe Eastern States, prices are firmer inVermont and Massachusetts ; in Penn-sylvania, in the Middle States; in Mary-land Vrti4V> riarnlinfl Alabama Tatojjthe more eastern States of the Ohio val-ley, with a positive rise in the districtwest of the Mississippi. There is littledecline in New York, Delaware,Virginia,South Carolina, Mississippi, Wisconsinand Minnesota. There is some decreasein several of the New England States, inNew Jeesev, Georgia, and little in Indi-ana and Illinois, except that in the latterprices of matured stock are well sus-tained.The following tables show the relative

prices for 1876 and 1875 :

Btat*. U71 1?Maine (20.43 $21.12New York 19.40 19.60North Carolina 6.33 600Georgia 5.97 7.00Texaa 5.87 5.28

14.72 14.25

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Illinois 14.uu 10.40Mieeoari 11.66 10 00

0»«r three IVan.Stmtr. 1871. 1875.

*58.22 tes.ooNew York. *. 51.% 52 08North Carolina. 15.35 14.70Georgia 1&47 15.00Texaa 14.18 11.82Kentucky 36.05 34.53IJlino'a 35.74 34.69Missouri 28.81 24.25

The rates for sheep are not materiallychanged in the Atlantic States north ofVirginia, or in the Gulf States. In theSouthern Atlantic States, and in theOhio valley, there is a Blight tendenoyto high rates, and in the Missouri valleyprices are still more advanced. Thenumbers of sheep on the Pacific coastare so increased that in dry season somedistricts are overstocked, tending to de-crease in prices, which is indicated tosome extent in the preAnt returns fromUaiitoraia. xne pncea 01 iuu grownsheep are thns reported in the followingStates:

Pennsylvania.Georgia...TexasTennessee.OhioIllinois....Nebraska .

1876. 1875.

$3.97 $4.223.95 3.908.15 8.171.94 1.762 29 2.162 40 2.203 09 3.002.75 2.843.00 2.74

A alight increase in the price of hogsia observed in New England, especiallyin those of more than one year old.There is an advance in the MiddleStates, in Virginia and North Carolina,bnt in Sonth Carolina and Georgiaprices are not fully maintained. In Ar-kansas and Tennessee, where supplies.were scarce and high last year, with lowprices for all kinds of stook, there hasbeen a manifest advance the present sea-

son. The Western States all returnhigher prices than last year. The fol-lowing figures for old hogs will repre-sent the general tendency of prices:

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New Hampshire $27.25 t24.00NewJereey 20.60 18.75Aj-kansaa \ e.iu 4.10

Iowa 13.75 I 12.13Kansas 14 92 | 6 67Maryland 10.27 9 73Alabama. 6.07 5.81Kentucky 10.19 8.67Indiana. 13 33 1 9.30

An Unlucky Countenance.When Abbas the Great was hunting

in the valley, he met one morning, as

the day dawned, an uncommonly uglyman, at the sight of whom his horsestarted. Being nearly dismounted,deeming it a bad omen, he called out ina rage to have his head struck off. Thepoor peasant, whom the had seized, andwere on the point of executing, prayedthat he might be informed of his crime." Your crime," said the king, " is yourunluckv countenance, which is the firstobject I saw this morning, and whichhad nearly caused me to fall from myhorse." "Alas!" said the man, "bythis reckoning, what term must I applyto your majesty's countenance, whichwas the first object my eyes met thismorning, and which it to cause mydeath ?" The king smiled at the wit ofthe reply, ordered the man to be ro-

a j . " firnaivnt itinfwular leasea, ujiu^uvoiB of taking off his head.:e>yl.1: Female Devotion,

An Arizona wife begged the court notto punish her husband for the crime ofbigamy, of which he had been convicted."He loved me once and was kind,"

she said, with tears running in streamsdown her face, " and when I go away tomy lonely home, it would be my onlyearthly comfort to know that he was

free to seek for happiness, if he can findit anywhere in the world."

TTT1.. *TTOf< f.Vio>r UCIl OOUTOUWJ noo puuuxuwu,

stricken woman fell upon her knees be-fore her husband, and placing hej handsupon his arms, asked him to forgive herif she had ever done anything to chillhis love for her, and to kiss her just as

he would a dead wife whom he loved.The wretched man seemed entirely over-

come by these pitiful appeals and hisown fate, and, grasping her in hia arms,kissed her over and over again, andwhen the officers drew him away, shesank fainting to the floor.

THE WILD FAMILY AGAIX.

Murder of the Girl by bet Brutish Brother.The Murderer Captnred and Sent to

the Insane Asylum.An UnparalleledStory et 8ava*ery and Barbarity.

In the fall of 1871 quite a sensationwas created by the discovery in the "wil-derness of Wyoming county, Pa., of a

family of wild people, consisting of a

man and his two children. * The latterroamed the woods in a nude condition,subsisting on nuts, roots, etc. The manlived in a miserable hut, where his chil-drensometimes slept. He was possessedof a good education, and clothed in ragsand surrounded with filth, he spent histime in studying an old Bible.He seemed to have a profound knowl-

edge of Scriptural subjects, and waswell versed in ancient and modern his-tory. He possessed, also, extraordinaryelocutionary powers, ana naa myenveaa system of short hand which he wrotewith remarkable speed, and read withfluenoy. Soon after the discovery ofthese strange beings a man named Rob-inson sought to make aoneyout of themby exhibiting them about the country.To obtain the children he was obliged tokidnap them, and by a course of mostcruel treatment compelled them to sub-mit to be partially clothed. Whenplothing was first put on them they toreit to shreds. The father was induced toaocompany them, and served as lecturer,reader and short-hand reporter.The children were a boy and a girL

They were named William and Melvina.The latter waa twenty-two years old,perfectly developed, but somewhatdwarfed in appearanoe. The boy wasnineteen. There was a remarkable re-semblance between them. Their headstrere email, with reoeding foreheads, andwere covered with long, matted whitehair. Their noses and mouths were

rery large, and their eyes small. Theexpression of their faces was idiotic.Ihey were mutes, so far as emitting in-telligible sounds was concerned, butthey had a straoge, harsh gibberish inwhich their father insisted they com-municated understandingly with one an-other. The exhibitions of this degradedfamily were bo shocking to the sensibili-ties of the pnblio that the exhibitor was

compelled to abandon his speculation,uid the "wild mutes," as they were

armed, were returned to their retreatin the wilderness, in the winter of 1872.They were gradually forgotten, but in

1873 their father appeared at Tunkhan-lock and made the charge that his soniid killed his faster and attempted theiie of his father, and asited that he beaken in charge by the authorities. Thedid boy was arrested with great difficulty jaid lodged in jail. All efforts to get Him j.

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ie was so violent that no one dared tointer his cell unprotected. Nothingould be done with him, and some weeksiter he was secured he was returned tohe woods. Ever since he has been aource of annoyance to the authorities,md he has at last been disposed of by>eing captured and incarcerated in thensane asylum at Danville by order of»urt. The extraordinary story of theamily, as told officially by the father, isis follows. It has no parallel in modernimea :The name of the father of the wild

nutes is Thomas Wells Parke. He islfty-flve years old, and waa born in Exe-er, Luzerne corfnty. He lived in that)Iace until he was fifteen years old, ob-aining the rudiments of an English edu-ction. Beyond the fact that when he

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wilderness of Wyoming county, to theipot where he was discovered with hisariily in 1871, and that they died there,md were buried in the woods by hisiwn hands, nothing is known about his.ntecedents. His father left fifty acresif land, on which Parke's hut nowtands. When he was twenty-six yearsId he married a girl of twenty, nameddory Searlea. She was sickly, and sub-;ect to insane spells. The girl, Melvina,ras born in 1849, and the boy nearly a

hree years later. Their mother never s

,'ave them any attention, and from the Cime they were old enough to get about v

hey were compelled to look out for Ihemselves. They never spoke a word fcr> fViaiT li-tJoa nnr Vttir? ft D-ftrmfiTlt of STIV Iind on them until the showman tookhem away. They early took to theroods, and grew up like tho animalsbat infested the region. Prom diggingor roots and hunting nests they acquiredhe habit of going on all fonrs, and wereImost as fleet as deer. They were

qually agile in an erect position. Theynbsisted on nuts, roots, bark, etc., andLbo systematically hunted mice, rats,abbits, ground moles, and other bur-owing animals, which they devouredaw. They climbed the higesfc trees witha8e, and hunted birds' nests, the con-

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irds, were choice food for them. Theyrandered about in the most rigorousrinter weather, and sometimes remainedway from home days at a time. Theirkin became almost black from exposure,nd at the time they were discovered byhe huntera their flesh was covered withcars made by onts and scratches in theroods. The skin of the palms of theirands and soles of their feet was thicknd as hard as horn. The disposition ofhe boy at that time was ugly andicious. He had made several assaultsn his sister, wounding her badly, andad attempted to kill his n other, who

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nd never returned.Left alone with his wild offspring, the

ather noted with alarm the increasingBrociousness of the boy, and, when heould control him, he tied him in theint for the safety of himself and theirl. This increased his fury, and hems released. The disposition of the;irl was gentler, and she was quite do-ile.When they returned from their short

our with the showman it was in theaidst of the severe winter of 1872.>arke had left home at the time heisually gathered his crop of potatoesnd turnips, all he raised on his land,nd when he came back there was noth-Dg for him to subsist ou. His children

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The snow was very deep, and they:ould find but littlo to eat. It had beenheir custom previously to make outheir winter's subsistence by sharingheir father's potatoes, which he cookedn a hole dug in the ground in liis hut.rhe stock having been exhausted, theyiuffered terribly from hunger. Parkeibtained occasional relief from the sur-

ounding villages, but it seems, singu-arlv enough, that no move was made toleal permanently with this wretchedamily. The mutes stripped the barkrom trees, and even ate the straw whichormed their father's bed in one corner

>f the hut.* They fought each otherike wild beasts, and their father livedn mortal terror for nearly three months.Ifear his hut is a swamp, which is thelome of myriads of the smaller rep-iles. When spring opened, the wildaid almost famished children scouredhis swamp, and caught and devouredvith the ravenous appetites of half-itarved wolves the creeping-occupants>f the mire. This is not only testifiedo Tfy their father, but by others, wholeclare that they saw the boy catch and:at a water snake.Parke says that this horrid diet in-

ireased the ferocity of his children. Onelay the brother and sister camo into themtand a fight ensued between them.Parke was compelled to fly. Bill, as thejoy was called, attacked his sister withtn old case knife he had pioked up in

the hovel. He stabbed her in the breastand in other places. She ran bleedinginto the woods. Her father fonnd herafterward lying at the foot of a tree,dead. He carried her body a long dis-tance into the woods and buried it.Parke continued to live in the hut,

bnt was frequently compelled to leave itbo escape the fnry of his son. Finally,sarly in 1873, he made the oomplaintigainst him, and has at last had hisbrutish child safely disposed of.Parke is a thin, wiry man, ragged and

slovenly. His head is covered withlong, white, unkempt hair, and he hac a

lowing white beard. He attributes thelamentable condition of his children tothe incapacity of his wife to overseaandTain them, saying that he was too muchabsorbed in his scientific and literarypursuits to notice their wants.Shortly after the death of Mclvina he

puDiisnea a cara ataung ior iiuutuuMuu

us to the whereabouts of his wife, andpegging her to come and look after theieeds of her remaining child. He is bynany considered-insane. -

A Narrow Eieape,There was to be a military execution

way'up above the heads of everybodyn Harper's Ferry, on Bolivar heights,md with abonta thousand others I wento see it. Two soldiers had been con-victed of desertion, and their death sen-tence approved by Gen. Sheridan. Iikip the details. About twelve o'clockloon they found themselves on theirmees in front of two coffins inside threeidee of a hollow square of soldiers,rith a firing party two rods in front[heir eyes were being bandaged; threeninnfcea more, I think, would have set-led their accounts with this world, wnenin orderly came galloping up thatiteep, muddy hill with a telegram.Sen. Stevenson, who commanded there,)pened it. It was signed "A. Lin-win," and directed an indefinite sus-

pension of the sentence. A suspicioniroeaed my mind that we had all beenparticipating in a gotten-up dramaticmtertainment, to prodace a good moral)ffect on the soldiers present, particul-arly the two most interested. In otherivords, I suspected that this telegramlad been received by Gen. Stevensonjefore the funeral cortege left Harper'sFerry. I was on the staff in those days,ind was privileged to ask questions, so I

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ers two hours after and inquired aboutt. He assured me that my suspicionsrare unfounded. .

" But the line from here to Baltimores down and I had no reason to expect a

lispatch. How it got here I don'tmow. Certainly, they would have,een dead in a few minutes more."The statement of theoperator at Balti-

aore, afterward published, gave inten-ity to the dramatic situation out onileak Bolivar heights on that dismalFebruary morning. The President'slispatch was received about ten o'clockhat morning, with the cipher of theiVar department to hurry it to Harper'sferry. For hours the line had beentown between that and Baltimore; therevw no train tnat would oe umeiy. xc

v&h the jadgment of the operator thathis ended the matter; that the menaost die, Yet an effort might be madeo reach Harper's Ferry from the west.3o made the trial; he kept right on

risking it for an hoar and a half. As heailed, and continued to fail, his anxiety'rew greater to save the doomed men.

dare not say how many thousand mileshose words of the President traveledmckward and forward in that ninetyoinutes. They went to New York, toBuffalo, to Cincinnati, to Pittsburgh, toVheeling, and elsewhere, often return-ug like Noah's dove of mercy, and as

' nti L.jIlten sent one again. xiiey reucueu

Cumberland at last, and thence flashed[own to Harper's Ferry in timo.

Saved his Diamonds.General Jack, a noted circus man, hasgreat penchant for diamonds, and it isaid that those who want to come it overJeneral Jack.no easy thing to do.al-ways approach him on his diamond side,le takes it as a compliment to be asked0 show his collection, and does show it.Jut he is a good judge of character forU. The story goes that some thievesonspired to rob him by profiting by hisleasure in showing his treasures. Thererere three of them.nobby English fel-iws.who came over expresslyto do the>b, and thoroughly posted. They madeis acquaintance at a hotel, and in dueourse procured the invitation to see hisiamonds. They claimed to be sportinglen, ardent turfites, but connoisseurs inuch things. They came to Jack's housene afternoon, in a coach, and he re-

vived them alone, opened his safe, dis-1 J nrnnf. inf.A T

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istory, eto. "This," he said, "is myfoloonda specimen.not very large, bntjmarkable for its brilliancy and pureAter. This is my Brazilian.it is a bitff color, a suspicion ofa canarytinge".hack I smack I thwack! "You would,ouldyou?" and with three successivelows of his fat white fist, his threeInglish visitors were knocked down andnt hors df combat. It was a mere

aspicion on his part.something he saw1 the men's faces, read in their eyes.ut it saved his diamonds.. He sum-

loned aid, looked the safe, secured thelen, and found them fully armed.pis->ls, burglar tools, handcuffs, rope, gag,liloroform, red pepper. He disarmedism, bundled them into the coach, andave them twejity-foyhours to leave the

An Odd Detection.An elderly man fell at the corner ofWashington and Warrenton streets,toston, while intoxicated, and hurt him-3lf badly. A crowd immediately gath-red, bnt though the man laid there un-

ble to move, no one essayed to assistim up, till a young fellow foroed hisray through the crowd and made him-elf very officious in his efforts to getbe old man home. Meanwhile anotherlan in the crowd had seen this younglan counting some money in a neigh-oring doorway and suspected that helight have knocked the old man downnd robbed him. Officer Maynard was

ummoned and both men were taken totie police station, and on searching theoung man, who gave his name asr:~Ur.ai TW1f\r TrurA fnnnd on hisXitUOVi AMJ4V* 9 ».

eraon, which he said belonged to hisunt, Mrs. Catherine Mahoney, at No.1 Newton place. An officer went tobe house, and on investigation Mrs.iahoneyfound that $440 hadbeentakenrom under a certain carpet and voung.'aylor is held for taking it. Thus an

ttempt to do an act of kindness result-d in his being detected in a crime.-

A Centennial Blow-Up.They intend having a very lively oen-

snnial "Fourth " at Hell Gate, in thelast river, New York. One hundrednd twenty men are employed drillingoles in the roof and sides of the excava-ion, which has been completed at a costf $750,000, and which is directly under-eath the rock which once so frightenedfooter TTondnVlr TTnilqnn nnrl liinlephantine mariners, inducing them toelinquish their refforta to reach Hin-oostan via Hell Gate. An average ofwenty-one holes a day are drilled, and?hen the fourth oomes they mil beharged with 50,000 pounds of nitro-gly-erine, which will be touched by a cur-ent of electricity, and Hell Gate will behenceforth forever open to the naviga-ion of Brooklynites and New Yorkers,

An Answer.You ask me, wondering, why I sing,And why my lips In langhter put;

The ripples of my mirth ul springFrom the deep sorrow of my heart.

A emile is easier than a tearThat serves to keep sad memories green,

And always, through what is, I hearThe echoes of what might have beeo.

Items of Interest.Trust reposed in noble natures obliges

them the more.

Capital punishment.Hanging on theneck of a pretty girLWhen is a baby like a canister f When

it is a tea thing.All things are in fate, yet all things

are not decreed by fate.When are eyes not eyes? When the

wind makes them water.If crying babies had any sense they

never would take their mothers tomatinees.

- A Western writer has evolved a liewname for the Legislature."act grind-ers."Never huny. More men have died

from getting out of breath than for anyother reason.

Chilian women have received theright to vote, the only qualificationbeing they must be of jtge and able toreau aim whlc.

A tramp lately asked a lady formoneyShe offered hi food. " Gracious !was his observation, "do you think Ican eat all the time ?"A family in town has a dog twentyi

five years old. He was originally a

hound, but he's stayed with them so

long that they call him a tarrier.During the past twelve years Dart-

mouth College has received about $600,-000 in gifts, and about $700,000 more

will become available in a few years.Lamartine says: " War, very far

from being the progress of humanity, isonly murder in mass which retards it,afflicts it, decimates it, dishonors it."Experiments with young grasshoppesr

at Jackson, Maine, have shown that theymay be frozen and thawed several timeswithout impairing their power to return _

to life.The Erie car shops at Elmira, N. Y.,

are crowded to their utmost capacity, inturning out passengar cars to meet theextra demand dnnag the centennialyear. The men are working nine hoarsa day."Remember,"said u trading Quaker

to his son, "in making thy way in theworld, a spoonful of ou will go fartherthan a quart of vinegar." And Broad-brim was right; but the trouble is,people will persist in trying the vinegarSome men are always lucky. A

htmtor of Brainerd, Minn., while oat inthe woods reoently discharged his gunjust to clear out the barrel, and unknownto him a fine buck happened to be with-in range and was shot through theheart.The family of Lewis Neides, of Bead-

ing, is unlucky. The daughter fell offa chair and broke her arm in two places.Soon after, Neides himself fell andfactured hiB ribs, and before he had re-

covered his son, aged ten years, fell andb:*oke his arm at the elbow.Thought engenders thought. Place

one idea on paper and another will fol-low it, and atill another until you havewritten a page; you cannot fathom yourmind. There is a well of thought therewhich has no bottom; themore you drawfrom it the more clear and fruitful itwill be.

David. T. Sleeper, of Sandown, N.H., who is totally blind, is able to reap,mow, thresh, chop down trees, cut upcord wood, make ax handles, ox goads,and can goround the neighborhood withassistance or direction from any one,and never finds time to spend in regret-ing the loss of his eyesightHe was in a confidential mood when

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ferryboat, and said to the gentlemansitting by him : " I'm happish man inNew Yorfc. I donowe man shent. I'mgonehome, an' if tholoman's sittin' upI'll licker, an' if she's gone to bed 111licker any way. I'm bonnt' have shomefun."The warden of the Oregon peniten-

tiary has discharged the prison doctorand detailed one of the oonvicts, who isan educated physician, to perform theduties. The warden claims that hesaved the State $1,500 a year by thisarrangement, and is always sure to havemedical attendance "within reach"when needed." See here, conductor, why don't you

have a fire in this car ?" " Well, yousee, one of the directors is a clothingman, another is a doctor, and another isa drug store keeper, and another runs a

tombstone factory, and you know in thisruvmln mnsfc * live and let live.'

So you see1". "All right, sir; go aheadwith yourooffin.""This is my last call,"remarked a

flippant young gentleman to a younglady who was soon ta-be married, on a

recent occasion. "I never call onmarried women or unmarried ladies afterthey have reached twenty-five." "Youdo well, sirgravely remarked an elderlady present. " At that age, and aftermarriage, they begin to know the valueof time, and do not like to waste it."Acoounts from Villefranche, France,

state that the valley is still covered withsnow and the cold very severe. Thewolves, being almost famished, have be-come most audacious; a few days backfour of those animals entered the villageof RierAyroux in the open day, andcarried off two young pigs and a goat.A number of dogs have also been killedby them, and the innabitants dare notventure out at night unless armed witha gun.The boys of Winnemucca, Nevada,

had some fun with a showman. Theyformed a line from the ticket office ex-

tending around a near comer. Eachasked the price of admission, and, on

being told that it was fifty cents, shookhis head, said it was too dear, retiredand fell in at the rear of the line. Thiswas kept up until the showman, astound-ed at the unanimity and seemingly greatnumber, reduced the charge, and thenevery boy cleared out.A French artisan living in London

committed suicide the other day byguillotining himself. One evening hewas observed to take home two large-planks of wood and a large dotlble-handled knife. With these, as it was

subsequently discovered, he constructeda guillotine. Grooves were formed inthe wood for the knife, and down these,after having been drawn up with annllflv. it forned hv heavv stones.The unfortunate man's head was com-

pletely severed from his body..Mrs. Gross, of Paw Paw, Michigan,

thinking her husband was unduly atten-tive to his brother's wife, was thereforemade jealous. One evening he left thehouse late, and she guessed he had goneto meet his sister-in-law. So Mrs. Crossfollowed stealthly and discovered, not a

liaison, but a murder. She dogged himto a place where he was joined by twobrothers, and thence kept them in sightwhile they took a drunken stranger to-ward a lake. Then she went home.The stranger was robbed and drowned,and her testimony is nsed in tne trial ofthe three brothers.