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Savannah G
EUGENIE.
•d with sudden
Tears, tears for the
Amid our New-Wor i
Still echoing to thy
Our quickened hearts art
, sorrow.
Knowing for thee shall di- n grief's mound.
morrow,
.Pierced with a poignan
dining
To moonless night; nc st
With pallid radiance on t!
On swooning souls wl
keep—
On thy lone path. •
v>ang; Burner;
remotely s>
•epellant de<
atigoished
•enie:
Across the sea, Eugenie,
Stretch sister-hands at last!
Not for that splendid pas f .
Where regal glories gilded Pleasure’s day.
And palace-pomp and pageantry held sway;
Not tor that lapsing loveliness, long-holden—
The fainter rose, the rippling gold lessgolden,
The languid lily and the dickering gleam
Of e3*es once dashing through the poet’s
dream—
Our failing tears. Eugenie!
We weep with thee, Eugenie!
O young and ardent soul,
How soon to storm the goal!
Wliat lost adorings of gay courtly train
Could e’er compare with kisses, like spring-
rain.
From those dear lips still boyishly o’erflow-
ing.
And that warm worship, mother-ward up-
growing!’
Yet not for him with peace upon his face.
Who never more shall falter in life’s race;
Tears, tears for thee, Eugenie!
Celeste M. A. Winslow.
Keokuk, Ia., June 21, 1879.
(icorirla Affairs.
A colored /nan had an attack of sunstroke
In Columbus the other day. Another effect
of emancipation and enfranchisement. Who
ever heard of a poor African having sun
stroke “befo’ de wah ?”
According to the Dispatch, an Atlanta
man has Invented an Improved bicycle which
Will run on an ordinary railway track and
beat a locomotive. The inventor proposes
soon to run a race with the passenger train
from Macon to Atlanta.
It was rumored in Atlanta on Friday that
a fight hail occurred at the jaii in that city
between Cox and Hill, who it seems
were, strangely enough, occupying the
jqime cell. The report stated that Ilill
was going on sentimentally over his
wife when Cox made some uncompli
mentary remark about her. Hill Im
mediately struck Cox, who, in turn,
knocked his assailant down, and was beat
ing him badly when the jailer interfered.
The Dispatch says, however, that it .could
trace this report to no authentic source.
The rencontre may have taken place, though
all parties concerned deny it.
The editor of the Ojlethorjic ficlio has been
paying a visit to the “gold fields” of that
section, and he returned home much disap*
pointed. He says his golden dream is
t over.
There are serious complaints of drought
from all over the State.
We see by’ the Thotn-isville Times that
the negro who made a murderous assault
on a peddler, near Thoma^vllle, week be
fore last, arid of which we made mention at
the time, was arrested in Madison county,
Florida, and placed in jail. He afterwards
made his escape, however, and is now at
large. Efforts are being made for his recap
ture. He call* himself Carter.
The Thomaeville Times tells the champion
fisli story of the season. Jt says that a party
of geutleracu from that town at a single
haul of a seine in Linton’s lake, lu Fiprida,
caught by actual count seven thousand on*
hundred and fifty-eight fish. It challenges
auy newspaper man in the State, with one
exception, Mr. George P. Woods, to beat
that yarn. Now let the Quitman Free Press
look to its laurels.
Mr. Tom Nix, residing about a mile front
Summerville, and who is a one legged ex-
Confederate soldier, was arrested a few
dags ago on a charge of running an illicit
still. He was taken off to Home for trial,
where he was released, there Leins no ieatj.-
mony against hi in. The Gazette says: “He
lost a leg in defending the ‘Lost C tuse,’ but
being a poor man has been forced to follow
the plow day after day with a wooden
It Is all right for revenue officials to do their
duty, but the}' should be sure they are right
before going ahead. It. is just such arrests
as this, ou truuiped-up charges which can
not be sustained, that brings the revenue
.service into disrepute.
The Forsyth Advertiser is gloomy over the
crop prospects. It says that unless relief is
had by a good rain fall and that speedily, the
eottou, ami especially the corn crop, will be
•almosi wholly ruined.
It is staled that the sales at the Eagle and
Pfcenix Mills at Columbus duriug June
were double those of the same month in
1878. If that business continues, it is to be
presumed that the mills will, next year, re
sume the pay meet of 8 per cent, dividends.
Sugimerviile Gazette: “A little colored
urchin, bound to Dr. Bryant, set his new
drug store ou lire last Thursday, &sd but for
the timely interference of some gentlemen
who saw the boy when be struck the match
and applied it to the shavings, the house
would soon have been in fiaun-s. The boy
doubtless will get the premium and the
chroiao, with the rope thrown in, before he
is grown.”
Behold how great & fire a little matter
sometimes kimilethl The Foraytb Advertiser
says: “On Saturday a dog caxne Into town
and went iuto one of the saloons. The clerif,
not Ls king a fancy to him, struck him a severe
blow on the head that sent him howling into
the streets, with his head turned sideways
and h? going rouud in a circle. A cry was
raised that ai*}ad dog was in the streets, and
the Marshal, as he was duly bound to do,
commenced to try and kill him. He was
shot at, chunked with rocks, and knocked
I . 1 .1. . .... *2, L . . _ 1—21 . ..1 .1...,2 k.fnM
with sticks until he was killed dead before
he was allowed time to make affidavit that
the only thing he was mad about was the
treatment he was receiving. But the dog is
just as dead as if he had had a case of real
hydrophobia.”
Toccoa Xeics: “Last Wednesday nfght it
became circulated that a colored man was
lying on the public square dead, or to a dy
ing condition, and immediate help was
Deeded. Mr. Hayes, In going to the post
office, reported it to aeyeral colored people,
but, shame upon them, ifeey^refused to lend
him any aid at all. A crowd of white peo
ple soon gathered around the unfortunate
man, aud it was found that be was a deaf
mute, and had got off the train that even
ing. He had a broken arm and was other
wise injured, and was certainly an object of
pity. After some time the white people
furnished a cot, and a room was secured for
him. His name is William Burden, and he
has been attending school in Knoxville, Ten
nessee, for some time past. His home Is in
Walhalla, South Carolina. His people have
been notified of his unfortunate condition,
and they should at once come to his relief.
In the meantime, our citizens are willing to
pay his expenses Lome if need be. ,J
A correspondent of the Griffin News given
the following additional particulars in re
gard to the recent killing of Mr. Ricks by
his brother-in-law,Mr. Burton, in Meriwether
county; “ It seems that Burton and the
family—that is his sisters and mother—have
not been on good terms for some time, on
account of some property. One of the /sis
ters—Ricks* wife—met “Mr. Barton some
time ago, and some words passed between
them. In referring to the matter Burton
used a little harsh language to her. She re
ported it to Ricks, which considerably en-
xaged him and caused him to make many
threats, such as whipping or killing Burton
the first time he met him. On the day
of the killing he met Burton in the
road, demanded an apology and run
his haild in. his pocket as though in
the act of drawing a pistol, whereupon
Burton shot h.'m down with a shot gun that
he held in his hand. This is Burton’s
statement, and it > not contradicted by
the evidence. The codunitment trial has
been in progress a day and a half, bat the.
court adjourned last evening tall Thursday
next. It has gone tlflFough with the evi
dence on the prosecatflk
1. ve been elicited different from the state-
n. i nt made above. The case has created a
iat deal of excitement in the country, and
ds one more to the great number of hor
de crimes that have taken place in
ddle Georgia daring the present year.
■ ds is a sad affair, rendered still more
by the manner of prosecution. It is
• ldom we see sisters arrayed against the
b 'other In a prosecution that Involves his
life. In this case the sisters are very deter
mined, and are prosecuting the case with
an apparent vindictiveness that would
hardly be excusable, even if no blood rela
tionship existed between them and the ac
cused. The general impression is that Bur
ton acted entirely in self-defense. The com
mitting court adjourned on Friday until the
3d of July without action. The defendant
is on bail. Several other witnesses are to be
examined.”
The Cedartown Advertiser thinks that of
all the counties in the State Polk will doubt
less take the lead in the wealth of her
mineral deposits. Iron, copper, manganese,
ochre, mica and slate abound in almost un
limited supply, while of some others there
are most promising indications. It says:
“Of iron we have plenty to put a girdle
around the globe, and of slate the quarries
at Rock mart would furnish an abundance
to put a roof over the State of Georgia.
The development of these vast resources
has scarcely been begun. Millions of dol
lars could find profitable investment within
our borders in mining industries alone.”
Florida Affairs.
We have received a letter from a friend in
St. Augustine, giving an account of a recent
trip made by him to the little parish of St.
Ambrose. He says nearly all the families in
the parish are of Spanish or Minorcan
descent, and take a great deal of interest
in their schools and church. They are all
Roman Catholics, and have just completed
a fine church, under the supervision of Rev.
Father Langdale, the altar of which is com
posed of cedar taken from an old altar
built by the Spaniards. An amusing inci
dent is told in regard to the bell of this
church: On it is cast “St. Ambrose, pray for
us.” When it first arrived, some of the
most charitably disposed of the congrega
tion, seeing the legend, and evidently feel
ing the great need of prayer in which our
unhappy country stands, especially at this
time, read it, “St. Ambrose, pray for the
United States.” Notwithstanding this little
mistake, the people are quiet, good citizens,
their crops of all kinds are in fine condition,
and everything looks flourishing and pros
perous.
A colony of Kentuckians is being talked
of as about to settle in Florida, and the
Gainesville Sun wants them to take up their
domiciles in Alachua county.
According to the Tampa Tribune, the or
ange trees in that section, besides taking on
a vigorous new growth in consequence of
the recent rains, are blooming again, not
withstanding the young oranges on them
are larger than the largest size marbles. It
says: “This is not the first time that the
orange trees have taken on a second crop of
fruit later in the season.”
It is the general impression that apples
will not thrive in the neighborhood of Live
Oak, but the editor of the Jlullctin acknowl
edges the receipt of one grown there which
was “very fine, without a blemish and per
fectly ripe. ”
The Palatka Herald notes it as very re
markable that, though the 4th of July is
right at our doors, the mornings in that
region are cool enough for March and the
nights for blankets.
A little child, four years old, strayed off
from its parents while they were asleep in a
camp near Orlando last week, and was not
found for two days, although the country
waa scoured In search of it. The South
Florida Citizen s^ys that on the afternoon of
the second day a heavy shower of rain fell,
which caused the child to seek shelter jn a
house, where It was found, two miles away,
its clothes torn to shreds, its feet and legs
scratched and bleeding, and Its exhausted
and forlorn appearance pitiable in the
extreme. The exultant shouts of the crowd,
the tears of the little one, and the frantic
joy cf itg parents, who had surrendered all
hope, can more cosily be imagined than
described.
Col. W. R. Moore publishes a jjQtice in
the Reporter to the effect that the reunion
of tfco Second Florida Regiment, at Lake
City, has bean postponed from the 13th of
July to the 15th, for the rees<?n that the
first named day falls on Sunday.
The Sumter County Advance thus tells of a
bottomless lime sink in that county: “Not
long fclnce a wayfarer in the western part of
the eoujity stopped at one of the many lime
sinks for the jfcirpcsp of backing his cart
into the pool, to sweil the wheels, as the
tires had become loose. Remoyi^g his
hors? from the shafts, and not knowing tfcaj,
swung back for dear life. A-ltav the cart
disappeared, he looked around and found a
pole about twenty-five feet long, with which
he tried to fathom the bottom, but failed.
He then procured a line fifty feet long,made
a loop In one end and tried to fish the cart
no but apparently the fifty foot l;ge came
no nearer the bottom than the twenty-die
foot pole, f.ud as the depth of the sink was
never fathomed, tfce gart was never rescued.”
Madison Recorder; “The wife of Jesse
Crawford (colored) was found dead }a her
husband’s field, on Norton’s creek, eight or
ten miles east of town, last week. There
were several bruises on her body, a wound
on her head, which appeared to have been
inflicted with a hoe, and her neck was
brejeen. Suspicion attached to her husband,
who, it W££ said, had been known frequently
to HI treat and he?t bis wife. He was taken
before a Justice of the peace, who thought
the evidence adduced at tue trial sufficient
to commit him, and he is now in the county
jati.”
L ve Oak bulletin: “We tested some wine
the other day mad^ by Judge Clonts. It
bad a fine color and was well tasted, and
had the flavor of a first rate Madeira. The
Judge informed us that it was now nearly
one year old and had been made at a cosr
of about six and one-fourth cents per gallon
from the juice of sugar cane. If such good
wfan can De made from the juice of sugar
cane, our farmers could make it a source of
income; it is certainly much cheaper and
easier made than grape wine.”
South Florida CitLsn : “The oldest settlers
of Orange county hare never 6een a $ner
prospect for an abundant harvest of all fe-m
produets than now exists. Sufficient rains
have lately faUen to insure a bountiful crop
of corn—much of it having been plsnted,
gud probably a great deal more than on any
previous year. Cotton is equally fine, which
is now in bjpom pretty generally. Sugar
cane, potatoes and rjee look well. A splen
did crop of oats has been harvested. We
will not realize more than half a crop of or
anges, some think; but other kinds of fruit
trees are very full of young fruit.”
Fen^cola Gazette: “We are informed
that a man wee found last Sunday afternoon
in a nearly insensible condition on the bank
of Bayou Marcus creek, about 3 mile and a
half from Millview. The young men who
found him placed him in a wagon, took him
to Millview, and he received proper care at
a boarding house. When first found he was
able to state ih^f his name was Clarence
W. Peck; that he landed to Pensacola from
a vessel; went to Andalusia; Alabama, sod
walked back from there, intending to'seek
work at MUlview; that he stopped to drink
at the creek two days before, when over
heated, and had lain unable to move ever
since-. His name, as stated, was found in
his pocket memorandum book. He tecame
delirious Sunday night and died Moaday
afternoon. The poor fellow must have suf-
red terribly during the two days that he
[d iff ifre woods.”
Down on the Delaware river there
lives a woman farmer, Mrs, A. C.
Thomas, who manages personally a farm
of twenty acres, and makes a profit of
twenty-five hundred dollars a year from,
it. Sue is well educated, and is well ac-
S (tainted with many notable persons in
tis country and England, George Eliot
among the number. Beside her own
family, she has brought up thirteen boys
and girls—colored, French, Italian and
otftpr
of
pv nationalities.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
THE ADJOURNMENT RESOLU
TION PASSED BY THE
SENATE.
Perplexities of the Bonapartlsts.
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, July 1.—In the Senate Mr.
Eaton called up his adjournment resolution,
and moved to amend by fixing Tuesday,
July 1, at 5 p. m., as the time of final ad
journment.
Mr. Windom is speaking on the resolu-
his act
The Ohio liquor dealers haye formed a
State organization and have a section in
their constitution providing for the ex
pulsion of any member who sells liquor
fo ft miror or an habitual drunkard.
They jwte to have a weekly newspaper
organ* propose to see what can be
tion explaining his action yesterday.
He said his side had now exhausted all the
legitimate powers conferred upon them by
the rules of the Senate in order to induce
the majority to make the necessary appro
priations for marshals. Mr. Hayes had, so
far as Mr. Windom knew, exhausted all the
Dowers possessed by him on the subject.
He had made a patriotic appeal to Congress
to do its duly and not go home without
maktog the necessary appropriations. He
quoted from Hayes’ message to Congress of
yesterday and from the laws defining the
duties of marshals.
The adjournment resolution as amended
was passed at 1:30 p. m.
Mr. Harris moved to reconsider the vote
by which the free quinine bill was referred
to the Finance Committee yesterday.
Mr. Morrill spoke in opposition, and Mr.
Beek in support of the motion, which was
agreed to, and the bill was passed by viva
voce vote, no one voting In the negative.
2:45 p. m.—A message from the House
announced its concurrence in the Senate
amendments to the final adjournment reso
lution.
The Senate then went into executive ses
sion.
When the doors were reopened, compli
mentary resolutions were passed thanking
Vice-President Wheeler, for his courtesy
and impartiality as presiding officer, and
also thanking Mr. Thurman as President
pro tem.
The joint committee which had been an-
pointed to wait on the President and ap-
nounce the impending adjournment then
reported that the latter had no further com
munication for Congress, whereupon the
President pro tem., at 5 p. m., declared the
Senate adjourned sine die.
In the House quite an amusing personal
explanation was made this morning by Mr.
O. Turner, of Kentucky, who denied the
charge of drunkenness made against
him by the Memphis Avalanche. In
the course of his explanation he
alluded to a conversation which recently
occurred between Hubbell, of Michigan,
and himself, in respect to the “National
View.” This brought forth a short expia
tion from Mr. Hubbell, after which the
House resumed the business of tho morning
hoar, being the bill prohibiting political as
sessments."
The political assessment bill went over
without action, in consequence of dilatory
motions by the Republicans.
The Senate amendments to the House ad
journment resolution were concurred in.
A message from the Senate announcing
the passage of the free quinine bill was re
ceived with applause.
After the passage of some unimportant
bills, by unanimous consent the House took
a recess until four o’clock.
Upon reassembling Mr. Gibson, of Louis
iana, moved to suspend the rules and pass
the bill amending the Mississippi river com
mission bill so as to enable the President to
appoint any of the commissioners to be
President of the commission. Lost for warn,
of a quorum.
The joint committee then reported that
the President had no farther communication
to make, and, at 5 p. m., the Speaker de
clared the House adjourned sine die.
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS — THE NAPOLEONIC
DYNASTY.
London, July i. — An iron merchant,
named Westray, of Middlesborough, in the
North Riding of Yorkshire, has failed; lia
bilities .£00,000.
The .Captain of a vessel just arrived from
Galveston, Texas, reports that on the 17th of
June, in latitude 41 degree^ north, he passed
seventy or eighty partially burned cotton
bales, apparently of New Orleans packing,
and which had not been many hours in the
water.
Official correspondence on the Greek
question has been published. Lord Salis
bury, the British Foreign Secretary, sug
gested to the Porte that he should make
spontaneous cession of territory to Greece
by which the Sultan’s empire would be
rfially fortified.
The Times 1 Constantinople dispatch says
the return of Mahmoud Nedim Pasha seems
to indicate an approaching change to the
Turkish Ministry.
The Times' Paris correspondent says : “A
majority of the Bonapartists are understood
to concur with M. Rouher in acknowledg
ing Prince Jerome Bonaparte as the chief of
the Napoleonic dynasty. They argue that
the will of the Jate Prince Imperial,
which asks the ex-Empress Eugenie
to co-operate with Prince Victor, was
written on the assumption that the testator
wouid gurvive Prince Jerome Bonaparte.
This reasoning, however, is considered a
transparent excuse for a non-observance of
the impracticable will of the Prince Impe
rial. M. Rouher’s retirement from active
politics is evidently owing to a feeling that
ne *ad Pfince Jerome could notact together,
and the Tatter £ OQ M not be set aside.
What between Prince Jerome Bona
parte’s possible adherence to* the republic
and the impossibility of the clerical section
of £iy} Ronapartists choosing a leader with
out either against the wishes of the
Prince Imperial’s will, 07 provoking a dis
tinct disavowal from Prince \icfiqr, the
Bonapartists are in one of the most per
plexing positions ever occupied by any
party.
The Chamber of Deputies has yotpd ur
gency cn M- Jules Ferry’s education biff.
The Queen has commanded that the troop
ship Orontes, bearing the remains of the
Prince Imperial, shall be escorted on a part
of her voyage by the channel fleet.
The Telegraph's Paris dispatch says the
publishers of La Lanterns have been sum
moned before the courts. Nearly the whole
Paris press .condemns the action of the Pre
fect of Police in seizing that journal.
The steam coal colliers of Merthyr Tydvtl,
in Wales, numbering 82,000 persons, have
resolved to accept the masters* demand of
ten per cent, reduction to wages.
Alexander Whitelaw. Conservctive mem
ber of Parliament for the city of Glasgow, is
dead. " ''
SCRATCHED.
London, July 1.—Lorillard’s Papoose
and bis bay fillies, Neriod and Geraldine,
entered to run for the July stakes, for two
year old colts and fillies, at the New
market July meeting to-day, have been
scratched.
EVENING TELEGRAMS’
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC CON
TENTION.
Professor pf Natural History and
Botany in tbe University
of Virginia.
THE LOUISIANA STATE DEBT.
Dr. Garcelon Renominated for Gov
ernor of Maine.
Newmtrkel Baees-Minor Matters.
WtSHEXQXOn V’EATHKB FBOPKXT.
Oman or the Usui Signal Obsebvsii,
Washington, D. C., July 1.—Indication*
for Wednesday: _
In the South Atlantic States, rising iol-
Iowed hy falling barometer, northeast veer
ing to warmer southeast winds, clear or
pr- lly cloudy weather.
In the Gulf States, stationary or falling
barometer, south winds, warmer, clear, fol
lowed by coo'it, partly cloudy weather and
occasional rains.
In Tennessee aud the Ohio valley, falling
barometer, warmer southerly winds, partly
cloudy or clear weather.
In the Middle States, falling barometer,
wanner southerly winds, partly cloudy or
clear weather.
GARCELON BESOM1SATED Fpil OOVXBHOR OF
ELECTED TO THE CHAIR OF NATURAL HIS
TORY AND BOTANY.
Charlottesville, Va., July 1.—William
Minis Fontaine, M. 11.. has been elected to
the chair of Natural History and Botany in
the University of .Virginia, recently endowed
by Wm. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D.
C. Professor Fontaine was a student at
this Institution daring the session In 1856,
1857 and 1858, graduating with the degree
of M. H. He afterwards studied in Germany.
He Is now Professor in the University of
West Virginia, at Morgantown.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
San Francisco, July 1.—The Democratic
State Convention assembled at Sacramento
to-day with a full delegation present. After
effecting a temporary organization and ap
pointing committees, the convention took a
recess till eight o’clock. A strong disposi
tion Is manifested to endorse Dr. Glenn
(Honorable Bilks) as the nominee for Gov
ernor, hot the opposition to it Is increasing.
THR LOUISIANA STATE DEBT.
New Orleans, July 1.—The Constitu
tional Convention adopted a substitute for
the minority report, recognizing the princi
pal of the State debt as constituted under
the refunding act, but reducing the interest
to three per cent, for fifteen years, and four
per cent, thereafter. -
THE JULY STAKES AT THE NEWMARKET
MEETING.
London, Jolyl.—The race for the July
stakes at the Newmarket meeting to-uay
was won by Prince Saltykolf’s colt Mok,
Lord Falmouth’s Ambassadress second, R.
Peck’s Evasion third, and P. Lorillard’s
Cherokee fourth.
MAINE.
Banlor, Me., July L—The Democratic
State Convention met here to-day, and was
called to order by Edmund Hand; Chairman
of the State Committee. The balloting for
a candidate for Governor resulted in the
unanimous renomination of Gov. Garcelon.
I-r.TI I of NOT GUILTY ENTERED.
New VoBgj July J.—fn the casea of po
liceman John Nugent and John Kelly,
charged with complicity in the Manhattan
Bank robbery, pleas of not guilty were
entered, and the prisoners were remanded
to tail to await trial.
BURNED.
Cincinnati, July 1.—The businesspoi tion
of Arthur, Ills., was burned yesterday. The
loss is estimated at $33,060, insurance
$10,000.
NEW POSTAL CARS.
Wilmisoton, N. C., July 1.—In accord
ance with arrangements with the Post Office
Department the Atlantic Coast Line com
mences lo-day running new postal cars.
The postponement of Grant’s return
home appears to have a close connection
with the subsidence of the Grant boom,
if it is not caused by it. A short time
ago he was represented as very impatient
to get back home, and we can well be
lieve it, for he has been fearfully bored
by the whole business. It was an
nounced while he was in Japan that he
would sail for San Francisco to reach
tliat port on June 20. With that
expectation the great excursion was
projected. The Legislatures of some
of the States began to toot the
to toot
Grant horn. Just about the same time more explicit than the father, in
the latent public disgust at the third term answer to ‘Paine’s Rights of Man.’
manifested itself. The thing had been
overdone. Some of Grant’s admirers
here noted the change of feeling and the
collapse of the boom and notified him.
It would never do for Grant to auivc
here at the wrong time, so the much
bored General has been obliged to plan a
trip to Australia, and go on playing the
dreary farce of being “just like a boy
out of school” for six mouths longer.
He will probably not he here before
March.—Baltimore Gazette.
Two Little Girls Killed by Light
ning.—In New York during a thunder
storm Sunday afternoon two little girls,
Emily, aged six years, and Ada, four and
a half years, daughtera of Mr. Weswell,
a master mechanic employed by the Hsv.
lem River Railroad Company, were
struck by lightning aud instantly killed.
The family lived in a neat cottage at Ful
ton avenue and 170th street. Morrisania.
In front of the door stand two tall white
oak trees, and an arbor is constructed be
tween. The children were sitting in the
arbor after their dinner, reading a book
of nursery rhymes, when the storm came
on quickly. Their father came to the
cottage door and called to them to enter
the house aud take shelter. Just at that
moment an intensely bright flash of
lightning struck one of the trees and
shot downward, stripping the bark off
the tree. When the father recovered
from the blinding light he found his two
darlings dead where they sat. The
clothes of both were badiy burned, and
their shoes were torn off their feet. The
father and mother arc'prostrated with
grief at their terrible affliction.
LETTER FROM THOMAS JEFFER
SON.
The Monarchical Tendencies ot Hie
Time—A Prophecy and a Warninc,
A Night’s Burglaries in Flat-
lands.—Two thieves went to Flatlands,
L. L, on Friday night and, breaking into
the stable of John B. Hendrickson, a
grocer, stole his horse and wagon, some
feed and the blankets and stable tools.
Then they entered the store and stole
some groceries, which they carried away
in the wagon. From the grocery store
they went to Cornelius Van Mater's
wheelwright shop, from which they car
ried away ail the best tools and a crow
bar, which they also put into the wagon.
Then they drove to the Dutch Reformed
Church. With the croWbar they burst
open the front doors. They found very
little to steal, and after wandering some
about the church, tried to carry the organ
away. But it was too heavy, and they
took instead six chairs, worth twenty dol
lars each. These they put in a wagon
and drove back to Brooklyn.—New York
World.
The murder of the colored woman,
Ellen Coleman, near Ware’s Shop, in
Louisa county,. Virginia, is the second
horrible ovent of the kind that has oc
curred in that county this spring. The
body of the .murdered girl was found in
the North Anna river with the neck
Ijroken, and stones tied to it by a grape
vine, hickoiy withes, etc. At the in
quest there was much excitement, and
the evidence, which was Wholly circum-
stantial.’but is very strong, pointed to
two white men, Wm. J. Groome and
James H. Clemens, as the perpetrators.
There were reasons why Groome should
be anxious for the girl’s death, and it is
believed he induced Clemens to assist
him. They are both held for trial. Few
murders in the State have exhibited
more cruel circumstances in the perpe-
tfatjou,
June has been a fatal month to the
Napoleonic schemes. On the 18th of
June, 1815, the battle ol Waterloo was
fought in Belgium, and its loss crushed
out the fiiyt empire and sent the great
Napoleon to St.'Helena. ■ Grn the jflth of
June, 1807, Maximilian, the Emneror of
Mexico, was shot at Queretaro. This put
a final end to the ambitious scheme for
forming a French empire on American
soiL And on the 1st of June, 1.879, the
Prince Imperial and Emperor in training
is killed liy the Zujus. Of these three
catastrophes, wbipn occurred bn as many
continents, the last seems the most fatal
to the hopes of dynastic aggrandize
ment—N. Y. Graphic.
A Rejected Suitor's Revenge.—
Some fs” months ago a young man, now
a resident of Grinnell, Iowa, marriiiu.
Last week he received a package contain
ing a note and a' cigar. The note ex
plained that the cigar was a wonderfully
fine one. The unusual character of the
gift, coupled with the fact that the younj
husband did not recognize the name ol
tbe donor, aroused Ins suspicions, and
he showed his present to his wife. She
recognized the writing as that of a for
mer suitor. She proceeded to invest!
gate the cigar, and found several grains
of strychnine concealed in the end. The
fellow has not been regarded as quite in
his right mind of late.
“Monticello, January 8,1825.
“Dear Sir—I returned the first
volume of Hall by a mail of a week ago,
and by this shall return the second; we
have kept them long, but eveiy member
of the family wished to read his book, in
which case you know it had a long gaunt-
let to run.
“It is impossible to read thoroughly
such writings as those of Harper and
Otis, who take a page to say what re
quires hut a sentence, or rather who give
you whole pages of what is nothing to
the purpose. A cursory race over their
ground is as much as they can claim; it is
easy for them at this day to endeavor to
whitewash their party. Then the greater
part are dead of those who witnessed
what past, others are old and become in
different to the subject, and others indis
posed to take the trouble of answering
them. As to Otis, his attempt is to prove
that the sun does not shine at midday;
he merits no notice. Harper has never
been remarked for hesitations about
fact, when detection was not obvious;
and by placing in false lights whatever
admits it, and passing over in silence
what docs not, a plausible aspect may be
presented of anything. He takes great
pains to prove, for instance, that Hamil
ton was no monarchist, by exaggerating
his own intimacy with him, and the im
possibility, if he were so, that he should
not at some time have betrayed it to him.
This may pass with uninformed readers,
but not with those who have had it from.
Hamilton’s own mouth. I am one of
those, and but one of many. At my own
table as well as elsewhere I have heard
him and Mr. Adams both avow their
preference of monarchy, and especially
that of England, over all other govern
ments. Both agreed it was the most
perfect model of government ever de
vised by the wit of man; Mr. Adams ad
ding only ’if its corruptions were done
away,’ and Hamilton that ‘with these
corruptions it is perfect, and without
them it would be impracticable govern
ment.’ Can any one read Mr. Adams'
defense of the American constitutions
without seeing that he was a monarchist,
and John Quincy Adams, his son, was
more explicit than the father, in his
answer to ‘Paine’s Rights of Man.’ So.
much for leaders. Their followers were
divided. Some went the same lengths,
others, and I believe the greater part,
only wished a stronger executive. When
I arrived in New York, in 1790, to take
a part in the administration, being fresh
from the French revolution while in
its first and pure stage, and conse
quently somewhat whetted up in my
own republican principles, I found a
state of things in the general society
of the place which I could not have
supposed possible. Being a stranger
there 1 was feasted from table to table,
at large set dinners, the parties generally
from twenty to thirty, the revolution I
had left and that we had just gone
through in the change of our own gov
ernment being the common topics of
conversation. I was astonished to find
the general prevalence of monarchical
sentiments; insomuch that in maintain
ing those of republicanism, 1 had al
ways the whole company on my hands,
never scarcely finding among them a sin
gle co-advocate in that argument, unless
some old members of Congress happened
to be present The fuilhest that any
one would go in support of the republican
features of our new government wouid
be to say ‘the present Constitution is
well, as a beginning, and may be allowed
a fair trial; but it is in fact only a step
ping-stone to something better.’ Among
their writers, Denny, the editor of the
Portfolio, who was a kind of oracle with
them and styled the Addison of America,
opeu'y avowed b ! s preference of mon
archy over aH other forms of govern
ment, prided himself in the avowal, and
maintained it by argument free and with
out reserve, in his publications wb'Ch ob
tained from that merit the most encour
aging support. I do not myself
know that the essex junto
of Boston were monarchists: but
I have always so understood. These, my
dear sir, are but detached items from a
great mass of proofs then folly before
the public; they are unknown to you t3-
c;use you were absent in Europe, and
they are now d ! savowed by the party
but had it not been for the firm and ac
teim'ocd stand then made by a counter
parlyj no man : can’say what our govern
ment would have been at ‘ this ' day.
Monarchy, to be sore, is now defea’nd,
and they wish it should be forgotten that
it ever was advocated. They see that it
is desperate and treat its imputation to
them as a calumny; and I verily believe
that none of them have it now ! n d ; rcct
Yet the spirit is not done away.
THE HOLYOKE BUTCHER.
Relieton of the Man Who Sent Hll
Three Children to Heaven.
The counsel for the negro Cox, who
murdered Mrs. Hull in New York, has
discovered that the accused was sun-
struhk while in the army, and that he has
not been a sound minded, responsible
person since. Veiy likely; hut the law
should take hold of Mr. Cox and com
plete the work -which tbe sun failed to
cany out. There is no remedy so potent
lirithe cases of gentlemen who are made
confirmed thieves and murderers by the
action of the sun as the breaking of their
necks by a skillful Sheriff.—a
Gazette.
A bam swallow with' a predilection
for $ home on the rolling deep has built
its nest under the guard of a steamer
• ring between New York and Pough-
epsie, and rides duly between the two
points.
fwq little
were giveifa pit
told them to r
selves.
boys at Paris, Ky.,
by their iqother, who
out and 'amuse them-
and one was killed.
The same party tako now what thev
deem the next bC3t ground, the con:a'-.
dation of the government, the giving to
the Peders' members of the government,
by Hulimitcd constructions of the Con
stitution, a control over all the functions
of the States, and the concentiation of
all power ultimately at Wasb’og.op.
“The true history of that conflict of
parties will never be in possession of the
public until, by the death of the actors in
it, the hoards of their letters shall be
taken up and given to the world,
shoqld not fear- to appeal to fflose of
Hu per himself, if he has kept copies of
them, for abundant of proof that he
was himself a monarchist. I shall not
live to see these unrevesled proofs, nor
probably you, for time will be requisite
but time will in the end produce the
truth, and after all it is but a truth which
exists in every country, where not sup
pressed by the rod of despotism. Men,
according to their constitutions and tl
circumstances in which they are plaoe
differ honestly in opinion. Some are
Whigs, Liberals, Democrats, call them
what you please; others are Tories, ser-
viles, aristocrats, eta; the latter feu the
people, and wish to transfer all power to
the higher classes of society, The
former consider the people as the safest
depository of {lower, in the ultimate
they cherish them therefore, and wish to
leave in them all the power to the exer
cise of which they are competent; this is
the division of sentiment now existing
in the United States; It- is the common
division of Whig and Tory,'Or, accord
ing to our denomination, of Republican
and Federalist, and is the most salutary
of ali divisions. It ought therefore to be
fostered^ instead of being amaigamaf
—-for take away this, and some
more dangerous division will take
plfiCS, ’ll! 1 there js really
no amalgamation. The parties ex
ist now as heretofore, the one indeed has
thrown off its old name, and has not yet
assumed a new one, although obviously
consolidation^?.
“I have gone into these facts to show
how one-sided a view of the case Harper
has presented. I do not recall these recol
lections with pleasure, but rather wish
to forget them. Nor did I ever permit
them to affect social intercourse, and
now, least of all, am disposed to do so.
Peace and good will with ail mankind
are my sinpere wish- I willipgly leave
to the present generation to conduct
their affairs as they please. And in my
general affectipn to mankind, and my
particular devotion to my friends, be a -
sured of the high and special estimation
in which yourself is cordially held.
“Th. Jefferson.”
A Bank Teller Shoots His Coach
man.—Joseph A. Blair, paying teller of
the Mechanics’ National Rank of New
York, residing at Mount Clair, N, J., has
been arrested at the latter place for
noting Mg iYnu»linmD John Armstrong
Irishman, in the stable, Thursday
ming. Armstrong was removed to St.
duel's Hospital, where he died Fri
da). He stated that Blair was in a pas
sion because he had ^topped at a beer
saloon, and followed him to his room,
where he shot him. Blair’s defense is
that he supposed Armstrong was about
to shoot him, and fired in self defense,
fhe laboring men are greatly incensed,
add threatened to lynch Rlair, who was
placed under arrert.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican has
had an interview with KemmJer, the
German who killed his three children
in the village of Holyoke. The Republi
can says: Kemmler is a short, well-knit,
nervous man, with dark hair and beard
the latter shaved only on the cheeks an< l
half the jaw on each side; the dark com-
plexion of the South German; keen, rest
less eyes, with more than common space
between them, and with the brows stiff
and a little upturned at the temples. He
has a determined look, and the lines
that indicate a moody and irritable
temper mark his face. He
rapidly and easily, and evidently
is intelligent and thoughtful. He has
lived not altogether pleasantly with his
wife, and acknowledges that he has
beaten her sometimes, and once or twice
severely. Nearly all his acquaintances
testify that he was faithful in his work,
quiet and peaceful, though not always
pleasant He has not been given to
drink, taking only an occasional glass of
beer, nor has he been addicted to any
other vices. Some of those who know
him utter mysterious hints that he has
“led a “dark life all the way through,”
that he does not bear his true name, etc.
It is also asserted that he had no belief
in God or a future life, and others say
that he is a thorough Socialist All these
rumors he has contradicted in his con-
versations since his arrest, either definite
ly or indefinitely.
He has remained in a perfectly
self-satisfied frame of poind ever since
the murder, declaring that he
done right, but expects to be hanged,
and is willing to be. He betravs mo
mentary glimpses of emotion. Yester
day his likeness was taken by a photo
grapher; and to some one who asked
him if he would like pictures of the chil
dren, he answered that he would, but he
didn't know who wouid pay for them
he had no money. In conversation last
evening he justified his deed with entire
readiness, and a portion of the interview
will illustrate his character and motives,
and indicate the singular terrible insani
ty which possesses him:
“How do you feel now.Mr. Kemmler?’
was asked.
“I feel well,” said he, iu his somewhat
broken English; "how should I feel?
have not felt so well os now for a long
time. I have had a good sleep; I have
had something to cat; I have a bed—it is
not a very good bed, but then I do not
any work, and it is good enough.”
But what do you think is to become
of you ?”
“ Ah ! That I do not think—if I stay
here, or in some other place, I am all
right; if they hang me, it is all right”
“And after you arc hanged—what do
you think God will do with you ?”
“ God ? well, what can he do with me?
He will take good care of me.
“ You believe in a God ?”
“ Of course I believe in a God. I am a
Christian; I am not a Catholic; I had
some sort of fuss with that German priest
down there; I have not beep to church
much in this country; for seven years
now I have worked seven days in the
week, and I have no time to go to church;
but I am a Protestant Christian, and just
as good a Christian as anybody.”
Then you think you did right to kill
your children ?”
“I did the best I could for them,
am getting old; I had no work and no
money; I could not give them so good
an education as I wanted; they would
grow up and have nothing, and perhaps
get into the poor-house, and perhaps into
bad houses—oh, I have read such things
in the papers, and I have seen such
things. And they was as good children
as you can ever see.' I have taken them
away while they was good, they cannot
be bad now.”
“Then you think your children are in
Heaven?”
1 “I know it-^they are in Heqven.”
“Do you expect to’gee them ggain?”
“Of course. I shall go to Heaven”'
“Then you don’t think murder will
keep a man out of Heaven?”
"You don’t understand. If I was to
kill a man and take his money, I should
go to heU.”
“But isn’t it worse to kill your pretty,
innocent children?”
“Well, I tell you how it was. You see,
those children was my children. I was
their father They belong to me.”
“Didn’t they belong to your wife,
too?”
“Oh—yes—they belong to my wife.”
“Did you not ask your wife if she was
willing to have you kill the children?’
“Why should I do that? She would
be foolish, and I would not have done it
at all. She had nothing to say. They
belong to me—she belong to me.”
“You love your children?”
“Oh, I did love them. When I would
work until twelve o’clock at night and
get to bed, and next morning the children
would ask if it was timi for father to get
up; then they would come into the room,
and I pretend asleep, and they get up on
me, and put their fingers in mine eye9,
and make little noisgs, and then I wake
up and we have great times.”
This last was said in response to the
suggestion of an officer, who had heard
him reciting the story before. It was
told with all the simple delight and prjtlp
of the father’s heitit, but there was no
tremor in the voice,’though many chuck
les of pleasure in recalling the picture,
and a half bashful, deprecatoiy manner.
In the same way he answered the follow
ing question:
“Haven’t you felt b idly once since you
did tins deed?”
“No, not so. Is it?” appealing to the
officer.
"You lfflow,’! the latter replied, “that
you cried a little this morning, John.
“Oh, I tell you how that was. It was
some foolishness. When I get up Sun-
day mornings, it may be at six or eight
o’clock, or whenever, and we eat our
breakfast^ my Ijttle girjs pur dh their
hala an'd we walk down along the river,
picking some flowers. And Iwas think
ing that I would be going down by the
river picking some floweis this morning,
if—but those things are for rich fathsra
and their children,”
"You say that you killed the children
for fear they might be poor and goto
the bad. Why cUdu’t you woflc todafce
care qf them aud bring them up safely?' 1
"Qh! it is very easy to talk that. But
you tell me work, and another tell me
work, but where is the work?”
•Do you think you tried your best?”
‘I went to the Black Hills, and I used
up my money and got nothing. I would
never come back, bnt I think about my
children so all the time, W4 W wife
cannot worjc ” with the baby, and’ I get
old and can’t work, and I think how
much belter to kill them now, so I come
home just for that. Now my wife will
find work and live comfortable. It is
net good to sit to the table and ask my
self }f this is — SJ —•* ' * v — '
, paid for apd haw then I
shall pay for It. Here! have liny break*
fast'am
ask nothing about it
ays fo
I sup-
dr it”
of killing yourself.
.a,, I thought of that—but that
would be wicked, and I should not go
to heaven.”
Kemmler was not calm and composed
in these strange utterances, though he
was tearless, and spoke in a matter-of-
fact way that strove to be indifferent
The conversation above reported is not
reproduced with anything like fullness,
but it is correct so far as it goes, find is
ut one of several of tbe same tenor.
[6 Wffl talk of Us Black Hills adven
tures in a dear and graphic way, and
has entire command of himself in all
such outside matters. He shows nothing
bnt sanity - and sense in regard to any
other matter than his terrible deed. But
when that is touched upon it is most
ihun that his brain and heart are crazed,
nerves wrought to the extremest ten-
and he is on the verge of a
and shouted. ‘Let me out! Let me go
kill her! I don’t want her in pain!’
When the officer told him that the child
would soon die, he quieted down and
said, ‘Oh, it is all right, then!' ” It seems
certainly impossible that the man should
sustain his present unnatural compla
cency very long—he must break before
iong, and the wreck will be complete and
Irretrievable.
A word about the public feeling,which
has been represented as turbulent
and angry that there were appre
sions of an attempt to lynch Kcmn
There does not seem to be anything of
this kind felL There weie hundreds of
visitors to the house, and the crime was
the subject of talk everywhere, but the
general feeling was inevitable that such
a deed was that of one insane. Kemmler
will undoubtedly plead guilty to the
charge of murder, and has once or twice
said, we are informed, that he will tell
strange story.
She Could be Trusted.
iL Tkiert.
“I can trust my little daughter; I know
she tells me everything,” said the moth
er, holding up the bright, gentle face,
and looking down at it fondly.
“Yes, mamma,” was on the little girl'
lips, but her eyes dropped suddenly, and
her cheeks were crimsoned in a moment.
A kiss on the pretty lips, and the mother
was turning away.
“Mamma,” said the little husky voice,
“let me whisper in your ear. Mamma,
you trust me. I must tell you every
thing,” and her voice was so low that
only the mother heard iL As she bent
over to catch the hurried words she felt
the little heart flattering under her fin
gers, she saw the face flush and pale,
she knew, too, by the quiver of the lips
the struggle of the moment
She would have kissed the lips, the
face, and hushed the heart; she would
have stopped the trying story, but she
knew that a fault confessed was a fault
half conquered, and so waited to the end.
It was a strange, new thoughtlessness
the little girl recounted, of a sad step
aside from the narrow way of right
She knew better. She liad been more
than half unhappy on account of it for
several days, especially as she could not
gather courage to confess it—only the
words of trust brought about the confes
sion. Could she say, “Yes, mamma,”
knowing that at that very moment she
was covering a little corner of the heart
where she had hidden a fault she wished
no eyes to see?
The mother, sorry for the child’s trial,
yet clad of her victory for right, wqs still
sad In thinking ot the fault. Other chil
dren might have done the same thing—
other children might have done worse—
but her own fair-faced child ! she could
have wept before her as she stood both
in gladness and in sorrow—sorrow for
the fault; gladness that she was too true
to receive praise unworthily, too strong
for the right to allow the hardness of tbe
confession to overcome her.
She stooped and folded her in her arms,
ying: “ Kiss me, Kathrina; your fault
would break my heart, but that J believe
this hour you have cenquered; you have
dqne well -now I know better than'I
knew before, that I can trust my little
daughter.”
A Curious Plea for Pardon.
Baltimore Sun.
A curious plea has been set up before
the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons ou a
a petition for the release of Mr. John S.
Morton, who was convicted abont two
years ago and sentenced to a term of im
prisonment for the fraudulent issue and
appropriation of a large amount of stock
of a Philadelphia street railway com
pany, of which he was President. His
friends are now seeking to get him par
doned, on the ground that he is insane
on the subject of spiritualism. His
brother-in-law, Mr. Baker, testified be
fore the board the other day to certain
conversations he had had with Morton
in prison, in which his hallucinations in
respect to spiritualism were very strongly
manifested. Re imagined, among other
things, that he had been visited by a
woman who was a medium,’who told
him that “as soon as he got outof prison
she would point out to him a spot where
he had only to dig to get untold
millions.” There is ro plea that Mr.
Morton was insane on any point when
he put out fraudulent stock of the com
pany to an amount almost equal (o thq
original issue—stock, too, for ’wtiicli tie
cqqrts have refie&tly declared the com-
liny to be obligated, because it was
ssued and signed and countersigned by
the accredited agents of the company.
Nor is it contended that Mr. Morton is
insane now on any other subject.tban
that of spiritualism. Even assumingrft
to he true that he is insane on that poiuf,
a Chicago court decided a few years ago,
in the great Ward will case, that a man
may he deranged on a particular subject
and yet he of sound capacity on ail
others. In the Morton case there has
never been any doubt of his guilt, nor of
his sanity at the time he committed the
offense of which he was convicted.
Urir
A Woman who Believes in Prayer.
—Mrs. Wheeler, of New Haven, asserts
that she has been miraculously cured,
after lying bedridden for sixteen yeq;s.
She made up her mind tbqt if She had
sufficient {qitb, a' miraole would be
wrbiight in her behalf. “After praying
five minutes,” she says, “I felt a sensa
tion at my heart. I can remember noth
ing distinctly, except that I waa full of
love of God, while my voice in an un
natural tone was heard to exclaim
‘Hallelujah! Jesus is healing me!’ Ry
husband found me as white qs q qorpas
and completely pyqslfal'jd, and when I
iUjuke to oondcionsness my whole family
stood around me terribly frightened. All
the rest ot the day I was very weak, and
could not see that I was any better.
Saturday and Sunday I was very weak,
but slept well, and fejt net pain.' On the
next dqy Rod visited me again. I had
nqf prayed long when I Yelt a similar
sensation to the previous one, but I re
mained perfectly conscious. In an in
stant God raised me to my fee’, speak
ing through me as bifore;' anp saying,
‘Praise the Lord!" Jesus has healed me!’ ’’
There was nothing left of her disease ex-,
cept a lameness in her back, and that
went away in gnawer to. further prayer.
that he cannot yet recognize. Sometimes
it brekks ont in excited actii
action, sis when
an officer came in Saturday and told him
Cheeb Never Pays.—The race is not
always to the swift, nor the battle to the
strong, nor is it the man with the largest
mouth who gets the most favors in this
world. Yesterday afternoon a very
qniet stranger entered a real estate office
on Griswold street and softly asked if he
could use a blotting-pad a moment. Rue
was handed him and he sat down to a
table, looked around, and said: “Ah!
thanks, bnt have you pen and ink?” They
were furnished him. He tried the pen on
the pad, shook the ink around, and
modestly continued: ‘ ‘If you cy^d spare
sheet of paper *” A. sheet Wah handed
him. He Wrote a brief letter, folded it
up, and Whispered: “I shall have to beg
an envelope of yen.” An envelope'was
passed ovgr, and when he had directed
t, he lopfeed fjU over the ’fable, under the
able, nn at the cedihg, aqd Inquired;
Yon cqiddn’t lend me a stamp, eould
you?" A three-oenter was handed out,
and when it had been licked on, the
stranger rose and started out eaying-
“As you have no offhv toy I suppose I
shall iffiTe to take this letter to the office
myself.”—Detrift Free Pratt.
A GHOST STORY.
•What * Vo una LoolirUlr Lawyer
Experienced—HU Slrassle wltb a
Spirit.
Apple Snow.—Put twelve very tar*
apples in cold water over a slow fire.
When soft remove the skin and core.and
mix in a pint of fine sugar; beat the
w bites of twelve eggs to a stiff froth and
odd to the apples and sugar; cool in
gi :sses, wiih a piece ol red currant jelly
lo ornament the top of each.
Louisville Courier-Journal, 23d.
Louisville has a ghost story equally as
strange as, and somewhat suniliar to. one
which created a sensation in New York
some years ago. A week or two since
there appeared an advertisement in the
Courier-Journal stating that a large, plea
sant room at 811 Gray street was for rent
on exceedingly low terms. To all who
called to look at the room the piopnetor
candidly explained that the reason that it
was tenantless and was offered on such
low terms was that for about six
months past it had had the reputation
of being haunted, and no one bad
sinee been found who would occupy it
more ihnn one night. Mr. Rnfos P.
Kinloch, a young lawyer of this place,
scoffed at the story, and rented the
room for a year. On the first night that
he spent therein he informs us that a
little before twelve o’clock ho awoke
suddenly with a strong and strange feel
ing that some one was near him. Just
then his clock struck twelve, and simul
taneously with the last stroke a heavy
body, as if from tbe ceiling, dropped
and clasped him tightly with a cold an<
clammy pair of arms. Young Kinloch,
so soon os he could partially recover
from the paralysis produced by the sud
den surprise and terror, began a despe
rate struggle to free himself. Over the
bed they wrestled and tumbled, whence
finally they fell to the floor. Kinloch
felt that it was life or death with him
and he strained eveiy fibre in his body
to shake off his invisible foe. He could
plainly hear its breathings, which were
regular and not apparently increased
by the struggle. Its breath swept
into his face as chilly os an
air current from a mountain cave. Its
body, which he could feel, was without
a thiread of clothing, was evidently in the
shape of a man’s, but was as cold and
rigid as a corpse. The only sound which
came from it was an occasional low, sc
sulchral laugh, which almost froze Kin
ioch to the bone. In his wild efforts to
cast it off, Kinloch knocked a table over.
The match box fell and scattered its con
tents over the floor. Kinloch, with one
hand, immediately seized a match, but
just as he struck it, and before it could
blaze up, the thing, with another laugh,
wrenched itself away. In an instant
Kinloch had the gqs lit, hut his visitor
had entirely disappeared. The doors
were ail locked and the windows all
fastened, just as he had left them
on going to bed. He examined
tbe ceiling and the walls, but
could discover not the slightest sign of
ingress or egress. Then he looked in
the glass, saw that his hair had notjumed
white, and sat up with thp gas burning
the rest of the night. Next aay he care
fully and thoroughly examined the room,
end is prepared to swear that no human
being esu get gdogittanro to it except
through the doors or windows. The
succeeding night, which was that of
Monday last, notwithstanding his experi
ence already, he resolved to make another
attempt to solve the mystery. Placing
his pistol, a candle and a box of matches
on a table within reach' of his bed, he
turned off the gas and lay down.
Not once did he think of sleeping.
Finally the clock began striking
twelve. Again, as it finished,
the mysterious thing dropped
from above on the breast of Rinioch and
clasped him in its embrace. Wrapping
one arm apouod m a death like grip, with
his disengaged hand Kinloch grasped a
match and struck it. The thing, which
seemed to have a horror of light, made
one violent effort to leqve, and then, as
the match flared up, lay panting, pas
sive qud conquered. KiDloch delibe
rately lit the candle, held it over his
prisoner, and saw to bis amasement that
. S.—Atidql wave of jolly
Kentucky editors swept down on us just
here- It is impossible for us to write
i gloomy things in their pres-
s for that matter, about any-
about such
ence, or, as lor tuat matter, about any
thing, and we shall have to wait til, they
quit sweeping down on us before we
finish.)
Girls vs. Bovs.—-Perhaps skeptics
may be compelled to acknowledge, after
awhile, that girls can do something be
sides'dress and flirL From the Univer
sity of Michigan Chronicle we observe
that every year since they have been
admitted to that institution, with the ex
ception of 1878, more girls than boys. In
proportion to their respective numbers,
lave passed successfully through the
coarse sad been graduated. The per
cent of girls graduating iu 1872 was 1C9;
of boys, 90. Of girls iu 1873, 100; of
boys, 70. Of girls in 1874, 73; ot boys,
52. Of girls in 1875, 70; of boys, 60.
Of girls in 1870, 67; of. boys, 63. Of
girls in 1877, 70; of boys, 63; and qf girls
m 1878, 60; of boys, 69. From another
source we learn tliat recently girls were
admitted to the privileges of the Univer
sity of London. Contrary to the expec
tations as to their inability to reach it?
standard, in the first examination just
concluded, nine out of the eleven who
entered passed, six of them taking honors
id three taking scholarships, which is a
:tter showing than any male class over
made at the University.
The Boston Traveller objects to the
description in the Age of Gen. Grant as-
a “vulgarian.” Gen. Grant jg y^t in the
vigor ot life, and is dlmo&ed to ask too
much of a grateful country. His actions
abroad and his motives of life now. have
nothing to do with his undisputed mili-
ilc
taiy glory. His political life hai beqn
marked and marred by a submission to
the devious aims and policies of his
scheming political friends. He is a can
didate for the Presidency, and his tour
of the world was undertake!
le world was undertaken mainly from
mlltlcal motives. He is a vulgarian in
he sense of exhibiting himself with a
purpose. We must take kirn as a candi
date at his worst. Giantism is a danger
ous element in politics, and if he is al
lowed to juggle with the honest patriot
ism of the country there is dqiiger. His
candidacy will defer the true issues in
politics (o settlement at a more inoppor
tune time; and if Gen. Grant’s friends
should succeed in getting the American
pnblic out of humor with him for a sea
son by reason of the present vulgar dis
play, it would be well for the country.—
LouizviUe (Ky.) Age.
‘.i
A Water YeloclpeIie.—Elon Marsh,
of Battle Creek, Michigan, has invented
a' velocipede to ride upon water. It was
given a good test a day or two ago. and
jroved perfectly satisfactoiy. The frame
s similar to that of an orainary veloci
pede, having three wheels, yr rather
arge air tight (Iraqis, with fans, two in
front ps propellers and one behind to
steer by. The machine is propelled and
steered in the same manner as any hi
cycle. At the trial on the riverit walked
:p the stream against the current much
l aster'tbaii an ordinary boat, and with
greater ease than rowing. The machine
draws only five inches of water. The
irincipal objection seems to be that a fel-
ow can’t take his girl railing with him.
Fut in Jail for Pravisa. —During
the meeting of the colored Methodist
society in Newark, N. J., the other
night, ■ one of the brethren prayed so
loudly that he disturbed other worship
ers. He was asked to pray more quietly,
but he would not, so he was ejected.
The following night be made an appear
ance again, and insisted upon praying as
loudly as before. He violently resisted
arrested.
an effort to eject him, and was i
At the station he said his m
Philip Ray, and immediately fe
, „ . . , name was
ip Ray, and immediately fell on his
knees in prayer. He was obliged to rise
to his feet to be taken to a cell, but the
iron door had not closed on him before
he was an his knees in supplication
again. He is held on a charge of disor
derly conduct
A minister of thq Church of England,
at Circhester, having refused to adminis
ter the sacrament to a lady because she
had married the husband of a deceased
sister, the Bishop decided as follows:
Alter having carefully considered the
epprt you haiSP made to me, it is my
:nt that, as the law of the Church
and the law of the land are both explicit,
yon could not have acted otherwise,
though I know well that it has given
yon great pun to have been obliged so
to act.”
The Ragged School Union of London
expends about $130,000 a year in en
deavoring to elevate the lowest and poor
est classes. It has 30,500 children in
Sunday schools, 5,4% in day schools,
and 9,267 in night schools. It maintains
75 ra -ged churches, manages 83 lending
libraries and 75 penny banks, besides
superintending mothers’ meetings, men’s
clubs, bands of hope, and a variety of
children’s meetings.
Cocoa Shells.—Put t wo tablespoon-
fuls cocoa shells into a little cold water,
add to them a pint of boiling water and
iioil for au hour; strain and add a pint
of rich milk; let it come to a boQ and
serve. This makes a delicious drink, and
very acceptable when coffee and tea are
found to lie injurious.
Brown Betty.—Scald two cupfuls of
broad crumbs in a cupful of nch milk;
mix with them two cupfuls of chopped
apples, two thirds of a cupful of sugar,
a leaspoonful of melted butler, a tea-
Bpoouful of ground cinnamon and a little
salL Bake in a quick oven for half an
hour, and serve with cream and sugar.
Salt Fish.—Salt fish should be put iu
a deep plate, with just enough water to
cover it, the night before you intend to
cook it; it should not be boiled one in
stant, for boiling renders it hard; it
should lie in scalding hot water for two
or three hours; the less water that is
used, and the more fish is cooked at
once, the better: water thickened with
flour and water while boiling, with sweet
butter put in to melt, is the common
Tapioca Jelly.—Soak a cup of tapi
oca over night in a pint of water. In
the morning set it on the hack part of
the stove and add a cupful of warm
water; let it simmer slowly, stirring it
often to prevent burning. Cook until it
looks clear, and if too thick add a little
boiling water. Flavor with sugar and
lemon juice, and turn into wet molds to
cool. Serve with sweet cream flavored
with vanilla and sugar to taste and a lit
tle grated nutmeg.
Rice Blanc Mange.—Mix four table
spoonfuls of rice flour in a little cold
milk, add a pinch of salt Stir this into
a quart of boiling milk and boil and stir
for ten minutes. When partly cool add
the whites of two or three eggs beaten to
a froth, and cook again until almost
boiling, then turn into a wet mould.
Serve with Iream sweetened and fla
vored. Farina or arrowroot may be
cooked in the same manner, omitting
the eggs and the second boiling.
Feathers should be very thoroughly
dried before using them. If feather
beds smell badiy, or become heavy from
want of proper renovation cf the feath
ers, or from old age, empty them, and
wash the feathers thoroughly in a tub of
suds, spread them in the garret to dry.
and they will be as light and good as
new. Never lay the pillows or feather
ticks to air in the sun; lay them in a
shady place, where the wind can purify
them. Heat makes feathers rancid.
Tiie Eitchen.—If you find it neces
sary to have the floor hare, oil it well
with linseed oil, and you will save many
a weary hour. One thing always spoils
the looks of a kitchen, and that is the
old clothes hanging in iL Make a cup
board. Curtain it. driving nails inside
for all clothing which has to he kept in
the kitchen. Paint a'.I the woodwork in
the kitchen, if possible. Lead color
would be handsome. Do not forget that
curtains are nice for the kitchen as well
as parlor. *
Baked Haw.—Make a hick paste of
flour and water (not boiled), and cover
the entire ham with it, bone and all; put
in a pan ou a spider, or two muffin rings,
or anything that will keep it an inch
frot.: the bottom, and bake in a hot oven;
if a small ham, fifteen minutes for *each
pound; if large, twenty minutes; the
ovcu should be hot when put-in. The
paste forms a hard crust round the ham,
and the skin comes off with it. Tiy
this, and you will never cook a ham in
any other way.
To Make Yeast Cake.—Take two or
three handfuls of hops, put them into a
small bag, boil a few minutes in abont
three pints of water; while the water ia
boiling hot pour it ou as much floor as
will make a stiff batter; when it is suffi
ciently cool, not to scald, mix in two or
three yeast cakes which have been well
dissolved in warm water, set in a warm
place, and when very light, knead in as
much Indian meal as you can, and cut in
small cakes, and spread on boards to dry;
when partly dry crumple them up, aa
they diy quicker.
Extra Good Cookies,—One-half cup
of butter, one cup of while sugar, one-
half cap cf sour mi'k, one egg, one-half
teaspoonful of salcratus; melt the butter,
mix ail soft together with a spoon, and
set away for one half hour in the winter
and one whole hour in summer where it
is cold; then the dough can be easily
rolled without adding very much flour
(the less the better); sprinkle the dough
after rolling with sugar, cut and bake ia,
a quick oven, watching carefully. The
ingredients mentioned in this recipe make-
two dozen cookies; add carraway seed if
liked,
How to Cook Fis:l—Fish should not
be put into fry until the fat is boiling
hoL It should be dipped in Indian
meal before it is put in, the skinny side
uppermost when first put in to prevent
ijs breaking. It relishes liettar to be
fried after salt pork than in lard alone.
Never put fresh fish to soak in water. If
you want to keep it sweet, clean and f
wash it; wipe dry with a towel, sprinkle
salt inside and out, put in a covered
dish and keep on the cellar bottom until
; rou want to cook it. If you live remote.
i rora the seaport, and cannot get fish ’;
hard and fresh, wet it with an egg- *
(beaten) before you meal it, to prevent
its breaking.
Macaroni with Tomato Sauce.- ,, '
Prepare the sauce first and keep it war . , ",
until the macaroni is done. Put , i
chopped onion, two sprigs of parsley r . -
a small piece of celery into a tablesp -*"
fill of butter to cook. When the c •
browns a little add a pint of cann
matces or a quart of fresh ones; b-y
an hoqr, then strain through a sie
a clean saucepan and return to tb
cook until as thick as catsup. P- f
taste with salt andnepper ana
butter. Pat half JHBosd of ma
into bailing salt fffitbr; cook fiftet. - .
twenty minutes, then drain it in. tn fe.-
collander. Place the macaroni in a ho. -
dish with some of the sauce between '
each layer and cover tbe top with the-
sauce. Set in the oven for five minutes,
then serve immediately.
Chocolate Cream.—To a pound of
white sugar put a quarter of a teaenp-
ful of cold water, and beat gradually
until melted; add a teaspoonful of vanilla
and half as much acetic acid, and boa
all together until the water is evaporated
and the mixture becomes sagary; then
take it from the'fire and stir until cold
enouglrlo handle, when it must be rolled
into ‘‘mall balls and put on buttered
plates tb harden. Put half a pound of
' grated chocolate into a double saucepan
over boiling water and stir it until
meiied. Season to taste with vanilla r
thicken with white sugar, and leave it in
the saucepan to keep warm. When the
while bails are cold, roll each one separ
ately in the melted chocolate, using a
fork for tho purpose, then place them
again on buttered plates to cooL
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