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A state committee on railroad afiai
brought out the following facts: The
average price of l>ox-cflrs is $400 to $500.
In 1872 they were ns high ns $1,200.
A milk-car costs about $100 more than
an ordinary box-enr. A bnggngc-i
truck or a pnssengeivcar varies from $2,-
#00 to $2,500. ■ Wngner’8 drawing-room
cars cost from $8,000 to $12,000—this in
cludes all furnishing. Mail-cars from
$2,500 to $3,000. New York elevated
cars cost from $2,500 to $3,000. The
last ordinary passenger-car on the Hud
son River line cost $5,400, including a
heater and some extra licturcs.
The F rst National b nk of New
Ytrk, did not negitiatc such an eiiQr-
mous amount of the new fours for noth
ing. Their profits for the last year ex
ceed anything ever known in the history
of hanking. The capital of the bank is
half a million and its itock is leld at
about $1«000 n share and none offered for
siil \ Last year they carried half a mil
lion to the surplus account, making it
three times as mitch ns the capital and
paid out 120 per cent in dividends, besides
leaving $267,700 undivided. This shows
a profit during the year of over 250 per
cent, and much of the credit is due - To
the mnnag ment of President Fahne
stock, who got his experience in funding
while a member of t’ e firm of Jay
Cooke Co.
Two men of science, Signor Tommassi,
of Rome, and Prof. Kiel), of Prague, af*
ter sending three weeks in that fe.ver-
strickcn region, the Roman Cnmpngnn,
experimontipgoh the soil, it*» atmosphere
and its stagnant waters, “ have succeed
ed,” it is said, “in discovering a micro
scopic fungus, which, being placed under
the skins of healthy dogs, caused dis
tinct and regular paroxysims of inter
mittent fever, and produced in the spleens
of these animals that peculiar condition
which is a recognized part-of the, pathol
ogy of this disease." Similar* results
were obtained by investigation by others,
among them by Prof. Salisbury, of
Cleveland, Ohio, and Dr. Clements, of
Louisville, who announced in 1878 the
results of the investigations and experi
meats. '
During his journey to Mexico, Gnc-
eral Grant will have an opportunity to
visit the scenes of his first military ex
ploits. He will land at Vera Crpz, which
he helped capture in 1846, and go over
the ground between the place and the
city of Mexico, which he traversed with
the army of General Scott. Grant was
* • only 23 years old, when, ns a stripling
•I officer* just out ofJWest Point, ho^was
sent to Texas with his Regiment. Ho
fought at Palo Alto; Resaca' dfe la‘Painin'
| and Monterey, and then went to join
5 Scott before Vera Cruz. lie missed the
battle of Buena Vista by this transfer,
„ hut with the ofooptibn of‘that engage
's ment he took part id every battle of the
war. There were few officers who had
the luck to he wjicro Uie fighting wa
the hardest from the beginning to the
< end of that struggle. Molina del Ray
* gave him'liis promotion to>» first licu-
, tenancy, and his behavior at Chepulta-
pec earned him a brevet captaincy.
A Jury Scene.
Counsel—How large should you*say
this pan, of which you speak, was?
Witness—A four-quart pan, I should
say.
“ Wine or beer measure?”
“Wine; no, beer—I guess it’s beer; I
won t be certain.”
“ But you think it’s beer. What Is
tho shape of a four-quart can?”
“Round.”
“ Like a hall?”
“ No; like a— like a barrel.”
“ Round like a barrel. Yes. Well, is
a four-quart pan tall or short?”
“ It don’t make any difference.”
I “ If a pan was four inches across the
’ bottom and twelve inches tall?”
i “It wouldn’t be a pan at all. It
would bo a pail.”
“ Then a pan can be a pail ?”
$ “ Why, ”
I ,<r
hole in this pan?”
| 4 “ Yes, a little hole.”
\ “In tho bottom or top?”
“ Of course there wasn’t any hole in
J the top?”
■1 “ Then how could anything bo poured
$ into the nan?”
I “ Oh, I forgpt. The top is all hole.”
I “And the bottom?”
I “ Is all pan.”
j “That will do. You see, gentlemen
} of the jury, the witness has no idea of a
: four-quart pan at all,” and tho jury
^ having been awakened by the sheriff,
| nod off again in acquiescence.
* Hungry for n Square Meal.
Nervously working his latch key from
^ the door, the business man hurried into
■/' the house for his dinner.
r3 “ Hello, I say, Jane, where are
J “ Here I am, dear. 1 have just got
' one more feather to paint on this crane
and then it will bo finished. Isn’t it
£ going to bo just lovel—”
“ I know, yes, yes. Where’s Jennie?’
h “ She’s goue out to get a few more
1 autumn leaves; one or two bare spaces
■ are left on the wall in tho room, and
i “Well, well, of course, but where’s
^.Bridget?”
M “ Oh, she has gone to carry the basket;
j, for Jennie, you know, isn’t strong.”
.1 “ To be sure* to be sure; but whero'i
S the dinner?”
3 . “ Now, John, how can you be so cruel,
I I you know that—”
“ Yes. 1 should think I did. I know
that the next time I’m such an infernal
fool as to bring a copy of ‘ I lojiseholcl
• » Art’ into the house I’ll bo balder than I
Sam now. It may be jofired pretty, but
1 I’m hungry for a square meal. Painted
$ storks ain't fricasoed chicken, noc nu
ll turnn leaves celery,” and he went out oL
■ the house in a decided manner, lenviug
I Jane s tear drops rapidly falling
red and blue heron, waslWhgj*
pretty feathers out of its tail. *
I
BUTLER HERALD.
■LET THERE BE LIGHT,”
Subacription, $1.50 in Adyanoe.
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1880.
NUMBER 15.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
There are 4,000 colored Masons
North Carolina.
The Georgia State Lunatic Asylum is
full of patients.
The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum
has 4000 inmates.
Macon, Ga., used $13,000 worth of
Christmas fire-works.
Schoia, Ga., is to havo a Clement at
tachment cot .on mill.
The snlnrr of the Mayor of Savannah,
Ga., it $2,400 |er year.
The Univc sity of Alabama has a li
brary i f 7,000 volumes.
S x per cent, bonds of the City of
August t, Ga., are sold at par.
Of the 2,000 convicts in the Texas
penitentiary only five arc women
White shad are already being caught
in the Roanoke, in North Carolina.
Ninety-three arrests were made on the
stieets of Macon, Ga., on Christmas.
Thousands of orange trees are dying
in Florida from some unknown blight.
Sherman, Texas, has appropriated $1,-
000 for the construction of an artesian
well*.
Two hundred new buildings wero erect
ed in Nashville during 1870 at a cost of
$900,000.
The guava in the near future, will be
one of the most prominent exports from
Florida.
Not a white man was seen drunk in
the streets of Baton Rouge, La., on
Christmas.
Tho tobacco stamp tax paid in Drang"
county, N. C., duriug November, amount
ed to $1,092.70.
A woman named Gallic Patterson was
nyictcd in Memphis of carrying con
cealed weapons.
This fall tho merchants of Abbeville
S. C., havo had tho best cash trade ever
known in tho town.
It is reported that two extensive cigar
factories a e to be removed from Havana
to Key West, Fla.
The people of Perry, Ga., propose to
have one of the finest public libraries in
the United States.
Hon. John C. Nicholls is trying to ge*
a $100,000 appropriation for the harbor
nt Brunswick, Ga.
The Njishvillo American published a
list of colored ladies who were “at home”
on New Year’s day.
The negroes in southwestern Georgia
show a disposition to work exclusively
for wages next year.
The annexation of Edgefield will make
Nashville’s population 60,000 by the
next birthday of the city.
Nino hundred maimed ex-Confcderate
soldiers have applied to the stato of
Georgia for artificial ljmbs.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has five conferences in Tcxns, em
bracing 79,763 members.
They have a colored voting population
in Winston, N. C., of 359, only twenty-
six of whom pay any poll-tax.
In Walton county, Ga., a Miss McRhca
raised this year seventeen bales of cotton
and a good crop of corn and wheat.
Twenty-three $1,000 of Madison
county, Ala., were sold to S. P. Reed, of
Memphis, at six per cent, premium.
A stalk of tobacco eight fact high, from
ranville county, N. C., is shown in the
agricultural museum of that State.
It i.% estimated that Arkansas will pro
duce this year 600.000 bales cotton, which
at a low figure, will yield $30,000,000.
Thos. S. Miller, ft young man in Lan
caster county, N. C., drank a ninf and
a half of rum and died in a few hours.
The Good Templars arc fio’urishing in
Georgia. During the past month eight
odges have been organized in tho
State.'
The Georgia Railroad presented eight
_ r loads of old ties to the Mayor of
Augusta, for distribution among the
poor for fuel.
Visitors to the cotton factory at At
lanta have become so numerous that or
ders have bean issued prohibiting the
admission of any.
The buildings now in coursoof erection
in Chattanooga are most elegant in class
and style, and more costly than were
ever before erected in that city.
Hon. A. P. Butler of Aiken county,
us been elected State Commissioner of
Agriculture of South Carolina. He is a
practical agriculturist of large experience.
The fair grounds at Nashville have
been sold for $40,000 to a firm of Nor
thern capitalists, who propose erecting
thereon furnaces aud a merchant iron
mill.
About twenty farms and twice as
many gardens in San Saba county, Texas,
wore irrigated last season. In most in
stances tho water is obtained from
springs.
Gadsden, Ala., this season will buy
12,000 bales of cotton, sell $1,000,000 of
;oodn, manufacture 20,000,000 feet of
umber and thousands of dollars of fur
niture.
The Confederate monument in Wilcox
county, Ala., will be begun at once, and
the contractor promises to have it ready
for the dedication services by tho 26th
of April,
hving
the city government of
for the ensuing year, a wholesale reduc-
.tion will be made in the number of the
city employes.
An association for the manufacture of
wine, with a capital of $10,000, has been
organized in Randolph county, Ga.
Grape culture has been carried to great
perfection in that county.
The collections by United States Reve
nue Collector W. M. Woodcock, at Nash
ville amounted in December to $100,000,
this being the largest month’s work on
record for the Nashville office.
Selma (Ala.) Times: From a printed
slip, we see that the number of churches
belonging to the Alabama Methodist
Conference South is 461 J. That half is
bringing the matter down to a fine point.
Wilmingt n (N. C.) Star: Mr. A. B.
Wannett, of M^soncoro’ Sound, siys he
stood in Mr. George Peck’s piazza one
day last week and counted Dine whales
ia one school in the ocean abrpjstof that
point.
. A merchant in Savannah, Ga., dona
ted a handsome silver service to be voted
for by tho patrons of the store to tlicii
favorite clergyman. The Rev. Clins. H.
Strong, of the Episcopal church, was tho
successful clergyman.
In Cherokee county, Ala., B. P. Hall
had a misunderstanding with two men
on his place, which led to a lively fight
with stones. Mr. Hall received a blow
on the head which resulted in his death,
and the other parties have been arrested.
Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat: The
j city having no coal, the Chief of Police
on Christinas day released all the prison"
ers in the ’boose charged with minor of
fences. All “skipped’’ but one poor fel
low, who said ho-lmd no choice between
freezing in the ’boose and outside.
It ii estimated that the entire cost of
running the government of North Caro
lina for the two years commercing Sep
tember 80, 1878, and ending S. ptemb r
30, 1880, will be $1,093,000, a d that
the rec-ipt* during tho same time will
be $1,000,000.
The Governor of North Carolina will
call a special meeting of the legislature
of that state to act upon an offer on the
S art of capitalists to buy the Western
forth Carolina ronilrond from (he state
at $800,000, binding the new company
to extend that road to Duektown, Twin.,
on or before 1882.
The Governor of South Carolina grant
ed eleven pardons on Christmas day. All
but two of the pardoned prisoners are
colored, and in every instance the peti
tion for pardon was signed by the judge
who tricu the case, by the solicitor who
prosocuted, and all or a majority of the
juries which convicted.
The Ocean Steamship company, oper
ating between Savannah and New York
city, proposes to have a steamer arrive
at and depart from each of those cities
daily. Already four splendid steamers
are owned by the company, aud a fifth
is about to be built, to l>c called the
“City of Augusta,” and to have a capac
ity of 6,000 bales of cotton.
New Orleans Picayune : There is no
agricultural industry in this State which
could be mndc more profitable than the
cultivation of oranges. During this sea
son very handsome revenues have been
derived by the cultivators of orange
plantations, and it is remarked that more
attention is being given every year to
this branch of fruit culture.
Nashville American: Nashville has
a department of business that is scarcely
known to our merchants. But few persons
ever enter thedoorsof tbisestablis unent,
and yet the firm sells from $1,800 to
$2,500 worth of goods, for cash daily. It
is a house that trades in peddlers’ goods
altogether, aud makes its sales on orders
rsecivcd from nearly- every State in the
South. , .
Charleston (S. C.) News: Yesterday
t was found that the city employes
ould not he paid oft', there being no
money in the treasury. Mayor Cour
tenay, Alderman White and cx-Aldcr-
man Redding gave personal checks, and
raised $500—a sufficient amount to pay
off ono third of the pay-roll, and save the
hands from the loss of a large portion of
their hard-earned wages in the shape of
discount to money Shavers.
New Orleans Picayune: The Peabody
education fund apportioned to this State
will hereafter be confined to this city
and be furnished ior aiding the Peabody
Normal Seminary for white students anti
the Peabody Normal School for colored
students, with a freo model school at
tached to each. Dr. Scars has not yet
apportioned the amounts to these insti
tutions, but tho sum for both will be
about $3,600.
Nashville American : The Secretary
of State registered the charter of the
“ Clark-)vilP, Prircetdh and lied river
Valley railroad company ’ yesterday.
The company propose * ti construct and
operate a railway from Clarksv lie along
the va'lcy of Rci river, cr Ksing -ho
Evansvi;e, Henderson and Nashvil'e
and tin Ownesboro and Nashville rni -
uoa I to Cr ss Pla'n’, in Robertson
county, or seme other convenient \ oint,
and from Clarksri lc in tho dircct'on of
liccton to the Kentucky State line.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE IRON PEN.
fM«<le from « Fetter of Bonnlrard, th* Prisoner af
CMllon; the llundlo of Wood .from the Frigate "Con. ■
•Ututlnn," and bound with a Circlet of Gold, lnaM '
with three predoua atonce from Siberia, Ge/loa im
Maine.]
I thought thla pen woald arise
From tne casket where It Ues^.
Of Itself would arise, and wmt
Mjr thanks and my surprise.
agent at llolidaysburg, Pe
Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, will
have charge of the cotton manufacture
department in the compilation of the
next census.
The Lancet recommends light colors
for cold weather, ns they do not part
with heat easily, and says that this is why
the polar benf has white fur.
The checks sent out from Washington
for the payment of the interest on retris-
tered bonds filled twenty mail bng.n.
They numbered over 50,000.
The small islands of the West Indies,
known as the Leeward islands, tire be
coming a source of sugar supply to this
country. Five years ago none was re
ceived from there. Last year three hun
dred thousand dollars worth was shipped.
Queen Victorin has signified hor inten
tion of erecting a memorial cross to the
memory of the late Prince Louis Napole
on on the spot where he was felled by
Zulu assegais. A statuary in Pietermar
itzburg, South Africa, will prepare the
stone, under the direction of Lady Frcre,
wife of Sir Bar tie Frere.
Joha^B. Gough tho lecturer, ha< a
family wr ich cons sis of a wife and four
nieces. He makes about$20,000 a year,
but h s saved only i<l>out $100,000 atd
i nico farm near Worcester, Mass.
Ho- has a very large collection of Cruik-
ihmik s caricatures, and he loves to play
tenp ns. After a ecture ho is rutbed
down like a prize fighter.
The Ita’ic gives an- account of Petci’s
pence co lect ons during this year. Ac
cording to this statement, France con
tributed 1,100,000 francs; America, 900,-
000 francs; Great Britain and Ire and,
750,000 francs; Austria-Hurgary, 900,-
000 francs; Italy, 600,000 francs; Be
gum, 300,000 francs; Germany, J50,-
000 frarcs; Holland, 60,000 francs, and
Switzerland 30,000 francs.
Eight dollar^ is a big price for a poem
Wh«a you ksto It n
I dreamed So.. „
Of Siberia, Ceylon
* under tbs pf
i from tho ml
—, — and Mains
Would glimmer m thoughts ia the Has§|
That this Iran link from tho ehi
Of Bonnlrard might retain
8omo rerse of tho poet who au
Of the prisoner and his pain;
s wood from ths frigate'
un at last,
nthe sky
Might write
As it used to w
The song of tho a
M turn'll*.
and the blast.
oulca
wit,
Lies n Bishop lying in i
Liko the Pen. with Its mitra of gold.
And its jewels inviolate.
Then must I spenk, and say
That tho light of that summer day
In the garden under the pints
Shall not fade and pass away.
I ihall seo you standing there,
Caressed by tin- fragrant air,
With tho shadow on your face,
And tho sunshine on your hair;
And in wools not Idle and rain
I ahall answer, and thank you again
For the gift, and tin- grace of tho gift,
Oh beautiful Helen of Maine I
Capturing a Lunatic.
Alf Dixon, Tom Giffard, and I had
rone up tho river camping out; we had
done our second day’s work. It wa*
early morning on the third day, glorioui
weather. I was in the boat, getting the
•tecring lines ill order; Gifford and
Dixon were on tho bank talking to Dr.
Itawlc. As I understood it, tho doctor
was nt the head of a iirivato asylum for
lunatics, lie was Giffard’s friend, not
mine, lie had been taking a constitu
tional) walk when he happened to fall in
with us just as wo wore sitting down
to otir open-air breakfast; tho chnnco
meeting led to Giffard invitin^«UiRl ,, fc
•hare our gypsy meal. Ho did.
He was a pleasant fellow, not too old
nor too young. I liked him exceedingly.
We talked of things in general, and of
lunntics in par tit
to his mentioning—I think it
ing of the cunning of a ccrtaiiij^Iitss of
lunatics, and the difficulty ofvk'eeping
them within four walls—the fact that
one of his inmates had escaped a day or
two previously and had not yet been re
taken. This was the more singular as it
was tolerably certain he had not gono
far, and search had been made for him in
every direction.
As Giflhrd and Dixon were saying
good-hvc, preparatory to getting into the
boat, the doctor laughingly saiu:
“Should you happen to come across
him, l shal^consider you bound to bring
him back safo and sound. He’s a man
of forty-four or forty-five, tall and bony,
iron-gray hair, and bus a curious habit
of showing his teeth and winking his left
eye. Don’t look out for a raving lunatic;
for on most points lie’s as right as vou
and I. He’s wrong in two things. What
ever you do, don’t let him lose his tem
per; for whenever he does, though ever
so slightly, he invariably goes in for mur
der—lie’s all but doue for two keepers
already.
We laughed. Alf and Tom shook
hands with him and got into the boat.
We promised, if we should happen to
meet him, we would certainly see him
returned to safe custody. Alf stood up
and shoved from tho slioro; wo sang out
a last good-bye, and left the doctor
standing on the bank.
Presumably, we had come for rlve-
boauties and the" camping-out—presumr
ably; but as a matter of fact, there was
a young lady lived not so tar ahead, a
mutual friend, Lilian Travers. Sepa
rately and jointly we had a high opin
ion of Miss Travers, not only of her
beauty, but of other things as well; and
having come so far, we hoped wo should
■ot have to return until at least we had
to Mr. Tennyson for tho subjoined cf
fort, entitled “ Rural Scenes:”
Quickly a ninu Is making
Trucks for the coming train.
Silently fall the dew drops
In the solemn eventide;
girl is getting
i buggy ride.
Soon will the maiden’s lover
His arm around her side,
While to his manly bosom
Her head will gently glide.
Savagely bites the mosquito,
Merrily humbles the bee;
But all that the maiden sn
Is—once in a while—“Te
eth
Mr. Chnuncey M. Depew told tli’s
s ory at the recent New England dinner:
In the Berkshire hills there was a
funeral. The woman who mingles curi
osity with pity was there with tho
mourners. To the afflicted wid nv, in a
melancholy voice, the mid: “When did
you get your now eight-day e ock?” “I
ain’t got no new oignt-day clock,” res
ponded the bereaved woman. “Why,
what is tmt in tho corner? Ain’t that
au eight-duy dock?” persisted the curi
ous visitor. “No, that ain’t a clock ;
that’s the decoaseo. Wo stood it o»i
ko room for tho
mourners,"
a peep at her. Unfortunately, though
we had no acquaintance with Mr.—there
C ia no Mrs. W«
dy at several dances and such like; but
on each occasion she was under the
ehaperonage of eld Mra. MacKenzie.
Apparently Mr. Travers was not a ]
man. But Lilian had promise)
introduce us to him whenever she got a
chance, and we were not unhopeful she
would get that chance now. Bo you see
that little excursion riverwtud had
in it than met the eye.
We went lazily on. just dipping
oars in and out; smoking, watching the
smoke circling through the clear air.
All thoughts of the doctor and his part
ing words had gone from our minds.
We talked little, and that little was of
Lilian and the chances of our meeting.
We had gone some two or three hundred
yards; we were close to the shore. Alf
could almost reach it by stretching out
his oar. We were dreaming and lazing,
when suddenly some one stepped out
from among tne trees. He was close to
us—not a aozen feet away.
He was a tall man, rather over than
under six feet. He was dressed in a
dark brown suit of Oxford mixture; he
had a stick in his hand, wore a billy
cock hat, and his coat was buttoned
right up to his throat. He had light
whiskers, a heavy drooping mustache,
hair unusually long, iron-gray in color.
He might be a soldier retired from bis
profession, or an artist out painting; he
certainly looked a gentleman.
We were passing on, when he raised
his stick ana shouted out, “Stop!”
It was a regular shout, as though we
were half a mile from him. We stopped,
although it was an unusual method of
calling attention.
“Gentlemen,” he said, still at the top
of his voice, “ I should be obliged if you
could give me a seat. I have a long way
to go, and I am tired.”
Wo looked at him and at each other.
It was a free-and-ensv style of asking a
favor; but he seemed a gentleman, and
an elderly one too. Common politeness
dictated civility.
“I am afraid,” said Alf, “we havo
hardly room; she’s only built for three.”
“Oh, that doesn’t matter,” he said;
“you can put me anywhere, or I’ll take
an oar for one of vou.”
“All right,” said he; “we don’t mind
if you don’t. Steer her in, Jack. 1
I steered her in. No sooner w
near tho shore than, quite unexpectedly,
ho stepped almost on my toes, rocking
the boat from side to side.
“Hang itl” Isaid; “take care,or you’ll
have us over.” --
“What if I do?” he returned. “It’ll
only bo a swim; and who minds a swim
in weather like-this?”
We stared at him; tbC|poolnefl
say impertinence, of the
amazing. Begging a s^t.in oi
ing it was full, and then telling i
dn r t care 1f he spilled us into tli
kno
lie didn't care 1f he spilled us into°thc
river! lie seated himself by me, sotting
the boat see-sawing tigain, crushing me
Into a corner; and without asking with
your leave or by your leave, took the
steering lines from my hands, and slipped
thepi ovef his shoulder.
“Excuse me,” I said making a snatch
at them, “but if you will allow me—”
I was on the point of advising a point-
blank refusal, not appreciating his off
hand manner; but Alf thought differ
ently.
“Not at all,” he said; “I always like
something to do, aud I expect you’ve
‘■id enough of it.”
His coolness was amusing; he was im
penetrable. I know I for one regretted
we were such mules as to have had any
thing to do with him. We waited in
silence a Hocond or two.
Come” lie said “when are you going
to start?” 8
“Perhaps,” said Alf, a bit nettled, “aa
you’re in our boat a self-invited gueet,
you’ll let us choose our own time.”
The stranger said nothing; he sat
stolid and silent. Tom and Alf set off
rowing; tho stranger steered right across
the stream.
“Where are you going?” said Alf,
“Keep us in.”
“I’m going into the ahade; the sun’s
too strong.”
He had the lines; we could hardly in
sist on his keeping one side if he pre
ferred the other. He took us right to
tho opposite bank, under the shadow of
the willow trees. For some minutes
neither o? us spoke. With him cram
ming me on my seat, and ramming his
elbows into my side, my position was
®ot pleasant. At last I let nim know it.
Tdon’t know if you are aware you
are occupying all my seat.”
Ho turned on mo short and sharp
All at once I noticed his left eye going
up and down liko a blinking o\vl;his
mouth was wido open, disclosing as ugly
sot of teeth as I could caro to see.
Like a flash Dr. Rawle’s words crossed
mind; tall, strong, about forty-five,
i-gray hair, a habit of showing his
teeth, and winking his left eye. Gracious
powers! was it possible we had a lunatic
with us unawares? I know tho possi
bility, nay, tho probability, of such a
tiling made me feel more than queer. If
there is anything in the world 1 instinc-
Jay^foar, it is mad persons. I know
mtlq | gLtdyu»; have never been in their
coin pa try.1 Possibly my ignorance ex
plains my dread; but the iuea of sitting
same boat and on the same seat
“Don't lot him
S VHWWOf lose his temper, or murder will ensue,”
made me bound from my seat like Jack-
in-the-box. The boat tipped right out
of tho water, but I didn’t care. The
glaring at me with cruel eyes;
::les were strung, my fists
clenched; every moment I expected him
my throat.
What the dickens are you up to?”
said Alf. “What’s the matter with
you?”
“Excited temperament, hot-blooded
youth,” said the stranger.
could have said something had 1
en, but I preferred discretion; I
didn’t like his eyes.
“N-o—nothing,” I said. “Think I’ll
l in tho bow.” I didn’t wait to learn
any one had any objection, but swing
ing round, I scrambled past Alf, and
tripped full length on to Tom’s knees.
The boat went up and down like a swing;
it.was a miraclo he wasn’t over.
“lathe fellow mad,” roared Alf.
At the word “ mad ” the stranger rose
i straight as a post. 4 “ Mad!” lie said;
“'do you know, sir—” He checked him
self and sat down. “Pooh! he’s only a
bov\”
unatic,
“ What!” said Tom, right out loud.
“ Hold your row, you confounded
donkey! It’s the man from Dr.
Rawle’s.”
He was going to say something very
naughty—l know he was; but hegtop-
ped short and stared at him witli'nll his
twos. Either Alf overheard me, or else
the same idea occurred to him at the
same moment, for he stopped dead in the
middle of a stroke, and inspected the
man on the steering scat. Tom and Alf
went on staring at him for a minute or
more. I kept my head turned the other
way to avoid his eyes. All at once I
felt the boat give a great throb. I
turned; there was the stranger leaning
half out of his seat, looking nt Alf in a
way 1 shouldn’t have cared to have had
him look at me.
“ What’s the meaning of this inso
lence?” he said.
The question was not unwarranted
t could not have been pleasant to have
been stared at as Alf and Tom were star
ing then.
’ ’ K your, par
a cucumber. “To what insolouce do y
1 beg your.pardon,” said Alf, cool t
cur
refer?”
Tom actually chuckled; I couldn’t
have chuckled fora good deal; it seemed
to me not only impudent, but risky; I
couldn’t forget Dr. Rawle’s words about
his homicidal tendencies. He turned
ed as a lobster; I never saw such
expression come over a man’s face be
fore—perfectly demoniacal. To my sur
prise he sat down and spoke as calmly
i possib
known inn and a capital landing-stage.
When we came alortg-sidc, the s'rnngcf
said, “ This will do; I’ll get out here.”
He turned the boat ashore. No sooner
were we near enough, than he rose in his
scat, and sprang upon the beach. There
•oral people about, watermen
after h
™e almost simultaneously
) shore; he touched him on
AMERICAN INGENUITY.
Chranoloflciil Aeovasl of StMS Marly tm-
ventioiu iutri Kntcrpriwa.
[Manufacturer tnd Builder.]
1786-The first steam engine built,
after the Newcomen type, fortheSchuy*
ler copper mines.
1772 - Another similar engine, made
for a factorv in Philadelphia.
1785-Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
introduced steam power to drive a flour
mill and a brickyard.
1785-James Rumsey propfcilfid % wtffV
th^WSctiOa \
and otln
instant; .he
and leaped
the shoulder.
“ Now come,” he said, “ don't he fool
ish : we know all about It.”
The other turned on him like a flash
of litrhtning.
“ What do you mean?”
But Tom was too quick for him; he
was on the other side, and took his arm.
“Come,” ho said, “don’t let’s have a
Tito stranger raised himself to his full
height and jshoolc off Tom with ease.
He then hit out right nnd left in splen
did style. Tom and Alf went down
like ninepins. But my blood was up. I
scrambled on shore and ran into him,
dodged his blows, nqd closed. I am
pret ty strong. He was old enough to he
my father; hut i found I had met ir«y
match and more. I was like a baby in
his arms; he lifted mo clean off my feet
nnd threw me straight into the river. It
was a splendid exhibition of strength. (
Tom and Alf, finding their feet, made i c °U° n a *y» wo f
for him together, and, scrambling out at i UJS — Rohprt McKean patented the
best I con’d, I followed suit. You never ' Rr-t stei.i.i saw-mill.
such n set-to. We citing to him like ' 1799—Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
leeches. The language lie used was j ^ule the first high-pressure steam en-
•ful, his strength magnificent; though J K' n o, iint l built a steam carriage, which,
• were three to one, lie was a match i however, was not a success,
rail of us. Of course, the by-stand- 18<»4-Col. John Cox Stevens invented
», seeing a row, came up; they inter- I f* 10 serew propeller, the model of which
fered and pulled us off. j i 3 ‘•till at the Hoboken (N. J.) Institute
“Here’s a pretty go!” said one. i f° r Engineers.
“What’s all this?” | 1804—Oliver Evans built a paddle-
“Btop him! lav hold of him!” said*j wheel steamer, to ply on tho Delaware
Alf; “he'sa lunatic.” nnd Schuylkill rivers, driven by a
“A whnt?” said the man. ! double-acting high-pressure engine; also
“He’s a lunatic, escaped from Dr. I adapted for land conveyance.
Rawlc’s asylum.” 1806—Thomas Blanchard, of Massa-
instead of lending a hand, the man • chusetts, invented a tack-making ma-
went off in a roar of laughter, nnd the j chine, which mude 30,000 tacks per
others joined. The stranger looked lit- j hour.
orally frantic with rage. A gentlemen! 1807—Thomas Blanchard made an ap-
stepped out from the crowd. “There’s parntus adapted for rifling gun barrel,
some mistake,” he said; “this gentleman 1807— Robert Fulton -traveled
Down tho bar:
Sea their whltaaftlla proudly ft
•lhey an bearing hope* and pit
From atar;
ichor in the hi
On the bar.
a, enticing era
In dlagulne,
ilee will captor* *
Strew the lea;”’ * _
Storm* are on the ocean wreckl*n< S
Many a bttkt - %
Many a JMlant chip coe*down \ f "
la the dark/
When the etorm-toeaed ocean billow*
Some will anchor In the harl
Ontheba
Pirate veeaele, cruising
In dlag
With their wilee will
Wreck* of
V
the Potomac Rivfc:’by‘t
of the water.
1787— Perkins invented a nail cutting
machine which could make 200,000 nails
per day.
1788— John Fitch navigated the Dcla
ware River with the first steamboat.
1704 -Whitney's cotton gin invented.
1706 -Benjamin Thompson, otherwise
Count Uumford, discovered that there
i- no such thing ns a caloric fluid, hut
that heat is a peculiar mode of motion
of the material particles of bodies, and
thus laid the foundation of the modern
theory of the conservation of forces.
1707 - Benjamin Thompson invented a
brush-making machine.
1797—Amos Whittomeuje introduced a
bine for making the •aids used in
luflcti
Mr. Travers, of To!!!iur,t Hall.”
could have knocked us all three
down with u feather, I do believe.
Could it be possible? Could we have
been such consummate idiots as to hnve
mistaken a sane man fer a lunatic? nnd
that man Lilian Travers’ father! I could
have shrunk into my hoots; I could
^ ‘ an( j m y 3c jf j u p C( j To
dogged,
his ft.*st steamboat from New York to
Albany. *•
18U7—Oil cloth for floor carpeting first
made in Philadelphia.
1807—John Bedford invented and
manufactured metal-bound ' boots and
slioi
1811—John H. Hall, of Massachusetts,
vented breech-loading muskets.
1812—George Shoemaker sold in Pliil-
an of all I adelphia several truck-loads of anthra-
oal for fuel, and was imprisoned as
wished ;
have
think that we should W
watched, and insulted the
others in whose good books v
to stand—Lilian Travers’ fnthe..
did three men look such fools aa we did !
thcnl We were so confoundedly in
earnest about it; that was the worst of ;
all. I don’t care what you say; you ,
may think it a first rate joke; hut he '
must have been nn eccentric sort of an 1
elderly gentleman. If he had behaved j
sensibly; if he had made one sensible pa*#:
remark, he would have blown our de- Btcain power driving pad Mewheels.
lusions to the winds. | 1*20—lit nry Burden, of Troy, N. Y.,
apologies .the best wo j r ‘ '
we had so insulted. !
poster for selling stones for coal.
1813—Francis C. Lowell made impor
tant improvements in the power loom.
1817—George Clymer produced tho
first American made printing press.
1318—Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engravings as a substitute for copper.
1819—The Savannah made the
the Atlantic Ocean by
and deliberately a
“ Thank y
forget this.”
a sound about his, “ I shall
not forget this,” I did not relish,
said nothing. Tom and he set oiVrowinp
as coolly as though nothing lmd hap
pened. I exlemporized a seat in the bow
and tried to make things as comfortable
as possible.
i noticed, although Alf and Tom wero
so cool, they hardly took their eyes ofl
him for more than a second at a time.
His behavior before their furtive glances
was peculiar; he saw he was heiua
watched; he couldn't sit still; he looked
first at one bank, then nt the other, his
eyes traveled everywhere, resting no
where; his hands fidgeted and trembled;
he seemed all of a quiver. I expected
him to break into a paroxysm every sec
ond. If I hadn’t.called out he would
have run us right into the shore; when I
called he clutched the other string vio
lently, jerking the boat almost round.
watching each othez At last
something.
“I—I will get out,” ha laid, in an
add nervous way.
“With pleasure,” said Alf; "In a
minute.”
“Why not now? Why not now,
but ho treated us and them with tho
loftiest scorn; and we got one after
another into the boat amidst the gibes
and jeers of an unsympathetic crowd.
And aa we rowed from tho wretched
place os fast as our oars would take us,
we each of us in our secret heart de
clared we should never forget our ad
venture up tho river with a lunatic.
And wo haven’t. From that day to this
I lnivo never seen Lilian Travers, nor do
1 wish to. ___________
After Thirty-ono Years.
Another ense of Euoch Arden, this
time in Michigan State, has come to
light. A recent dispatch from East Sag-
inaw to tho Detroit Free Press relates
the following story:
Thirty-one years ago there resided in
Saratoga County, N. Y., Sands C. Car
penter, a young man with a wife nnd two
sons. At this time the Millerite “boom”
was at its height, nnd Carpenter’s father-
in-law was au enthusiast. Cdpenter did
not believe jn the faith, and the religious
fervor of his father-in-law assumed such
a pitch that it resulted in separating
Carpenter from his wife and two little
boys He went to Albany, nnd in 1858
removed to Chatham, Out., where he
remained two years and then located at
St. Clair, nnd lubsequently at Port Hu
ron, which helms ever since made his
headquarter, being ongnf*>Lin survey
ing and locating. FroiftkM^ time lie
left home, he lost all trace of his family,
other than the mere fact that they had
removed to this State. ^
penter, now a gray haired man of sLxty-
four, came to this city lor the purp
of locating some land which lie had b
looking over, nnd in conversation w
a gentleman named Richardson, who
sides near Flushing, Carpenter learned
the whereabouts of his son, whom he
had not seen since he was a child. He
at once telegraphed to Corunna, and
last night the boy now married, nnd
stalwart man of thirty-one, arrived
this city, and was warmly greeted bv his
father. Tho meeting of father and son
after a separation of twenty-seven
years can be imagined. The young
man’s name is Orlando Carpenter, nnu
iu* owns a farm near Corunna. The
other son, Lewis, resides near Flushing.
The wife and mother is also living near
Flushing, having long supposed her
husband dead, married again to a man
named St. John. The old gentleman
was interviewed by tho Free Press cor
respondent to-day, and was overjoyed at
meeting his hoy. It is not likely lie
will interfere with the relations the wife
of his youth sustains toward her second
husband, lie is an intelligent man and
well connected. His brother was the
founder of the Oswego.
Turned (he Tables on Him.
[Indianapolis No
James H. Rice, of Um
has recently been in SL
there he stepped ii
buv five three-cent
a half dol
stamps whi. ^
him the posPuui
“ Can’t take
hole in it.”
“ All right,”
this quarter.”
jystander
he wouldn’t ta
in it. The clei
tling with thi
was weighed i
money by shoi
down two
cultivator. ,
same inventor Improved
rolling mill:
1*21—Jordan L. Mott invented utili-
atin^of small coal for furnaces.
1822— James McDonald, 6f New York,
uvented machinery for Cleaning flax
ami hemp.
1823— Jos. Saxon invented a wheel
cutting engine, producing epicycloidal
teeth.
1824— Ladoc Pratt established his cel
ebrated tanneries in the Catskills, New
York State.
1824—Completion of the Erie Canal,
connecting tho large lakes with the Hud-
1826— Harrison A. Dyer established
the first telegraph line on Long Island,
making signals with fractional elec
tricity. ,
1827— John McClinter, of Pennsyl
vania, invented the slotting »nd shaping
mu:hiuc.
1828— First American patent for im
provements in locomotives granted.
1828—First locomotive joumev made
on the lloncsdule and Carbondale rail-
1828— Hay and straw used lor
time to make paper. /
1828 - .Tames Dognrdus invented tip
ring flyer for spinning cotton.
1829— The same invented mills with
coccntrie grinding surfaces.
1832—James Bogardua invented a4ry
£as meter.
1834—Henry Burden invented hia lail
making machines.
1836-James Bogardus invented n
pantograph.
1840— The same invented the mode to
press glass in while blowing.
1841— The same made improvanents
in drilling machinery.
Since tho conventions and mtenta
have .succeeded in another at x most
astonishing rate.
Coddling a Streak of IJghning.
At night my husband couch home
with a rush, hangs his hat upon tho
floor, throws his coat upon thenrst chair,
sends his boots flying in anther direc
tion, works his feet into is slippers
while unfolding his paper, rads, chats,
reads again until bed tiim throws Ins
paper down for some one els to pick up
nnd rushes off to bed. Thi is the pro
gramme, with cxceptions.until Satur
day night. Sunday muring he holts
his breakfast and tearsaround while
getting into his “Suntty best” nnd
rushes, oil’ to church; dues home and
holts his dinner (never ots), reads a lit
tle, sleeps a little niv!away he goes
again. When he tries6 keep quiet he
is sure to make the lost noise; if he
starts to go around /mud puddle he is
sure to step flat ijMf it; if he crosses the
WAIFS WimilWS.
It Mm a sober mil to walk a tight
welcome cold J
warmth.
“ By my trough,” l
to his sweetheart.
Beautiful? Yes, but til
The light c
m
The gloss will rantsl
And the sunbeam die ii
Turn from tho mirror aa
Treasures of loTollnws
Gather earth’s glories
That the soul mar be
It is vulgar to tel
Just inform him in’
ncr that the pTodigp
is beyond belief
Heath
The population
twenty-five thousaJ
hammedans, Christ]
latter being far the
The Frankfort
claimed that the la!
larly every Beven y<
are now at their k
eighteen or twenty/
usually.
A dentist in
received by mail
teeth which read as 1
is three inches rcro*
through the jaw.
the edge. Shaped I
forrard. If you want •
tiklar J shall have to con
Young Reward placed a
head, in the presence of lb
bad rejected hia suit, at Houston
and said he was goiqx to comn *
He counted, “ Onr,
ered her eye* "ith her hnij
at me,” be suW. She obey cm
andTnto hit b ain went the
X has the beat kind of are]
an unrivaled liar. “ He is »
home in lyir e '," said A, speak
“ that wherever by mistake \1
truth, he likoines confused
led. ’ “ lift so great a liar,
other of !ys friemjp, “that
even belie* the contrary
tells ycu.”l
“ That lasaago in your novt
seem parleulnrly now, yon
“ Well, mybe it isn’t, hut. tk
does Soloion say*? Nothing net
the sun, jju know. Take up an]
you likejtnd f defy you to find l
single well, a single syllable; a sin^
ter evenJhat hasn’t been used ov[
over andfvsr again.
Nom Is tho time
that n young bride fondly yl
fish knives, and a pAvf
s, a napkin ring, $nd a ok
If whispers to the wed'.
gaest4gat “ the fther presents are,
A Dsmm girl,
gaged herself to J
appointed tho snm/
for a secret wedj
suitors were son
each others pr<
girl’s absence,
an amicable t
her.
Anyonbi
literate coun^
ing last year ‘
through tie Jap
million Jotters
post cards and 9,1
1870 there werer
offices in JapaJ
5,000.
A dENTTj^lJJjJ
.can]t 6° t' 10 bade yard toi. ^
k s washing tor fear of catch-
W1 * gallivant all over a wet
bfc W for two hours in a bathing suit,
andiflop around in the surf a whole foie-
tflPQlh un d never complain of her health
r a® long as there's a man with a spv-
tnrnr»J| glass sitting on the hotel stoop.
When ajronng man gets a cutaway
•oat that WHom from the watch chain
ap to the shirt collar, and can hold an
Inch stub of a cigar between fc!s *>'p .a
Bnd look unconce,^! he's entitled to
•notation, and it'sJ^TO-grateful publio
that fails to notice him. Whaticcen-
Ifre baa a young man to offor* In ^
World that persistently refuse to recog-1
niao merit?
The 'steamer had struck, and whili
the passengers were hurriedly making
preparations for thoir safety, a fut old
Dutchman seized a life-preserver, and
trying it on, began to fill it, blowing till
he was red in the face witn his eflorts.
“ Hallo 1” said a bystander, “ you can’t
fill that thing. There’s a big hole in it!”
A blank look came into the old man’s
face. ' “ Mein Gotti Is dat so? Den I
better keeps my wind in me to float ma
on top of der water.”
Down a Chide.
[Truck*® (Nev.) Republican.]
A chute is laid from the river’s brink
up the steep mountain to the railroad,
and while wo are telling it tho moqster
logs are rushing, thundering, flying
leaping down the declivity. They corns
with the speed of a thunderbolt, aid
somowlmt of its roar. A track of fro
and smoke follows them—fire struck by
tho friction with the chute logs. They
descend tho 1,700 feet of tho chute in
fourteen seconds. Iu doing so they drop
700 feet perpendicular They strike tho
deop water of the ^pgpiL vRth a report