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\\ \ "T siinMomirrioiv bates. One year ....$1 50 Nix months 75 Three months 40 Newspaper I.aw Decision*. * 1. Any person who takes a paper regular ly from the postoffice—whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has sub scribed or not— is i espondble for the amount. 2. Ifaf err on orders Ills paper discontinued be must pay all arrearage s, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount,whet her the paper is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts bate decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodieils frem the postoffice, or removing and lo ving them uncalled for is prima facie evidenced in natiotnel fraud. Printing paper is sharing the fate of other manufactured articles at the pres ent time in experiencing a very decided boom. A continuance of the rise in price which has been going oh for a few months past will seriously contract profits of publishers, unless invention shall come fo their rescue in the mean- r J methods of for capital. 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