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DEVILTRIES.
—A Glass House—A sample room.
—Doctors often nin their business in
to the ground.
—One who had t tool weight about
'him—The Ice man.
—Of what color is grass when covered
with snow? Invisible green.
—Why is our shadow like false friends?
Because it stays by you only in sunshine.
—The ovster knife will sh
* >jr
the bivalve; “ Come shell out
—Where may everlasting spring be
found? In an India-rubber factory.
—How does a cow become a landed
estate? By turning her intoft field.
—A prudent man is like a pin—his
head prevents him frerti going too far.
—ln Mexico wives accompany the sol
diers to battle. That is what makes the
army fight so gently.
—The most pleasant pfbspect from a
high mountain, is to look back and see
rugged way by which we have come.
—A Vassar girl is about twelve years
old when she graduates, but then she be
gins to grow younger after four or five
years.
—There is no reading so interesting to
the undertaker as the account of the grad
uation of a few hundred medical stu
dents.
—Here of late Hen Butler wears an
angrier look than ever in his optics, and
of course is so much the more cross
eyed.
—Law is like ft sieve; it is easy
enough to see through it, but one must
be considerable reduced before he gets
til rough.
—lf you have built castles in the air
your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put founda
tions under them.
—A negro hoy in Brooklyn got a\Vav
kith over nine pounds of food at a single
meal, and then wept because he was a
fodderless orphan.
—What is the difference between Bo
rneo and a great naval commander ? One
was lashed to the mast and the other
mashed to the last.
—A crusty old bachelor says that love
is a wretched business, consisting of a
little sighing, a little crying; a little dy
ing, and deal of lying.
—A philosopher says he can’t fmJ out
where the nir leaves oft' a (id the earth
begins. Let him fall hack word from a
fence and he’ll soon find out.
• —A New Jersey jailor Opened the
doors to give his prisoners a circulation
of air, and they were circulating around
the country the last he heard of them,
—Mr. Jeffrey the French scientist, says
that angular persons like Susan B, Aio
thony can shrink their Bo ties by sea
bathing. Bonos, understand—not feet.
A gentleman at a mtisical party 7 ask
ed a friend in a whisper how he should
stir the lire without interrupting tlm
imisic? “ Between the bars;” replied his
friend.
—The difference between stitcSmen in
legislative balls and at the t,he convivial
banquet is, that there they lay matters
on the table, but here they generally lie
under it.
. —There is just one thing about it. The
lady who insists on carrying a good share
Of her dress in her hand has got to keep
her shoes tied up or let every body know
that she left home in a hurry.
—Life in every shape should be pre
cious to us, for the same reason that the
Turks carefully collect every scrap of
paper that comes in their way—because
the name of God may be written on it.
—A woman who lias tried the experi
ment says: “ When a mail finds a place
that is pleasanter to him than his own
home, his wife should put two lumps of
sugar in his coffee, and double the quan
tity of sunshine in the front room.”
—A little girl in Clinton, 111., was
teaching her little brother the Lord’s
Prayer, the other night, and, when she
had said, “Give us this day our daily
bread,” shfe suddenly Called out: ‘Tray
for syrup, too, sister; pray for syrup,
too !”
—“ How much are we paying this
salesman?” asked the senoir of his
junior partner. “ Fifteen hundred dol
lars a year, sir,” was the reply. “ Ah,
ves. fifteen hundred—hadn’t we better,
a matter of economy, take him into
the concern ?”
—My dear, said an affectionate wife
♦o her husband, as she looked out of the
window, do you notice how green and
beautiful the grass looks on the neigh
boring hill? XV"ell, was the unpoetic re
sponse, what other color would you have
it at this time of year?”
—An old bachelor was courting a
widow, and both sought the art to their
fading hair a darkef shade—“ That’s
going to be an affectionate couple,” said
a wag. “How so?” asked a friend.
“ Why don’t you see that they are dyeing
for each other already V
—“Hie jacet”said Mrs. Partington,
musiugly, as she pat down the dictiona
ry, *" and it nYeahs, Jlf ere lies P Dear,
dear, what ofie may do, and never know
it. I suppose T must have kicked jacet
morc’n a thousand times during the last
political campaign?, and never supi
4/oncd h. ’
®l}£ ogl d l) ocpe Cdjt,
BY T. L. GANTT.
“IttO TO PBEPAKF. A PLACE FOR
YOr.”
BY MBS. S. B. DANA.
My Saviour! is my place prepared,
And for my welcome hast thou cared,
When death shall call for me ?
When I shall rest beneath the sod
Shall angels bear my soul to God ?
O Saviour can it he ?
Exceeding grace! I raise my eyes,
All wet with tear-drops, to the skies,
And bless thee for they love;
Aould not always dwell below,
Where death has tom my heart strings so,
’Twill ne’er be this above.
And yet ’tis well—’tis well for the,
And Well for those who’ve gone to thee,
That thou didst call them home;
I love those dear ones far too well
To wish that they again should dwell,
Where I in sadness roam.
1 would not ask them now to change
Their peaceful home; the’d think it strange—
And ’twould be strange indeed—
If I, who am a prisoner here;
And daily shed the silent tear,
Should mourn when they are freed.
I feci now as an exile feels,
When lonely sadness o’r him steals,
And hope forsakes his breast ;
I am not banished from toy home,
I have not many days to roam,
Ere I shall be at rest.
O Blessed Saviour ! now I see
Great preparations made for me,
In mansions bright and fair ;
For thou with sweet attractive art,
To make heaven dearer to my heart.,
Hast placed my jewels there !
THE ri:OP I.ONG ACiO.
When I sit in the twilight gloaming,
And the busy streets grow still,
I dreamed of the wide green meadows,
And the old house on the hill.
I can see the roses blooming
A hour the doorway low',
And again my heart gives greeting
To the friends of long ago—
Dear long ago!
I can see my mother, silting,
With life’s snow Hakes in her hair,
And she smiles above her knitting,
And her face is saintly fair.
And 1 see my father, reading
From the Bible on his knee,
And again l hear hint praying
As he used to pray for me—
So long ago!
I see all (bo dear old faces
Of all the boys and girls at home,
As 1 saw them in the dear old days,
Before we had learned to roam.
As I sing the old songs over
With the friends 1 used to know,
And my heart forgets its sorrows
In its dream of long ago—
Dear long ago!
llow widely our feet have wandered
From the old home’s tender ties..
Some are beyond the ocean,
And some are beyond the skies.
My heart grows sad with thinking
Of the friends I used to know ;
Perhaps 1 shall meet in heaven
All the loved of long ago—
Dear long ago!
mu r or that ?
Tired! Well, what of that ?
Didst fancy life was spent on beds of ease,
Flutterin ' the rose leaves scattered by the
breeze ?
Come! rouse thee ! work while it is called to
oay !
Coward, arise ! go forth upon thy way !
Lonely ! and what of that?
Some must be lone ! ’Tis not given to all,
To feel a heart responsive rise and fall—
To blend another life into its own.
Work may be done in lonliness. Work on !
Dark ! Well, and what of that?
Didst fondly dream the sun wffnld never
set ?
Dost fear to lose thy way ? Take courage
yet!
Learn thou to walk by faith and not by sight,
Thy steps will guided be, and guided right!
Hard ! Well, and what of that ?
Didst fancy life one summer holiday,
With lessons none to learn and naught but
play ?
Go! Get thee to thy ta>k ! Conquer or die!
It must be learned, learn it patiently.
No help! Nay ! ’Tis not so.
Though human help be far, thy God is
nigh—
Who feeds the raven ; hears his children
cry,
He’s near thee whereso’er thy footsteps roam ;
And he will guide thee, light thee, help thee
home!
MODES I’Y.
Brightest, fairest gent on earth,
Priceless is thy sterling worth;
May I wear thee near to my heart,
Never-never thence depart ?
Ever be my constant guide,
Woman’s shield and woman’s pride !
Lovely beautious little gem,
Brighter than a diadem ;
Never heeding flattery’s p >wer,
Safeguard in temtation’s hour ;
Ever be my constant guide,
Woman’s sheild and woman’s pride !
'lciiaritj of Life.
During the wai it Was a matter of sur
prise how easy it wits for some men to
die from the merest flesh wound, while
others would live in spite of shattered
bones and lacerated flesh. On one of the
battle fields of Virginia a soldier was
shot through the head, the ball entering
just above one ear and coming out above
the other. A kinsman retreating, and
seeing him as be suffered in the agony
of death, ip order to hasten his death
and relieve his suffering, plunged his
bayonet into his skull. The wounded
man fell into the hands of the victorious
federal army, and with proper attention
survived. He is now a living witness of
the will and tenacity with which some
men ding to life.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1877.
A STRANGE STORY.
llow a Nnn in I>rab was Murdered by
a .Han iu Black--anit a Murder Prov
en, Aetna One Hilled.
BY HON. GEO. C. BATES.
In the winter of 1850 Congress for the
first time extended the maritime and ad
miralty jurisdiction over the lakes in the
same manner and to the same extent as
on the high seas. Down to the period of
time the several States of Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, lying on the
great lakes, bounded the several border
counties by low-water mark, and thus
left all that portion of land covered with
water on Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie
and St. Clair lying within the limits of
the several States, but outside of any of
the counties, so that in case crimes were
committed on the waters of the lakes
they could not be punished, because not
within the locos in quo of any county.
The act of Congress of 1850 it was sup
posed would correct this evil by giving
jurisdiction to the Federal courts over all
crimes committed on the lakes in the
same manner as upon the high seas.
The result proved that this supposition
was a mistaken one, but such was the
popular opinion in early spring of 1851.
It was a very bright, beautiful morning
about the last of May, 1851, the Detroit
River harbor looked more lovely than
ever, and the steamer Southerner, as she
lay moored at the Central Railroad dock,
looked like the yatch of the Sultan on
the Bosphorus. But something unusual
seemed to have occurred, and a mystery
hung over this beautiful craft. Capt.
Pierce, her dashing commander, moved
about as elegant and sailor-like as ever,
but liis brow was overcast, his form unu
sually upright and his step like that of a
commodore on a ship-of-war going into
action. Those diamond studs glittered
in his faultless bosom; his jaunty hat
hung over his right ear, while his stun
ning neck tie and trim, white rounabout,
told of a fresh water sailor
of the old salt type in full dress,
and on most important duty. All the
sailors were called one by one to the cap
tain’s office the locked in, low mutterings
were heard, ami as each returned to du
ty looks dark and bloody were exchanged.
The hurricane deck was carefully exam
ined and a large spot of blood midships
on the port side examined by the micro
scope was studied from every possible
standpoint. Finally a tall stranger, a
passenger from Cleveland to Detroit, on
the steamer which had arrived just too
late for the Michigan Central Railway
was spied on the dock and was carefully
shadowed by Capt. Pierce and crew as he
went into the Cass Hotel and secured
room No. 46 in the upper story; and
the Capt. Pierce ordering the entire crew
to quarters, save one man to watch the
stranger in 46, walked quickly, but very
earnestly, to the United States District
Attorney's office, then in the basement of
the old Farmers’ & Mechanics’ Bank on
Jefferson avenue, just above the Michi
gan Exchange. The Hon. Samuel L.
Watson was then United States District
Attorney had the back office, and these
two gentlemen were then and there part
ners in the law.
Ushered into the back room, the door
looked to keep away cowens and eaves
droppers, Capt. Pierce made the follow
ing statement to the United States Dis
trict Attorney: “That about two
o’clock the previous day at Cleveland,
Ohio, a stranger came on board the
Southerner and secured state-room A,
having two berths therein, for Detroit,
saying that his companion would come
later in the day and pay for his berth in
that room ; that this man who took the
stateroom was apparently a Quaker —
dressed in drab clothes, with a drab hat
and drab sachel, which he left in his
berth. That some three hours after
wards another gentleman, claiming to be
his companion, came dressed in black
with a black hat and black satchel, in
quired for berth No. 2, stateroom A, paid
for the berth, and that about 9 o’clock
that night the Southerner left Cleveland
en route for Detroit, that she encountered
a heavy gale off the islands, and that
while rolling and pitching in the sea,
with no one on deck save the man at the
wheel and the lookouts clear forward,
the two passengers from stateroom A
were seen on deck, seeming to be seasick,
and that while one of them, the drab
man, was vomiting the man in black
struck him a very heavy blow and theu
pushed him overboard; that as he sank
in the lake the drab hat floated away,
and the man at the wheel and the look
outs on deck heard a cry for help and
saw him sink ; but the sea was so heavy,
| the storm so fierce, that nothing could
be then done to save him; that a large
; spot of blood on the deck showed where
the blow was given and the murder com
; menced which ended in the lake.
The Captain’s statement was reduced
to writing by Commissioner Watson,
sworn to by Capt. Pierce, and then the
District Attorney repaired at once to the
steamer, still lying at the Central Rail
road dock, and there took the depositions
of all the crew, who severally swore to
their actual knowledge of these facts.
The wheelsmen and lookouts each
swore that they saw the drab man go
over the ship’s side, heard his cries for
help, saw his hat floating on the waves,
and found in the morning fresh blood on
the very spot where be stood ere he went
over board. In addition to ail this it
turned out that the murderer then in
forty-six had with him the drab satchel,
anew one, brought in board by the man
in drab, then supposed to be at the bot
tom of Lake Erie.
Here was a clear case of circumstan
tial evidence of murder on the high seas,
outside of any county, and the evidence
was conclusive—apparently. The Uni
ted States District Attorney applied for a
United States warrant from Commis
sioner Watson for murder on the high
seas against John Doe, then in No. 46,
Cass Hotel—obtained it—and, taking a
special Deputy United States Marshal,
he went in person about six o’clock p.
m. to the Cass Hotel to arrest the mur
derer. By this time the various whis
perings and movements on the ship and
at the District Attorney’s office had at
tracted public attention, and quite a
crowd gathered in front of the Cass Ho
tel, understanding that something impor
tant would occur.
The United States District Attorney
proceeded to room No. 46, knocked very
peremptorily and demanded admission,
which was at first refused, but, the in
mate being assured that the door would
be broken in, finally partly opened it,
when the District Attorney entered and
at once perceived that the murderer had
on as a disguise a pair of blue spectacles
and a wig, and that he had the drab satch
el, in which he was evidently conceal
ing something. Locking the door on the
inside, he at once read the United States
warrant for his arrest. Told defendant
he was arrested for murder on the high
seas, and demanded an opportunity to
search his person and baggage, which he
peremptorily refused to permit. But
finally it was done, and the sachel con
tained a beautiful set of dentist’s tools,
a letter addressed to defendant’s wife at
Cape Cod, and on his person was found
the sum of SBB4 in gold coin, all suppos
ed to be the property of the murdered
man. During the examination and when
finally charged with the murder, the
prisoner, who was a Cape Cod man, said
through his nose in a squeaking voice:
“ Now, Squire, this is all a mistake —
there is no man murdered, Squire. I
am the man missed.” The District At
torney vigorously denounced him as a
murderer. He squeaked out:
“Squire, this is all a mistake—l’m tire
bran. 1 have a wife, Squire, at Cape Cod,
and she gives me li—ll, and I was going
to run away toCaliforny, and so I took
both berths on the Southerner, changed
my dress, went up on deck and pretend
ed to kill mvself.”
At last the truth flashed upon the pub
lic prosecutor, and he asked the prisoner
“if there was anyone living in Michigan
who could identify him as the supposed
murdered man,” to which he replied,
“ that he had a brother living at Ponti
ac, a mason by trade, w’ao had been here
many years and could vouch for him as
the identical murdered man.
The United States Marshal was now
called up and ordered to take the pris
oner to Col. Whistler, commanding the
United States infantry in Detroit, to lock
him up in the guard-house, where no
man could communicate with him and
keep him there until his examination the
next day.
Very early next morning, and after
the publication in the Free Press of a
very full account of the murder on the
steamer Southerner, the clearness of the
testimony to convict and very strong
commendations of the United States
District Attorney for his zeal and skill’
:n working up the case, the prisoner’s
brother, who happened to be in town
from Pontiac and had read the account
in the Free Press, called the District
Attorney out of bed and told him “ that
the murdered man was his brother from
Cape Cod, and he wanted to he present
at 10 o’clock a. m. and attend the exam
ination of the murderer,” and he was
directed to be at the United States Dis
trict Attorney’s office where he could
seethe murderer of his brother. At ten
o’clock, promptly, the United States
Marshal, accompanied by a file of sol
diers, marched the supposed murderer
down Jefferson avenue, accompanied by
a mob of curious boys and men to the
office. There sat Commissioner Samuel
L. Watson, very dignified,cold and stern,
to hear the testimony and dispose of this
first case under that act of Congress ex
tending maritime and admiralty juris
diction over the lakes.
The supposed murderer, trembling with
fright, was ushered into the back room
of the District Attorney’s office, and
there putting on the blue spectacles and
the wig he was again disguised, as he
supposed. The brother frdm Pontiac
was soon admitted to see, as he supposed,
the murderer of his brother, but instant
ly recognized him as the murdered man,
and leaping into his arms he exclaimed :
“ Why, Squire, this is my real brother ;
he ain’t murdered at all.”
This over the parties went to the com
missioner in the other room, and then
the District Attorney stated to the
court:
“That circumstantial evidence made
a clear case of murder against the defend
ant on which he could be hung; but that
there seemed something strange about
the case, and that the body of the mur
dered man has not beet! found, and the
defendent claimed to be that identical
murdered man himself he might dis
charge defendant if he chose to do so,”
on such terms as he thought best.
Judge Watson, with great dignity and
Severity, said to defendant in the preg
ence of the crowd, the circumstance evi
dence is clear enough to convict you of
m urder. It appears that you and anoth
er man took two berths on the steamer
Southerner; that you were dressed iu
black—black hat —and had a black satch
el; that he was dressed in drab—drab
hat—and had a drab satchel; went on
board and you attempt to escape with
the drab satchel. Yon say you were
about to run away to California from
your wife at Cape Cod, and that you
assumed both characters to deceive her
and made her believe that you were dead
and that she was a widow, and here, sir,
is your letter in a feigned hand to your
wife, telling her of your pretended death,
and that God would be a husband to her
and a father to her children. This, sir,
is worse than murder; but under all
circumstances the court will discharge
you, on the sole condition that you will
go instantly back to your wife in Cape
Cod and tell her of this vile trick you
have resorted to to cheat and desert her.
I shall write your discharge on the war
rant on the sole condition that you con
sent in writing to so return.”
Thereupon he wrote on the warrant
the condition and his acceptance of it,
and then handed the pen to the prisoner
to sign his name.
The prisoner had on his blue specta
cles and wig all awry, and looked the
very picture of despair. Taking the pen
in his trembling hand he looked at Com
missioner Watson, then at his brother,
then imploringly at the United States
District Attorney, and then said in trem
bling accents:
“ Squire Bates ! Oh God ! Must I sign
that and go back to her ?”
Being assured that there was no other
alternative, he took the pen, wrote his
name, and as he did so said in the agony
of despair:
“Squire, I’ll do it, but won’t she give
me h 11 when I come back there to
her.”
He went back and humbugged her
with a story that it was a trick of the
United States District Attorney and the
the Detroit Free Press and she believed
hinu.
What the lUimi See.
Mr. Levy, in his work on “ Blindness
and the Blind,” says: “ When passing
along a street I can distinguish shops
from private houses, and even point out
the doors, windows, etc., and this wheth
er the doors be shut or open. When a
windo iv consists of one entire sheet of
glass it is more difficult to discover than
one composed of a number of small panes.
From this it would appear that glass is
a bad conductor of sensation connected
with this s sense. When objects below
the face are perceived the sensation seems
to come in an oblique line from the ob
jects to the upper part of the face.
While walking with a friend in Forest
Lane, Stafford, I said, pointing to a fence
which separated the road from the field:
‘ Those rails are not quite as high as my
shoulder.’
“He looked at them and said they
were higher. They, however, measured
three inches lower than my shoulder.
When I made this observation I was
about four feet from the rails. Certainly
in this instance facial perception was
more accurate than sight. When the
lower part of the fence is brickwork,
and the upper part of rails, that fact can
be detected, and the line where the two
meet easily perceived. Irregularities in
height, projections and indentations in
walls can also be discovered. A similar
sense is found among the animal crea
tion, and especially in bats, who have
been known to fly about without striking
against anything after the cruel experi
ment had been made of extracting their
eyes. —London Globe.
A Good One.
During the first year of the war, says a
Vermont paper, when change was scarce
and some large firms were issuing money
of their own, a farmer went to a store in a
neighboring town and bought some goods,
and gave the merchant a five dollar bill
of which he wanted 75 cents back. The
merchant counted it out and handed it
over to the farmer, who look at it a mo
ment and inquired :
“ What’s this ?”
“ It’s my currency,’’said the merchant.
“ Wal, ’tain’t good for nothin’ where I
live,” said the farmer.
“ Very well,” said the merchant, “ keep
it until you get a dollar’s worth, and
bring it to my store, and I will give you
a dollar bill for it.”
The farmer pocketed the change and
departed. A few weeks after he went in
to the same store, and bought goods to
the amount of one dollar, aud paying over
the identical seventy-five cents, he took
out a handful of pumpkin seeds and
counted out twenty-five of them arid pass
ed them k> the merchat.
“ Why,” said the merchant, “ what is
this ?”
“ IVal,” says the farmer, “ this is my
currency, and when you get a dollar’s
worth, bring itto my piaceand I will give
you a dollar bill for it.’V
At a recent party a young man sat
on a pyramid of ladies’ hats. Rising
quickly, he glided from the room, and
bolied for the depot, where be poked his
head into the ticket office and yelled,
“ when will the trjij? leave this place’”
VOL. Ill —NO. 47
ACCUSED OF POISONING.
llow a, l'rtlty Cloverness mis PuniihiHl
*V r Her Employer's Jew*
elry.
The trial of a mysterious case has beefi
concluded in the Court of Assizes of the
Au.de. The accused was a young Eng
lish girl of 19 years. Addie Margaret
Travnor. She is a blonde, of elegant ap
pearance, distinguished manners, and
excellent education. Last year she lived
at the chateau of Bourigeoie, the home
of one of the most prominent families in
that part of France, the family Lescure.
The present owner of the domain is
Madame de Lescure, a widow, who had
living with her last year an only child;
Henry, three years ofage. Iu July, 187 G
Madame de Lescure sent to London for
Miss Travnor to teach the little boy Eng
lish. Margaret soon acquired the entire
confidence of her new mistress by the
charm of her manners, her beauty and
the perfect propriety of her demeanor.
The little boy had, upto that time,been a
very healthy, robust child, rather preco
cious for his age.
On July 31, when Margaret had not
been as yet a full month with the family,
about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, Henry
awoke from his afternoon nap complain
ing of burning thirst. He was soon toss
ing on his bed in agony, and began to
vomit. A violent fever seized him, and
he breathed his last before midnight.
Immediately after the boy’s death,
Madama de Lescure left the chateau and
went to the house of her father, M. La
perrine: She took with her her securities
and some cases of jewelry, which she
placed in Margaret Trayiior’s valise.
The young governess seemed to be as in
consolable as her mistress.
One day in August, Madame de Les
cure, on opening one of the jewel boxes
in which a costly set of diamonds should
have been, was surprised to find the box
empty. A suspicion flashed across her
mind ; Margaret alone had had the jewel
boxes in her charge. She returned to her
chateau to see if her diamonds were safe.
A magnificent diamond bracelet was
missing. Madams de Lescure then re
membered that the governes had asked
to be allowed to return to England the
day after little Henry’s death. She sent
for Margaret and accused her of having
stolen the jewelry; but the latter, al
through evidently troubled, did not cease
to protest her innocence.
August 2G came, and,on that day some
of the servants found on a frequented
road near the chateau, a little package
containing the missing diamonds. The
governess was sent for, and Madam’s de
Lescure’s father told her that it was use
less for her to deny the theft longer, as he
had seen her place the packet where it
was found. She threw herself at his feet
exclaiming, “ Forgive me, it is the first
time I have ever done wrong.” She was
arrested. She insisted that she had nev
er intended to keep the jewels, but had
taken them to wear while she had her
photograph taken.
Anew and terrible suspicion now oc
curred to Madame de Lescure. “If this
young girl, so honest in appearance, was
a thief, might she not be a prisoner?”
She turned to Margaret arid cried : “ You
wretch, you are capable of having poison
ed my poor Henry, Ah, if it is so,I
swear your head shall roll on the scaf
fold.” The physician who had attend
ed on the child and who had attributed
his death to cholera, was sent for, and it
was decide to have the body exhumed.
Arsenic and antimony were found in the
body. During the last illness of M. de
Lescure, the boy’s father, he bad been
treated with the “ pills of Dr. Papillard,”
containing both arsenic and antimony,
and a little bottle of these pills had been
left in a closet to which Margaret Tray
nor had had access. From the begin
ning of the attack to which the little fel
low succumbed, Margaret had predicted
a fatal issue to his illness. On the other
hand, what motive was there for such a
crime? The prosecution maintained
that probably the governess had been de
tected by the child in the act of taking
the jewels, and that she feared he would
tell his mother.
The traii was most dramatic. Marga
ret denied with indignation that she had
poisoned the child, and her counsel as
serted that it was a question whether
arsenic did not exist in a natural state in
every human body. At 3 o’clock in the
morning tliejury brought in a verdict of
“ Not guilty.”
ME SEVER.
Not long ago, on an English steamer,
four days out from Liverpool, a small
boy was found hid away behind the car
go. He had neither father nor mother,
brother nor sister, friend nor protector
among either passenger or crew. Who
was he? Where did he come from?
Where going? Only nine years old ; the
poor little stranger, with ragged clothes
but a beautiful face ; full of innocence
and truth ! Of course he was carried be- j
fore the first mate.
“ How came you to steal passage on
board this ship ?” asked tfce mate sharp
ly- ... v
“ Mv stepfather put me in,” answered
the boy ; “he said be could not afford to j
keep me or pay my passage to Halifax,
where my aunt lives. I want logo to my
aunt.”
The mate did not be’.iexe the rtory.
He had often been deceived by stow 4
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two days out at sea, men or boys con
cealed among the cargo, \vno try to get
passage across the water without paving
for it. And this is often troublesome
and expensive. The mate suspected
some of the sailors had a hand in the
boy’s escape and threatened him pretty
roughly. Day after day he was ques
tioned about coining and it was alwayi
the same story—nothing more, nothing
less. At last the mate got out of patience
as mates will, and seizing him by thq
collar he told him unless he confessed
the truth in ten minutes, he would hang
him on the yard arm—a frighful threat
indeed.
Poor child, with riot A friend to stand
by him ! Around him were passenger*
and sailors of the mid-day watch.and be
fore him the stern first-officer, with bit
watch in his hand counting the tick, tiek,
tick of the minutes as they swiftly went.
There he stood, pale and sorrowful, his
head erect, and Fears in his eyes; but
afraid?—no not a bit!
Eight minutes were already gone.
“ Only two more minutes to live,';
cried the mate. “Speak the truth and
save your, life, boy.”
“ May t pray?” asked the child look
ing up into the hard man's face.
The office nodded his head, hut said
nothing. The brave boy knelt down on
deck, arid, with lutiids clasped and eyes
raised to heaveii', repeated the Lord’s
prayer, and then prayed the dear Lord
Jesus to take hint home to heaven He
could die; but lie—never! All eve*
were turned towards him, and sobs broke
from stern hearts.
The mate could hold out no longer.
He sprang to the boy, told him he be
lieved his story, every word of it. . A
nobler sight ilever took place on a ship’s
deck than this—a poor, unfriended
child; willing to face death For truth’s
sake. . .. ~
He could die: bui lie never! God
bless liirii ! And thb test of the voyage,
you may well think He hail friend*
enough. Nobody owned Him before j
everybody was new ready to do him
a kindness. And everybody who reads
this will be strengthened to do right,
come what will, by the noble conduct of
this dear child.
Every familv should keep a box of I>B
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Useful Knowledge.
A maii walks three miles an hour,'
A horse trots seven.
Steamboats run eighteen’.
Sailing vessels make teij.
Slow river flow four,
ltapid river flow seven.
Storrn moves thirty-six.
Hurricanes; eighty. ~ I , <
A rifle ball one hundred miles rtn hour!*
Sound seven hundred amt Forty.
Light, one hundred and ninety thou
sand. . ,
Electricity, two hundred and eighty
thousand. ,
A barrel of flour weighs one
and ninety-six pounds.
A barrel of pork two hundred.
A bariel of rice six hundred.
A barrel of pow dor twenty-five.
A ttib of butter fifty -si x-.
A firkin of butter eighty four.
Wheat, beans anti clovef seed' sixty*
pounds to the bushel.
Corn, rye and flax seed, fifty-six.
Buckwheat fifty-two.
Barley forty-eight'.
Oats thirty-five.
Connie spilt eighty-five.
Sixty drops make a drachm.
Eight drachm's an ounce.
Four ounces make r. gill, .
Sixty drops a teaspoonful, one third of 1
an ounce.
Foiir thmlsarfd eight hundred and for-.-
ty square yards make an acre.
A square mile six hndr-ed’ arid forty
acres.
To an acre: two’hundred and !
nine feet on each side, making a square
acre within an inch.
One person dies at each pulsation efl
the heaft.
A generation is fifty years.
Average of life, Shirty one years-.
pjr- DR. DURHAM'S PII IX.and BLOOD*
PURIFIER are not secret, nor
triims, but their formulas are open to the in
spection of any one.
CottOll.
Two cotton wagon*; meeting on the'
road to Augusta, fra., the. following di
alogue took place between the drivers :
“ What’s cotton in Augusta ?” gays'the
one with a load. ~
“ Cotton,” says the other.
The enq'uirer supposing himself Sot to
be Understood, repeats: f
“ What’s cotton in Augusta?”
“ It’s cotton,” repeats the other.
“ I know that,” says the first, “ bujE
what is it?”
“ Why,” says the other. “ f fell yoil
it is cotten. Cotton m cotton in Augus
ta, and everywhere else that J ever
of.”
“ I know tljst as well ss.yon/'.uaysil-o
first, “ but what does cottoij bring ip
Augusta?”
“Why it Irirfgs nothing there, bt f
every body brings cottoß.”
“Look here,” says fhe first wagoner,
“ you bad better leave th* State ; t j
be whipped if you don"; know tnr
for Qcorgia.”