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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-03-28, Page 9. a.... 0. '98- 1 „ • , The estelierlees Bairn. Wiles a" ither Warlike ambushed to their home V auntie orn r coett er.freekly grand.dem* ha stands last ao", litnely, an IlaT1P1' • Me pew oohed loonte-thereitherletsnetru The reltherleas bairn gangs to his base bed Sane covera his mad batik or /nips hie bare bead; His wee backit beetles are bard as the aim Au' ;Athelets the ;sir of the mt Meekest' been. AthAttfliC")aftogut bra* skean ire:emir hot* theo 0' ban4!! that wont kindly to keen ide dark,bair nrit morning bringa cluteber, a' reckless and eterti,i ' •" „Viet loe'nee tbeleokti.o' themitherkias bairn. Ton sister, that sang o'er his saftly rooked bed, Islow rests in the wools where her mamma, is laid; The father toile Bair their wee banneck to earn An' kens no, the wrongs o' hie mitherless. bairn. -Vier Bpirit that passed in you bour o' his birth Still watches me wearisome wanderings on earth, Recording in heaven the biessings,they.arn Wha tionthilie deal vir the mitherleto beim 'Oh apeagria him harebly-he toembiea the'while Ee bendaM your .bidding an' biomes your smile Talmeir dark hour Of.angelab UM heartless shall learn That God deals the blow for the niitherlees bairn -William 2'hont. . .4.111IIIIIleg War suety. UeltrY J. SeVelle,. one. of the Soldieve Henn veterans, telle thetollowing thrilling story of a War incident : • The oft -mooted gamier], "Was ever e despesathly Fouodee *Idler phoedead, at his own !Arne* solicitation, by a com- rade V' ia• answered in the affirmative by yonr•lineablii servant. It bappeeed as fol. !owe: The writer,a member of G company, First Delaware Infantry, was then attached to the Tpird brigade .(WeberS), Third dive skin (Fioneh's), %Second corps (Sunindee). After_ wadine___i_lintiestani Creek, plung- ing :through ploughed fieldef Mabel°. fields and ironalelde, his regiment was finally located Within plain view of the enemy, when thewelcome corn. mand rang along -the -line to "load and Are at will." It was then that our daily target pratitice at Fortress Men** came into aniellent use,' as 'many it poor .devil of the Sixth Alabama learned to his . Atte; ernagelevehrgunde the **tee was wounded at4erdared to tee rear. • . While retreating in bod order., but Making :Moat. excellent time, hie route lee him theougha portion of the Irish Brigade. Here be saw a tight that capped the climax of ',bore*. .A member of that devoted' brigade was airn- lesaly .stumbling around with both. eyes shot out, begging some one; "loathe love of God," to put an end • to hie misery. . A lieutenant of the Fourth- New York was passittg by, and, Reek% the poor, fellow* condition, and hearing his appeal, he halted before him and asked if he really Meant what he said. • . "Q, yes, comrade," was the reply, " I otte, not possibly liveantl my aptly ea unendur. able." Without another word the (Meet drew - hie Woke, planer ie to: the violates tight ear, turned tievaybet heed,' and pelledthe trig- ger. A halt:Wheel, it conVidsive gasp; and one more unfortunate had palmed oyer to the silent majority. ' . " Ibwas•better-thusei-said the lieutenant, replacing hispisted and turning ttnetted the writer„" for the poor fellow MAO Just then.a solid -shot took the Renton. *tar heed eft; and .the "subsequent nio• medleys interested' him no more." -...-Mit . leaukee Sentinel. • . . Theilieteiva Book., . . , . A book written by a Queen of • Midland . cannot fail to be reed with ouriosity: and a kind ot.pethettitLattnipithy clu 10 a..pon'- ediousinesa of the peculiar isolation 'of: her position. -This isolation is shown by certain more of taste in. the volume from her diary , wheel is juat.- ptiblielied by. the Harpers.. There:wae probably no person in England who could venture to suggeet to the Queen that the "publicationof trivial details of daily life and _the record .of her inteteet in her servants' bunape and bruises cotikinet be 'gettable to iptaigent Eng- Wahl/len. But the entire. *triplicity and . good faith with which. this le done • Is, an we say, pathetio;. and 'wine altiadly • ay eepathy for the lonely Woman who does it.. .'The• disoonifort for Engliohineti arises_ from the fact that the lonely ' lady • in the Queen, tbe ceremonial .head of the State; and . the. • . more -,sfie is it mere ceremony, the Mere desirable is that the dignity ot the ceremony be pre-" served. A certain- degree of glamour is in- dispeneable to royalty, and to.this atternan , seclusion is necereary. But tlate is incom- patible with the pehlioation of a diary. Yet the Jacek will ,be .,et.jely, read, And .4 will •pronee the erient team** that the nrevione Qum° picithmed, tbit • thee -tither i a won* of ft,nd of geed feeling, "Stlt )irintatt.iatereetre and strong domeatic attatenhant.i, The CrOttnind're- gard for john Brown i grotesque,tiet its evident that her interest in hire. was )very sincere; and that, too, in an ibletretion of the solitude of royal life. Sooiety, In the usual sense, is prateisally. reined to ' *V - ensigns, aud . it familiar attendant . May acqpire a kind of intinmey which is denied to the higheit tiablenittp on the retain. Te the* who keenly Whatielli be Seen'adrese "the sea; it would' seem that Viotoriitimere justly than ElizebethOill'he .kdown as the .good Qattete-Harper's Weekly. : • • : Bich .reople Who Aro.Leved ' • is instructive. to note the different . . , feelings with Which very. 'rich venous' are tegerded"by the poor, and indeed -he *meet the entire community. Mrs.. Auto; 'one; of the wealthiest Wornen in New:Yerk, hart been and Atilt is "seriously- ill. „The news of her oonditiotr has been read daily by thousandOf the poor. in •that 'oity with heartfeltiolicitu'do, the -natural expressien of respect and gratitude. It is notthat she hter been benevolent with her Money,. but bet:muse he has been • benevolent in her. impulses and energiee-hati .felt and done something. !Or the poor -that elle r is thus esteemed. Mrs. Astor'has provided bomes. in thgoyest for mitity hundreds Of the Waifs of Ne*Work;.direetteg the eitterprise per. clonally, and erepletitig her own , agents. She hasln, Other ,Waye , done inuoh; in it t'lltfordiial ;mad ; tinoetentatioult Maim*, ter ameliorate the conditioner the per and to *Hist those who: are in trouble. 404, an —result -no" one Oils at her 'doh* ; the poor •pray for her recovery, to hoaltn. Peter Cooper was a rich man, but he • was nor. hated and envied as Many tuillienaireii 01 the metropolis are. In gape of an uprising,. his house Wald have been eafu. He re, tained F syMpathies • for .the working people:tint did as a pure pleaaure Whet the moat of. hid class negleint • etreit as an obligatidir;--There are *Miler eisimplee • wherever. • the ria and, the poor dwell together. The morel *dna tel. &A* initg: -Boston Herald. • , A prornineht theatrioallittaittrer says that the idea -that it Lenten Beaton is bed for theetriesh e erroneous. 14. I have gene over My hittike," he paid, "and have tonna that With the eSeeptien of two, Or three. daert at the orimrnentabinent of rent andr holy Week, the peeled of Lent is the beet, financially, of the year 10 the theatre." N TNE:04f4 , . The Dare When .Thett taa a, Cart- - A :tat °elute in. Canada., • • .A. GOOD MINISTER PRAYING WINO* TIME, - 'The feliMeing brief newts item: appeared in au Brie paper on Thuredity : • Riohord Corr, an old Conadian ogtogener riisn, WWI had lived on tine aide of the, lake Inc mouy yeare_, died Monday hurt and was Molten to Ontario for ,}nterment. Pre wee•once eentenced 10 ba hanged. It was been by Dr. '10.4. (Mark, tted the De** furnished tee terlowieg tetiehlint Of Carr's ekiespeirent the eallowe • I bad no Ides Met :Cerr wss living on Sole side otthetaire,or that he wise hviug as all. Not having heard anything ot lane tor thirty years 1 'supposed ttlea, king singe dead, bile srreti, couvintion, *wee* ated egospeare events snowily connected tfith, tny family and MY Childhood, my unole, Bev. Jobe Ryerseh, being, the clergymen who attendee Carr to the eoaffeld end wh prayed again* time for the purpose of. cheating theltongnmu.., Be 00,0,00; and Ibis 18 bow 4411 bappened ; 1 wee e child itt the'l hue, and it steepened et Victoria, a Caned** vtliegejest gercee the 'lithe, shout etty-fiva yeara ago. Who. did Oath tilt? Ne one, fin woe it quiet and inoffeneive young men, ;pod so wan Smith, condemned tO din with IMO:, The 4.fralc ' Orwell the theme f‘:r many ,sitreciOnebrIlaile by vil- lainous nalitee poets; Imo an the eteetition ot the three Thayers In Buffalo dm: I bee by the papers. that inowa-days, it gold. Pitionted Murderer. frequently escapes: the attentena of her meat 'exoellent•blajeaty's haegrean through thine APO Peillt of lea but in the good old days no peer wretch, *boo° suffering 'family prompted him to *eel eheep or oxen, gawped. They were *Yung oft promptly:if not artistically; , "One day, 1 remeraber well, the village was thrown thrown into great exeitetnent by the dieeovery of it *him for whiela tbapenalty was death. The whole 'village of Victoria was in an uproar. Someope had *Olen_ an ot. • '4 diligea,t eetugh remelted in tbe dis- covery ot Inc hide, and euepiaieu felt epee • Carr, who Was known to be 'par, end in wheint honse the odor of ,000ked meat 'still hung, The village Dogberry and shallow. dignitariee, that were next to deities .inwy e)es then,: sucoeeded in extorting it coe- feinuon of geilt, from Carr and another peer follow nestled „Sinfth. The culprits were . brought'. to trtet„ and O. jury ,of tviblire follow -men found no difficulty in consign-. ing both to the Scaffold, atter . the learned Judge had expatiated for home. upon the enormity of the ante again* God aud Man, • Sentence of death: was • peseed upon Carr and Smith and they would, probably have,been executed the next da, *but I sup- pose the Sheriff thouglat it would ma regarded •es•ungOntlenaanly mud "unfriendly if he did • not arrange the tune • so that hie distant tionetituency isould get in to witness the • eight. Travel was elow in those days of no railroad& Among tilose who :Were . horri- 'fled and ehooked at the approaching exeoe- tion were iny.uncle, the eptriCual *Wheel:if • the poor fellewo, and Dr. JohdRolf, whose menaory •stia .oliuge to the Village. The Rev.. John I:Veneta" was brother to Dr. Egerton Ryerson, D. V.; Superintendent of -Educetion in Ontario, who died two :years 'ago, the Hewes ot Parliament -adjourning to 'Attend the lunette. • • • • • • "Dr. Rolf was more' elicited. than any other ottSmith • and Carr's eympithizers :and he determined to ride to Terento. and intercede with the GOierner, who, • I think, wae Sit John Colborn. Br:fore departing an hia hazardous ensue of mercy, Dr; Roff was oloeeted With thy upole, 'Rev, ;John Ityerion. The latter stibseptently told -me that he had agreed to sinlay the hanging all he oeuld by makingthe closing prayer its long as his streegth and powerot utterance Would permit, provided that Rblf had not returned.- Good Dr., Rolf calculated in getting back' in a. few hoursbefere the time fret for the execution.' He eei out on "the **hest horpe to be had in the 'tillage, but the people had little faith in his ability to make the tourney intenti and lese faith in the Governor's inclination to interfere. The- &ye flew . on ' sad., the peoptr-Ilooked lo from .• the set -round. -nag , couetry.• ".Utiele .• :Johu • did • ail be could tonotefent:••the doomed :men ea lead' them: to, it rouslizatiou of it greater merpyithon inan'it, but. they .rislubed to be comforted, • ' The &tat : morn mune, but Without any tidnige of Dr. Reit: :`The•hour *rived and • the 'mete were led out to die: Private hangings had not come ioto fitshion then. It was **lidera. :geed and whole: 'sonic) for the nommen peopleto witness the Mafia and jest punishment of the horse, .0114. or . cattle 'Healer. The gellovis *ere erected optic% the open and 10 full view -of Itil.•••tt woe none, of your pateut,- West *tile ittstruMene :of ileatil! • No itand•bag o soientaio teats were dodo to assure tbe qhiokest .death poosible, It, was e rude • oteuoture, npaa whmch the village, carpenter natty not have expended wore than two .hourie labor." "":4naith and Cate were placed in, posi- tion; and when the hanguraia'a. little pre., Jiminaties Were • ova the Sheriff was in - teemed that all was .ready for . the parson* final blessieg or prayer. •-Then Bey: Ityer son got down on hiekneee andhegon the longeet • and ithee,repaarketble ,prayer on record. "Th3 V0100. was iOW .purposely, far he Wished to husband his Vocal strength: He prayed for about twenty .10010(ites with - tont . creating remark, for tong pegYers Wera not so distasteful then aa now, . Bat when he entered upon the iseteind half,hour great matleseness was mariitested.... The nun poured down upon:the uncovered heads and many dianot hesitate' to pay aloud that. :they Were getting' ton much of • a good The Sheriff was impatient and the hangman looked Weary. . The proceedinge Made him tired. Even thepoor :wrettthes :oiting death snowed Signe of -mmoyauce, for undies had era Mid them or hie comps* with Dr: Rolf. • The murmurs roue higher and higher, but Mae Prayed on Without (magi*. An hour poised and he'tvas still, oa his knees.' Them was now no relevaney in his appeal. He merely uttered Worth and diiitrounected phrases to atmetarne thete. Tlie Mietolee of -his :throat contracted, hie tongue Wets dry and Motet to his metith and. Ide Voige Wad husky, hub he "prayed on, the worde fallink.WItheet weaning opotf his bearer/3. — , • • "Ile told me later thathe did not know what he was enteiog, and that the only real prayer uttered in till thee time wee is eilent one • and ciamp,reed of tour words: God neaten Rolf' footstep.' • VI7henever I see the ploy of 'Damon and Pythias' I am reminded of that fearful *erne continued Dr. At the end of an hour and a half there was quite an uproar, and the ditiobtitent had almost betiome a riot', When a Voice *Leda Here *meg Dr. Rolf My unole did not hoar or heed the new tunitilt that now arose, but Prayed on, 'becenling Weaker einCla Minute, *on the hereon:tan approached near 'enough tO be recognized, and the dikter daehed up to the very hot Of theaniffebt, thattering pito& right and left. He was tee Week to spoilt Or Mote, btit a Win 10 the crowd snetohed a &oil. Mont from hie band and mounting On the back of the berm,' ,shentedi Reprieve I 'reprieve!' It was eti; and that ie how Care and Sitath Were eaVed."...L.Etie (Ont.) eor,,.. toper/WeidePklldd1pMa 2'inzet. V , Women et Today. A Viltelibigten boardthil-lieteth lthePrr pate* hee bills with:am/We, It totes beardintehouse keeper to finderannid, hums* nature. woman started the firth daily paper in the world in 170V in London. Mro. Elifte.Olartte has Wrtlften life Of Stuntenie Woolley for the 14 gnomon Wonoth" aeries. Mery Wolletoneeraft says that women as a sex ,are indolent, end that **yawl tends to make them ise. A " etefletY gentleman" wants to knOWI you .know, Why women wear their eleeveii in *tort am o effuw their yaolnuation wan. Women areempleyed in ormaidereble numbera in mechanloal drawing in Great Britain. ' They make drawings ot maohitir ery, eteam boilers, ota„ and give excellent patiefitotion. They have beeu tried ohie4Y ilkehiebuilding end eugineering °Mom zi Dekote, married Womenretain their ewe real end perponal property, and may make oontraote, atio and be sued, an if mete. Neither heeband DOC wife has any interest in the property of the other. Dower and oourtesy are eboliehed. Go 'West. Olapaiug, women who never marry .by their complexion, it is 'laid there are more blondes than brunettes among: theta'. Tele iesupeoaed to be due to the preference of mama% men for brunettes. But perhape the women who do not Marry lade out.. More examinatione have been thrown open to Women et Oxford, England. Here- after the reeler mayoralty extenainatioes in mathematics, modern Watery and natu- ral *hum will be free to them. Higher education for Women is steadily gainivg ground. Perhape the poor Mange will get more gray matter in their Mane by end„ by if thie thing centiages• 2hill MOM RAMO and induetrious living writ* outside of a newspaper'effice is un- doubtedly Dire,011phant, the novelist, Like Anthony Trollops he oa,n carry on three aerial stories at once. Besides a peat number cif novels, she has **Herr essays, travels, oritioienne etc., alma* without end. Also her work tises to a bihor standard as she grows older, whioh chum* be said of all writers. • - A Western woman writes a pleasant letter telling how, years ego, phe learned the budding and grafting of fruit trees. She hated teaching and persuaded hey father to let her help -him in his fruit nut, eery. She had excellent amuse from the beguming and afterwards learned "all the niceties et grattieg,, teem an orange tree' deten to an apple root." She found the buitinees both please& and [treatable and elm whieh women *tad work at as well as • A Ceiebraied Regiment, The Bla obWatob, Mentionedaefrequently in the desnatehes from SueAdm as having borne thor brunt of Oen. Graham's last engagement, is the name given to the 42nd Regiment, Highlandere. Into this reel." •rnezit were enrolled, in 1737, the companies,' dressed in bleat or dark tartans, that had watched the Highlands duties the war for the restoration of the Stuarts. Nearly all of the. older regiments of the Britieh array have laminar name& sometimert 'derived from some feature of: thew Uniform aiad, solnetinne ,front safe incident in their histery. The mimeo! the Black Watob 10 eignifioant and poetical' eneggh when ita origin is understood', but without an ex -- planation is eotnewhat misleading, salt is probable that not many Madera a Ameri- can towspapers tative had the faintest idea what it meant. Eaten by Item. 'Last Friday night J. Jatialse, of Windrow, • . had rehorae almost devoured by rats.' The horse became entangled in the halter with which it -was tied; and was thrown to the 'floor and could not rise. In this position the ttnimal" was attacked by rats, and on Saturday morning when the hostler,went to'the stable there‘were hundreds of 'rate devouring the horse. The flesh was literally eaten from -thetwnfrontlege and a large bole eaten in the beck. The horse was atplivil;a3wtilioV:.,.ditertv..*e.c1; :blab iviOrn,rnepoi: it , . • llerlarediding Arabella-How kied' is .was of you to print ouch a Lies notice of my wedding. I told you, dlitah I, the; I made my wildniug cake myself? • . • • Editor -Yes; 101 11 was unneoelasary." I, knew at mule IbM it weemade by your fair e.hasbneidIs. e,_Then. the :piece .1 sent you ux. rived safely. Did you take it home and dream over it ? Editor-7•Well,,thrt. You eee, I need it in the office. ' ArabellaWhy, What for.? - Edisoe-It makes 4.1ovely paper weight • .5 IIi1iIabIrIflj,,Icn,Ibo5. " I made :no false stateinehts,"' said Wendell Phillips once to a °nth,* one of . hie speeehei; " I siniplf.,retitifled "O. faet that had no bu..inese tribeiiiklactio " Put," paid the other, .•.!(flotir, statement was misleading." : • " • ". " Did it mielead you V' was the,'retogi ; " well, it is Melees:try to mislead ilteint people in order to "guide them Wight. Remember 'how Paddy "had to drive ;hie pig one way in order te, make Win go the. other." ' • ., • - • „ . :Poetic Ideaume.• . • An Austin man, who hats jest got Out a book of poems, met eGithooly, and the fol- lowing proceedings were had: • , - "Did you read my new book ?" "Oh, yea, I read it." • ' • "Row did you like it ?" "My dear eir, I *ore you that I laid it aside witho" great deal of pleasure." • • And now the poet goes aboutwith a smil- ing ,face, fully persuaded that his book has been endorsed by the people. -Siftings. . A. Terrible larraerleneei. _ -the Stonewall News relates at length it terrible experience endured by Mr. Prank. 110, who is 70 years of age, in a recent journey from Winnipeg to Stonewall. Ilia 'horsier lotilleated in a snow drift ; he was unable to extricate thorn, and in his efforts became badly frozen. He woe in. a roost, pitiable eadition for Many hours before •Lati cries for help could be heard and heeded The scheme for plaoing is public library in every municipal quarter of Paris is mak- iug progress, though 'Slowly. Thirty-eight such libraries' are now in existence, with a total of about 100,000 volatiles., Last year the number Of additions Woe 12,000 vol - tam* and the number of readers was ,614,000; being an borehole of 151,000 on the previous year. Whisikey km 'this year been- under dis- mission in the British Parliament as well its in Coligrese. In the email hours of the Morning, on Feb.1103, a spirited debate was raised by Mr. Molloy, Mr. Healy, and'other members aa to the °bander of the re- freshments obtainable in the dining roan* of the Holm. The "whiskey" was 0011. donated as resembling "a torchlight pro - Onion," and free comment on the general Charaider of the catering was eltereised, 0VVNY"IP11071,613$14Palts, oaeairhedell1terwtizrzLtecorae:Acs: Mare WWI a InellIIIIIIeket it cigar and it OPIPiernl A deepatcli from Brookville Seri • A remarkable ease. was tried at the Perth Aetizes before 10. ;Pod* Rose. I; wee au notion for libel brought by Mise Horner ligainet Mr. john,P.13radrey. The, pleintiff its a tall ycuog Woman of goat oppearanoe, employedlu the tailorieg establishment of Mr. Welker, la Perth. Her father is dead. She is it rSepeots.ble and well-oorichioted girl. The deftaidant tleehworulfrheeert, hor peegreatientotiehmtnoeyu4own last Min Horner had her likeness token at the detendont's photogrepti gallery, but when the pbottes creme to be printed one did no1. hke them, and she would not pay for ., them, The defendant got angry and determined to puuish Mies Etoener. He adorned one of her photos with it moustache and put a oigar in its: nionth ; mi emend he demented with a lerge Red pair of ep,eca.;• and in it third he caused blotched appearance • of ths fa. el. He prooured or wrote some doggerel verses, and put the photographs and rhymes in &frame, and hung them outside the door of hie• studio. People of coupestopped to look., and a emall meted gathered, ono of - Whom suggested to Mr. Bradley that be was doing wrong, and that be was open to an motion for libel. Bradley consequently took the offensive matter in ,tater it bad hung. there something lees than on hour. Bradley also printed ;Rime cards containing, two of Miss Horner* photographs. Ta one of these he added a cigar, it nuitistache, and a flushed face. The other he left plaio, in 'order te make sure of the likeness being recognized as it was suggested. He grime e •tiardlo a young raan'telling him ne might ehow h to a few, but was not to let it go out of his posseartiort," Thip •was produced in Court. Shortly atter ali this the plaintiff paid Bradley*bait net bottle aware of what he had been doing. The &Hale caused a great deal. of talk in Perth. Mean. Hall and Elliott were for the plaintiff, and Mr. B. M. Britton, Q O., and Mr. kLallook for the defendant. Thecourt•room was orowdee, ape one or two sensetional ince- dente happened. • Bradley had be subto3naed to proditod the three photo- graphs and the verses, but refused to do so. He was sworn on his subecene; and per. suited in big retuee.1,1elaiming priviiegeen :the ground .that their production 'would render him.liabla to a criminal motion: A young man named .lames Tbornton was also crated amid a buzz.. of interest, as he was suspected of being the concoeter of the vets*. He &alined . to answer several of the questions Which were put to hint, taking Me ground that he •was not bound to incriminate himself. .He answered freely enough teat be did not know Who taposed the verses that he had not a copy f them and so On, but When asked about the actual, •weiting of them out on the papet,he refused -to ithswer anything about that, ortusingenp- prettied laughter ih tionrt. Mr's. Clements, it boarditig•house keeper,testified- that in" • consequence of hearing the talk shout the 'photos and the verses .ehe had refused to allow Mins :Horner to ;board with her, as ,the thought some- -thing must he wrong about her. However, on inquiry, she ooneelated to take Mew ;Horner: Some timo. afterwards attet the action was commenced the defendant wrote tt letter to the . plaintiff trying to effect a settlement. It is certainly:a remarkable. document. He Mlle her that if .she had acted thapart of a'lady in paying for bee picture"' the affair would not have -hap, period., He adds: • The pictures 1 made 'you Were good; and if you expect' we to makea wax doll of your 'face I le more than r atxreble to do. Now, Inc the nakeof, peace., I will see that there beim more of your amiable ;batting 'nuide,"and willcall in all thativas out 'It you put me to any, more trouble,Shout.this. enbjeotI Will fight it out to thelseetireme :010' Of. the Aar. Then cvoiybbdy will know: • ;-yett esda. sorapenrageliket My- charanter 4ithidt L- oan againett youna." Halitie4heittlYtteadiey 'geld 00: luta tweet: ".'The',",inaly:Atmetion, reaiIy was force of: dandageen.,". The lery found is verdict,* 0.200 and iterete in favor of the plaintiff, niciuding the 50 -Remarkable Case .o1 allatelina &NOIR. rentarltable.Mee of Mistaken ideptity is reported from ' Royston; Aek.. Some weeks sincea young .,matt named James Ferris* suddenly disappeared:. A Pre- treated and diligent *arch,: in vvhich the entire coniniunity.jOined, failedto develop' the slightestclue to his whereabouts, and the affair was almost, forgotten when it hunter found the dead body of it Man lying in it:ravine at the base of :a precipice it few `ntiliie from the miming mane home. . The. body tVas,fully identified by Mre. Thane*, James Porrept•s mother, as that of her edifi, and was taken in chiti•ggi by her and the usual funeral ceremonies performed. 'Mon- : day; I fotir,:.di‘ye, after the ,burial, Mre. Permit and her etipposed dead see met -on the Sheets 'of:RO-Yettott. The mother was overwhelmed taithe auddehand Unexpected ftheetiethreand the ehook tampitkilled her, The young than explained his absence, say- ing he had been called on blame* to a alookot totiT,i1 and had pegiscited to notify his mother and friends of' the Mot.. The body identitied as his is supposed to be that* Of it trepan- who "carnet to his death fiona Went and exposure. . • ' A Great Cliy tor Craiike. New York is the greatest city in the world for cranes.; They thrive there. In Periethey are snubbed, except when they wrik for the pipers when they are glori- fied ; in Lotman they are suspected".by police ; hi Ireland theyare shot; in St. Petersburg they are buried in Siberia, and in Boston they becotne Conoord philosophers early in life and devote themnelvea to stay until they' beoome too cultured for earth, when they die -or oome to New Yak*. The cranks' who are restrained in other cities of the world Seek here by common inaeulse.' The police do .rnit interfere with thew eohemes, the public encourages them, and the newspapers treat them as legitimate. *mations. Only one thing is yeshivah" known of the average New York crank, and that la that he eventually dies a violent _death...The common -place (monks are not of so much Importance se men who just border upon crankiness or who have manittit of sufficient originality to entitle them to diatinotion.--Neet York Correspondence. • A mat to arms--" John; take tbe baby." • -The well-known 00111(i dog Help," whisk has been colleoting eubsoriptione through- out England on behalf of the Railway Servants' Orphanage, London, was killed by a passenger train at s level °tossing at Middleeborough on the 201h ult. • An organization, it is Mid, le being formed in London West to destroy the waterworks darn.. • . • MUM " the fan:1012i tiddler of Nashville, Tenn., died recently aged 489 years. He was the maiden at the reception of Prod - dent Monroe hi that eity,in 1819. and plated the violin at all of the Public, and private entertainineets given in.the early days of Naehville. Viaatissue Vermin. The lot of the fruit _grower ie not by any means it happy one. Thee° residieg in the viciulty of Beameville whom benne JIM% not already been broken over the prospect. • we destruction of the pooch,' bude.nre now weePiog at :the rfirragen cotnniitted on the *trees by the field llitoe Miring the winter. The disappear* ea of the snow has revealed the fa* teet _hundreds of keep- have been girdled by these vermin, and will be utterly rumor/. to many fields, driven, it is. pre• *mud, by the *verity and leegtb of the winter, they have eaten up *ma of clover - roots. Mr. Walker, a well•known fruit groser, near Peameville, saes that from it oasual iespeotion of one of hie erased& made on Thureday, he found over -thirty • apple and fifty peach trees cleanly girdled' and destroyed,,and he further states that , in gonvereetion with others the same tom- plainta are heard. In fact it will take is week yet to eilectiver•the full extent of the damage done, whieh is far more serious than the deptruction of the buds. Mho Laugbeet Too Seen. A woman stood at the front get° watch, *pg her aseighbor'e sdog comiog down the street with is kettle tied to his tail. It *nutted her vastly. Presently the owner of the dog seunied by pi hot Outrun, whereupon the woman at tbe gate leughed e. gleethl, unueighborly laugh, Then a little boy rounded the scorner with a bright, innocent look up* his face, as. who should say: 1-am-on-an-errend --for-tur-dear-tea-ao-don't -detain: -me." He stopped and said to the woman at the gate : "What are you laughin' at ?" • She replied with hilarity : I'm lauglain at 'old Bantu's dog with a kettle tied to his tail." • "Its awful funpy, ain't it ' the Jittle boy said, att he hurried on, " The het* youtn." Then the woman "at the gate euddenly. 'Hopped laughing.--Pitiludelphia mienest Mau in Ihe Wovld • Mr. Vanderbilt said to a reporter .in New York the other day.: "I believe I am the 'richest LOAD in the world. In England the Duke ',01 Westminster is field to be worth $200,000,000, but it is mostly in Wide and houses. It does uot yield him 2 per cent. A year from now I she.11he "worth more 'than 0200,000,000, and will have an inoolne equal to 6 meant. on that amount." Ple. owns 930,840' shares of railway stook, valued at 388,750,000, his railway bonds amount to 926,857„420, • he holds $70,580,,• a 0010 al:oven:anent and a trifle of If 5,0p0,0o0 .0 other securities -the aggregate wealth of this Midasbeing e201,332,413. And the anow-ball tells on. • - . • ,Just Like the [Ran. . A. correspondent stat ee that tbe Poet Laureate, in a letter to a Etell gentleman •in reference to Steen Hepton; who reader' at Tetney, 10 Lanoteshire, the birthplace of Lord Tennyson, and *holes ffiniffy were in . the: seiviee hip" father,:Susan herself having been lady's maid to •.010. Tennyson, says: " I have tectiked . many lettereof congratulation -mime -from great lordeand tadiete-•but the affeotionate 'remembrance of good old Susan Hepton • and her eider ticuohed naemore than alltheser am grieved .that the former le etone blind. Will you please give bee mykindest remain. bream. 2-Temers0n." . Qatestinn el Evidence.. "Do you mean to sweitir said the tote - than • of the jury to the witness,." that at the time of the quarrel that 'constitutes the cause of this action'yeti with tecoal•souttle in his hands, making 'ready to heave it at his wife ?" "Not exactly," said the witness, with considerable hesitation. "I mean to swear that r 09,w the prisoner with a coal -scuttle in his hands." "In Whitt attitude was he then 2" asked the presiding judge. "Well, now, since your lordshipbas asked me,. I',11 tell the -truth. The prisoner was lying down with the coal.eouttle over his head, and his wife on the top of.it." The jury returned a verdict of Notguilty.". , Soalhot1117.3a Sealing-waz," a stationer said, " quietly resuming ite place for the eesling of letters. The use of gum in the place of sealing -wits Wall a eednottve appeal- to the laziniete ot persons, who eagerly adopted Shat method because 'it was quick and handy. 11 k much Cattier to run your tongue along the nap of an envelope and preeethe surfaces together than it is wheat the Wax and close the letter effectually. "But it has new -come to be elowl a , predated tbat a letier easily seabed is pearly ad easily opened. It Only requires it little dampness to open any letter keeled with.gum,,. and it may be done ea Skilfully Shat it bl'ffiee detectien, Is ie about as inuoh protection now to put a letter in a gum -mated envelope as to put the contents on a postal card. Sealing -wax is a protec- tion against the prying curiosity of per. mane not dishonest enough to steal your lettere after eteanaing open is gam•sealed flap. .44 pretty feature of the use of sealing - wax is the opportunity to nee eeale. Seal rings are plenty enough, mind if you have Dot itpeal ring you may' ti.e a thin or P. kialigle, or any rough eurfkee, the breaking of which uiiabt be an iedicatton that a, letter hadbeen tampered with, The *- prima compautre will not receive a valuable package for trannuieszon uulees it is care - fluty Healed. Seal your letters by all mare with sealing win if you wish to keep their . content's free from inspeetion."- New York ' Sun. Why mitts Peoplelbrink Tea. Why'its it that those who are piok or con- valescing from sickness ask fon and relish a cop of tea ? Why 10 11, again, that thysi- ennui will so often reconfmend tea anti for- bid /coffee? Plainly, the answer is because tea is mi most wholesome beverage, and in this respect excels coffee. But, while the usc ot tea is increasing, there is ,one elms . of the community„ who do not realize -the advantages that tea offers to them; and that class 18 tbe very poor ID FUSIN who regard tea aft a 'unary that they cannot afford, when, if they did 'but know it, they could not efford to do without tea. It is the • general use of tee, that will save"many it ilootor'a bill. It is tea, -that *nista diges- tion, and it is tea (hat makes one's beef- steak go further. In this respect it ia positive egonenty., mud 1114 not *wart • the . loweet•prioed *nolo that is the cheapest. . ,Quality in tea meane strength and flavor, ' and it is much better and cheaper to buy it good tee. at it fair price than to get the Very low In price; and it is good tea that the. poor Mall wants. He No tea meets this' case °sootily. It id moderate in price, it is an uncolored tee, tree from all adultera- tions, and is strongly indorsed by leading physicians end used inmeet of the hos. pitele Around Baltimore. ' • Christianity Gaining Ground in the Henri • et Iflormenhan. Since the week of. prayer, union meet. • inga have been helerdtaily ie Salt Lake, and With large apiritura resulti. , The Congre- gational, Preabyteridn and Methodist pas, tors have been as one mind and heart, the churches have followed and assisted with is • like Gospel spirit, and, as a, natural result, several *ores from all classes, Mormon and anti -Mormon, have been wrought upon and brought to a new birth , tato righteousness. The first Sunday in March was a 0,94 day for Zion, for it was a royal feast of ingath- ering, • The day preceding, a union pre- paratory service had been held, and not less than 83 were found ready 6' &milks Christ. The Soandinavian M. E. Chili& reoeiyed 9, the* Presbyterian Church as . many, with a larger number soon to folloW, the Congregational 28, and the Methodist, • church and class, 37., The meetings, •alter mimeweekgrare-still in, progress,* with no • evideeoe that converting grace is ceasing to flow.-Indeperident. ' • • • , . The Congo trade has just taken a start Several thousand bags of coffee, from the Portuguese dependenoy of Loango, have been hold to arrive in New 'York. At the Chapter House, London on Sunday Rev. J. W. Ashman Was ordinted a priest by Bishop Baldwin, Revs Dean Boomer, Arolieeacon Marsh, an T. O'Con- nell **sting. ' W140 Id' UNACQUAINTED WITH THE CEOCCAPHY OF THIS COUNTRY, WILi • SEE DY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE rfroitleo• uoa'`°". • ' Offen 7atqra . 15, 'seta,/ i"iat • st: CbtPPe."1"1-1'fr0YfV"mat eriiilan. 1%1 fi 11 .. . . . : . CHICAGO ROOK ISLAND 84. PACIFIC, R'Y. I... tieing We' Oreat Central Line, affords to travelero;.by reason of, Its unrivaled geoJ' jgra p Neal 00131t106, the'lhortestand.best route between the East, Northeast and Southeaet, add th'e West, Northwest and Southwest. •; . ' , • . • • • • " . '• • ' it Is literaily and strictly true,. that Its connections.`are DII Wipe principal lines .0 road between the Atlantic and the Pacific. - • . . - ' . . • By Its 'main line and branches. It reaeheti .Chicago, Joliet, Peoria, Ottlam, .141.8alic, Ceneseo, , Moline and Rook Island, In Illinois; Davenport, Muscatine,,. Washington, Keokuk, Ifni:MAIM, Oskalootia, Fairfield, ,Des; Moines, West . Liberty,. , Iowa City,'Atlantic, Amon, Audubbe'•Ifirlan, Cuthrie Center and Council Illuffe,.- In Iowa;. CallathWTrenton, CamerOn and ICansae. City, In Missouri, and. Leaven-, • worth' and 'Atohlson In Kariaas, and the hundreds ofcities, villages and tOwne. - intermediate. The . . ... ' "CREAT ROCK ISLAND .ROUTE,", / .. As it Is familiarly called, Offers to travelers all the advantages ,and comforts, . Incident toe tinicloth track, safe bridges, Union Depots at all connecting poi to,. Fast Entreat Trains, composed of •COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL HEATED, FINELY • UPHOLSTERED rind EeEtsANT DAY' COAOHES ;'•a ilne f the MOST MAGNIFICENT'HORTON RECLINING CHAIR OARS over bUlit ; PULLMAN'S latest designed and handsomest PALACE • SLEEPING .CARS, and DINI 0 CARS . that aro acknowledged by press end people to be the FINEST RUN ON ANY ROAD IN THE COUNTRY, and In Which superior omelet are served to revelers at, . . .. the low rate of SEVENTY-FIVE ooli‘nre EACH. . THREE TRAINS each way betWeeti CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER. ' TWO TRAINS earth way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLI and ST. PAUL,;; Via the famOtin. , . . . • . . ALBERT LEA ROUTE. • A New and Direct. Lind, via Seneca and Kankakee, has recentlybeop...., between Newport NeWsi, Riclirmand, •Clhoinhati, liallanapialle andLearl Fay'etta.: and Councill lillufle, at. Paul, Minneapolis and Intermediate Writs. All Through Passerigehe carried on Fast (Sprees Trains.. For moretdetalled intorniation,aee Maps and Folder., which may be obtained,' is.. well AS Tiokettl, at all prim:Opal Tleket Otfleeis in the United Suttee and Canada, oral ., e it• R. CABLE, ,..• E. ST. .1,01114 p • . V.10•41resst A OenAl Manager, , 0•06,1 'Mot & Pairor AO -CHICACC. . • .