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NO. 37.

voumif.: mat lurn hia eoatlr lodging p!^ at ouco. Ho would begin waan and meal); the vntolud food and diamal aaloon wearied Ua, aad eomohow the Ined waa aalt. He crept into • Out corner and_ rnmplod hie drm^

, Oi l I atanf I anw in the papers that tou ODplojera had laUed. A hard eiperj'"^ISTTr'™

THEIE ENGAGEMENT. He waa a yonng man, with a reasonably good ednoation and ploaeiug preaenee. Ah arerago .* * * - him after a oertam

—.—. —_ _—-powerW in « lino of the engraring; bnt there 5 1 1 peace, eUldrenan"

Lore "and iwS. not friendly exoep

r' '■ "•

ing heart i MMHinPiRBWI She herself opened the door tc HreWteg clad in aimpU ’ and. se lf to add to hi teting -a Y. dThey both aa

le group of window pianta. “BeeI Thealip „ — - from the bonqnetyon Rare me It baa rooted already. ^ ruled. It will maim

He smiled fain Ur. and pretended to be interested. Somehow hia thooghta would wander to something else. For a

lileat, and ■' •

he waa not Tory omuaing, and the Bnt be had a atoty to"triTber. A storr! Now that waa worth while,

be eat down in Alow chair before him,

“Begin, please. Ill be good.” He had a brifflaat idea. Ha ’ tell hia whole atory okieotiTely, and aee what aha laid to it. He woold ekotch

amaso ner, uraw irom ner i answers some hint of what

' If aha took it aa mere , j waalcl come of it, and be oonld depart with a dear conscience. What t .-v.—u,.-. - if

if ahetookit as trnth? What U

way. aoi >«> tutrk indeed poet wonld hare aaid that erm) the worn blotted from hia darkened sky. It waa woree than that, for the gaawaa -^Bhaia.^y

“ The atory, pleaae—if yon hare not fallen asleep, poor boy! He haa to work ao hard T

Once upon a time there was a young How interesting!" I aay there was a young man, he fell very much in lore with a yo

He stiffly held ont his bid her a formal gnod-by. timidly, — J

“lait,

“Itiagood ”

Before he oonld fioiah, she aaid, wil sr face tented away: “ I wish I fcao

“It Ua'tone atory.*

pressed bad bar hair from behind her ears with bar free hand, and said

“te

chiralroos to ask her to wait."

‘ " fought hard,

to him, and.

m»Uh* n hand on each aho'nldj; loakad into hia face with ont fear, and

“ Not chiralrona to ask her to wait"

’ear they were married, aged in all hia porerty. — . woman, and be won the g 00 ^ fight of this Ufo through her en-

erty, he woold hare been a failure. Lore merer rictorions.

/.adopting U

asr-. — of ihe brwre lftna The latter offlser with hia nanal boh

aaid, “Why ahoald we fear U ”—iana? Oft * * *’

: "SX

the oarahy and that of the Imperial Gnaad and I will plnngo info their fareeta, and open the reed to Kalonga at iworfa, point*.' Why did n

ly after dark, on the twentyof August. 1850, a young man Ellis, who had been out wood-t-snooting, came rushing back to Tillage in a paroxysm of tenor. Hia t nightfall he had started for home nigh the dense woods that skirted river, and bad littla mere than a

rnTtiiTpa

Ur. Peter Cramer, a farmer owning a fine and raluahle farm of orer 900 acres Hallsrille, Montgomery county, * mat . *. andden death aa follows :

an imbecile without judgment when ft to himself, although a Paladin iu e Held." A sad miaUke was made e mind of Marat produced

of emerging from the trees I.

ting spring upon hi *

, , .J that the right h of the older hone, which wi drove near the grass, was si l«Kag. and thought best to n

qualified Us aesartiema] ie demised Mont aa regards hia mental, attain, menta, but deeplyrespected him for hia bravery. In this instance ho did not beet Marat as a man, bnt aa a miaer- • ■ tan can not alwars be be right sometime*. *' ’-time to-

carry it resnlta, mger of

aster. By taking iapoloon wonld, o face the Bnasiai

S and who o.__ .

in with the heal

a certainly no-.fooL The danger

deopiaing man too far haa b

Kalonga .route

ooorso, hate had but, by adopting the Bmolenako had to trareno a wasted country, with

e persons oc, ;ht np to the bmning: ini gin to paw with thmr hi r definite aim. It is us

for water. In fact, it is generally beat not to aay a word, bnt to seize a blank- — any woolen fabric—if non* is at take any Woden material—hold

aon, make a motion of 'daspteg in^tho

anna, mostly abont the ahonider. This

Next get

additional safety _ —— h, and any “ flame can be pat out

the bnrnt

the rapidi^ of

i panned by bad narer felt the shook of so many thousand desperate men at bay, making a dash to open np the way to We hare farther reason to bo certain that Mont's was the soundest advice from the fact that, as toon as Napoleon began to retire via Bmolenako, KntuaofT became » apprehensive that he foil beck in the direction of Kalonga, and actually gave np the strong position he previously held. Us possession of which was tho sols argument against Murat's proposal. The two greet armies were then retreating from each other ! On comparing date*, we find that it waa on October 25,1812, Napoleon decided on retiring ns Bmolenako to avoid the Russian* who were on tho Ealoug* lino. He dreaded, though with, oomparativo-

that all this

incendiarism was dne to tho feathered creature in the woods, a*d no rawheSd-and-bfoody-bouea was over such an object of terror aa that same firo-bng, as it

popularly called,

reword of five thousand dollars was offered for the capture of the fire-bug,

pain will lightning.

pteU

Me, put the polienTiff bedTand that is possible to soothe uni — arrive*.

Ua off its can be

3.**5he dry flour"

when hia ■ ble, he dit

•y^get after battle every day.

Bereatea, so aa to make himself master of tba defiles leading to Zombin. On Daomnber 10, when Nr—'

applications

principle of its action is, t use Hie water, it cause* instant an perfect relief from pain by totally ci

r 10, whan Napoleon reached he said, boastfully, "I have

always beat the Bnaalana; they never venture to stand against me." Again be remarked (alluding to the pasaage of the Beresina), " Them position was superb, bat what then ? I got through

them all. It is “-

!5E-i—dbefcaa, beaten at aix o'clock at night: n r of an Italy/^ Why did not ■——* inder recollect

A Lot Of FOttc. We (Danbnry) need not aay that this la th* height of the fly i — should there be a need of upon wives U dining-rooms i

pelled the thing to relinquish its hold, and make off with a demoniac yell me like a human voice than any bird

This wi

the substenoe of Ellis' d two nights afterward the

village fire bell rang at dead of night Aa the .tartiod v 7 ''

icir beds, the 1

bad wound its red • gothic oottagea, ai

column of fire.

Incendiary fires of the same character ... a . . irtUT

inllagratiou

followed

xpiration of that

the moat flonriahing acetic je reselnbled theaiteofa ft

after the stomps of the trees have bean

' urnt ont. Every one

alive. The advertiaomi

eo oil that was known respecting firo-bng, for the guidance of those —i-it a—‘- 1 ' ' capture;

who might undertake

man named Graham, who lived me Point on the Erie Railroad, waa lounged to embark in the enterprise, carefully exploring the woods whore young Ellis bad encountered the foath-

- — d from tho lo by Ellis' dog. But alight were, they were amply r _t tho hound on the , ahd Graham found it

and nearly severed both of

sis

trapping them g the fieah as

when they roeehed the largo bont tho hip the pitman crank of the ma--aj_ _ broke and the kmvea tore through leab, causing tier body to swing parallel with the bar. At this ie, by his shouting to the horeoa, ted the attention of one of hia hands, who Erst saw him rolling before tbe points of tho gnardo like a log. In an instant the guards caught in nis clothes, raised, and passed over

him. At this time Mr. bor, at work in mi him and-ran to hia

<1. and passed over pain underneatl Mr. Snyder a neigh,.; fo be carried he adjoining fleW, saw of Burns's cap.

oingforot

univi-d, Mr. Ora partienUra aa t then called for v

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Tho mail briaga additional details

Ihwlsstiblu thupdar-storm , over Bolton, England- It appears that tho weather had been intenkily hot during the day, **•- *' 1 *

ing kites amd belonging to School, on B

began to gather

horizon, and at . „ storm of unpreoedacted violanoe broke,

the time a cumber of ‘ ' kite* and playing crii

to the Cannon Bolton Moor.

esoend, and to Emus, aged fourteen, Peter Lee, aged twelve, and Alfred and Abel Bullough, aged reapeotively aixteen and eleven years, were standing in a gram watching the game, when they were at struck to tiie ground by the electric fluid. Several other boys who were engaged cricketing were also prostrated, and went to tho oos—* *

two of wh<

i u rod head

on the crown cflti and the lightning

had been struck aqj set on fire. Tho hair

singed off,

eled down his neck and cheek, the latter being badly bnrnt. Leo had alsc been a truck on tho back of the hood, tin hair being friaxled off quite close. Th< lightning had afterwards run down hi. Web on to his right shoulder, tho skin of which had been peeled off. Alfred Bullough was not much injured, hut his

T^ a imn, 0 LifSd

Tneath hia Ii

f tho Clothing of

first told

\ to'whloL 1 Snyder frM'lSvo n

alone." But, Being Bulger (another baud) approachihg, no bethought him, self that ne had tome in hia own lot in

ke boys appeared “One of tiie other boys stnick

amea Monks, of Thomas street, he do-

bnng. When Bulger arrived he found the agonizing man praying his ' ' prayer, first for his wife and chill loitly for himself. Seeing his condition Bulger was to scared -he dare not go him, bnt ran and celled Mr. John

>a he wc

Zoller, lir. Cramer'i intimate neighbc

had been joking as they went ont from dinner tq their respective fields. Whc

tangled u

. — e torn him in ibons, without slackening his pec

-a they went. The noond re

e jng conta and then sol ip my gashes

frightened that they did scarcely anything to prolong the dying man's life. By this time the team hod run to the

covered from head to

darted out of a eon whom most hidden by interlacing branches, fearful struggle ensued. Tho ! finally fastened upon the fire-bug’i throat, and in leas time thr- " *-*--•

throat, and in leas time then I take to tell it, it was lying dead ut Graham's *“* He then examined *'— 1 — — "

flowed into

float a skiff the further find of

a just deep

h be found .

To put the body of the flree boat and rowed down to

hardly be re*trained rope around the fire hug', and dragging it through tbe of the village; but Graham told

regret each

after hearing the history

mud in the road before

nouse, ana back in the yoni on I other side of the barn, whore they wi caught. This gave the first alarm hia wife and several others, who ran soon as possible to the fatal spot, an.. ing just in time to hear him call '■ Oh, Libhie 1 eh, Libbio I" for oho had boon hindered by tome not wishing her to see her husband thus mangled. Hearing her voice, among the others, bo said: “ Come round before me, Libhie, ao I can soo you," which she was helped to do. Ho then said : “ Libhie, there is enough for you and the child, all you will over want. All your earthly wont* are abundantly provided for, and now I hope you will meet me iu heaven. Let —- -'--'tc bauds with yon once more,"

^ * ‘ g^ng. ' ‘

proceeding after the fire-bug, am the general roqt

■' Bet it up higherto which i

being done, hi

request he narrated it

In the spring of thiz year^ a mi

mod Morgan, who

*V pyrotechnist, invested the great- ■ part of hit fortune in a row of he Lime point, where I reside.

dm," hearing wl

io hurt, set it np." Mr. '" i he roqneetcd, whli

ik back on the gr

than half their value, and had them insured h-.-a considerable adupon what hfc paid for " lonta or two afterward block burned distm i persona were anfibo The insuranoe eomi

threw up his eyes so as to see his wife, and thus quickly - breathed his lost, gtxing steadily in the face c* *- ■—

haa been his ccfcpanion for I

than four yeara.

Another Claimant.

Jing veosel writes to the Valparaiso Uni! that aomi rhtie at r • - • •

Byron’s Island, in tiie South Pacific, he saw the real Sir Roger Tichborne, who is now n chief among natives. Ho is described as being . tatooed from forehead to heeL »* hardly to be distinguished aa a whit man. He showed the caj " pool paper containing a report o: Tichborne trial, and said: '* I run the rightful heir to that and property, and all that is here stated 'his paper ia false. How ean I ap'in England *- -*-o- ——a

afterwerdi hailstones of extraordinary size, began to deeeond, and for a quarter of — *- —

wore flooded, and the

lightning was extremely vivid and the claps of thanderso deafening as toalarm

so deafening i

vouiest hearts. At DanlihUI, e boundary of the borough.

—... chimney v... lightning passed out - lodgers, who wore seat, steps. Tiie chimney of the c e brick shed, in Willow lai ’ hurled to the ground, an > was inside was struck by th fluid, and would have fallen been caught by another mi several other parts of tiie tows

damage was done."

A Fish that Swallowed a Hand.

iy the ySuSa*

rew brought to loud a large -- fish at the dee " '

called Fathhaland,

-MtbaSH Among them waa a largo ling, which, when opened, waa found to contain a Tinman left hand, perfectly entire. Do.

composition haj _.. , therefore thought that the hand cannot io been long nwallowed by tho fish, ' * ” '• nail aa.l Ik..

d from ita rathe; small si

and place me -a. — 5 - . ri^^bekrag world, I would refer ■ ef ne ship ~ ' Ept-Tripp.' ter of this extraordinary story Biz Roger incidentally rej»t he had made great progin civilising the natii

mistake," says tho (fruettc, " in a commercial point of view, "for if stuffed id exhibited in London os the lit

mow a mysterious hand ha

Bow Our Fathers Punished.

very long ago since pun--k 1—’—’lyoalou-

ridicnle

lated to hold Um were so rife ia England iFai,

suspect that they were intended •*""-" days wh<

stonoo, few villages ducking-a too la Hr ai -udfiHy

periodicals, leoffemoo l

were without theif

‘Lost week a wc r vociferation waa indicted for a n ncold at Kingston ; and the

ing folly proved, she was aeut^

the old punishment of being -kl-k —„ aooordir-* —

ducked, which

ted uj»n her in _ . — r -- per officers, in a chair preserved by tin town for that pnrpoao; and as if to

1 upon one of her acquaintance, Lhout provocation, with tongue, tooth

through which the intemperate head and arm* were passed, and : helpless condition he waa obIi|

r?‘ tho idle boys, inio Otti-

similar punishment.

rev.

■duly

. jdy July day a philosophical culprit who had uo personal onamice in hia logo might have borne his sentei.. with oonaiderable equanimity, solacing himself, perchance, by watching tl - fluctuations of a cricket match in pn K as on the green; while in a frost brnary, with a keen northeast win ‘lowing, Rioosbocca himself woul ave found tho hoar of his release eary while in atriking. To stand iu the pillory must hav exceedingly humiliating ■

dicroua poaition than with his head and hande protruding through holes exactly fitting them, and his body hid sway be-

about hia now and ears; gnats dug him without his being able them off save perchance, by a

which would auly

whilo it added oonaiderable to tho gro-1 bored one ' esque absurdity of tho culprit's Up- Pawnees h

EH

dislodge ih

New gold, silver, and platiua mine* have been discovered six kaguarboc the City of Mexico. A man at Bikloy, Iowa, has been dan gerouslv ill Mm tba effeeU of a mos quite bite 96 one of bis fingers. A guileless New Bedford ti|

loamy ox

letooted, v TheCelifn l Golden 1

te prosecuted.

voice of prayer, the cry of a child, am the clash 01 bowie knives" from on Governor Root, of California, think the discovery of America was a hod in lent for Columbus. There or other people who found it didn' The original Americana, fur in

both rre pan thrive boy declared that

Thoaaloc

been forbid

iy. have

-keepers of Aubnrn, having .on to do business on Snnused proceedings 10 be inlinat news-venders, cigar-

■titntod sgains

lealers, car-driven, and others, Wuu

perform labor on Sunday. rkablophenomononis now the ralativo price of hay ifihio- Corn can be bought 815 per ton, while hay read-

presented b

oils for

imall village in Grass Valley,

ainsidered o

r of the place,‘bt

-eady to discharge upon 1

Tho victory of the Sioux over t awnooa, though a bloody one, « (thing to boost of. The Sioux nu

ie hundred and filly

The,

f tho a

dependant n|<in tho amount of popular indignation excited by the offense. Tfn -— this ran high, the wretched man’s acted face was iu tho position of uid sentient Aunt Sally's, nnob- , , ir every description of missile; while in such a case ea De Foe's, where lympathy was on tho side of tho suffersr. “public exposure became a public

When

nerchant is detec

ig faloe weights

Inltomting Ins goods, ho is placed * his own doorpost, standing and uailod by the ear to the :k. It is important that he

should get free without amputating tiie

w“o$£

and children. The propensity of the Arabs in Algeria to sot Pre to the woods has always been » great source of annoyance to tho French colonists. They liaro dretroyod just as tho owners expected to reap a rich harvest from the bark. A drunken fellow wandered into a Sunday school, and took a scot with tho accosted him : _ "Why, James do vou m'm; in tho gall of irit'nesa an’ bonds of 'niqalty. Ask mo some hard queah-

The editor of the Mark* Herald (Vt.)

theft; ■■ ' ’ m wonld be horrified at bavi

tricks confounded with vnlg stealing. For a second .

thief loses his other oar; fo. _ third his nose. By the-bye, perhaps I

to use tiie present tense, for

a voracious fish would ha

lit fill*

ogreoaidy by surmise* as to of the hand. Perhaps a fortnight it may have been clasped in that 0 ' -sr, or it may have been the ham Great Co ram street murderer; foot,,therejano saying .what the baud

iy have been. It may'

ooptoroua fishes, and Able mreumotanoe L . __ Gladidss, and indeed all malaoopteros fishes, must not be surprised if the rather coldly received at the

A Marked Dlflferenee. Meet a follow when the ther the sweet from fria face, , with sweat, and he exclaims: “ I Why I never saw such weather." he oonld wring pinta of water from hia clothing; how he has lost five pounds ef fieeh in ten days; how the sun has crisped his boots and rained Iris eye -i_k. —a te starts off with tho *■ iw anything like it.'

—Dam jaunty tie, hair nioely combed, eye* bright and mailingjio diut—ermyrihing as^tidy

longing looks at aoda wa1 ieo wagons, and no ap- ' ndkerehief. She — sot dash for the ade of a six-foot awning, and hang the spot, waiting for a otoud to pose

inaky maidens of the forest, 1 MO aver (Nev.l Jtcvalla, n calico, and whenever one of cleana up"on a protracted ing job, or makes a winning at I poker, she rashes directly to a dry goods store, and make* an investmer* m calico of glaring oolora. She ia z way* accompanied by A bend of n sitter*, and as soon a* the porehaae _ completed the whole band squat down' on tifc ai- 1 —’*- *-

about ply the needle daftly, and - * teT^oy ehal “ Even a eeanal obeerrer ean detect an'ex- • fzoe* of tbhae who do ‘

tana of straw, to keep a bone a year. 0 * Uo0 ’

oil and a Nava) 1

itary punishments

"vvo, vo uivvu oeen very generally framed with the idea of rendering the offender ridiculous in the eyes of his

usgondod by Iris wrists e ground- Riding *1116

weighhr attached to the nder’e legs rendered his seat ail the more painful. These punishments Were not only humiliating and extremely severe, bat

the exchangee they didn as surprised to find his p.» mptyl I religious fervor i

.lertahr. much attention. The widespread ganization by which these deroot

piety ore made a living

well merits study in an ago that places

these things aside.

Journalism appears to be proeporoua

der and proprietor of the Liverpool Daily Pa*t, haa been ‘‘proved" for £10,000 personal projiorty._ indejiendont o

supreme; though the ui

... n which latter abolished, and for at-o'-nine-taila ruled

stead of mirth.

Insanity from t

MS

e Chicago Fire. Ire in Chieago^betho courts of Oook

fire is

adjudged County, Illinois, Commenting uj one claas of patients, tho Ohioi Tribune ears: " Tho great reaponaiblo for tho dethroned t eleven persons. In one instant

downright fright, and consequent ex-

to oolil and

another it won loss of

property, and inevitablo destitution; in another it was loos of relatives; and

1 bar iz not

_ ono would supposewhoon th ing succeeding the great calamity —v-v-v a.— helpless women and

the diamal prairies, in

' hidltig bo-

watched those helpless

- lake, in*the graveyards, (tiding —d tiie friendly tombstone*, crouched imploringly ou chureh steps, awaiting for the*bread the world sent

rung little on*. No t so great, Id suppose, who watched for an

sek after tin

the conflagration the ion with great robust

frames, afraid to meet the eyes of their — 1 — — J children because they hAd

place to poverty, and luxury to n want; whan palaces were turned in

of that, beneath an in , w a salt of n flour barrel."

Unpleasant Discovery by an Editor. The ptlbliAoraof a Petersburg, (Va.J paper recently purchased and united with their paper another newspaper offlG in the town, and slew days after Maji

Venable, a member ol

terial ig tbs laZtor office with a view to disposing of what was not needed. One resuitia thiu told by the paper: “His ■A eallea ,to a large marble ea an impoeing-atono, and . nirig it he found on the under aide the inaertptian (we omit namoe) * Sacred to the memory of youngest - •- b ^ J 5£ i l of revelations. Major

a very near young lady relative, whom he remembered while living. Dpon making inquiries no on* could give him any information ZA to bow tbe atak WAS obtained or when it was brought into

property, independent of . end sundry admirers of Mr. E. Miall, M. P., editor of the A’oneonfarmUl, the organ of the English Diseontere, lately gave him a little dinner, at which, on jiroposing ids health, £10,000, tho subscription of a few worm

and wealthy friends.

At a private party recently held in Detroit, a boy thonghtleaaly drew tv choir away from a corpulent gentleman who was about to seat himself, thereby lottfag him down On the floor in n very unpleasant manner. A merry laugh greeted the unfortunate victim when tho “joke" wok discovered, which, however, wo* changed to a murmur of regret, for it waa soon, found that tho gentleman was unable to rise. Ho was assisted into an adjoining room, where a physician, who waa one of the guests V-.-—.1 tfc.t tho foreo of the fall

ascertained

had created a rupture, t which will be felt through

half inch gi At people Imagine —that ia if we are to tako'tho word of a writer in the Financier. There are now fifteen narrow-gauge railroads in operation in the TTnited States, having acvqp hundred milea of track, and th -

1,250 mile* under ^process a \rj is about ^810,080 a mile, including

Atone of the prinapal hotels at Long -Bruch there is a lady so oareful of her

‘ ' is aaid to b« remark-

able ia many respects, that a never loaves her room during tho day, and has all her jnaals brought to her. She remain* in a darkened room all day long, gloomy and d—’-*-

“ “un, ginning tl

b, may freckle

, _—.g through, maj her face or turn it to A healthy bro\ . Every night she oomee ont radiantly beautiful, tbe gaslight giving a glow to her cheek and a kparkle to her eye. S’

other twenty-four hoar*. The news gatherers of New Hampshire teem to lack enterprise, far wo learn for tho first time fjpm tho Paris Figaro of a very exciting and wonderful occurrence in that distant region. The State has been for some time infested by a bud of aesa sains, who

inoladfog, wo uppoAe^aevmJUmuaud in* naod to KB^byaevering the

. them (this prove* the atory to ktion), and the banditti rushed

and took afl their portraits ng. By the portraita three ahire hu Klux were rooog-