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CAPE MAY CITY, N. MEDSESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1873.

NO. 38.

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BURR 15 COURT.

■‘?oo m»T «uooeei jitter lirtemng to ttu r trying, at any rate, though y

that the raya would oonTorge againat the pillar ia theeonrt-room near the place occupied by the witncaa. The crcniagaeeaion opened, and Burr rearmed the croaa-examination of the " *" piolonnd

—er—the

— r 1 of the witneia, atanding on the very brink of a horrid gnlf, eahnly and intrepidly real ating the efforta of the terrible man before him to pnah him over. At last, after dexteronaly leadingthe witneea to the ^appropriate pomt, ttarr anddonly —■" that their ligh*

fell inatantaneonaly npon the I

tohaimed in a startling of the arenger of

Id its aittinmraL Utica. N. Y...whic a largely attended by legal gentlem-: ..jm Tariona parts of the State. Asth. aecond day of the term eras drawing to a close, a gentleman, whose appearance indicated that ho had jnat arrived in town, entered the conrt-room, and walking directly to the bar, seatejl himself among the lawyers. There was something in his appearance that attracts attention. The most casual observer could not fall to dataet in bia bearing a natural ease, an nndcfinable anperionly, which ao silently yet trnthfully Orinoco familiarity with refined society. Ho signet sesl" npon him, for much of the voracity ol youth atUI Ungerad on hi, visage. Hia hair had begun to ton gray, and at the aide of hit head wa, alightly bnahy, bnt, worn back from hi, face and templea, left his broad, high l2St l, S^fe»v2!’-^ D 56' pala'BidMn.liia brow thongbtfnl and tinged with the shadow of care, perhaps of sorrow, while hia blaok, brQtiant and nav* 1* forgotten. He was below “ ordinary statnra,' and hia frama — aomewhat Blender, though well-knit and fair proportioned. Finally, the four scmhfe waa that of a gentleman—a

of the jnry, behold

the witness, he voica, -

blood,

the mnrderer 1 1 With a wild, oonvnlaire atari—a face of aahy pallor—eyes starting from their sockets—lips apart, hia whole attltnde rrror, the man sprang from For a moment he stood motionless, straggling to regain hia selfpossession. Bnt it was onlysmomontary stnigglo ; the terrible words of the advocate " shivered along hia arteries," shaking every nerve with palsying tear. Conscious that the eyes of ell in'the court-room were fixed npon him; reading the hidden deeds of his life, he left the witness stand and walked ahrinkingly to the door of the court. Bet he prevented from making hia escape lue sheriff. This scene, bo thrilling and startling, may perhaps be imagined, though it cannot be described. Like the fall of David Deans, in the oonrti, before judges, inrora, and law- , when the doom of EfBo, hia youngdaughter, was pronounoed by the mony of her elder sifter, Jennie Deans, it struck the spectators with silent awa; ehanginspthe whole aspect of the trial, and overthrowing In an instant oral was confident would send the pria- — ' the^gaUosnt—saring mibinoeent and skilful! perjurer. "" J *'”■ 1 '‘ 1 arrested, two

men, and, withal, a

s of character.

e bar, Martin Van

meat that had aecupiad the the court for several hours. Taming to take hia aeat, he recognised the stranger that was near him. “Colonel Burr," aud Van Baron, in S low voios, extending hia hand, “I very glad to aae yon. Oar case i reaohad this morning, bntsa I could not think of defaulting you in your abaeu which I believed to be unavoidable, I< changed our eaae with the one jnat submitted. I hope, eeloneL you " " “Qoite well, I Blink you. obliged to you for this courtesy. I did noiTeare Haw York Quite ao soon as I expected, and . it is a long way hero. Madame Justice is getting mercurial, 1 fancy, since ehe establishes her templea so far in the interior of our State. But tsrr

— 5 •» bas beesieoeribed-wps - —me conspicuous in

knowfi in tha politimi of' the ^Se* .. dential ehsir of the nataou, missing F great prise by two or three votes, a winning tha Vice-Preeidaney with lit opposition. He was how merely I to Hew York city, whore he become a sueeeaafol though friendly rival of Alexander HamUton. It has been arid that eoelgnf these great men had a high, if not an exalted, opinion of the other'* talents. To tha strength and facility of ” nil ton's imagination, hia fine rhatoripowers, hia occasional fietbes of

the principal witncaa againat the prisoner. Burr and Hamilton brought all their skill in cross-examination to bear on the witncaa, in the hope of dragging out of him his dreadful secret. Bat,

rkenlag the ■) pieion that fell olw SSfS

witncaa __ „ jonmed for tea. "I believe onr client ia not guilty, bnt >ave. no, doubt that Brigham, that ming witness, ia really the guilty u, but he la ao shrewd, eool and deep A I am fearful hia testimony will ig poor Blair, onr client, in spile of

"I agree with you. Blair la n guilty, that Brigham ia, and X | here wo can hatch him. I have a pi that will detect him if I an

pistols. As the exerkmg after'the adjonm-it-of court for the day, many lawyers and others who were attending court assembled to witness the sport. Among the deeply interested spectators was Colonel Barr. While keenly watching the effect of each shot, two young 'nwyen who had been engaged in shootig approached him. “ Colonel Barr," uaid one of them, “we should be very happy to witness your skill at target shooting." " My skill at target shooting I How ime you to suppose I^iad any^skill^ss placing eye upon the speaker. " Yon are an old aoldier. Colonel Barr, we have always heard yon spoken the beat shot in America," said the " *’ ia many years since I was a solid I have had bnt little practice te pistol since leaving the army. Times of peace do not—or, at least, " yahonld not—(urnimh many occasions

, I will shoot

That will be snfliit for my nnpractiood hand. -Let

see yonr pistols.”

sveral were brought him. Selecting of them, he baleneed it a moment

in hia hand, and sighted serosa the

•n, taking his stand at the rhloh ea<4 contestant fired, he

resented the pistol, of intense, almost

dramatic interest. Before the specta-

tors, pi

weapon in mot

bia foe sink at nia ran, omusu in i t a quick flash—a sharp report I spell that held the spectators—the

it home to the .centre of faint smile passed over

need the unerring shat. Handing the weapon to its owner, he turned and left the field "rhbssit uttering a word.—

Proctor't Bcnmtnnd Bar.

roqrdei, oBe torpequry. Het’waa^-ae-qmttcd on hia jriel tor murder, but subsequently convicted of perjury, sentenced to a long imprisonment. The high-toned Hi ~ "

itywitfi w -

oaucted t

' no bitte.—_ .

need friends nntil . they poirntmg ll ’iSnencra' of"poliScs,'their collision as rival statesmen created that

saa leaving the depot a deputy sheriff appeared and sciced a passenger ear. After the train had been delayed fifteen minutes, an officer of the road 1 ‘t npon a bright idea. “ Very well, air," he said, “there la rar car. Take it out of onr depot." " What do you mean, sir-M------ “ Just what I say, exaoUg^- louhave

Boston and Pravidsnoe Boilrosd depot.

is in your charge and not mine, and

tie of the property of this Oompany all be used to help you. And I giant

tell yon, too, that every moment yon

ow the car to remain here only in•eece my bill egainst you for aam-

“ But how shall I remove it T”

“That ia your business, and not

One thing ia eertaia.yoty wffl

oaity with' which Hamilton and Burr

- the contests of the bar crebitterneas or,animosity. They

duel inflatory—* duel which doomed rriror to obloquy and reproach ha never ontlived, and which, with tha alleged treason for which he tried and acquitted in 1807,

of the netioL. ime Barr is introdnoed to the reader he had long drank of the Marsh of the waters of disappointment and labasedatthetaek of

- -„.rr—_i .danghtir, eo lovely, eo pare, so intelleethal, so hanghty, and yet eo soft and gentle, thatopened to Aaron Burr the Uuhtari| pegemthishlnttad widnmerfUfe. ^jBhe ideal ^a wonpm." Upon te he

of a eool that over-

tend ern see. Long after his Tall from power she was the —litary shining star in beaetlfnl lustre

er the darkeaedtel flnngfi’pathway During tha trial for high treason >at

Richmond, in 1807, Theodosia, then the brilliant leader of society in the meet aristocratic eity of the Booth—the wife of JoeeguUeton, adisringniahed citi-

folH aided ^er father’s defence. In dmfcesthour of that memorable li ■ ama she evinced her deep kflaol language ae heroic as it was 1 ben L “Myryj^J - ~ -

my pride S

i ssBasstmuas

barber. At bat all hope ended; the

'a life all winter, war

have often a bating regret.

of our readers apqnainted on street, naye the Danbury JVcirs, ember that the roof to Mr. For-

— loon adjoins his bouse, and is approached by two windows. One of these windows ia in Mr. Forceps' bedOn thle roof Mrs. Foreopa has

hesitating tomatoes with a view ming their ripening. On Wcdaho pnt five more with their fel-

lows, making thirty in all. The Forceps have a niece viai'-ing with them—a young lady nsteed Hidl/dT Till Must on. She baa nude the acqraintosKi of many of onr young people, and on Wednesday night several of them got together to give her a serenade. Providing tbemeelvcs with requisite inetrumenb, the young men took up a position near this iddition wo speak of and atruck up on ho instruments. Mia. Forceps was Irat awakened by the mnaio, and nudged ter husband. He also awoke. The ml soft, low" and harmonious. Mi. .'oreepa was very much pleased, and got up to the window te hear it- Than Mnn Foreeps got np also, and retying ‘ night-cap, attxid beside Foroeue.

ey're serenading Ellen," eaiJ ehe.

'They're serenading

' I know it," said Forceps, they be?" - 1 -—•—* “ T

I don't know,

“but I suppose I

could find out it I could creep out on

e fromwhii

r oar "

onUtretebed, w

eye that now sighted along the ol had gleamed along a deathfnl

it, bathed in blood.

tr b ad ae

ahe, her

afraid the, . I don't think they would," • They wouldn't be looking i roof, wjuld they ?" Mr.

, jught a moment and then ooneluded no one oonld'eeo him, as the m had gone into a bank of olonda, objects were qnite dim. And then he softly opened the blind and cautiously . mewled out -on the i shingles, completely oncSflcd in red-fiagnel under clothes and a night-cap of the same rich material. The mnaio still continued, -oming np through the night air ! ~ raves of ecstatic harmony. Mr. Ft epa aat down on the roof and labori-

maly worked hia way [hen be lifted himself t.

and look down, and jnat then he stepped on something Holland yielding, felf hia feet give, and made a desperate dutch at " - | ‘ * ‘

revolving and howling in id, followed by the f toes, and madly cleaving the air

pile of pea-brash, ai

whojpbyed^t

Ante player,'with his id and splinters, jumped over the JO and fled. What 1: ;» **- others, Mr. Forceps does , — being too busily engaged in getting on hia feet and into the house, to make a

I You pi

position from which I cate myself. I vacate the attachment ‘ nee. Take the ear if you want it. ” I don't want the oar, air; but 111 > it out of my depot, and if you care to serve the attachment than, gw aheadl" The necessary orders were given, and the train started off at a high rate of

.A TUU to an Iceberg. _ orreepondant of the Waterbary tnited^ Stales steamer Juniata, ft SC John'aN.F., July 8th, says.“On the Sd instant a large iceberg beime stranded at the mouth of the bar-

roaonod the hem the air grew eeniion our overooate. We ran alongi of it and measured it with our eye, which gave ua 88 feet high, 100 feet broad and 100 fast long, knd as that portion below the service bears the proportion of seven to one we oan oahmlate the depth of thinknsca of the berg to be ■orapidlythatwaterwas flowing from approaching very okiwe to it, ao wa deeaded to go to a smaller one and out ’ i for our own consumption. We

berg had burst off, and filled an area ol about three htmdred toet in length pi the wifith of the berg, aowe aeoaped'fai There are many people, aaysthe Danbury liner, who do not iminatoail why, other peopla should aaawlsaely risk life

and limb by jnmniag off ana rhile in rapid motion. Ot er received an explanet day. He ia a promlnet a Booth Norwalk, and a very ahre<

neaa manager. When the express bound He thought he bad several minutes ' spare before taking the train. Wb

eoak fl __ darted for the train. It was an express

“ss e:

ran toward it, and watted ti he would do, never drcwmii would attempt to beard «.

got to tha track the front platform of the rear ear was afanat of him. end ha caught thermU. The next instant Ud feat ware whipped from under htm, and tha next instant they would have been tinder the wheels but for the fad that

;aefaitpaMw*tt'

platform, and cant

hands oould let go. swept swiftly orer the bridge, ho was painfully and laborionaly dragged up dw stops, eoaUeaa, bm-hnded, and half-shaved. He was a nice spectacle to go visiting. Thai waa ou We£aeday.

at I will git

farming, with especial reft bringing befr— * 1

farming ia very honorable, bnt so pentry, and blaok-mitbing, and eking. Any manly craft, and any votion which earns bread by some scree to society, no matter how hnmble, honorable, if honestly followed. Bright visions of a fanner's life are ludatgwlby-thoae who know-nothing of

I, in many respects, a very d< position. Bnt for every farmer New England, makes the tw meet, with enough to tie into knot, there are two. at least, whe —-— a living off from their la nner ia about as poor a nog na. He works inoci ... Uy in debt, sees kittle soUs the beat things he can rai cdCsumes himself, chiefly, what

a man have good land, health, ■’ mable capital, he ought to be co:

with fanning. But if Ke ia spend a long life dredging on a farm, without getting along a step,always jnat 1 agoing to do better, and never doing It, I do not wonder that his sons will seek lomc other occupational boo:, as Ihey ibtain their liberty. AFto the profit-

tomin^^c.canno^^eak

,3Sfe have thirty-aix ie farm pays, and pays well—that is, cry man that works on it makes moy exeojK*the owner. But every in should be judged by what he un-

dertakes.

I undertook to bring np a worn-out aoil, and suoceded; to clear it of atones, and never shall nncceed ; to enrich it beautifully, and succeeded ; to stock it with grapes, pears, oraamental tree*, etc., aud to get a deal of comfort out of it while all this waa going on. Now,

a bock on the baae-viol, and with oi

a great deal of (lise altitude at whioh

m . can exist, and Mr. Qlaiaher himself can tell na as me ’ about it as anybody, In July, 1871, — and Mr. Coxwell ascended in a balloon to the ononnona elevation of 37,000 feet. Previous to the start, Mr. QlaiiherT rereatr-fbnr. Atl7,t the pulse of the former wai tour : that of the latter at on< hundred. At 19.000 feet Olaieher'i nils were quite bine, but not bis face. 21,000 feet ha heard hia heart beating, and hia breathing became' opp eed at 29,000 feet he became set ’ ; notwithstanding which the act , in the interest of science,.went ther 8,000 feet, till he could longer nae hia hands, and had to 1 * ‘he valve with hia teeth. SPSalOTflES'ls those who trust their legs; even at 18,-

era * •>.— -*■-*-— fed very nn-

the Alps, it

seems, than elsewhere.

Attheqnoaarterynnf^Bt, Bernard, 8,117

1 Into the

anything but , ■■ ui ,, ,, .n,™,, , and at the end of ton yean' service are obliged to gin np their high living ' j 1- ii ii—1_ At

a there are

reasonable inatractivencsa. We could descent npon grasses (orchard grass is

favorite), clover, the root crops, sad pn. But flpwers and fruits are rial farrrrites. and in regard totheae, lout pretending any surpassing ex-

cellence, we thfnk wo could suggest' living—farming for profit—we confess ourselves to bo ignorant beyond all

ire I It ia true that early potai, tomatoes, and email fruits ; and far as particular crops are con-

J, we oan make them pay. But the expenses of other things—the dairy, the stable, the improvements, the wear and tear of implements, the baying and selling of oxen, of homes (alas! yea, of ’ ea!) make way with proflla, and

to the figures another name. To profit-making farmer ia to be a

good manufacturer, a good merchant, a good managenof men—a good business man, in short J And. any.man in New England who can make money on a *—i, and live well while doing it, ia a

onghly good manager, and would,

1 edneation and opportunity, doubtless have made a good merchant, a good

’ —’at. a good minister even.

« aa high as tha top of Mont Blanc, the inhabitants, of whioh feel no ineonvenienoo. The highest inhabited spot in tb< world ia, however, the Buddhist eloiatet of Hamle in Thibet, where twenty-one jiricrta Bra at Kn altitade of 18^500 ' ‘

' ' ‘ eilS^f the Ibi-Qi

.. itry, encamped at-21,-000 feet, the highest aRHnde at which • European ever paaned - tha night. Evan at the top of Mont Blanc Frofea- — Tyndairn guides found it very nn-

iant to do this, though the profealimaall did not. oonfaaa t * “ as bad as they. The idghret in the world ia Mount Evers slays). 29,008 feet, and the ei

e covered with a

bine els»;" its apparent color being due to the ndfeotion of light What Tight —-do, and does, ia marvelous; —’

the leest ia its power of sttn

atro-aoit man to the grave with! week. If oold falls upon the inner ering nf the longa, it ia pleurisy, i its knife-like pains and fto stow, alow recoveries. If scold settles in the heart, which in an instant often snaps asunder tha eorda of hfewotb no friendly warning. B is c

portax.ee. then, in the know not so much her

to avoid tt. Cold attorts note ten aa&BggTffi'ii chilled, he or ahe arill never,' ' in a lifetime; and this can ox oompHahed by dne care in wi Sis’"i&rLSSS' 7" "ii—l,T" ; L'7i.4"

armei'a boy, eaya Henry Ward it in the jtedper,'writee to ask

The following is OoL Ponaonby's in-

after a raah and " I waa alationea witn my regiment (a&ont three hnndred strong) at the extreme left wing, end direeted to set diaeretionally; each of the .armies waa .dmwaeip on a gentle declivity, a small valley lying between them. ' “At one o'elook, observing, aa I thought, unsteadiness in a column of French infantry, which was advancing with an irregular fire, I resolved to charge them. Aa we were descending in a gallop, we received from our own troops on the right a fire much more destructive than the enemy’e, they having begun long before it con Id take effect, and alaeke&ing aa we drew nearer; when WO were within fifty paces of them, the French tamed, and much ex

< French artillery poor a a heavy fire of grape owevex, killed three o

thrirretief*^ shot, which, iheirovn to .

melee I was disabled almost instantly in both of my arms, and followed by a few of my men, whe were presently cat down (no quarter being asked or given,) r \ P ?nmy?ead°r" ""

oelvinga ground.

Ah Indian Battle.

account of the

following thrilling a< battle between th<

ic fight. At daylight on the morning of August the Pawnees, numbering about four hnndred, including Women and childreh, broke their campon the Bepublian, near Frenchman's Fork, twenty-ffve miles west ot Bed Willow, and started on the trail due north in the direction of a herd of buffaloes whioh tin had seen' the day previous, tnveling about three znNeo we 1 priced by seeing buffaloes running direetly towards the line of march. This unusual cironmstanoe was disregarded by the Pawnees, and immediately the best hunters started in eager pursuit, and tha plain for miles around waa blank with Pawnees and buffaloes. ”

scattered to convenient distances the trail than the Sioux, who ho4 been driving the buffalo ahead of them for .a, ■ --re galloping along .you the nocks of blankets drawn

The Old Man'. Wagt

says the Newtork'Ataa. _ . heavy farm wagon, loaded with lumber, —x— — ol^ dilapidated ahed; and wagon, with its load, has been Blending there sixty-one n Bailey, the mam who O'

person, who known all .

„ ivering, I r. self a tittle to look ronnd, whi

eer, passing by, sprang at me and atrnck bia lance through my back; my head dropped, the blood gushed into my mouth, 9a difficulty of breathing came on, and I thought all was over. Not long afterwards a tirailleur came np to plunder me, threatening to take my tile. X told him that no might search toe, directing him to a small aide pocket, in which he found three dollars, being all I bad ; ho unloosened my stock and tore open my waistcoat, hen leering me in a very uneasy pos^ nothet came for the same purpose ; . nt assuring him Fhad been plundered already, ho left me, when an officer, bringing’ tip some troops '(to’ whioh, probably, the’ Iraillcnrs belonged), and nailing where I lay, stooped down and addressed me, saying he feared I was badly wounded. I replied that I was, —j eased a wish to be removed to

He arid it was against the

if they gained the da;

*"?llfngton waa killed, and thu six ui r battalions had surrendered), every ention in his power shonld be shown u I complained of thirst, snd ho Id hie brandy-bottle to my tips, diting one of hie men to lay me sight Off my sMc,’ and place a knap ik under my head- He then passed into action, and I shall never knov whose generosity I was indebted, as onceive, formy life.^ Of what rank great-coat. By-and-by another tirailleur name and knelt and fired over me, loading and firing many times, and centreing with groat gayety all the while, last he run off, saying, * Vons serex on also d’entondro que none allona While the'battle continued in that part, several of the wounded men and dead bodies near me were hit with the balls, which came very thick in that ’ a. Towards evening, when the isiana came, the continued rattling te cannon along theirs and the Britline growing louder aud louder as ’ drew near, was the finest thing I heard. It was dusk when two , ulrons of Praakun cavalry, both of them two deep, pasaad over me in fall ig mo from the ground, and me about cruelly. The clatir approach, and the appreIt excited, msy be easily con-

The battle ipved a d lama of the came every idible, ar

^aedmy-

Duk<

Why Sobady Came to a Ficaie. The Washington Star aaya that Third .juistont Postmaster General Barber has received a six-page letter (with a two-page “ P. 8." attached) from a lady of Wes tern New York, complaining of

Postmasters to forwent to the dead-let-ter office all letters onrwhioh an Insufficient amount of postage has been paid.

parenthetically re-

preliminaries, such as hiring the grounds, mnaio, Ac., ahe sent r-• — eral hundred invitations. to pei ... the town where aba resides. The day for the picnic arrived, and to her great amazement and chagrin none of 'the invited guests put in an appearance. She sought on. explanation .from some of three parties, and waa informed that they had never received any invitations from • her. Puzzled beyond ■ i wended her way to the P- ._ the town, and there learnet. Dead-Letter Office in Washington, because every one bore a one instead of a two-cent' stamp as Yaqllired by lawShe writes to eay that ahe waa unaware of the fact that the pannant * ‘ cents ia necessary for a drop-li—, ahe would have cheerfully pald lt, and

' rfiELT'K:

would hare gladly paid three or four times two —to postage, provided they oOxdd have an opportunity to enjoy ha picnic. l Berber replied to the lady regret- ; the annoyance occaafened, and toeing her that the .object of pontage antrolled entirely by Oongaees, and l the Post-office Department had no authority to disregard or modify the

enactment of that body.

warriors, aeizing their boat horoea, galloped towards the approaching enemy,

chanting their wild death song. On came the Sioux throwing their

soon the tight ^egan In true Indian fashion, each party in turn daahing forward, firing and retreating. But soon ■’ greatly superior numbers of the

x began to be felt, and the Fewness, Srari'ovor the 0 Waff* 0 toto tbTi long their squaws end children. n't fight them," shouted the el oo many ; throw off the packs, put

American aaya : Kissing the hand atiomaiianatom to-Anatria. A genin on meeting aladv with whom On parting with her, he again Idea her hand. At the Heidboff, last eve.tog, a young man, vfho is paying^ h ^ addresses to a young lady, on tak'i

a gentleman kin a TSTriahand cmtoe street, on meeting or parting with her. n you give abeggar woman to tha street a few coppers, she cither — your hand or eaya, "I kiss yoor.l We hare had onr hand . kissed ‘ ntj times since we hare . Austria by chambermaids, gars, and on one oocaaiot an old man. The worti “kfoe , same. The gentlemen kiss the hands'of married women as well n the stogie, and it is taken m aaordtoaiy salutation _ and a token^ of reepeet.

a token,, o . . are startled when they applicition of tine cus-

tom, but' soon submit to it with a good Riaee. The chilnren also, wnen

^ tented to a atranger take hie hand or tondaya. II tha water becomes ti

Overboard v

- ' rs whioh the g«

them to hunt

starring f amities on the resor . the government has allowed

on the Pawnees' hunting gre Meat, tenta,blankete, everything tlmrirn aside, there began a general rout, all ' ’ ig in confusion down the ravine river, and the Sioux firing upon from lie abrupt sides with te—‘' , - rfleet. Bo densely packed wei Pawnees that hardly a shot waa w warriors, aquawa and homes fall! straggling, groaning heaps ; me dropping their children, and ttioi __ hind rushing madly over them, while •' e Bionx preseed close behind and llped living and dead. Three miles the Republican—and all this way the iwnees ran and were slaughtered in ia horrible manner by the beet of the

s then nearly over, oi ice : the onev and unded all aronnd a

SrjESS'iPte

which were worse than tha noise. I thought the night would ne+er and. Much about this time, I found a aoldier

Roy ala lying across my legs, d probably crawled thither in

hia agony; hia. weight, convulsive moii——* --IMS, and the air issuing through

d in hia aide, distressed — greatly; the latter elreumstanoe tressed me the most of all, aa the ■

as

aSk

C believe, were came and looked ; at length, one

s. I told him ia could (for I oonld eay batlRUe

d had beefe-pUndered already; he 1 not deoiat, however, and.pr”-* — ont roughly before he left m< hqur before midnight I saw i an Engiiah uniform coming we; be was, I suspect, os the rend. He came and looked in :

antly, tolling hil —ring him of a rewr lain by me. He said lo theFortii ‘ ~ '

belonged to

had leiqiH-. dying man; being unarmed, be took np a sword from the ground, and stood TSfJSf—— —Igtiah were set , _ ran to thepv and axneeacnger waa sent off to Herrey. A cart came for me. s was placed in It and earriefl to a farm

—,— qmSHoBF-'intofe the cart and the difficulty of t —■-•SLIhed rtoeb

rerypeinfnh

days, besides the gmaT Ices o( on the dtld."—AU tAe Tear Bom

A Tret of Fare Wrier. Engiiah technical per

. nt an easy way of testing r is good and fit tor general art. Itaays: " Good water shonld be free from color, unpleasant odor, and taste, and ahonld quickly afford a lathcrwith a small portion of aoap. U half a pint of the

water be placed, in a per* oolorleaa, glass-stoppered I

grains of the beet white

added, and the bottle freely exposed to the daylight in the window of - ——

room, the liquid ahonld not turbid, even after exposure for _

- tondaya. If tha water becomes tor-

n the bon

An oil

but inviting. Cobwoba ai

very nearly

in hia yean well, ani r tills section aa out

ns most eccentric men to tbs State. This morning I waa shown the great oar-wheeled curiosity standing nr*— he shod. My guide waa an old and . iable citizen of tho place. The shod Lauda very sear the houas, and ia -“~ uted about the centre of the town, aide of the ahed stood tho wagon, to

boards, just as it bad

" Tho eight waa anything

Oobwoba and dual bung

. board sides and roof of the old shed, and the despoiling hi of time had wrought rain upon tho tire surroundings. The wheel* I— warped and tho iron tires had fallen down ; and aa they dropped, eo they remain now Tho heavy spoke* of tho wheels atioz in tho ground foil)' air inches, and it ia thought they will nil in a very short time, and thus throw tin

entire maaa to the ground

1 turned to tho gentleman with mt and asked him the facta concerning auoh a remarkable eurioaity. Ha replied - I am nearly seventy yean old, and wai about nine years of age when Baileymade hia vow. ^I^mncmbcr qmto^well there (pointing to thejiresent residence of Mr. Bailey), for I carried water to

the men.

In thoae dsj™ we had no railroads, largo cities by horse and wagon. Moat of onr building material waa bought at Philadelphia and carted to this place by horse and wagon. Bailey waa a young man then, bnt shard-working,

independent, self-willed

teborgh killed

bandings and the destruction of a large

quantity of oil.

If any ton married men who may si* the edge of e newly-made bed b afc, it ia safe to affirm that nine wil get up with core heads. Tho prise baby at the recent California baby show, weighing two end s half pounds when dressed, le to be exhibited through the United States. There is no feeling, perhaps, except be extremes of fear and grief, that does ot find relief in music—that docs not lake a man sing or play the better. The atithoritica of Grayville, Dl., isve forbidden the sale of any sort of jalon within the town limit*, under a penalty of 820. Chorus: "Away with

larlv finished, and tho 1 ier had been brought fn

had visited

times, and had o.

right But

Spent

x fighting I should even prefer tr nflo, despicably poor as they it tho Pawnees had not even

„t‘ b as

onght bravely, were i any resistance. Abe Pawnees were killed c

Your curresponnd captured by

'bite man, pointed me a way to the After giving the chase to another party of Bioux I again rejoined a band of fifteen determined Pawnees, who were covering the disastrous flight of their friends.. About twelve miles from the battlefield wo came upon a squad of nder Captain Mcmhold, McPherson, who kindly ra to the field and re- ... ided, if they were yet alive. Oa our return the field preaent- ' most horrible eight xho first ,we found lay dead, with a knife tightly clenched to her hand. Appara ' the bed kept tier pursuers at bar overpowered, thrown to the ground, ir person violated, a whip-stalk ra —rough her body, and finally aoalpw All the young squaws have marks of brotel violence. The children, many of ‘Tern were scalped alive, without wound, nd, rolling their glassy eyee up to ore, died, staring In our races, while e bathed their beede with water. Into small pocket of the ravine the bodies of six men had been dragged, piled together tike eo many logs end burned. No battle ground everpneeentod a more

courted talnod what he thought encouragement that all w.

there waaa rival to the ease. Another

young man's affections drifted to f* same apot, and npon several oocaait lover No. 2 had neon very kindly oeived and entertained ; and tin up a jealousy. Lover No. 1 oom building a house. Likewise Nt Both proceeded to tho work nn._ _ " ‘ pine boards for finishing pnraa needed. No. 1 had a wagon, the only place the boards were

-•»' 1 Fhiladelpl ~ '

r, got what 1

led. Lover No. 2 bei

speaking terms with the parent* ' —at married the object of hia love bsonce of No. 1, and whan ' returned lie waa mortified beyc measure. He drove bia wagon nn' tho ehed, aa was onstomery, nnhamt ed his horses, pnt them away, — 1 —

left tho wagon, he declared

stand ae long aa time lasts on into

eternity.

itrange character. Ho was sitting n old hickory arm-chair, looking npon hia great-grandchildren at in tho yard. He ia too old to move much, and he very rarely

id children and aglurge quantity of buffalo meat and hides. I hate anything that occupies more -i— .• i ]rth. I hate to see a

' ratreaFtS "* "

ithout anything to them. Just nine months after the great Boaon fire a heap of burning leather, which lad been smouldering ever einee Noember, waa found to tho ground in the ear of the poat-offioe on Congress street.

Be col diverted II

not in your power, and consequently shonld not be any part of yonr concerns. The women of Wyoming are to anna, at actually bnt politically^ They pio-

ties for the ~ rapport^ the party w

.. happy oonple in. Iowa, having been twice married and twice divorced, are now doing their courting for the third time ; and the parson and the lawyer hope they’ll be steady customers for

many years to come.

Melvin Duff married the daoghtei of a Hr. Miller, to Bt Louis, about two weeks ago, against hia consent, and Duff and Miller have had several quarrelsone of which, on Sunday night, resulted'

in the death of the latter. -

The Watttri Stock Animal, published at Pleasanton, Texan, i * ”

leasanton, rexaa, quotes wellaaddle hones at <25 to W0, and unbroken ditto at <20 to 830. Beeves, first-class, are quoted at 812 to 816, sheep at 81.50 to <2, and goata 75 cents

toll.

A man in Cambridge, Maas., whoso doctor prescribed horseback riding as

■ conducted themselves miner worthy of the descend' _. old monarena of the Plains, had they been provided with suitable would have held their ene— i until they had sheltered I selves to the wood along the where the Bieux dared not follow. It ie. It can be no more than jnat

impossible to undertand him. I asked him about the ragou, and ho smiled faintly and rallied that a great many hnndred people lad asked him the same question. He untinued by saving that I had to all probability heard the correct history ; ‘hat he had kept hia word ao long, and ie hoped he could keep it always. I asked him what " word' - he had kept He satf that when he drove his wagon under the ehed he took an oath he would unload it or allow it to

>r would he

protected all tho time, and, if pon -reserve it until all this world Bailey married another woman after his first trouble, end ahe died six years ago, aged eighty years. They hare several children, who seem detor1 to carry out the dealrea of the an. They declare that when tb property passes into their hands th' father's wul shall be respected. A Little dame In the Trank Line.

performed

fore ea govi ways ready to take up wkito nlnn against his

efficient service hereto-

e time look ont for “ha each fever, ” end othe inmmer catarrh, whioh i

numbers here also from n along through the month of August. The part atteked by tha disease , is the vicinity of the upper air passages of " nostrils, which become inflamed, aa ting a thin, irritating fluid. This ia eotnpanied by sneiextog, headache, fe aadpioetratinu, all of them bring m. .. or lass violent, according to the susceptibility of tha patient Bometimsa several weeks elapse before the sufferer gets rid of the malady, and oonaalonall■te influence ia felt nntil eold wrath, act* to. In England, the disease is supposed to be caused to soma wav by an efltovfam produced Ly the hay harvest. More reoenUy-however, it is believed

thmwriajivaij describee himself as a aufferer from —- la to get —*-* —

-——"hundred and'forty of 'water, li ‘ ' beck, dip a arc*11 earner ...VariiS,'J»3fhS tog the head about gently so as t make sure that the fluid reaches ai parti of the nostrils until it ia felt u the throat. He describes the relief a immediMa, and an that tinea appliaa lions a day when threatened by a retur of the disease, is aufflrient to prevent return.—FAIiode/pAfa Ledger. Do you know, unde, that that horrid Mr. Sinks declares yon have trir hard drinking? Unde George-

K

ohronio bodily ii have secured h

a gallantly at a i

it ahould

the whole revenue

of the country, and oan taxjiis subjects

aa much aa ho plea: "

about <20,000,000, on

' jewels.

An old woman died suddenly to Ireland ' what waa supposed to be paralysis. A wake of course, followed,^aud within who had either been to contact with or attended tho wake of thia old woman were atricken down by enteno fever. It appears that the old woman had given lodging to and washed the linen of a ramp who had but lately. l<lt a neigh-

oring fover hospital.

A young man residing at Detroit, fieh., wa* atanding on the street in hat eity, qnietly engaged to picking ia teeth with a blade of nia knife, when waggish acquaintance came dong and gave hia elbow a push- By this pnah the blade of hia knife waa ao firmly ..... ‘ '•i,«nd

ia smashing the only . the "Saratoga" ia liable. There ia another way ol making the traveler miserable. Probabljr It ia not neoessary to say that a hack driver has been arrested for it. and it is therefore a shrewd trick. The person in the game takes trip, and take* hia trank with 1 ia wall known that tranks have _ . and cannot ran away; so, trusting to this fact, the baggage-masters in the smaller places are very apt to leave the tranks all to a heap until the -rare arrive. This is the opportunity that the ‘ r baa to view. He ' ia all right. te check off, beat looking! [age. 1 On reaching

drives off with it. There are, of course, dl aorta of chances to the matter, but disposed of ia odySiSaatcd, and nttor-

Sad Affair. A a—t ease of death by lightning o. curred five miles from Scranton, Pa. ,

e group. Caroline

by thunder shanty, and crowded to together tor ] shelter from the dranehtog rain. TO -“- 1

they pere huddled to the small n flash of lightning draeendad ney and struck the group, Shunk and Mary Kline were killed, and seven others were injured. The entire party we frightened, and fled through toward home to the utmost te togthetwodeadbodirt to ti

■Jri'SiTTS'iS'WS;

SHarga’is*’ ■

A Lone ought to be a wort of art.

every other particle. A grain of. color a hundredth of an inch serges, la of the utmost importance to a nictate; and a little ornament on the chimney piece is ot the utmoet importance to a bouse,

circular track about the windlass."

We mnst keep telling about the Shah, ir he's going away pretty soon, and ten will be of no more nee for “ nor-

mals " or newspapers. Thi

edged between ti

tinseled to go to a dentil ie of the teeth looeaned.

sly burned. The accident win caused by a miner,named Evan Pugh going‘into ‘an unoccupied chamber

mediately oocurred, and he wt__ ingly burned from the knees upward. William Beddoe was also badly burned, id Patrick Hennaghan, who waa in ie gang at the time, waa blown through _ door two inches thick, and fatally injured. sw and cruel invention at Long h is the introduction of living -flirt into the centre .pieces of a, which uaually adorn the middle table at the Uehionehle dinner ipper parties. The poor insects isteneoby a fine wire whioh ia 1 through their bodies concealed » the fiowerp. Tha convulsive quiver of the expanded wings, as the tortured butterfly strogglM to ito dying agonies, ia enppdsed to represent the graceful wave of the tame above some freshly opened flower.

overran with rata. Traps aud cate were of no use whatever. After a time he succeeded in catching a fine large old in a box-trap, and having prohimself beforehand with a bell, he aucceeded in faatoiing it with a wire indy oxoo nd the rat a neck, and

. gave 1dm hia liberty,

lie nt scampered away, and daring night was heard rattling hia bell, 1 one part of the house to another. The next day, aa the gentleman waa to his ystd, be beard 'the tinkling of the bell, and looking np, raw the rat walking deliberately up toward him, and when within about one foot of him, sealed himaelf upon hia hind legs, and looked np in hia face, asking' aim, aa gtatolyaa a rat could, to toka off the The gentleman reached down, took up the rat to hia hands, nut •'

? .on the g

wire, pli

Mr. Bat aearapored away, wb

^tie rorrespomfent .haa forgotten to

species. Tho

, y have learned

beU

-The edi-

have eujt^wd this year.