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CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1874.

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THE GOLD CB088. Lurdly ooiutidor it ^ gttt.

Vimw, bcoaio I .luJl «plit aaakeep luOf for myttlL 1 *

Oaorge Wuriud looked etnight into Moggie Oarroll'a brown erec u bo ■poke, end nw the endden glow of lore

to more from the feet tiiet you >e half while I wear the other." 1‘Jraonutanoeaf"** ** nn ^ er

He neetlT aerered the narrow, thin eroaa, and faatened one aeetion to hie watch ■bain and the other to thepieoo

- „ - —8 broofdit,

and that he tied for her around her

white throat.

••X Uke It better than a ring. George,' ahe aaid, ahyly; “ beoauae erery one

Szs&'izir 1 '

"Am If I wouldn't like erery aon! in lieedowaido to know I had won you, my ahy, brown-ered darling. r — only too proud and too happy." Maggie interrupted him, playfully— "Deapite the riaible jealouay of a certain lady, who oonaidata me a br’ J

riral?"

" Deapite eren Oera Adrian', fool jealouay; while I feel aerecal inel taller wain poor Ned Morriaon, whoi did out out unmeroifally, didn't 11"

face, end inatinetirely ahe oluug*^her

of Nixi, ■aid rJ

, — actually afraid lately. Only laat night he be eorry yet that I refuaed

him. He ia eo moroae

She blushed a little, and George magnanimonaly helped her through. " Since I naked and waa not refused by thoae ewael iipa. Nr ' " ” ’ Maggie. Naturally hr ' would, myself, under

that you want to be raloeeed from me, *” *— ‘o do il to aend your half of

.Jmo. It wiUbaf

But Maggie smiled up in hiefaoe

eheerfuUy.

•■If afl

"If all the misery yon erer antioipete oooea by means of this litUe meaaenger,” and ahe laid her hand lightly on the glittering trinket, " real aaaured youll hare UUle of it But, Sir Knight, euppoae you weary of my ooiota—what He folded her tightly In his arms and

kilted her.

"An if I oould erer change !" Bo the two, in that blissful, painful parting, that teemed agea to them, renoyad their tows. The old, old story, yet erer new. The cheerful rays of the astral lamp on the round, orimaon-ooTored table, beamed orer Maggie Oarroll'a white Angara, and fiaahM like a spark of liquid mlrer on her tiny thimble and pdiahad needle, as her hands flew gracefully orer her work. She had cleared away the tee diahea, and her parents had gone to e friendV LitUe Baeeic lay sleeping on tl lounge, with the light shaded from he. eyes, and Maggie, with a garment ahe was making for one of her bridal —' Ate. bad set tied happily, cosily 6 to her erening'a work, thinking erery atitoh she set of George Wayland, by this time ewey ont in Omaha, where he would gain a good many hundred dollars in putting the machinery - new mill—money that would atari 1 nicely at housekeeping, as. —i.s. _i—s— ieaorie wss (

end go to the dc “ Don't gat up, M chair for myself. I

om her knee, m It, by Ned

f hospitality, but ahe rery cose and placed a chair near

s-iA-aisisriss*!, yoo eeldj Mother and father .

Are, and near the table i

sea"

f3r X 05

mined not to allow f^EaTr.&oEy.lS.^

And Maggie want oa wifiT her sowing ir another hour in blissful unconsciousness of the leas of her treasure. Afterward aha and Beseis had of romps befere Beetle Anally _ bad; and a till later, at half-past nine, aba and her brother Ben went down to the last mail to eee If there was a letter

ot until the bad retired to bar

S uean to arrange her hair for that abe missed It, and then it at the rery drat glanoo in

It waa down ataira, ol course, door, where it bed fallen when ■ Baade bad their game of fun ; aa abt had lost it on the at

wary, and when aha had crept thoroughly 1 aear^ed^tlfe 'sitting!room in ruin, ana knew it was really lost in the street Whet would George aey of V 1 sa f How oould the Teli untied? and with e little At of crying orer her lots, Maggie went bed and dreamed of wading ankle

“ Maggie, my own darling 1" It waa utterly incomprehensible to them, but they lored each other, and

with the two guests, were rittingaround the Are, Jim Carroll asked Maggie if ahe erer receired the little eroaa ho aeut her, and then it waa as plain as sunshine, although none of them knew of Ned Morrison's theft n_. _ new blissful happiness did they

Wayland, on hit way home id day’* worAstopped in the poet-offloe in the far off Western city for the long delayed loiter from Msggie “ ioU. It bad been e fortniehl now.

e he had receired the - - • - frek' ■ ■

II for the ugly

of him at the delay.

Waa Maggie HI ? away f or-Gcorgo haled himadf

thought that more than one Ridden aoroou bis mind —Uorrisop.'. heirship to a long disputed estate, that Maggie oould hare changed her mind ?

Yea, it waa barely possible, and that

Qepqojjecktcd: and when the

Bat he ebook with lurpriae and sick

The Petition of Charles

In the great fugitive Jaw debate in » United States Seuat^tho late Chat. . nmper spoke as follows:—" I bare never been a politioiaa. The slave of : plas, I cell no party i ■— " - n«l adnnatfrm, ana of human rights in their utmost expansion, I have over moat sincerely embraced the demooretio idea; not, indeed, ea represented or professed by ary party, but according to its^-— 1 ■ J - ration of Bidmradr^^and in the inins it Christianity. In this idea no narrow advantages merely for Inals or elaaaea, but the sovereignty of the people end the greatest happiness of all aeonred by eg pal laws. Amidst the vieiaaitudea ot public affairs I treat always to hold fast to thla idea

Partir rSaUoni^* , |h? < offloe*^lSS

myself

United States. Never before hevo I hold public offloe of any kind. With the ample opportunities of private life

Maggie oould throw him over, but actually undeniably the feet, that ahe had

bnt one friend—hia oompanion in labor. Maggie's cousin ^Jim—-aril stinting to

one who without the honorn

or earn umen _ o f

ve money for ,y end night to

ef grief ? He eras his letter into his pocket and drew eap down over hia eyes and strode dumb from the blow, navnr seeing, never hearing Jim Carroll, who had got -' ‘tar from home, and having read it, _ waiting to deliver messages to George. “Whet can ail this man?" thought Jim, with wonder, and started after,

he put hie foot down. Ho d picked up the little golden ■^George baa lost it off hii He put it inlibi pocket and wanton. Intending to overtake Wayland end ~— Kim hia lost trinket. But, by dint

of the bends gas

— fiend:

things going on. Beak

day's work, it

■ work, it suddenly occurred to him as George would be away probmore than a week, he would aend roaa home to Magglo tor aefe-keep-ing. He knocked wound eo among the machinery, that it might get broken or lost, end he knew George prised it r. So—the fates willed it that hr

it into an envelope lying on George's desk, already directed to Maggie, - *

g winter has passed w other, bnt Maggi* nartly knew how. It was enough for her that she bad been very wretched ' inttcrmbly miserable emoe a *

X3&Z

this time. “Maggie, can yon explain away t sickening mystery ? I find to my ut demonstration, that Ned ie to be m

'toyon. And yet the i hta bud-wiriiiup'’ _ iggie's face Aamed th

ixn

the red id by

_ — mali-

.. Wayland. And then a giddy, blinding rash ot *■ *

—a almost choked her.

'O, George 11 loetit aomehoi., —ire. I never knew. Do yon. think, really, I oould kero been — —

r tears, welling thiel

sRsitsd her.

e day,

two or three weeks after I lost mine, and I snppoeod yon wanted to get rid of me. Yon know whet yon said." Wayland looked utterly thnnder“I have mine at this momez

* ms OTcrcoai; more as attached to hia watch

; to push forward hit right foot and then his left, holding on all tho while to hia back with both handa to relieve the pain. It had been thonght that he wesimralyzed as to hia lower limbs; it had been thought that he hdd e disease of

with regard to the rater-motor nervi lad me at once to And that he had r

dtaaaao of the bain l

spine. When I asked him if he waa ona of any weakness in hia limbs, 1: ' Certainly not; I only esnnot on sooonnt of the uein. What

tor-irritation on these two , only point to which he led me to apeak of this. I told him the fc—‘ -•

when I aaid that He aaid: 'Doctor, if you can say positively that I will derive just ae much boaeQt if I take clilo-

eny political party which truly lea it Party does r-‘

?e»de

tha be heard on this

or. And here, air, I may speak proudBy no effort, by no desire of my n, 1 And myself a Senator of the

reform as if I do not then I ._ chloroform; bnt if there ia Jo be any degree whatever ot greeter amelioration in ease I don't tako chloroform, then I shall not take it' I didn’t have the courage to deceive him. I told him there would be more good if he didn't take chloroform, so I bad to submit him ' the martyrdom of the greateet sufferg that can be inAieted by medical practice, and horned him. I thonght that after the torture of the Aral time he nae chloroform, bnt, for Are [ter, in aooordanoe with his on nation, tho operation waa performed without it, I never saw a patient before that would submit to

Ms conduct wsa this: At tl

anoh^rimple away by tha

anonaible post of duty without person obligation of any kind beyond what w implied in my life and published word

it manda by whoa

i by whose confidence

lin mye in tho position which I 3 * To all my language waa am - did not desire lobe brought forward ; that I would do nothing *- promote the result; that I bad pledget or promisee to offer; that t olBoc should seek me and not I t should And me in all

— party and to no human being, bnt only according to ray beat judgment *■ set for the good of all."

A St Petersburg oorreapondent of the Hartford Post thus speaks of one of “■* remarkable features of the late royal

The moat striking trio of all three urineeaa&i—our the fi the future empress of Buasia, and the third, the aiator-in-law of the first—the fntnra empress of Germany. Tho ’ of all three expressed gentleness, i I refinement The G — aria wore a dress of silver beawily embroidered, and from her shoal .'em hung a train of claret oolorod velvet, Used and edged with ermine. point lace veil diamond

the uniform of

The dress and train of the —,

of gold cloth, her tiara and jewels,

pnnoMMa

crcd in gold, and their jewels were only surpassed by those of tne bride.”

HydrepbeMa In Beansjlraaja.

^_ka jflhgtown ^Paun.) OkrokleU

the faot that Andreas Wertman'a dog had been attacked with hydrophobia and had been killed. Two weeks anb-

t oeemrenee, a dog be-

also killed, ing to Bonbon Sillier showed symptoms of hydrophobia, and soon the effects of

When Mr. Sumner first my oere, he As yon all know, he had received a blow

_ bent In two pieces. bent spine bed prodnoed the effei a sprain, and whan I sew him in Paris be bad recovered altogether froi

two troubles. One was that be eonld not make nae of hia brain at all He

eonld not reed a newspaper

letter. He

seemed to him ae if hie heed would plode—aa if there was some greet force in it pushing the parts away from each

ether" Indeed, hSTemet ful to me. Often in o

degree of deep thonght, he suffered intensely immediately, eo that we bed to be extremely careful with him. He had another trouble of the aame nature aa regards external appearances, bnt occupying another portion of the spine, and cansing other symptoms. It was a

■prain at the level of the hut dorael

the brain end no paralysis, y an irritation of tha voao-

frowned upon. It ia a good while sinoo they made Lenox their sunmer residence, and Bailor has waited faithfully and party to claim hia promised bride. _ _, ahe waa not so iteadfaat, and wedded Mr. Richards, a Iswyrr, who was in town to attend to hia wife's interoat in

uaist in the applioamoet painful eppliI asked him U be

uoson, in sac yiciuivy o; _ is told by the Fonghkeeptii

Ac wind blew' vory fresh from tho

...jd blow'vory:

south, end the owner oi mo noboat Cyclone determined to take advantage of the favorable opportunity for timing hie yacht The Hudson at this point is very wide, end at tho eonne selected its breadth ia one mile. Hat-

atitoh of canvas aprsad to the ( “’ith two men on the windward m

keepth

turned, tho tails filled, and ‘ ‘ yineh of eanv

drawing ahe waa under full headway.

homo considered that he waa amusing himself in Paris, pretending to be ill, and he wanted to return aa quickly aa possible. A few days, therefore, were of greet importance to him; eoho passed through all that terrible and mor* '■

inflict, be it upc ro mentioned it c

, X will only a have seen him always since to l ready to submit to anything for U sake of what he thought was right, an ■- ■ spheres you all know that sue character abont everything.''

Philadelphia Lawyers and Judges. They've got a jndn In Philadelphia bo goes aa far in the other direction and yet bo a jadge. He

hia sort of fashion. He Uugb- . "Velf^iiinmy, the jnzy have found you guilty. And, Jimmy, it -only remains to pass the sentence of the court. Stand np, Jimmy.” Bo Jimmy stands up, and faoee the amiling jr ’ -

good deal of confidence. 11 SJi.ar Jimmv in „

Now, Jimmy, in consideration of circumstances, your ease lint going against yon. Yonr lawyer baa saved the court e good deal of trouble in not

motioninraior a new - trial, though didn't uRate to aay. now that, upo

‘ i^taken, I T " - '

Jimmy, is

. . . in which ihonld be tempered with mercy ia in the neighborhood of 60.)

—nmy, you havameui ■ '

fulneaa that yon didn't get r. There are six you, upon each of which you'd

sn safe to get twenty •- and a hundred and twenty • fool of a sentence. But, Jimmy, aa I arid before, thaw are extenuating circumatanees. I set aside much of ■' judge when I take into eonaideral but two of thee* counts and aenta .

forty yean’ solitary imprisonnd bard labor in Moyimonsing. nornlng, Jimmy. Don't come

nnd the prisoner doubt feels relieved aa ha it march— - ‘om the smilingpreaenoe. —1 hia pleasantry doesn't always meet appreciation. Bobo " (or stealing. She etooped down and prodnoed from somewhere about her

In the Superior Court for Bari county, Maas., the papers are on file, though a trial will hmdly be reeded this session, in a somewhat singular anil for breach of promise. George " of SendiaAeld. formerly of L_ ihe plaintiff, an6 Iff tiueen B.

Suaan B. Chadwick, ia the defendant.

The damages claimed a— Butler rilages that he

matuaily agreed to marry each r, and he has always been reedy to y her, but abe refuses to perform promise and has married another It teams that a doaen yean ago Mrs. Chadwick, a widow, and tho defendant,

n.' 1

w——, visitors ... Lenox, end boarded with the plaintiff's — ' “— —itortaining

quiet

pariiee, and they

longer apply. Bengal has three harveate each year—a scanty pulse Drop in

in 'hidfahe* ""^oh

terasted, being a pous and exempli young lady. The asqnaintai.oe was cowed on auooeodmg aeaaona, aa tbp

'.the tot— — A —

Chadwicks visited the loam,

kept up when they occupied that lightful villa of Fanny Komblo’a. Buv ’ intelligeat, inlcreeting, and

oting companion, and they ed the friendship that grew i them re those long, sweet

whieh is a kind of forlorn hope to at present In the early pert of 1769 high prices had rnled, owing to tho partial frilnre of the crape in 1768, bnt the lerially to affect the gov. rnmenlal renal, which has been from the beginning he ohief object kept in view by rulers if the conn try. In spite of the complaints and forebodings ef local officers

circles everywhere,possessed of large wealth, and, of eonrse, well beloved by her mother. The latter aeema to hare had a higher ambition for her daughter than a onion with a Lenox • '- end whatever intimacy

■IhnrlHfg

the land ta_ enforced, and the:

u between thorn th

turriy pended upon —-* The fields of rioo

government had deemed it neoeaaary tlay in a supply for the troops—a pieo of foresight at the time common whei harvest waa either rery abundant o

i"™™, i district w

week of January, 1770,

lufToring so severely that of tho {aniFtnx ahonld be ^mado. New hopee had also arisen, lor the spring ■rope covered the fields and promised

speedy, thongh a scanty, relief. The pi—' “—* *—

be accomplia:

Like an arrow from the bow darted on the eonne, clouds of pulverised ioe following in the track of her runners aa they hummeo over the surface of tho river, and in what seemed ' ' an inatant the river had been ccoaaind the mile accomplished in the ali incredible time of thirty-one mds, being at the rate of two miles minute and two seconds. Persona he shore compered the speed of the Ay tag mm— — •— —

through ac

_jteor Dashing d watched her

interest.

put the boat

and astonished aa well as paralysed the lookers-on by Bailing all the wav across tha river on one runner, the loroe of

lint i ,

her over on ner

beam ends and raising tho windward

riiynaed * - ^ exhilarating of sporta, and tho e

SnpL of the New York Inm, I have received admission, which ia a

_ am a poor young man, and five months ago I found I waa k „ myself by indulging in strong drink. T - Ik— .. 1 enwawsd in the

—. o ouriitto go" somewhere where I eonld not gel Uqnor. Unbeknown to my family friend. I went to (the Asylnm, and rnainod two months, till my means Wl__ ' ' Finding I cannot stay in ■ and keep from drinking,

when I leave other business. But _ - arid before I am poor, with .wife to take of. Bnt I do not want to stay here kiU^mysrif^ ~ — ’ yon will admit m taste and habit o no fit condition «o write, om iroosor, r God's sake, take pity on me. I raid willingly workjor do anything to tor my board. Now Doctor, do as goo< aa yourambyme, and aend me an an The above extract would answer for i chapter in the eutobiography of many >

a with a Ilxard la her

years ago a yonng lady, now 38 old, visited Florida. While lh« ahe accidentally swallowed e lixard J --'jnga^M» rfvrater^ The reptile ng her great pain at times, and ng life miserable. .Several physihave had tho yqbng lady under tpestment, l^l ta^noavyL^ A visiting in hand, ia confident — . - - tho reptile, end hourly expeott to relieve the yonng lady of her torture. He

During the following thirty yean Name failed to repair the damage she had. lone. Plenty, indeed, had retr int it had returned to a silent ac

fdrt. The Indiana ' d to retire, but, though the __ im, there ore many whoatilf regard - -th atupieion, and look with fear and awe upon the sergeant.

re capriciously shaped. One ii ck ehtpjWilh high round e -

idely be da of ttn

. aides. This; brim is faced end widely bound with

black gros grain ; folds i around and over the -

right aide ere

Dca’t Spoil a Sieexe. The Springfield (Mass.) Jtcpu&Uoan fa : “One any be pardoned for sneex-

,, brim, not lined i bnt with e wreath of whit* vii neath ; outside ia a twist of blue riband a long veil of blue tulle. An-

brown velvet facing „ brim, with a rose wreath under front to the rigiit aide of Urn crown.

A PAUSE STRICKEN DISTRICT.

w prevailing in India

Ttrafkraine ——_ — —_ ‘call" the notable rear ITToTVhen this me district waa so frightfnUys— ' ' In the eold weather of 17B9 ae vieited by e famine whose ravages . ro generations failed to repair. The disaster, whieh from this distance floats

— _. 4 one-third of the Inhabitant!." This estimate has been accept ad by all official and the moat accurate unofficial writers. Twenty years after the famine the remaining population was estimated at from 24,000,000 to 30,000,000, end the oonclnikm must be arrived at that the failure of e single crop, following a year of scarcity, had within nine months swept away 10,000,-

000 of hr

—light tho iroad tracks of desolation which tl British oonqnsron fowl in Hindoatai it unfolds the sufferings entailed on i

ancient rural aoeiety by being so donly placed in e position in whit

province lias prodnoed more grain than it can nae. It is an exporting end not importing country, sending away iU un by aea and neither requiring Jak

grain seeking any communication with Lower Bengal by land. The scarcity fppteu! itself earlv in (Intnlt—

e great rice c

early in October, 1865. Prom tho first week in January, 1866, ‘he Beat Indian Irrigation Company wgan to import rice into Orissa. Sir Tocil Beaton, the Lientenant Governor •f Bengal, was requested to do the

appear

tot the; that Orissa had suffered like othc. parts of tho Presidency; but neither

sins of 1769, SthougL northern districts,

Council to promi largo scalo, nt

.Inbiic w<

„ proportion of the crape had been lost than in tho rest of the disdistricts, end the natire merchants, relying on tho general superabundance -if grein'while onrtailing their export

irting. Towards the middle of February, 1666, however, it began ' '

that the ‘abundant importation and distribution which bad tended to take good tho harroet-'

Calamitous predictions, rsra si IIibI t,l—.i on nnmmn

e piotn.. . Sir Cecil Be acknowledge that

tho crisis. When at length it bocsr merally understood that Orissa w latiinto of noe exportation — 3

r-rs".

Buffered intensely; how ’ ‘ be os diflhralt

impossibl

. ithwest monsoon had aet i

harbors of Oripa, ne

r for the general governr

I ascertain nntil too late, and notwith- " ’ ling reporta from tho dis-

nou believed tho ques-

»ehieflyone of revenne. .

distress continued

at a rate that baffled calThe marvelous and in-

i under Buffering

e Bengalee w

eolation.

Initcly pathc vhicb on arse it length hi

»cck of May tho central government iwoko to find itself in the nudat of unireraol and irremediable starvation. The mortality, the beggary exceeded ill description. Above one-third of tho inhabitants perished in the onoe plentiful province of Porneah, and in other bility of the government to a ter of the ealamity: remarkable by Un t at that period the local adon continued in tho handa _. the former native officers. Every report of the time is filled with apprehensions and highly oolorod 'accounts the pablio distress ; bnt it does

Of the Coanoil that the qaestio: ran not so much one of revenno as de population.' Something of the asm

Indio. All „ went on dying. The hnsbondm ” their cattle; they sold their

. seed grain; they , and daughters, till at length no buyer of children oould bo found; they - ' - - - • • m of I

the leaves of tree* and tho grass fields, and in Jnne, 1770, it wai ally aunounoed that tho living were feeding on the dead. Day and night a tqr.ent of famished wretches ponrod

be great cities.

in early portion of the year peitihid broken out. The streets blocked np with promiecuoas heaps of the dying and the dead. Interment could not do its work quick enough; even the dogs and jackals, tho public scavengers of the East, became

work, and mnltitndea of mangled

the rainy

at length threatened be eitiaena. In 1770

bronght relief,

hide ti

spread over the whole country, and I the dose of the year disease oo-

tinnod fearfully prevalent. of famished wretches died

„jle to lire through the fc intervening weeks that asperated the_ from tho harvest, their last gaxe being probably, according to Mr. Hunter, urAI on the densely covered fields that ’ -[pen only a Little too late for

■It is scarcely possible," writes

beginning of the

oould be an exaggeration.' months later another nountifnl hi

—the great riee

gathered in. Abundance returned . Bengal aa suddenly aa famine had --rent down upon it, and it is difficnlt —w—« records of thi

Human aaerifle. tho people of Mexico during the teenth century, and from being quit rare rite, with the growth of their c lixstion increased until the soti' ' ■ fearful height. Their i

are some fine

i yonng man— in battle; and

ie space of a whole year, be with every respect and dignity; rich food, flowers, and dress wore

mg, and visiting at the abodes of the pnndpa! Artec nobles passed bis time away. Attended by a courtly train upon passing through the streets, de*—id to and regaled with incense, he created almost with tho worship that would have boon accorded to that of one of their gods whom for the time being he was supposed to personate.

e thing, but, ir

close; and doubtless, n<

rcityitwaa

jf the fate in atore for him, this knowledge must often have embittered the gayest festivals—the richest banquets, Devoted to tho sacrifice, there waa no escape for the captive; and on. the expiration of the time he waa denuded of all his g»y trappings, seined upon by tho priests, and conveyed tho lake to an island, where, league from the city, rose towering np one of those hngo pyramids, standing to this day as monuments of tho industry and civilisation of those people. The ascent to the flat top of the pyramidal temple was by a slowly ascending flight of step*, contrived so that a procession during one of tho groat religions feasts might be seen from all parts of the city, winding np to where the high priests were standing by the sacrificial altar—these fearful

I a million perished from sti

scene was made impoaing, and , j viewed by tho assembled thousands of tha populous city, who watched with breathleaa excitement and a feeling of savage awe the ascent of the vie-

desolation thi ity prevailed,

flowing, matted, ac

waa the at

iched England, s md 1,000,000 ot tho

ihip without proi the cry of diatr

ihabitonta had

u Editor Assaulted.

. .. >o«b itretcheU by five of tho lolding hia head, the other

lour ms iiium: while, armed with a knife of obsidian—a volcanic glass— tho chief prieai cut open the sacrifice, ore ont hia heart, held it np towards he sun. and then throw it at the feet of ho idol to whom the temple waa doroted. This scene waa awful and impressive, and viewed in silence by tho —imbled multitude, ready to throw maclvea down in adoration of their ....ago deity, aathia last act of horror waa performed by tho priest of tho bloody rite. Bnt not only were men offered np, for there wore instances of tho other sex being eometimea selected for the abominal offeringe; and at tlmea, when rain refused to visit tho earth, tho groat god Tlaloc had to be appeased or supplicated by tho offe--~

nspecting bodily

a of '

ip, which proved to lie the stropgitriol, were thrown in his fsoejand ie was almost immediately deprived of light Hia cries for aaaiatanco brought leveral persona to hia relief, and ho was mnvojed^to an adjacent drug atore, Tills dastardly proceeding forced him *- keep in strict confinement for tome iota, and it was only with tha most tender care and skillful medical treatit that the sense of sight waa piored. This brutal assault did not in* timidate the editor, and aa soon oa he

.. beautift. borne in festal robes in priestly proces-

pltiful wailings being

formed the"train. The sacrifice

ippallinj^in their numl

K^s'iS

many petty a >erhaps for years, a

genres of

profession ho renewed his expoenroi the roughs and roffians of tho dial oven more vigoronaly than before. For thia another plan waa perfected to Inre M— *- destruction, and ho received -

table person, inviting him to on appointment with the writer at a certain

no nae in Harlem in the • rationed tha a effect an arrangement for tho

insertion in the editor’s ptperof

ly advertisement. Mr. Gibson, editor, waa half an hour late In has to the rendoxvoua, fortunately

proved far him; bat at abonttha agreed

‘-'-ae a man somewhat resembling

i tot ore and general appearance

, assaulted orer the head with a murderous alnng-ahot, anc" ' nnooneoions. There can be no i that the trap was devised for the jonr-

attempted

before, there is no aiuo so sn In the hope of getting at U

perpetrators of eo cowardly an outrage. Mayor Havemeyer. of *'— r —

„ York, has offered a reword of *200 for tho approhenaion of the writer of the decoy lotThe respectable dtixena of Horl

may bo arrested and panished aa their

dastardly crime deserves.

The Indiana Frightened.

n the aignal station was 'll... —- tabliahed at Fort Gibson an incident >d which is worthy of mention. Ihcrokee Indians regarded the ig with great enrioaity, mingled re, for they understood that it contrivance jfor controlling tho r, and tho sergeant waa looked upon aa a weather sorcerer. Strangely - few dr^yaftar tha atatii

, aoootnpantad by a heavy rainIt lasted without Interruption for several weeks, and the Indians, attribr ting ita onnsnal duration to the evil ir flnence of the aoroerer, assembled in large numbers and attarabad ike static Thej were determined to poll it do.._ and “brook the charm." Nothing saved it, and with ~tt the lives of tho

n Sacrifice.

Rosy husbands are known ont West

Only one birth has occurred in tl White House, and that waa a boy. It ia uncertain at what place death awaits thee; wait thon for it at every

No Northern man who goes to Fiori-

Speeoh

aey.

West Point b

of 15S paymaster

among ita graduates have proved de-

faulters.

WKr.do,ladies keep their birds in a ato of celibacy, onduen oompiun neinso they will not sing in spring

•where hex husband waa, :

waa very much afraid yonng lady'a erenso

ring asked iplied that

donation was. a

nn the risk of injur-

ing her corset.

It is written on the sky, on the pagea

a being all performed in the open

ihall be done t< good deeds to others. who are moat weary of Ufa, and most unwilling to die, are anoh Used to no purpose, who have rather breathed to no purpose. Mrs. Putnam, the wife of the man ho was killed by a New York street ir conductor with a ear-hook, ia aewig for the stores to support herself. Now comes Altoona, Pennsylvania, ith a case wherein a son marries hia lother. The son was owever, and married hi

j. Tone., has naked tho city authorities to exempt

• ■'seldom

lightly rounded st'So tog ;

old lady of Jt

J the city aul

her from city taxes, as ahe ‘ walks orer their sidewalks o

rendered insane by the C and every one waa poor at tho only lost sense whore others

lost dollars.

Experimental philosophy—Baking a

young lady to n—. ..... . philosophy — looking indifferent and ■vying yon were only in fan when she A slip of paper on the door-post ot a Now York boarding-honae, announcing .-a J— .. ... ■-*—“og applf-

lodginga to let, warns intending s canto that “No performers on brill

'.rnments need apply."

The largest tree in Brookline, N. I «» just been ent and sawed. It wai 130 years old. *Tho first log,

pine. 130 years old. x The

feet long, made 800 fhel of inch board-

ing, tho whole tree, 3,817.

Vasqncz, the California robber, has ren so daring of late in his lawlessness ist the whole soathern country is ..’onsed against him. It i* reported

that ho ha* fled to Mexio*.

Coleridge, when lootnring, aa a yonng an, was once violently hissed. Ho nmodiately retorted: “When a old ream of tmth is ponrod on n . hot prejudices, no wonder they hian. Tim Hurley hne introduced a bill in

one deity, the ooremony lasted fi -.ndroventy^tionar-' ihhiug computation is a

the owners of^ buildings Jin which rum damages iuconaeqneneoof intoxication.

I think it is tho most beautiful and humane thing in the world," ai

o gravity with plea:

oboly and the ot

iv not sink into melan-

r rise np in wi

The Potter hill to establish passenger _id freight tariffs on railroads which has passed both honsoa ot theWisoon-

_... Legislature i* * strong onti-railroad bill. It provides that the principal roads 111*11 charge only three cents per mile for passengers ; for grain in ear loads, six cent* per 100 pounds, for th< ‘ twenty-five miles, * *- *—

ditioual tv

. An al

ly ad-

•hall result offense. The bill provides appointment of three Railroad Commissioner*, who ehall

I rove them; if moderate abilities, inInstry will supply the deficiencies, .lathing is denied to well-dirooted Is- ‘ bor; nothing il ever to be obtained

without iL

A Nevada paper says: " There was □o regular trial in the ease *i John Flanders yesterday. Ho had an interview in tha woods with a few friends, however, and it ia perfectly certain that v-i— won't burgle any more." ... man'a life is free from struggles and mortifloatiopa, not even tho hardest, bnt every one may build np tis iwn happiness by^seeking mental pleapenJent of outward fortune,

el witnesses to attend;

■t every January tl

railroad, the total „ ceipta, net earnings, total interest-bear-ing indabtedr —*

______ . mpany, and amount of interest paid ; shall decide

questions of rales.

The Legislature, ot Iowa, by 92 to 4, passed lbs Railroad bill flx-

g maximum rates for tha tranaportain of passengers and freights, amend- . so aa to place branch roads in the

Under ita

A Delaware man committed suicide a day or two ago because tome one left a baby an his doorstep. He was too frail for this oold world if he couldn't look hia wife in the eye and deliberately

put-nifljobto moke

nnington, N children are

_ iwod to charge three . mile for the transportation of

passenger*, class B, three and one-half

loot in it, and a local paper aays: "We don't care anything about it, 'cause our folks are just out of ohildrni. but for '■ sake of our suffering neighbon ws

attention totho matter."

Does -ttup'razor go easy ?" asked the barber of ■ victim who waa writhing

. The

in class A, for freight,

nt less than the printed tch> bill In olaas B, five per In class 0, twenty per

Penalties for violation are very severe, and the State provides *10,000 for proseontion of roads, to be drawn

ti,. . ■ ... ..

imay instrument, i

laudation waa a s Well," replied the poor fei- ; depends upon whet you afe

doing. If yon are akinning mo. it goes tolerably easy ; but if yon ore shaving

to the order of the Governor,

■'nai may reeoTer fire I' of damages sustained,

goes ratiicr hard."

Thirty-seven of the aerenty-tww Sana.on in Washington are aooompanied by their wive*, end nineteen have their

ie quaint picturesque shapes of 11

year are retained for the round hats that will be worn in the

town, and all the

twenty nine hi - ■ many of tho otl t i may be of interest to the pork-

■'i’-iia

has^brongt

fork, and r ide having

A Urge Diamond. loaton bonae baa recently finished tho catting of a Urge diamond, the finest ever out in this country, and oer-

adopted, it would approach in in werth the sum of *30,000. : • it weighed fifty-three carets, bnt

2 ir, and 70,000 the preceding year. d yet (he editor didn't find a drop cl milk to drink.