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Lin or Jamus Pasu alias Dicniraov.ooi,
TtCTiD roa Mubdbsino W. Biatmii- Parks
hM boon fculm yean in the United State t,
during which time he hM spent eleren yean
in the penitentiary or in jaiJe. It is amid he
erred out eoren yean in the British Criminal
Colony of Van Dieman's Land, for some crime
before he came to this country The Herald
eondsnces a brief sketch af his life and acts
since he came (o the United states, which we
copy, as it is substantially the same as that
prepared bv us : Cle?. Leader.
The history of this man presents one of th
most remarkable cases upon record. Taking
hit own statement as true, the greatest portion
of his life in this country has been passed with
in a prison wall. He says that he is by
trade a wearer, and that he came over from
England the first time in 1848. Parks' first
criminal expliot in the States, was grave rob
bing, in Rhode Island, He and his compan
ion having heard the story that a Mr. De Wolf
bd been buried in a silver coffin, opened his
tomb, but found no silver save a plate upon
the coffin, whieh they stole. Paras was ar
rested and committed to Bristol jail, and by
use of a pistol obtained from a fellow prisoner,
frightened the turn key and escaped, out was
soon recaptured and finally sent to the peniten
tiary for four yean. He served out his term,
wandered from pillar to post, and finally
brought up at Gloster Point, New Jersey.
The proposition was then made to him to
commit a robbery in Philadelphia, of the house
of Mr. Kempton. This was done, and Mr.
Parks was again arrested and convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for two yean.
Serving out his time, he emigrated west, com
ingto Ohio
During Parks' imprisonment in Rhode Is
land, which was solitary confinement he read
the Bible through twice ; but if we may judge
from his subsequent career, with but little pro
fit. Two years before his sentence expired,
solitary confinement was abolished at least
the ehoiee was given the prisoner to work.
Parks says he tried the work shop one week,
but it was a perfect hell upon earth, and he
vent back to his lonely cell.
Parks kept all his misfortunes as he terms
them from his friends in England. Coming
to Cleveland according to Parks' own story
k foil under suspicion of the murder of a wo
nan who lived with him in this city as his
wife, and whoae name was Ann Carpenter.
He was also suspected of killing an English
man at the Farmei'a Hotel. Both these char
ges be pronounced false, and we have no idea
he was guilty of them. Parks for a time kept
boarding house naarBerea.for railroad hands,
and in iSii kept a saloon upon Pittsburgh
Street.
Up to the time be came to Cleveland, Parks
was known by the uame of Dickenson, which
is his real name, but because the knowledge of
bis crimes followed his name, he changed it to
Parks, by which name be has here always
been know.
In the autumn of 1868, Parks returned to
England and was married. After arriving in
this country again, kt March, 1853, with bis
rife, he informed her of his previous change
of name. What reason ke gave her for sueh
cbange, is not known ; but inasmuch as she
was ignorant of that fact until their arrival
here, she of course knew out of his infamous
career, and therefore not tbe least of his great
offences was the fraud he practiced upon his
practiced upon his
unsuspecting wife. Taking Parks' own state-
ment as true, he is totally wanting in those
traits which mainlv mark the man from the
brut. One who can turn hyena aad rob the (cannon shot, and dried like a brick, was thrown
grave ; one who can palm himself off upon an j into the furnace like so much coal .lighted with
innocent woman as a man, when he knows out the slightest difficulty or detention, and in
himself to be a monster ; who, in the gloom of a very short time steam w J Tne beat
an Egyptian midnight, can back off the heart iu tu furnace was intense, and with a very
of his confining; friend with that friend's own slight addition to the quantity (about half a
knife, strip the body, and plunge it into the I barrel) first thrown in, steam was kept up for
stream, bear the ghastly head in a handker-' several hoars, at a point sufficiently high to
chief to another place of concealment, and the keep two of our machine presses going at their
next morning cooly puff the cigais from the utmost speed. From what we have seen of the
case filled by that fiiend for that fatal midnight Firmamentum, previous to the public test of
walk ; who, through along trial for life, can yesterday, and viewing the latter as conclusive,
smile at the recital of a deed of blood which we give it as our unbiased opinion that it will
brings a shudder to judge, jury and witnesses, ' answer all the purposes of coal, so far as pro
who can look the jury in the face with a tear- ducing heat and generating steam is concern
less eye as they eob out the terrible "guilty ;" !ed."
who can receive the sentence of death without ; The same paper states that a company has
the tremor of a muscle, while the heart of the ben formed for the manufacture of the article
judge bleeds at every pore, and the strong on an extensive scale, and that it can be fur
men on every side bow their heads and weep : ! nished for 36 cents per barrel It is said to
uch a being has not the feelings common to produce no smoke, nor emit any sparks, and
our nature, and bears merely tne image ot Hu
manity. The deed for whieh Parks Is soon to suffer
the extreme penalty of the law, was committed
in April, the month after his return with his
new wife. Beatson, the victim, was a follow
passenger with Parks across the Atlantic, and
upon his arrival in Cleveland, immediately
ought and found Parks. Beatson, On the
morning of April 13th, 1863, congratulated
himself upon finding his countryman in this
strange land, and before the next dawn wu
cut to pieces by that brother Englishman, as
if but a butchered hog. We look in vain in
the annals of crime for a ease ol equal horror.
That Parks for hours planned, at least rob
bery, was proved beyond a shadow of doubt;
that he drew the life-blood of Beatson was just
as conclusively shown.
Tux Post Orncs-' Any letter here for moth
er V said a child at the Post Office yesterday.
Sh wu a frail girl scarcely the child to strug
gle through the crowd around her; but her ea
ger look and trembling tone told how anxious
wu tke heart within her breast. We kept the
crowd back while the polite clerk carefully ex
amined the package of B's. How the child's
eyes strained, how her heart seams to stand 1
and her breath wu almost hushed as she fol
lowed the shuffling hand of tke clerk. Lower
tbe pile grew one by one, and not a letter 1
Tke tear s are in the petitioner's eyes for she
will bear tidings to some lonely fireside . Stop 1
tne clerk closely scans the lut letter it is
beavy one; he weighs it, but it does not weigh
over ilte half-ejaUMe. it is gives to tbe name;aod
tke child really dances for joy I As it is sho
ved under tke grating tke attenuated hand
grasps it with a tremor, and pressing it to ker
bosom tke little creature is lost amid the throng
What was tke history of that child of that
mother of that letter ! Thought was busy :
and there came before us the picture of a room
scantily furnished, apparently cold and com
fortless. A woman the mother is paeing to
and fro and tbe deep lines upon her face be
trayed the sadness and care at her heart.
She watches at tbe window, for tke coming of
her child is to bring bad or good tidings to that
hearth. The child's steps are not slow she
founds along over the slippery walks, she has
tbe letter ia wkat are ice and cold to her now?
She u at the gate and tke mother is at the
door. "I have itl I have it) and tbe child and
letter are both upon tbe mother's breeiJ.
There is joy in the household, for the money
has come, and the father hat work at good wa
ges, and the dear cBes shall want no more 1
Reader I this is the history of one letter:but
who shall guess the joy or sorrow the hope
and fear the light and darkness which are
momentarily passing from beneath that little
grate in the Post Office? Victor.
A Total Wrick On the let of January.
1 854 a gentleman doing business in this city
was worth with what he had invested in
business, a hundred and ten thousand dol
lars. At the same time he was blessed with a
lovely and intelligent wife and promising chil
dren. He was surrounded by friends who es
teemed and respected; his business was lucra
tive, and promised to continue so. Indeed, his
position as well as his prospects were seeming
ly all that he couid desire. to render his happi
ness perfect. How complete the wreck which
the year closed upon! The first misfortune was
the transfer of merchandise to the amount of
eighteen thousand dollars to a California deal
er, for which not one cent was ever received.
Tne next were two successive robberies, by
means of which twenty-five thousand dollars
were lost; Soon after this, the unfortunate
man made an investment in real estate to a
large amount. The next and crowning misfor
tune was a trip with his family to Europe.
They embarked, on their return, with thirty
eight thousand dollars in goods, on board the
steamship Arctic, and all snared her luckless
fate I In settling up bis strain, his real estate
was sold under the hammer at a sacrsfice of
forty thousand dollars, making the aggregate
loss to his property during the year, one hun
dred and eighteen thousand dollars, eij.ht thou
sand dollars more than his assets. His friends
were obliged to make good the deficiency !
Was ever destruction more complete? Father,
mother, children and fortune all gone swept
trom the face of the earth nothing left to show
that they ever existed! He doubt whether,
among the many wrecks which the past ye at
has witnessed, there has been among them one
more melancholy than this. N. Y. Courier.
Clay Used for Fuel.
We stated recently that some persons at New
Orleans had, by a simple process made com
mon clay serve all the purposes of eoal, either
to burn in grates or generate steam . The arti
cle is called 'Firmumentum,' and a few days
ago a trial of it took place in the furnace of the
office of the New Orleans True Delta, which
paper says .'
The Firmamentum, which to all appearances
is nothing more or less than common clay, made
ur into balls about the size of a four pound
a
therefore will be preferable to coal for locomo
tives, dwellings and hotels, ax,
From the Cadiz Republican.
OBITUARY.
Politically died, on the 2d day of April. A.
D. 1 855, the Old Hunker Parties of Stock town
ship, Harrison county, Ohio. The disease wu
of a flattering character; the symptoms were
flattering until about five o'clock, when the
pulse beat one hundred and twenty to the min
ute. Every hope began to fivl. It wu evi
dent that death wu fut approaching. They
were looked upon by their friends with an eye
of pity but all medical aid had then failed,
They had been fed on pills for the last six
weeks, but no operation could be effected, not
withstanding they were attended by the most
skillful men in our township, and no pains were
spared. But lo and behold, about half past
five o'clock, on the 2d of April, their lips be
gan to quiver, and tbe patients sank to rise no
more. Therefore, we, the friends and well
wishers of the deceased, do hereby resolve that
each member of the Old Hanker parties wear
a large bunch of black crape on tbe left tall of
bis coat for twenty days from and after the 2d
day of April, in token of love for aur deceased
i friends.
Resolved, That any person or persons not
complying with the above resolutions will be
by us, marked u a Know Nothing, a portion
CARROLLTOR, CARROLL COUNTY, OHIO. THURSDAY, API.IL It 1855.
of that fatal disease which has slain us bv
thousands, aad is still raging through tke
eowatry as a roaring lion seeking whom he may
aavour.
Beware of tbea. my friends, they kit like a
serpent and sting Hks an adder.
Taking into consideration our superior talents
and love for the spoils of office, we do consider
it a gross violation of both the Civil and Moral
cod of laws. For this gross violation of law
we petition our Legislative body to remove all
Know Nothings, or say parson that favors the
anti-Slavery cause, sad again restore tke Old
Hunker pro-81avery cause to ite original sta
tion; and let our motto hereafter be, ' Pictory
or death.'
Sentinel please copy and oblige your friends.
A Member of the Hunker Parties.
This Sraiso as Compared with ru Last.
A writer in the National Intelligencer makes
a comparison of this spring with that of the last
year, which applies with much exactness to his
region, and is interesting as indicating a more
favorable, although a more backward, season.
The ei"1 Prt of March, of tost year, wu very
moderate, and fot We P' to the 18th the
weather wu very warni. At this time in the
reurion of Washington crocus
were mostly out
of bloom, the hyacinths in full bloom ,5lo nar
sissus and jonquils. Rose bushes bad mad
shoots one, two, and three inches long; apricots
in tun bloom. Juste peaches (which are the
first to bloom) were in full leaf, and all forward
trees and vegetation active. Early garden
stuff wu pushing vigorously. So fu so good.
On the 18th of March s severe and cold
'northwester,' set in, and the following morn
ning at sunrise the thermometer wu 84
Fahrenheit. From the 18th to the 29th the
northwest wind continued to blow hard, cold
and dry, night and day During this time ice
made every night, and on four of the nights
the thermometer fell to 24 . On the night of
the 28th it was intensely cold and windy, and
before sunrise on the 29th the thermometer fell
to 18, only two degrees above the greatest
cold experienced during the whole previous
winter. On the morning of the SOth it com
menced snowing and continued all day. From
the 1st to the 15th of Apn the weather wu
moderate. On the 1 5th it commenced to snow,
and at night on the 16th the snow was six in
ches deep. It continued to snow all the day
following, the thermometer varying from 31
to 40 . The weather wu after that time
moderate and warm up to the 27th. It wu
indeed a desolate spring, distressing and disas
trous except to the grass and grain growers.
Although so fot ward the beginning, it prov
ed to be a very late spring in some respects.
The weeping willows lost their entire foliage,
and did not put forth again until the 5th of
May. The forest trees did not put forth till the
5th and 6th of May. Thus far this present
spring is nearly a month behind lut spring,
but the prospect is far better. The fruit is safe
except where trees have been winter killed.
The winter hu damaged nearly all succulent 20, and on the 14th the Turkish cavalry at Eu
growths, and the injury is extensive among pstoria, made a sortie but were repulsed,
rose bushes and shrubbery. I On the 17th three battalions of Zouaves at-
If the weather should gradually moderate,
and re ordinarily moist, we may expect a fruit -
ful seuon in nearly all important products ex
cept grass, much of which wu killed by the
drouth of lut summer and autumn.
Indian Dsfhsdations prosplctivk Indian
War. The St Louis Intelligencer hu news
from the Plains from residents of Santa Fe, who
have just arrived in that city. The train num
bered sixty persons, and reached the frontier
on tbe 27th ult., and St. Louis on the 3d inst.,
it says :
The news brought by Mr. Hatcher, one of
the party, relating to Indian tribes is unfavor
able. The Utahs and Apaches after contin
ued depredations on the whites, had at last ur
nited for more extensive offensive operations.
The Apaches had nearly all left the south and
irnn. nnrLh tr the TTt&ha. Five enmnanS
volunteen and J regaiars,.had been pre.
paring to go m pureuit of the two tribes. 1 hey
hearing of this had sent word to the troops to
come on, and tne troops were to nave ien on
26th of February the day succeeding the de
parture of Mr. Hatcher's train. The troops
were under the command ot uoi. ronteiroy.
The indians, at the last accounts were awaiting
the troops at a point called Balos Salona (Salt
Valley) on the head waters of the Arkansas.
They numbered, Mr. Hatcher thinks, from 600
to 800 warriors. On their journey, Hatcher's
unter, when at a distance of two or three
miles from the train was pursued by a party of
Apaches; but he being on a mule and they on
foot, he escapad without difficulty and reached
the tram.
At Bent's Fort the train saw numbers of the
Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, Apaches Kiowu and
other tribes. All of the Indians have Buffered
terribly during the put winter. There is no
buffalo anywhere in the vicinity Ot their tanas,
and they have not only killed their own stock
but have also stolen one hundred and sixty
head of cattle belonging at Bent's Fort, and
from forty to sixty head also", belonging at the
mouth of the 'Orphan,' a tributary ol tbe Ar
kansas. The tram saw a party af Camanches
at Canadian Fork. They stated that they had
not seen a buffalo during the season, aad
though the Camanches were the richest tribe,
in the amount of their stock, yet nearly all
their stock had been killed to give them a sub
sistence. Mr. Hatcher wu infomed by the In
dians at Bent's Fort that the Camanches had
alreadv declared war against the whites. This
statement however.Mr. H- did not credit. All
of the Indians seen are restless and diutisfied
ith their condition. They make no conceal
ment of tbe fact if Government does not either
send them ammunition, or permit them to pro
cure it of the traders, they intend to commence
an offensive war, and to plunder every train.
They state that they, are now waiting and will
wait for a time to see what action Qovernment
takes upon the matter of permitting them to
get ammunition from the traders. If they do
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not get an answer wimin a reusuuauro uuie,
thev will tnen open hostilities.
At the time of Mr. Hatcher's departure and
journey, most of tke Indian tribes were suffer
ing from the small pox. It had but recently
broken out among them. They were then
scattered over the prariea, in order, if possible
to rid themselves of the contagion, but consul
erable numbers had already died from it Mr
Hatcher saw no buffalo until the trains reach
ed Little Coon Creek. From that point to Cow
Creek tbey were very plenty
FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF 7H1 WASHINGTON.
New Youa, April It 10 P. M.
The steamship Washington arrived at her
dock at about 7 o'clock with ISO passengers.
Odessa advice to tke t4th state that the
Bnamsni in spite of repeated attacks maintain
ed their position ia Mount Bepouae, where their
guns pUy upon the French lines and upon pan
The
weather
continues fair.
Health of troops
improving
Theadi
batteries of tke British were
making considerable progress.
According to tke information of tke deserters
the Emperor 's death has not boon promulgated
at Sevastopol.
Projects for converting tit nope into a strong
port, aad for erecting extensive land and sea
fortifications at Sevastopol- were paesed by tke
British uovernment.
Omar Puha arrived at tke Allied Camp on
the 12th.
On the 13th the Russians opened fire from
the bights of Bslaklava. The British, assisted
by (ren. Knois, routed them. On the 17th the
Russians attacked the whole line of the Allies
'and were driven back with great low.
The alliance between Sardinia and the Porte
wu signed on the 14th.
PreoAralions continue to be made at Con
stantinople to receive Kipoleon. Ia the mean
time both he and theEmpress are to visit Queen
Victoria on the 16tb of April.
France agrees, says the Morning Herald to
send 50,000 additional troop to the Crimea, if
necessary after the Conference, provided Kng
land furnishes the means of conveyance.
It is understood that the conference have a-
greed upon the two first points, and that the
critical third point on which tbe question of
peace or war turns wu under consideration,
and would occupy several days.
The destruction of Sevastopol is not to be
demanded. On the other hand another des
patch says that all conjecture u to results is
idle.
Sardinia wu in the English market for a loan
of two millions at 4 per cent.
In the House of Commons the second read
ing of the bill to abolish newspaper stamps
passed by a large majority.
Sir Charles Wood stated it was intended u
soon u the Ports in the Baltic and White Seu
were open to establish a strict blockade, whicb
should be effective from first to lut.
The committee of inquiry into the conduct
of the war continued its session, and tbe reve
lations becamestill more appalling.
The dates from Vienna March 27, states that
1 the political horizon had again become gloomy,
and that the conference of the day previous
on' third point, was anything but satisfactory.
Prince Oorchakoff arrived a) Sevastopol March
tacked the Russian redoubts, but were driven
; back with great loss.
I On the 15th the French troops carried a line
of ambuscades occupied by the Russian sharp
shooters.
At the same time the Russians made a sortie
but were repulsed with the loss of 500 men.
In the House of Commons Mr, Poinn mo
red an address to tbe Queen, praying that ex
ertions should be made for the reconstruction
of Poland. After a debate in which Lord Pal-
menton opposed the motion on the ground of
creating luriuer uuucuiuen wmunwu.
The British Baltic fleet were at Spithead and
expected to sail with Admiral Dundas, on the
2nd of April.
The Madrid correspondent of the London
Times states that the Spanish oacissl Hau been
Government by Lord Howdan, tbe British
Minister, on the subject of the religious ba
sis, c e.,and it wu a question whether the let
ter should not be returned to its author.
Lord flbwden got scent of this, and threatened
if such an insult were offered.h ewould within
six hours suspend all intercourse with the Span
ish Government. A satisfactory adjustment
wu looked for.
n st. A r j. . .
Poisoned t a Rat.-A few days ago,
young lady at a boarding school in flushing,
had her hand bitten by a rat while in bed a- j wilij tne smallest shadow of a soul
sleep. It soon commenced swelling, and a pby-1
w .
sician wu called in, who pronounced it to be
badly poisoned, and expressed the opinion that
it might have to be amputated. The young
lady hu been compelled to leave school and is
now at her home in Brooklyn. She says that
the wu awakened in the night by a nibbling
at her hand, when she gruped the rat and threw
it from her bed. Her parents are greatly ex
asperated to think their daughter should be put
in a room infested with rate;
Rats often attack persons sleeping.especially
on ship board, where they are always numer.
ous, and it is difficult to exclude thenwfrom the
cabins. We heard of a recent instance on one
of the Panama steamers, which wu attended
by no result, however, beyond the momentary
inconvenience. The sufferer wu awoke by a
rat nibbling at his toe. The rat had entered
the state room from the dining saloon,
through the door.which had been left open du
ring the warm night to secure greater ventila
tion N. Y. Jour. Com.
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Damages. An important case wu recently
tried by the Court of Common Pleu of Cuy
ahoga county. On tne bth ot last June, a man
named Joseph Uutcu wu killed on tne track ot
the C. C k C. Railroad, near the Willey street
crossing. The Widow of the deceased brought
damages before the Court. The ease occupied
five days. The jury brought in a verdict of
1,400 damages for the plaintiff.
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gST The Governor hM appointed E. T Wil
der, of Painesrillo, to fill the vacancy occasion
ed by the resignation of Reuben Hitchcock as
District Judge. Mr. Wilder wu tbe Nebruka
candidate for Cong res last fall.
Snaocx. rns Dstacltes, Sncruao. Tke
New York Tribune, of tke 5th. says that
Joe. a M. Sbroek, tke Holnse eouoty defaulter,
arrived at that port oa Wednesday aiarnaou
from Hsvre, ia the steamship Union, in charge
of a police officer of Switzerland, w suppose.
Immediately oa his arrival ke wu taken in
charge by the Sheriff of Hoi ate eouaty, Mr.
C. i. Lovlaad, an a requisition issued by Gov.
Clark, of Now York. Tbe Sheriff started for
keuse with his prisoaer on Thursday. About
iw9,eoo was found ia Skroek'o posse
lion. The
reward for hi arrest wu 2..000. Hs is 68
yean of age, and before eeusasttsag tkis crime
wu considered an honest man. Tke people of
Holmes will be glad to get posussioa of the
old scoundrel, and receive their lost taxes. It
will soon be known now what became of tbe
of the missing 1 1 6,000 Clevelsnd Leader of
the 7th.
A tunic AN Citiu The recent elections have
resulted in the elections of American Mayors
in eighteen cities of this Union. Truly Sam is
round.' His foot makes a big hole in tke old
party platforms all tke way from Maine to CaL
ifornia, and down to Virgmia,W. Y. America.
Mill Bvwna The extensive Flouring Mill
of A. Medbury, of Roscoe.on the Ohio Canal
wu destroyed on Saturday the 7th inst. The
mill wu insured only to the amount of tl5,
000; loss 130,000. This is tke second mi):
Mr . ilcdbcrv ku lost by fire within a year.
The destruction of these two mills throws a
large number of persou. out of employment.
Taks tbu P aku. Tbe Cleveland Plain
dealer ssys:
'Since the new law took effect requiring pre
payment of postage, about 30 letters per day
are put in the office to die for want of postage;
and though a list of them is posted up in the
lobby, only one per day hu been rescued. Ike
writers are evidently of that class of persons
who do not take the papen, never have heard
of the law, and never will.
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No Cbahcx roa Wisk. Th- municipal elec
tion in Richmond Virginia, wu carried
by the American ticket by a majority of
1.223, Geo. Scott's maio-ity in 1852 wu
842. Loss to the Pierce democracy, 381. At
this ratio of loss and gain, the Old Dominion
is lost to Mr. Wise beyond all recovery. What
is to be done ?
tW The recent Temperance law wu tested
in Davenport, Iowa, a short time since, and
was sustained by 265 majority. The despatch
further says that Temperance hu 500 majority
in '.hat county, and 5000 in the State.
g-IT A clergyman in England is now suffer
ing the severe penalty of twelve months im
prisonment, for marrying a couple at half past
six in the morning, when the ecclesiastical law
forbids that such a ceremony shall take place
before 8 A. M.
ITm. Cleland, of Allegheny, Pa., wu
recently convicted for selling liquor to the wire
of a man named John Rodgers, after repeated
notifications that she wu habitually intemper.
ate, wu sentenced br his Honor, Judge Mc-
Clure to pay a fine of 950 to the commonwealth
the costs of prosecution, 920 to the prosecu
tor, and undergo an imprisonment in the coun
ty nrijon, tor and during the term ol sixty
days.
tar At the late session of the court of com
mon pleas, in Hamilton county, five persons
were sentenced to the Penitentiary, for terms
varying from one to seven yeaas. This is an
unusually small number for a court in .that
county.
tW Most ladies think it is the summit of mis
fortune to be ugly. This is a mistake quite
frequently. The chances are, as the world goes,
ihat bom y woman are altogether tne best in
TO. . , . " f ntton nr.
I tea over , faige healt a weak bead, and
i 0m 1 1 aa.li Ajuajiiau n w uj J w w
j wfaen y(m are ,Brroanded by a dosen Americans
by the following unerring test three will be
; found smoking cigare ana nm e roaaing news-
papen, and all of them with their feet on chairs
or tables.
The late Czar wu a devourer of such news
papers u represented the independence and in
telligenoe of the communities where they were
produced. A list of the newspapers which the
Emperor daily scanned might possibly utonish
some persons.
A CoNDuctoa's Gallantut We recently
made a trip over the Central and Ohio Rail
road. At Cambridge a lady came on board
u the train wu about starting, who. while
taking leave of a feminine acquaintance, still
holding her band, regretted that she should
not give her a kiss, 'You certainiy shall have
an opportunity,' remarked the gallant conduc
tor, making signal to the engineer, who back
ed up, when the parting friends took a buss.
Capital City tract,
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Evervodbv should remember to send a
Postoffice stamp, when they write about their
own business, and require an answer. The
new law requiring pre payment hu gone into
effect, and unless this precaution is observed,
there will doubtless be much vexatious disap
pointment, if not material loss.
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Perry County. The American party hM
swept almost every township in that former
stronghold of Iocofocotsm. The majority in
their favor in Somerset wu 100. ibis tor
many yean hu been Loeofoco. Probably in
no county in Ohio is the Catholic and foreign
influence more potent. But hundreds nave
broken away from them, and have arrayed
themselves under the American banner.
WHOLE Ni'UBFR
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1MB TRUSS BttVta IhO'-t
one three lulls silver trout, ke
stream of slrr wx-r, wWh vi IxIwasb two
high green banks. It wu proCudom the
wind aad the storms, and the sun hstv
so that it wu a very delightful plase.
sides, these fisbu had a pUuty to eat an : .. ,
thing to trouble them ; so that you would
expected them to be perfectly happy,- Bui,
steal it wu not so; thy werw so
to b unhappy, and God heard them com
plaming. So he t)ld the little fishes that -,
of them might wish for whatever he pit
tad it should be granted. Taste tke first lit 'e
trout said : "I am tired of moping Are ia
the water. I should like to have wings and
fly in the air like birds."
Tke next said. "I ass a poor ignorant little
fish, and do kDOW bow tp protect ntyei ll
from danger. I should Its to know ail about
hooks and nets, so that I might slwsyt ki t p
out of harm."
The other trout said, "I too, am an igno
rant little fish, for that reason I do not know
what is best for me. My wish is that Uod
would take care of ma, aad give ma just what
ke thinks beet ; I do not want anything that
he does not cbo cue to give me."
Ho Uod gave wings to tne rat, sad he w
quite happy, and soaring away into tbe t.i .
felt very proud, and despised his compr
whom h had left is th river. He liked t,
well to fly, that he flew away off, till he cor
lo a great desert, where there wu nothing but
sand u far u he could see. By this tirr.t
wu faint and thirsty, but could see no watei.
He tried to fly further, but could not ; his
wings failed, and he fell down panting on the
hot sand where be died nitseraMy.
God gave the Other fisn knowledge,' at
desired, to understand all kinds of Sanger, :A
instead of being hsppier, he wu all the lime
b terror. He wu afraid to go into deep
ter, lest the great fishes there should sw
him up; and he wu afraid to go into the shal
low water, lest it should dry up and leave hit
If he saw a fly, or anything he would lin
eal: he did not ventart to touch it, lesv tL
should be a hook concealed under it. So ..
pined away and died.
But God loved the little trout,snd took eat
of him, and kept him from Ul danger, so '
ke wu the happiest little fish that ever livu
And now, reader which of the fishee i
the wisest 1 0. the lut, you will say. Vh
othere were to blame for not being wt
with what God had given them, and b
ing that be knew best. .Tutor's Dai;
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Sit UratunT. "Sit upright 1 sit up
my son I" said a lady to her son Geoig
had formed a wretched habit of bending i
ever he sat down to read- His mother I
told him that he could not breathe righ; uc .
he eat upright. But it was no use ; ben
over be would, in spile of all his mother conic
"Sit upright, master George 1" cried hu
teuher, u George bent over bis copy bo
school. "If you don't sit upright like Mastc r
Charles, you will ruin your health, and post.i
bly die of consumption."
This startled Muter George. He did n
wsnt to die, and he felt ahumed. So
school he said to his teuhsr, "Please air x
plain to me how bending over when I sit cl
eanse me to have the consumption "
"That I will, George," replied his teacher,
with a cordial amile. "There is an okment :i
the air called oxygen, which is necePta
make your blood circulate, and to hclp it ;
itself by throwing off what is called its carbor
When you stoop you cannot take in a stfti .c:
quantity of air to accomplish these purrr,
hence the blood lemains bad, an tbe an o .
in your lungs inflame. The cough conies on.
Next the lungs ulcerate, and thtn you die.
Give the lungs room to inspire plenty ol an,
and you will not be injured by study. Do yuu
understand the matter now GeorgT"
I think I do, sir, and I will try to tit uprigh t
hereafter," uid Gerge.
A Word. A mother eat at the fireside of
home, and her darling boy sat with r. Lovo
and peace seemed hovering over them. A
word from that mother'a lips, wu treasured
up in the heart of her boy. Yean rolled on.
The boy had gone trom tbe parental root, and
his voice wu beard in the halls of his coun
try. But through him spoke the holy influ
ence of a mother, and a nation felt the pswer
of that fireside word.
Again it is night A fair-haired boy looks
imploring in the face of a worldly minded
mother, and inquires of holy things, i at
mother utters a word that crushes forever the
germ of eternal trath.
A word fitly spokbn is like dew to a drooping
flower. One badly spoken is like the world
that never dies, and a word unaltered mn
feet the world for weal or woo. The ki;
jt3T A boy just learning to ta ik, bad h o
told that he wu made of dust. Out ii.v
when the carpet was Swept, Oeorgie ea t '
particle? of dust rise and ILiat in tl.e run bei m
and uked what it wu. On being to;.'. k
ran to the sun beams, and grsrpicg both !
chubby hands full, as be supposed, srei 1
oat the fancied treasure esgerly to his ru 1
saying, 'Here Mamma, make sneiier 0oit" '
ter Individual grrateew(lbe fonrd:ion
national great ness) is the result of fiery
continual struggle, unceasing suridee, uu is
mitting dicipline.
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