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VOL. 1.
HABTFORD, OHIO COIINTY, KY AUGUST 25, 1875.
1STO. 34.
For the Hartford Ilcrald.
IASEH.
ET JLEX. H. CCXUIKS.
Te lofty aril eternal hills
Whose rugged brows have hung for years,
And o'er the anoient valley wept
Broad rivers of tears;
ithose towering peaks have kissed the iky,
In every strange, fantastie form,
And bared your nigged breast on high
To every storm,
Have not yon felt in wintry blast,
Or softly sighing winds of spring,
The demon of alander, ghost-like, pass
To inflict its sting?
It cannot be, thy silent shades,
Wrtp't in thy mystic solitudes,
TToaldawe the serpent tonguo of him
In such preludes:
Ills small and contrite soul would fear
The mighty rath of Ilim above,
Whose glittering tcjisj far and near,
Is stretched in love;
IThose ear is deaf to those who hate
His neighbor and his neighbor' all.
And Teipise the mandate of his God
"Good uilltoalir
Though Cscsar stained, perhaps, with crime,
And deeds of good were far between,
Tet no voice of slander stained the times,
Nor (jasar's queen,
Tor honest men were Komans then,
And true indeed each Romans daughter.
And deceit as much then out of place
As oil on water.
Bat time has ehanged ho it sadly Changed!
And man, the downward road has erawlcn,
And mighty Rome, with wealth and fame,
Itself has fallen i
Palmyra, on her wide spread plain.
Her castles grim, and mighty towers,
Iler armies proud with deeds of fame,
'Mid Arcadian bowers.
Where basked her young and beauteous queen,
ffho.se smiles, like magic, round her shone,
But within whoso breast a tyrant's heart
Lay cold as stone,
Would he.itate, and politic-like,
Twice would think before she spoko
Tjo lit, which nations would see and kriow;
And ruin invoke.
But, yet there's soma that ne'er can seo
From example, either gnat or small,
That he who wrongs his neighbor; friend)
Himself must fall!
The guilty heart that hides behind
A deceitful face, bedecked with smiles,
Itself will wear the mask away,
And show its guile
To the conUmpt of those who were made
The target of its envy, hate,
When apologies and fondling Iovo
Will be too late !
But, oh, aU! how many hide
Behind the cloak too oft in given
The sacred emblem here on earth.
Of love in heaven
To deceive their friends, their follow man,
And calumniate those neath the sod,
And crouch beneath Religion's shield
To deceive their God !
But a day of reckoning euro will dawn
To him who wrings his fellow man.
When" God will separate the strong
Tie bla.'d and davtdj
(Silinor'jS CSuatilian;
OR,
TUB Lira'! SECRET .
ity nuts M. e. nrt lunox.
xrjrftoK or "ai-roka flovd," "lidy audlkv's
sucair," "joss jukcumoxt's lkgacv,"
"sxcixoa's vicrxcr," ldv LiaLK,"
'JUtnELL JURCBAX," ETC., ETC.
CHAPTER VI.
HORACE VARGRIYE'S CONFESSION1.
She lined her face, all blinded and blot
led by her tears, and looking at him for
one brief instant, let it fall again upon her
Jiands.
"Your nncle died Ellinor, and the fair
elevation of this palace of mv life, which
I had built with such confidence, was
fihivered to the ground, The fortune was
left to you on condition that you married
Henry Dalton. Women are ambitions.
You would never surely resign such a fort
une. You would marry young Dalton."
Ahia was the lawyers answer to the all
important question. But those tcnJer
gray eyes, looking up from under their
vail of inky lashes, had told a sweet ec
cret, and perhaps your generous heart
might count this fortune a very small
thing to flingaway for the sake of the man
you loveJ. This was the lover's answer,
ruid hoped still, Ellinor, to win my dar
ling. You were not to be made acquaint
ed with the conditions of your uncle's
will until you attained your majority.
You were, at the time ofliisdeatli.barely
twenty years ol age; there was, then, an
entire year in which vou would remain
ignorant of Die penalties attached to this
unexpected wealth. In the meantime, I,
as sole executor(your uncle, you see.trust
cd me most entirely), had the the custody
of the funded property John Arden, of
Arden, had left.
"I have told you, Ellinor, that I was a
speculator. My profession threw me in
the way of speculation. Confident in the
power of my own intellect, I staked my
fortune on the wonderful hazards of the
year 1816. I doubled that fortune, treb
led it, quadrupled it, and, when it had
grown to be four times its original bulk,
1 staked it again. It was out of my
hands, but it was invested in, as I thought,
eo safe a speculation, that it was as secure
as if it had never left my bankcs. The
railway company of which I was a direc
tor was one of the richest and most ilour
idling in England. My own fortune, as I
have told you, was entirely invested, and
was doubling iteelf rapidly. As your
uncle's trilstee, its your devoted friend,
your interests were dearer fo me than my
own. Why should I not speculate with
your fortune, double it, and then say to
you, 'See Ellinor, here are two fortunes,
of whichyou are the mistress; one you owe
to llenry Dalton, under the conditions of
your uncle's will; the other is yours alone.
You are rich. You are free, without any
sacrifice, to marry the man you love; and
this, Ellinor, is my work ?' This was
what I ought to have said to you at the
close of the great year of speculation,
1S4G."
"Oh, Horace, Horace 1 I see it all.
Spare yourself, spare me! Do not tell me
any more."
"Spare myselfl 2so Ellinor, not one
pang, not one heart-break. I deserve it
all. You were right in what you said in
the boudoir at Sir Lionel's. The money
was not ray own; no sophistry, no ingeni
ous twisting of facts and forcing of con
clusions.coulderer make it mine. How do
I know even now that your interests was
really my only motive in the 6tep I took?
How do I know that it was not, indeed,
the gamblers guilty madnessonly, which
impelled me to my crime? How do I
know? How do I know? Enough! the
crash came; my fortune and yours were
together engulfed in the vast destruction;
and I, the trusted friend of your dead
father, the conscientious lawyer, whose
name had become a synonym for hon
or and honesty; I.Horace WcltnoJen Mar
grave, only lineal descendant of the royal
ist Captain Margrave, who perished at
Worcester, righting for his king and the
honor of Iiia noble race; I, Ellinor, was a
cheat and a swindler a dishonest and
dishonorable man 1''
N
"Dishonoiablc, Horace ! No, no; only
mistaken."
"Mistaken, Ellinor ? Yes, that is one
of the words invented by dishonest men,
to slur Over theirdishonesty. The fraud
ulent banker in who3c ruin the fate of
thousands, who have trusted him and be
lieved in him, is involved, is, after all, as
his friends say, only mistaken. The
clerk, who robs his employer in the in
sane hope of restoring what he has ab
stracted, is, as Ills counsel pleads to a
soft-liearted jury, with sons of their own
only mistaken ! The speculator, who
plays the great game of commercial haz
ard with another man's money, he, too,
dares to look at the world with a pitiful
face, and cry 'Alas! I was only mistaken!'
So, Ellinor, I have never put in that
plea. From the moment of that terrible
crash, which shattered my whole life in
to ruin and desolation, I have, at least,
tried to look mv fate in the face. But I
lave not borne all my own burdens, El
linor. The heaviest weight Of my crime
has fallen upon the innocent shoulders of
Uenrv Dalton "
"Henry Dalton, my husband?'
"Yes, Elliuor. your husband, Henry
Dalton, the truest, noblest, most honora
ble, and most conscientious of men.''
You praise him so much," she said,
rather bitterly.
Yes, Ellinor, I am weak enough and
wicked enough to feel a cruel pain in be
ing compelled to do so; it is the last poor
luty I can do him. Heaven knows I
have done him enough injury!"
The exertion of talking for so Ions a
time had completely exhausted him, and
he fell back, half tainting.upon the pillows.
The eister of mercy, summoned from the
next apartment by Ellinor, administered
a restorative to him; an J, in low, bro
ken acceuts, he continued
"From the moment of my ruin, Elli
nor, I felt and knew that you were forever
lost to me. I could bear this: I did not
think my life would be a long one; it had
been hitherto lit by no star of hope,
shone upon bv no sunlight of love.
Vxje U gilerei LH it go on its own
dark way to the end. 1 say, I could
bear this,but I could not bear the thought
of vour contempt, your aversion; that
was too bitter. I csuld not coins to you
and sav, 'I love you, I have always
loveJ you; I love you as 1 never before
loved, as I never hopid to love: but I
am a swindler and a cheat, and you can
never be mine.' 2o,Ellinor,I could not do
this; and yet you were on the eve of com
ing of age. Sonic step must betaken,
and the only thing that could save me
from this alternative was the generosity
of Henry Dalton.
"I had heard a great deal of your
uncle's adopted son, and I hai met him
very often at Arden; I knew him to be as
noble and true a hearted iriin as ever
breathed the breath of human life. I dc
termined, therefore, to throw myself upon
his cencrositv. and to reveal all. .'He
will despise me, but I can bear his con
tempt better than the scorn of the woman
1 loved.' I said this to myself, and one
night the night after Henry Dalton hai
first seen you, and had been deeply fasci
nated with the radiant beauty of my love
ly ward, that very night after the day on
which you came of age I took Henry
Dalton into my chambers in Verulam
Buildings, and, after binding him witli
an oath of the most implicit secrecy, I told
him all."
"You now understand the cruel position
in which Henry Dalton was placed. The
fortune, which he was supposed to pos
ter on marrying you, never existed. You
were penniless, except, indeed, for the
undred a year coming to you from your
mother's property. His solemn oath for
bade him to reveal this to you; and for
three years he endured your contempt,
and was silent. Judge now of the wrong
I have done him 1 Judge now the noble
heart which you have trampled upon and
tortured !"
"Oh, Horace, Itorace! what misery
this money has brought upon us!"
No, Ellinor. What misery one devia
tion from the straight line of honor has
brought upon us! Ellinor, dearest, only
beloved, can you forgive the man who has
so truly loved, yet so deeply injured you?"
"Forgive you 1"
She rose from her knee?, and smooth
ing the thick, dark hair from his white
forehead, with tender, pitying hands, look
ed him full in the face.
"Horace," she said, "when, long ago,
you thought I loved you, you read my
heart aright; but the depth and truth of
that love you could never read. Now,
now that I am the wife of another, anoth
er to whom I owe so very much affection
n reparation of the wrong I have done
him, I dare tell you without a thought
which is a sin against him, how much I
loved jou and you ask me if I can for
give 1 As freely as I would have resign
ed this money for your sake, can I forgive
you for the loss of it. This confession
has set all rilit. I will be a good wife to
Henry Dalton, and you and he may be sin
cere friends yet."
"What, Ellinor. do you think that, did
I not know myself to be dying, I could
have made this confession ? No, you see
me now under the influence of stimulants
which give me a false strength; of excite
ment, which is strong enough to master
even death. To-morrow night, Ellinor,
the doctors tell me, there will no longer
be in this weary world a weak, vacilla
ting, dishonorable wretch called Horace
Margrave."
He stretched out his attcn unted hands
Irew her towards him, and imprinted one
Itiss upon her forehead.
"The first and the last, Ellinor," he
said. "Gool-by ! "
His face changed to a deadlier white
than before, and he fell back, fainting.
The physician, peeping in at the half
open door, beckoned to Ellinor:
"You must leave him at once, my dear
madame,'' he said. "Had I not seen the
dreafully disturbed state of his mind, I
should never have permitted this inter
view." "Oh, monsieur, tell me, can you save
him ?"
"Only by a miracle, madame. A mir
acle far bevond medical skill."
"You yourself, then, have no hope?"
"Not a shadow of hope."
She bowed her head. The physician
took her hand in his, and pressed it with
a fatherly tenderness, looking at her ear
nestly and mournfully.
"Send for me to morrow," she said im
ploringly.
"Your presence can only endanger him,
madame; but I will send you tidings of
his state. Adieu !"
She bent her head once more, and with
out uttering another word, hurried from
the rooirl.
1 li 3 following morning, as she was
seated in her own apartment, she was
once more summoned intd the drawing
room.
The sister of mercy was there, talking
to her aunt. They bc'tll looked grave and
thoughtful, and glanccl anxiously at El
linor, as she entered the room.
He is worse ?" said Ellinor to the
sister, before a word had been spoken
"Unhappily, yes. Madame he is
"Oh, do not tell me any more! For
pitys sake ! lor pity's sake 1" she exclaim
cd. ''So young, so gifted, so admired;
and it was in this very room we passed
such happy hours together, years ago.''
She walked with tearless eyes to the
window, and, leaning her head against
the glais, looked down into the street be
low, and out of the cheerless gray of the
autumn sky.
She was thinking how new and 6trangc
the world looked to her now that
Horace Margrave was dead!
They erected a very modest tomb
over the remains of Horace Margrave, in
the Cemetery ol Pore la Chnine. There
had been some thoughts of conveying his
ashes to lii 3 native country.that they might
rest in the church of Margrave, a little
village in Westmoreland, the chancel of
which church was decorated with a re
cumbjiit statue of Algernon Margrave,
cavalier, who fell at Worcester fight; hut
as he, the deceased, had no nearer rela
tions than a few second-cousins in the
army and (he church, and a superannu
ated admiral, his great uncle, and, as it
was furthermore discovered that the ac
complished solicitor of Verulam Build
ings, Cray's Inn, had left not a penny be
hind him, the idea was very quickly
abandoned, and the last remains of the
admired Horace were left to decay in the
soil of a foreign grave.
It was never fully known who caused
the simple tablet, which ultimately
adorned his resting-place, to be erected.
It was a plain block of marble; no pom
pous Latin epitaph, or long list of vir
tues, was thereon cnjr.wcd but; a half-
burned torch, suddenly extinguished,
was sculptured at the bottom of the tab
let, while, from the smoke of the torch,
a butterfly mounted upwards. Above
this design there was merely inscribed
the name and age of the deceased.
The night following the day of Horace
Margrave's funeral, nenry Dalton was
seated, hard at work, at his chambers in
the temple.
The light of the office lamp falling
upon his quiet face, revealed a mournful
and careworn expressions not usual to
him.
He looked ten years older since his
marriage with Elliuor.
He had fought the battle of life, and
lost, lost in thatgreatbattlwhich some
hold so lightly, hut which to others is an
earnest fight, lost in the endeavor to
win the wife he could so tenderly and
truly have loved.
He had now nothing left to him but
his profession no other ambition no
other hope.
"I will work hard," he said, "that she,
though separated from me forever, may
still at least derive every joy, of those
poor joys which money can buy, from
my labor."
He had heard nothing of either Hor
ace Margrave's journey to Paris, his ill
ness, or Iiia death. He had no hope of
being ever released froin the oath which
bound him to silence to silence, which
he had sworn to preserve so long as
Horace Margrave lived.
Tired, but still persevering, and ab
sorbed in a difficult case, which needed
all the professional acumen of the clever
young barrister, he read and wrote on,
until past eleven o'clock.
Just as the clocks were chiming the
half hour after eleven, he heard the bell
ol the outer door ring, as if pulled by an
agilated hand.
His chambers were on the first floor;
on the floor below were those of a gentle
man who always left at six o'clock.
"I do not expect any one at such an
hour; but it may be for me," he thought.
He heard his clerk open the door, and
went on writing without once lifting his
head.
Three minutes afterwards, the door ol
his own office opened, and a person en
tered unannounced. He looked up sud
denly. A lady dressed in mourning, with
her face entirely concealed by a thick
vail, stood near the door.
"Madame," he 6aid with some sur
prise, "may I ask "
She came hurridly from the door by
which she stood, and fell on her knees
at his feet, throwing up her vail as she
did eo.
','Ellinor!"
"Yes. I am in mourning for Horace
Margrave, my unhappy guardian. He
died a week ago in Paris. He told me
all. Henry Dalton, my friend, my hus
band, my benefactor, can you forgive
me?''
He passed his hand rapidly across his
eyes, and turned his face away from her.
Presently he raised her in his arms,
and, drawing her to his breast, said in a
broken voice:
"Ellinor, I have suffered so long and
so bitterly, that I can scarcely bear this
great emotion. My dearest, my darling,
my adored and beloved wife, are, we in
deed, at last set free from the terrible se
cret which has had such a cruel influ
ence on our lives? Horace Margrave
"Is dead, Henrvl I once loved him
very dearly. I freely forgive him the in
jurv he did me. Tell me that you for
give him, too."
"From my inmost heart, Ellinor.
TUB END.
For the Hartford HcraU.
VIEWS OF A TEACHER.
As county papers are less under the
control of cliques and party patronage
than city papers, and derive their sup
port more immediately Irom the country
people, they are found to be the readiest
media through which the common peo
pie may give public expression to their
wants or grievances, almost every trade
calling or profession has its grievances
real or imaginary. The learned profes
sions, as they arc called, have theirs
and find the public press a ready medium
through which to uttcf their griefs to the
world. Artisans and mechanics form
combinations to redress their wrongs
and their strikes find sufficient editorial
vindication. The farmers under the name
of "Patrons of Husbandry," find the pub
lie press irrespective of party, subservi
ant to their demands, and in a state o
geueral rivalry to become their organs,
But, there is another class so quiet and
unobtrusive as to be supposed either pe
culiarly favored or so dumb and stupid
and assinine as to be utterly insensible to
their misery; namcly.the class of Common
School Teachers. There is no doubt that
they are altogether too meek for thci
own good, and it is reasonable to sup
pose that Moses, who was the meekest
man in the world, must, long before h
turned his attention to law and tactics
have been a school teacher and tangl
the young idea how to shoot, before he
became the leader ol the armiea of Israel.
Men in high office, and enjoying the pe
cuniary advantages of the school svsle a,
eomctimcs advert to the property and
need of "this poorly paid class," but
very little material interest comes from
their professed sympathy.
The school teachers arc, indeed, an ex
ample of meekness. Ignorant legisla
tures make laws enabling hungry authors
of books to raid on the school fund in
tended only for the payment of teachers,
and no audible complaint is made. Cur
tailments of their respective portion of
the school fund are made for that purpose
and the teachers are coolly sent back to
collect the deficft, if they can, off their
subscribers and patrons one-half of
horn perhaps are either indigent or in
solvent, and bomb-proof against any at
tempt to get a cent out of them, and no
murmur is heard. Arbitrary laws are
made creating what arc called institutes,
which, from the brevity of their sessions,
might be classed among the ephemera
and men dubbed prolessora a title fast
becoming obnoxious to every body but
the owner, arc imported into the county
to conduct them, in whose selection the
teachers have no more voice than so
many mummies, and which they are
compelled to attend and foot the bill of ex
penses on pain of forfeiting their certifica
tes, and they come up as quietly as sheep,
slaughter. And there is no doubt to the
n the world that if the existenctjof that law
ung on the ratification or rejection of
the Common School Teachers of Ky.,they
would quickly vote it into those distant
regions of the nether world, where grav-
tation turns the other way. It would be
strange if the futilitv of those institutes
were not apparent to every reflecting
mind, for how can it be expected that a
fews days attendance at any place of in
struction will enable a person to make
any improvement satisfactory to himself
or visible to others? And I would sav to
those young candidates for schools, who
may be sanguine ol having obtained the
master-key at an institute, that will un
lock with ease, the hidden vaults and
darkest, deepest recesses of learning, like
the king's son who went to college, ex
pecting to find a royal road to geometry,
by which he might avoid the drudgery
of ordinary study, that when the all-day
work of the school room when the so
lution of successive difficult problems in
arithmetic, and the analysis and parsing
of difficult sentences in grammcr lessons
call for the utmost stretch of their knowl
edge, me visionary conceits mat may
now prompt them to cry "eureka," in
mitation of Archimedes, "like night's
swift dragons at the approach of day,
will cut the clouds full fast," and leave
them in. the possession of their senses.
Attempts have been made to force a
uniformity of text-books upon the schools,
and teachers have been threatened by
august county boards of education and
majestic School Commissioners, with the
consequences of noncompliance with
their mandate in other words the for
feiture of their school money. The law
has been proved to be inoperative; teach
ers have neglected it with impunity, and
nobody has been hurt. And I would say
just here, that though I consider Butler's
grammeran honor to the author, I would
deem the rejection of the Elementary
spelling book from the schools and the
introduction of Butler's, an insult to the
shade of Noah Webster. The Elementa
ry spelling book is the best in America.
I shall conclude by saying a few words
on the subject of school examiners. It is
my opinion that those officers should be
decapitated so suddenly as scarcely to
give them time to communicate with
their dearest friends. As it is the busi
ness and duty of a trustee to hire a teach
er lor his district, it ought to be his priv
ilege to exercise his right of choice as to
whom he employed, just as though he
employed a man to do any other kind of
work, but, it is objected, trustees are not
qualified to examine teachers. I contend
that a great many trustees arc qualified
to examine applicants for schools, and
they would do the work just as well and
a great deal cheaper than those appoint
ed by law. If they are not highly educa
ted, they can ascertain how the appli
cant has succeeded 111 lus previous
schools. If the applicant is an entire
stranger, as is often the case, the trustee
would have to guess at his qualifications
just as school examiners do under simi
lar circumstances, though the examiners
might form a more correct opinion with
regard to the extent of his education,
they would be a ignorant as the trustees
with regard to his ability to conduct a
school and impart instructions; an item
fully as important as education. And
there is another fact to be considered,
that school examiners arc by 110 means
perfect themselves, and would be as likely
to f ill if they went before other examining
boxrdt for ccrlfi:ates, as m my ordinary
teachers. The truth is thev oce their ap
pointment more fre'jucntly to facoritism and
p trtiality thm to any obvious superiority in
their qualifications. It. C.
"Jessie, what was Joe's arm Join,
around your waist when you were at the
front gale hist night?" askcJ a precocious
bov ol his sister. "His arm wasn't
around inv waist; I won u belt from him
and he was taking my measure," replied
the in li"uut vouu.
lad
NOT GUILTY.
Acquittal of nidscly for the KIUIiiorl
Donally nt Cynlhlann Z.fltlie Im
plorln? the District Attorney In his 1
Ilehall The Usnal Insanity PI en ri
nalc of the Double Mitriler.
Conrier-Jonrnal, llih.-
We learn from Judge J. Hop. Price;
who has just returned from Harrison
county, where he went to attend the trial
of Richard H. Itidgely for the killing ol
Dr. C. P. Donally, in the courthouse at
fVnllitann trliil ftn trinl fnr thf llllinlnr I
ofDr Peckover. the particulars of the
trial and the the intelligence that Bidge-
1 v w-niihtMl. On- render arc famil-
iar with the details of the doublo homo-
cide. and we will only give a brief resume
of the Tacts. Doctors Peckover and Don-
ally had been associated in the practice or
dentistry,- but had dissolved their partner-
ship. It seems that in the settlement
there was some dispute which resulted in
a quarrel nt the time. The next day Don-
ally, on meeting Peckover, said that he
(Peckover) had called him a liar the day
previous, and pulling out a pistol shot
liim dead. He immediately surrendered
himself to the authorities and was taken
to the courthouse for trial, which had just
began when young Itidgely, whose eister
Peckover had married walked in, and,
drawing a pistol, shot Donally, killing
him instantly. Ridgely wasal once taken
into custodv. while" two souls appeared
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before the bar of God, the murderer to
meet his victim face to face.
The sympathy of all went out to young
Itidgely, who had always borne a charac
ter irreproachable in every respect, being
a member of the church and a constant
attendant on services. He had served
the town of Cynthiana in the capacity of
Marshal, and had always given satis fa c-
tion. His family were anion;: the most
rejected in the countv.and the act which
made him the avenger of his sister's hus
, j ,
band wa3 not looked upon in the light of
murder. Dr. Peckover was the father of
five or six children, and his death depri
ved them of a Drotector and sunnortcr.
He had been almost a father to ItiJgely,
and when the young man learned of the
death of his sister's husband and his own
benefactor, he did not think of the re-
snonsi'nilitv now devolving unonhimtoin
some way pay back in his sister's behalf
tl.nt timtnes flhnwn Mm br hh sister's
husband; but, frenzied, shot down him
who, in wronging bis sister, wronged him.
Dr. Donally was an unmarried man.
The trial of Itidgely began Thursday
at Cynthiana, before Judge Perkins,
whose rulings are reported as able and at
all limes equitable. Considerable difiicul-
ty was experienced in getting jurors, it I
being almost an impossibility to find any
one who was not in sympathy with the
act. The Commonwealth was represent
ed bv Judce Cle.irv of Covineton. nro9e-
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hU Ant, tr, the State with fi.Ieli-
tv and with fairness to the Drisoner. The
j .
a ,a,o...i t. finn n.,;n
Ward Harrr Ward, and .T.i.l-e. West,
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whose efforts in behalf of their client
1 -.i 1 11 .
were strenuous and fiiithful.and whose ar -
zumcnts were rarely if ever equaled. The
women of the place, who attended the
trial in a boJy, used every exertion to gel
the prosecuting attorney to bear lightly
with the prisoner. The courthouse was
crowded during the entire trial by ladies
and gentlemen, and when the verdict of
acquittal was rendered, after about an
hour's absence of the jury, shout after
shout went up, and young Ridjrely was
lairiy oes.eged uy his iricnus aim over-
whelmed with congratulations. Thcsym-
pathy for the young man was so strong
that the fees paid the delencc were made
up by the citizens, in which they would
not allow the lamily to bear any part.
The plea of the defense was insanity at
the time of the commission of the deed,
the well known and estimable character
of the young man prior being a strong ar-
gumentin his favor. The fidelity of the
people 01 an classes 10 iuc i0ri....c u.
Itidgely in his darkest hour is an attesta-
tion of'the fact that his.was a cause which.
while exciting the greatest sympathy, was
not devoid of justice, the verdict in his
favor sustaining the assertion.
Jlctiisclliitin? the Drowned.
Boston Journal.
It is not improbable that many drown
ed persons might be resuscitated, who are
left to perish for want of intelligent and
timely treatment. The rules proper in
such cases, which have been tested by
long experience, nave uecn so ouen puo-
lislied mat iney ougni to ue generally
known. Uy way ol giving a practical 11-
lustration of them we copy, substantially.
a case mentioned by the writer of that in-
tcresling little work recently published
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I. 1. 1 -1 wnll.r miA ninimiiin ha aava lia eatt
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a. man milled out of the water, amorent-
f .
ly drowned. He was laid on the right
side, the face turned toward the ground.
and the jiws geutly opened to facilitate
the escape of water. Several' times the
head wan placed a little lower than the
rest of the body for the same purpose, but
onlv for a few seconds at a time. In the
meanwhile there was u regular manipula
ting process to induce brcalhinr, which
consisted in pressing the abdomen, stom
ach ami sides of thechest. but solllv. Tin
etlorts were without effect; the man look-
ed as if he had seen lire last of earth.
Then the prostrate figure was carried to
the' nearest station for the' reseue of the
drowneJ. Here lire man- was- stripped
and wiped dry, and'hewaIaid,tUTetton
the' side, between1 tvfo' blankets on a sfravr
mattress; The manipulating process wan
icsuTiicd, with interva's of about a? quarter
of a minute between- caclvpresstrre of the
body, the pressure Being repeated fifteen
or twenty time?, followed by a suspension
of ten" minute?.- Twenty minutes- Were
rsed in this waf, when a- physician- em.
P107f-on mis Kin.i 01 eervice appear.
and' took charge of the case. A warrmng
Mien witu not water was paisea over
" botfy outside 01 me uianitci. partictr--
P' s "'e "omaeir ami inr
fides of the dies!. This was- alterm-ted!
with gentle" friction of hot woolerr mif--
-ens, and the naked hands am? the soles
of the feet and palms of tiw nanaa werer
vigorously rubbed: Jin operator Dreamed
into the mouth of the mnn by means of
tub. These efforts also proving inr Tain,
the physician had recourse tar tire' rntro
ductionr of tobaeeff smoke into the itifes--
ifres. Irrabout terrmirmtcs the raair gat
a feeble sign of life, rtrrereupor all manipr-
ulatiorr was discontinue lest it should in-
terfere with the natural movement. Soon
he showed a desire to vomit, which was
assisted br a: feather introduced inter the
- IIow lon? ihe whre I,?!8
1 . , r . ..A will
lasted is not stated, tut the reader will sea
that it was lengthy. A few days after,
the writer attended a ball, and among the
most livelv dancers he saw the drowned
Finnnclal Opinion This Mnn Onght to
oe n jiauacr.
She said she'd take a dozen of eggv
but while the crocer was counting thenr
out she asked the price, lie told ner
and she shrieked:
"Seventeen cents!"
"Why that's outrageous I
"Well it's hard times, and cvcrythirrg-
is up."
She sat down on a sugar barrel, sighed
several times, and asked if eggs werer
""eiy 10 oc lower or nigner.
"i ton I claim to be a prophet," he re-
plied, as he twisted a sheet of paper into
the shape ofa funnel, "but I dare say-
-hat they'll be down to sixteen ami one
half cents in less than a week, ami per
haps lower. Trade, which w naltfraily
lepressed during July and August ia
looking up a little. Our export of gold
are now equal to our imports.- Thereall-
ng of bonds puts more ready money
afloat, and capitalists are' much more
'xf"1 thi3 wcek lhan laal- . Th5 craIB
are about ready to move; navigation pros
pects are brighter, and public confidence
in financial measures is rapidly return-
One thing moves afoirml another.
you see, and though, as I ssw before, I
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1 am not a unanccr. anu my urcu iuua an.
" e"'!Icd t0 an-T Sreat Sht U BeCtaa
c,car 10 mc c3"
dowu. A great curreni 01 e-gu w seiu.i
towards iniS poini irom a u0ie.i u.ucu
t-. .i ir .1.. ,ii: ; r.r
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bonds and me sa e 01 surplus gom uuu i
I r o
produce lower prices, 1 cannot see why
figures should go up,"
She reached into the pickle barrel,
nipped a cucumber, and went away won
dering why her husband never knew any.
thing. Detroit Free Fre.
IIowStieFIxciIUIm.
Sacrameuto (Cal.) Bee.
There is a man in this city who is so
a(reclionately fond of his wife that he is
jcalou9 ;f a man ,ooka w;tli5n fortJ.fire
feet of l!ie djjjci ; vrliiclt she may
,iappcn to be T,e other day a gentle
man gpoke t0 Ler auJ ,C ;n,meJateIy
threalened 8a;ciJe. Ji;3 wirc wa9 dis-
nfltr,ipii for a ho..!. 0f ooison consisting
I - ..... . colored with liquorice.
anJ jabejeJ w;,j, a glaring poison label
otlU;de wien Le threatened to take
someof iti an,i actually poured it into a
wioe g,agS) gie ecreamed for help and
fan out of ,hc JWm ;n0 anoti,er room,
. , , , . , ..;. thr0uch fho
L )oe am, MW him coolly open the
:"iow and throw it out. She then
rosheJ apparenliy frantic with
;ricf, and implored him not to do the
rash deed. He merely pointed to the
lass, and laying down on the floor be-
( jan to kick out his legs like a jumping
. 1 1 1 - 1 3- r.i
jacK. one ioiu mm sue was uciciiunitu
to share his fate, and swallowed the rest
of the liquorice water, whereupon he be
came really frightened, called the neigh-
bors conre"89e(i he onr shammed, and
iM .f g,ie onV 9urT;TeJ he would neer .
lroubje her aga;nf Then she explained
lhe rusc Bn,, he was B0 raortiflej he tried
to buy up the silence of the neighbors.
I mtt the storv was) too cood to keep. He
;3 uow thoroughly cured.
I
Fornev has called upon the Empress
I
Eu . nnJ js ev;llen sm,t,en, for he
I ... . ....
says: "It is impossible 10 convey an iuc
of the winning grace and candor of thi
lovely woman. I should rather say cor-
lialily than candor; nor would the word
"dignity" fairly typify the peculiar charm
ilike of her manner and her conversation.
-he talks fluently, articulates her word
Jcarly; and surprised me by her stores of
nformation showing she was a close rea
ler and thinker.
The man who teaches peiiiiianibip
hnuld do what is write.